does anyone know any reputable places in melbourne that sell front cuts ?

im on the market for a CA18DET and im struggling to find one.. every place i ring doesnt have any front cuts in stock but tries to sell me bits and pieces of motors...

i want to buy one complete..

thanks in advance

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ha ha. good luck!

I've just been through the same thing. I tried everyone of the so called big companies and everything was too hard for them.
Itried everyone from S.A, VIC, NSW, QLD

No one rang back - no one could give a freight cost - i couldnt put up with it anymore they all seem to be wan$#$%ers

I'll just build a tuff A series now.

Sorry for being negative but I had heaps of trouble with them.

If you're about to spend around $2500 you expect some service at least aphone call.

Dont buy their "lucky dip" engine, wiring,g/box packages. Just been through all that crap with a mate. NOT FUN.

apparently not...

actually go the datto was saying in another post a place he got his motor from in shepparton were really good, if ya prepared to head out that way

This site has a guide for freight costs. I found when i was looking that it comes on in spurts. They all seem to get stock at the same time. Probly off the same boat. I was looking round here though - Newcastle/Sydney, about this time last year. Ended up buying one last December.

If you have or can hire a trayback ute and have an engine hoist, its easy to pick up and transport a half cut with it.

the money and delivery isnt the issue... its finding someone who has one

what about ekw, they usually have them.

or http://www.nispares.com.au/

or http://www.jaustech.com.au/
in adelaide or

http://www.justjap.com/

in sydney i think.

ekw dont have any

nispares dont have any at the moment but said theyre $3-4k lol trippa's...

and i dont wanna ship one interstate if i can avoid it...

ill see how i go...

thanks anyway

ANGE,
send me an email with exactly what you want.....l'll speak to a guy l know. He was telling me last week that he's bought about 6 half cuts recently from an importer who's really reliable.

Theres also a place in Bridge Rd, Keysborough. Cant remember the name yet, but you'd definately want to open the engines up, which he seems happy with.

I think that he only wanted $1100 for the lot, but that was a long time ago (12 months) and l didn't want it..

The reason they are not bringing in front cuts is because they sit in stock for so long. People dont want to pay the money the importers have to get, hence no front cuts.

To give you an example of cut cost -

In Japan the front cut costs about $400 - $600 Aud (Y30,000 - Y45000) That has to be packed in a container and shipped to the dock in Japan and loaded. Cost to this point is about $700 AUD(Y55000).

Freight in the container is about $200 pro rata.

On landing in OZ there are customs agents fees, port handling charges and levies. Customs then add all the costs to this point and charge 15% import duty. After this duty is addded, then GST of 10% is added.
By this stage the front cut owes you $1300 -$1400 and that is with a container load lot.

Then you add insurance costs and currency charges for the transaction and your cut will owe you about $1650 for a budget (low grade dunger ) cut. If you get a good one that has low Km's then it will cost you approximately $2200 -$2300 landed. And then you have to pay rent and bills

People who had cuts instock were stripping them and selling them off cheap over the last 18 months to get out of them and wont restock the hard to sell cuts.
They were pulling the turbo manifolds of CA18 DET's to sell them for N/A EXA engines just to get rid of them. Now theres a drought.