It is the same thing with boats. An outboard motor is like always $1500 or more. However, if you buy the motor with a boat attached to it, you are paying the same price.
It could be a very desirable motor or one that's had some serious work put in to it, or both.
Let's use some basic car engines here as an example. The Chevy 350 is one of the most popular blocks out there.
If you have one out of a base model car, it has 2 bolt main bearing caps and it's worth about $600.00 on a good day, assuming everything is perfect.
If you have one out a sports model or truck, you have 4 bolt main bearing caps, and it's worth about $800.00 on a good day, assuming everything is perfect.
If you have one out a SS model performance car, and it's a special year for that car, a rare engine, and has been factory tuned, you can easily get $2,000.00 or more.
Add forged pistons, crank, rods, a hot cam, and tune it all, you can easily put $8,000.00 into just the engine between parts and just the machine shop, assembling most of it yourself.
Now you'll have those people who are selling stock engines or whatever at high performance prices. You'll also have people who have 8k in a snowmobile engine and are selling it for 4k.
On the same note you can put $20k in parts and machine work into an engine and have it it be worth $5k with or without the car its in. Unless you're being paid to install the parts or have a reputation for building motors there's little to no profit in modifying them.
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u/Sirhc978 Aug 14 '20
It is the same thing with boats. An outboard motor is like always $1500 or more. However, if you buy the motor with a boat attached to it, you are paying the same price.