The most money spent on a single car part?

Pretty sure it's on a fully loaded set of Fortune Auto 510 coilovers. Could be the current Haltech ECU, though.

I spent something like $2600 on a Jasper 4L60E for my truck after the old one popped. Beyond that, the used fuel cell I bought last fall for $375 is the most expensive single thing I can think of off the top of my head.

Does a crate engine count as a single "part"?  It's got a single part number.

I haven't spent it yet, but I've been considering a crate engine for the FD (66K miles and the compression is a bit marginal).  Current price is $5500.

Back in the 1980s I was fixing up a Datsun Roadster. Parts were mostly still available at the time, but the grill insert was around $200 in 1980s money - I had to pass. Wonder what they are now...

Does 7k on a new engine count? If so, the solid roller/indy head engine in my duster in 2005. 

A friend that owned a classic Lamborghini had to shell out $8K for a bare head to replace a badly damaged one on his engine.....

big "single" expenditures....

$2k+ on FJO management, wiring, etc.

$1500+ On LEEN J160 conversion

and the 5V-EU is going to run $8000

I put out roughly $2400 CAD for *just* the Holley Dominator (it literally comes with nothing else) and I still have never turned it on. 

Aside from that, the racing seat / mount for the drift car was $1300 CAD after tax and freight

wspohn said:

A friend that owned a classic Lamborghini had to shell out $8K for a bare head to replace a badly damaged one on his engine.....

EEEEEEEEEEEEE.

earlybroncoguy1 said:

$14,500. + shipping.

A complete new body counts, right? It's all welded together... 

Absolutely - one part number, right?

When I wrecked my Porsche 911 decades ago the body shop got it totalled by telling the adjuster it only needed one part: a new tub, at $16,000.

I forget about the Anderson Ford Motorsport PMS system I got off a buddy for $750 including the low impedance injector driver box, data acquation, and last tune for a snf 306, tfs twisted wedge heads, stock cam, and vortech s-trim...

Odd question...

Clearly a transmission or an engine is not a single part, but it's definitely a single part number. 
 

$8K for an engine.  $2600 for a transmission. 
 

I almost never buy a truly single part. SET of tires, ASSEMBLED engine, SET of coilovers, etc...

Price per pound might be the blank "smart" key for $500 , and then you needed to drag the car to the Dealership to get it programmed !

5.x thousand for an LS3 and 4L60 (been sitting the garage for two years now...).

I think I'm at almost 3k in ChillOut System's fancy cool shirt.

~2k for Miata suspension

None of these are truly a "single part" though. If pinned down that'd probably be 1600 on a diff.

wspohn said:

A friend that owned a classic Lamborghini had to shell out $8K for a bare head to replace a badly damaged one on his engine.....

That doesn't sound that crazy high.  I mean, that's a lot for a bare casting and all.  But in the double context of "Lamborghini" and "classic", I'm surprised it's not 3x that.

On the off chance that my wife finds this thread someday, I will not be participating in this game!

kb58 said:

Back in the 1980s I was fixing up a Datsun Roadster. Parts were mostly still available at the time, but the grill insert was around $200 in 1980s money - I had to pass. Wonder what they are now...

Cheaper because they are making reproductions in Vietnam. The side trim that was $$$ is also reproduced. 

This guy has us all beat, buying a "cheap" flood-damaged McLaren P1. "Damaged" doesn't start to tell the story, and he's going to be buying many $$$$ (or $$$$$, or even $$$$$$) components to gradually restore it.

Wasn't my car, but I sold an oil pump under warranty for a NSX.

MSRP, $21762.28 part number 15100-58G-A01

Nobody's bought a set of $1500 triple Weber carbs for a Datsun Z yet?  I'm surprised.  

Personal: $1500 for an STI 6 speed (if you pull out the $150 or so for pedals, MC's and stock flywheel that I purchased with it).

Not personal, but went on my credit card: bought a $12,000 crate engine for my FIL, that was after my discount. 

Datsun310Guy said:

Nobody's bought a set of $1500 triple Weber carbs for a Datsun Z yet?  I'm surprised.  

That's chump change compared to Datsun 2000 Solexes. They're in the $7k range now!

It's been a while but $4000 ish on a set of 16x8/10s in 930 fitment for my old 911. I never ran them but I had to have them. 
 

Datsun310Guy said:

Nobody's bought a set of $1500 triple Weber carbs for a Datsun Z yet?  I'm surprised.  

I did but nowhere close to the most expensive single part unfortunately. Lol

Datsun310Guy said:

Nobody's bought a set of $1500 triple Weber carbs for a Datsun Z yet?  I'm surprised.  

I bought an original Ford FE Tri-Power setup once. It needed to be rebuilt and it cost me $750 in 2003. I resold it years later (having never used it) for $1500. 

So I mean it technically cost me -750 bucks...

crankwalk (Forum Supporter) said:

It's been a while but $4000 ish on a set of 16x8/10s in 930 fitment for my old 911. I never ran them but I had to have them. 
 

 

Yes, wheels.

edit: just scoured the web for pics

DPE I had built for the E55

And these kinesics supercups for the 986s

I just bought the supercups back two weekends ago from the guy I sold them to who never did anything to them. I probably have the original pics on a zip disc somewhere but don't have a Zip drive lol