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Title: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: Tramp on 14 July 2009, 09:40
How much would you expect too get for this.....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=260445451127
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: VR6-Joe on 14 July 2009, 09:47
Wouldn't pay more than a grand for it to be honest. Not with that many miles, and no information regarding when the cam chains were changed etc
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: Wayne on 14 July 2009, 10:09
£1000  to £1200 tops with those miles etc.
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: Tramp on 14 July 2009, 10:30
yes i think i agree.
with respect too MK3 owners i am really a twin head light (MK 1 & 2) man but if i could find a good deal for a lower milaege V6 MK3 then that is in another league :cool:
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: VR6-Joe on 14 July 2009, 10:32
A. You can put twin headlights on a Mk3
B: The VR6 is not a V6

 :wink:
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: Tramp on 14 July 2009, 10:41
Slight slip with the letters there, just that i am used too a V8 Rover my mate is restoring.

The milaege is the problem. Engines i know can go onto 500,000 miles if looked after it's the rest of it that falls apart but you want your money's worth at the start don't you.
She is considering a swop with my Focus 2002 diesel with 60,000 +full years MOT but i would expect cash also. Well! the kids are grown up so time to get some serious horsepower back again :evil:
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: Wayne on 14 July 2009, 11:20
Quote from: VR6-Joe on 14 July 2009, 10:32
A. You can put twin headlights on a Mk3
B: The VR6 is not a V6

 :wink:

A VR6 is in a way a V6 but a very narrow 15% V
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: Len on 14 July 2009, 11:28
Think its 15 degrees, whereas a normal V6 is 60 degrees
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: Wayne on 14 July 2009, 11:39
Taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vr6

The name VR6 comes from a combination of V engine (German: V-Motor), and the German word "Reihenmotor" (straight engine).

The configuration can also be described as a "staggered six", in keeping with the geometry of the Lancia Fulvia staggered-four, developed in the late 1950s (a continuation of Lancia's design practise dating back to the 1920s). Staggered engines are an amenable further development, with both uneven cylinder numbers, and with staggered-bank V configurations.

So in a way it is not a V6, I stand corrected
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: Len on 14 July 2009, 11:45
Has to be a V

Uses the same crank so to stagger the cylinders there has to be an angle from the vertical.
It will indeed be a very narrow angle but its definitely not in-line therefore it is a V!  :smug:
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: Len on 14 July 2009, 11:49
Have a look at the cross section on this web page!

http://www.autozine.org/technical_school/engine/tech_engine_packaging.htm



FCUK Wikipedia! :laugh:
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: axewielder on 14 July 2009, 12:51
i agree with len, its not inline+ its not flat so anything inbetween is a V, so what if its no 60 deg. you get all sorts of different angles, its only different from most vs because there is only one head! :drool:
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: Wayne on 14 July 2009, 13:07
Quote from: axewielder on 14 July 2009, 12:51
i agree with len, its not inline+ its not flat so anything inbetween is a V, so what if its no 60 deg. you get all sorts of different angles, its only different from most vs because there is only one head! :drool:

It is a V but being only 15% it is very narrow,
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: Tramp on 14 July 2009, 14:00
So where was i.... :shocked:

Oh Yes, it seems the cam chains have not been replaced yet
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: Wayne on 14 July 2009, 15:52
Quote from: Tramp on 14 July 2009, 14:00
So where was i.... :shocked:

Oh Yes, it seems the cam chains have not been replaced yet

That could cost you around £500 to £700 with labour charges.
Title: Re: Is this a fair price too start with?
Post by: Tramp on 14 July 2009, 18:20
Well that's the end of that then....thanks