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Old 12-03-2007, 01:58 AM
jkoebel jkoebel is offline
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Originally Posted by Gurkha View Post
That would be a splendid idea, can you get a quote from them?
I sent him an e-mail saying that I could feasibly make a "bulk order" for a "stationary application" and asking for an opinion about that.

I'm being diplomatic and very polite about the whole thing, since they're the only people who sell these, and I don't want to come across as a rude American or something of the sort.

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Originally Posted by diametricalbenz View Post
I wonder what the minimum order would be? Importation and tarriffs wouldn't be too difficult. Did they mention how much in any way $1000? $3000?
I'm just guessing but I'd say probably $3k + freight. Still cheaper than a Metric Motors engine, especially given the fact that if these things are being sold as a set, they're going to have new turbochargers, injection pumps, etc. (I don't think they'd just ship an engine block for use as a generator, without even the support parts needed to make it operate.)

Hell, being non-U.S.-spec, they might even have the "good" M(?) pumps instead of the MW pumps.
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