New Aspire Engines on Ebay

[1990new]

Anyone bought one of these new engines for $1200?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-96-97-Ford-Aspire-1-3L-Complete-Engine-Assembly-/271083301008?hash=item3f1dd2e890&item=271083301008&pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr

Can they be easily adapted to fit 1989-1993 Festiva?

[Damkid]

New Aspire Engines on Ebay

Who in there right mind would pay $1200 for an engine when you could find solid running festiva/aspires all day for $500

[Flyin4stroke]

New Aspire Engines on Ebay

It's about piece of mind damkid. Haha

[1990new]

:confused3:Someone better bring a straight jacket and padded van to take me away.
I've put new engines (from Festivamotorsport.com) in 3 Festivas withing the past 7 years.
All are still running great. I hated to see festivamotorsport.com disappear from the internet.

[David88]

Well around here engines are not the problem. Good running engines are scrapped daily. Its the rusted bodies. We need a large shipment of NOS bodies!

[TheresGabe]

I agree... Festivas are harder to come by these days, however, I can find NICE Aspires for $800 all the time.

[Damkid]

New Aspire Engines on Ebay

It's about piece of mind damkid. Haha

I understand that, but low mileage festiva's can be found for the price of that engine alone, and anyone who knows festiva's will know these engines are very reliable

Just my two cents

[RhodeStiva]

i got my 1997 ford aspire engine with only 45000 mile on it, off of ebay for $400 that's including shipping. and it is running great.

[TheresGabe]

i got my 1997 ford aspire engine with only 45000 mile on it, off of ebay for $400 that's including shipping. and it is running great.

Didn't know you had an Aspire... So you are rocking 2 festys and an Aspire? Geez! The sickness has you in it's grips! You ever do a write up on the Aspire?

[navdoc101]

I think he did an engine swap in his first Festy.

[RhodeStiva]

New Aspire Engines on Ebay

Yea engine swap aspire engine in my first festy

[nonamekid]

Can they be easily adapted to fit 1989-1993 Festiva?

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/showthread.php?41246-Aspire-engine-into-festiva-what-needs-to-be-swapped

[Aaronbrook37]

I understand that, but low mileage festiva's can be found for the price of that engine alone, and anyone who knows festiva's will know these engines are very reliable

Just my two cents

Completely agree. $1200 for a B3 is absolutely insane... you might as well just rebuild your own using wholesale closeout parts from Rockauto and Ebay for a third that price. If you're going to put that much money into a new motor, why not just rebuild a B6/B8/BP instead and pop that in?

[gergorian]

I can honestly say I have almost that much in my B3 head alone... Mind you, it is nowhere near stock anymore.

[Bert]

The idea of installing a factory-new engine is certainly appealing. One thing about a car with mostly all-old parts is the cam seal lets go not long after after the water pump lets go, shortly after you've done the timing belt etc etc. One thing about whoever is selling these engines they must think there is a real market for a 15 year old B3? Nobody else uses them and Aspires are even more a novelty item than Festys. The e-buyer likely picked them up for the price of scrap. I would think if 'we' all wait until the price drops down to something like $400-500 then the engines will move, and we won't be sitting around arguing about the cost.
By the way are these pre-OBDII engines or are they newer and require swapping over all kinds of Festy parts?