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Oh I wasn't listed in the subject line but I guess I'll throw my two cents in anyways.
$1k is sorta pricey, but really the shop wouldn't be making *that* much profit at $800 even if they didn't do all sorts of extra work. Aftermarket parts from a discount place will run you about $140, locally pressure testing and milling the head would run about $100 (at $65/hr), let's say five hours of labor at $80/hr, that's another $400 (I believe the book rate is about 11-12 hours). But really, the shop would probably want to mark up the parts to between $200 and $300. Let's not even begin to mention what it would cost for OEM parts.
Really, doing a head gasket on a 240T is a pretty straight forward job. Indeed the only pain was that K-Jet on a turbo requires (moreso with a crossflow head) stuff to be all over the engine compartment. Indeed K-Jet (esp. on a 240T) is way more complicated than any half-reasonable EFI setup.
All told I spent about $400 to do the headgasket on my sedan. This included all new OEM exhaust studs and nuts, OEM head bolts (at nearly $10/ea), grinding and adjusting the valves, and an Elring head gasket set.
- alex
'85 244 Turbo
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