This may be obvious but the money saved by running past 2k hrs is very small.
Say the overhaul is £20k - a gold plated money-no-object job done in the USA by the best engine shop and with DHL shipping both ways - that is £10/hr on the engine fund.
If you run the engine to 3k hrs, the fund reduces to £6.66/hr i.e. a saving of just £3.33/hr.
Put this against the cost of avgas of (very) roughly £80/hr...
If you have a CS prop then your prop fund will be a few quid per hr also...
Also, an engine run to 3k is obviously more likely to need more bits changed than one that was run to 2k hrs.
The only company in the UK which I would recommend on the basis of reports from people I know personally is Nicholson McLaren.
Last edited by peterh337; 30th Sep 2012 at 16:40.