"Jerry Napoliano" wrote in message
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As I've been discussing in another thread, I'm evaluating a 1982 C172P
for purchase. I was using $20k as the TOTAL cost of an engine
replacement, but apparently that is high.

I'd like to hear from owners that have experience with this. If I
take it in at 2000 hrs, what am I going to pay (read: how much will
the check be) to get to 0 SMOH? I presume there are variables, like
having an annual done at the same time, helping with the swap, etc.
For budgeting and negotiating purposes, though, what should I figure
on to get it back to 0 time?

I getting ready (in about 20 hours) to upgrade an IO-520 to an Millennium
IO-550 and the cost is going to be ~$28K, so a O-320 will probably be about
half that. of course, WHO does the replacement and WHAT they replace it with
will tweak the cost, probably substantially.