"Chairman Kaga" (mike-mckinnon)
02/16/2015 at 17:41 • Filed to: None
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"Chairman Kaga" (mike-mckinnon)
02/16/2015 at 17:41 • Filed to: None | 0
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I found a guy with a clean, low mileage Verde 3.0 motor, but he's in Vermont and I'm in Texas. The price for the motor is perfect and I've bought from the guy before so I trust his goods. But jeez, shipping 300 pounds on a 4x4' palette is about three times the cost of the actual hardware, and that's standard freight.
I've shipped bit stuff like seats via Greyhound before, but I doubt they'd take something that size.
Any suggestions for doing that reasonably? Anyone from New England coming to Austin for SXSW or a race at COTA? I'd pay a percentage of your fuel costs!
EDIT: Dry weight is actually closer to 400 pounds.
Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
> Chairman Kaga
02/16/2015 at 17:50 |
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freightcenter.com just spit this out at me for a 4x4x4 pallet at 300 lbs from Burlington, VT to Downtown Austin.
yamahog
> Chairman Kaga
02/16/2015 at 17:50 |
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Did you try getting a bid on uship.com?
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Chairman Kaga
> Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
02/16/2015 at 18:06 |
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That's a good resource! We were figuring about $600. He only wants $200 for the engine (no distributor, exhaust, AFM - just the block, heads, throttle body, and plenum. Not a TOTAL dealbreaker but I'm going to keep searching within a slightly more local radius.
Will with a W8 races an E30
> Chairman Kaga
02/16/2015 at 18:20 |
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Use freightcenter.com or something similar, get a LTL quote for a 4x4 pallet 400lbs of class 70 freight. You can save a lot of money if he can drop off at a his local freight center, and you can pick up at one near you.
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Chairman Kaga
> Will with a W8 races an E30
02/16/2015 at 18:29 |
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I'm trying to figure out how to arrange it with drop off/pick up. When you say save a lot...?
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Will with a W8 races an E30
> Chairman Kaga
02/16/2015 at 18:36 |
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When I did it a few years ago, driving to a freight center 40 miles away for a pickup saved $50 over residential delivery, and $100 over residential with a forklift. At the freight center they can load the pallet with the forklift directly into the back of your truck. I think commercial delivery was similarly cheap, if your company is willing and the fork lift driver likes you.
The hardest part is really the loading and unloading at both ends, but if both you and the seller have a vehicle that can swallow a pallet with an engine on it, and can be loaded/unloaded with a forklift, you can easily save $200 over door-door delivery.
crowmolly
> Chairman Kaga
02/16/2015 at 18:38 |
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He can load it up, go to the terminal, have them offload it with a forklift, and then ship. On your end you go with an empty pickup then have them forklift it in for you.
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You need to find out if they will do that at your/his terminals. They did whenever I needed to.
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Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
> Chairman Kaga
02/16/2015 at 18:46 |
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That's a helluva deal on a 3.0, although the shipping does kill it a touch