Yeh you really will save heaps. Check out these guys with k20a in their ek hatches forsale for under 20k. To build it from scratch parts and labour the bill would be 30k easy. Saving like 10k.
Check out the forsale threads you'll see.
If you can pick up an eg breeze for the 1.8k mark you stated in your post.
then yes you can pretty much save yourself a bit of dollars converting it to efi considering you know how to fit these parts in yourself.
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