Eric Mumford wrote:
> To do the machining on my head and block, it's gonna cost me $900 for
> the machine shop labor PLUS parts! I was preparing myself for a $300
> machine shop job. Now I'm in trouble.
>
> Here is the breakdown of the expenses - please let me know if these guys
> are taking me for a ride or if it's normal.
>
> Block -
> hot tank $ 50
> line honed $175
> bore hone 20" $130
> crank ground $125
> bigends $ 48
> small ends $ 48
> head-
> Valve job $125
> check cracks $ 16
> guide liners $ 48
> exhaust seats $ 36
> resurface $ 24
>
> The total comes to $900 plus tax, plus I have to order the pistons,
> rings, exhaust valves, rod and main bearings, pin bush myself and get
> them to him when he knows what size i need.
>
> One of the crank shim bearings had come off and the block was damaged by
> the crank pushing forward or something. I think that's why he said he
> had to line hone it.
>
> The way people were talking when I got into this it was sounding like
> the machine shop cost would be only a few hundred dollars. Now it's
> going to end up being about $1300, at least, and I could have gotten the
> whole block rebuilt and reassembled for that price by another shop I
> looked at in Massachusetts.
>
>
I'd find another shop if I were you.I just had a block done, dipped, check
for cracks, honed then bored because of a gouge in the cylinder wall,
pistons put on rods and crank polished, all this (no head work) didn't come
to $200. I do know they machinist but only from other jobs I have given him.
I don't think I get any great bargins from him although maybe I do, he does
go by a book and puts down numbers for what he did then I pay the man in the
front of the shop.
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Frank Clarici
Too many Sprites
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