[Shotimes] Which is the flat-out best SHO shop/ Opinions needed.

[sabutin]

OK...

Time to either get serious about my SHO or get rid of it.

Red '94 MTX, bought new, babied as best as I could through 180 K miles.

I am now encountering problems that my so-far OK mechanics are not 
dealing with very well.

Eating rear brake pads...yeah, I know, I've been watching the posts recently...

A shudder and whine in the front end that has been variously diagnosed as :

1-Wheel bearings.

2-No, it CAN"T be wheel bearings because the wheels don't shake when 
manipulated on the lift.

3-Differential.

4-No. it can't be the diff because it doesn't change pitch when you turn.

5-Clutch throwout bearing. (I WILL need a new clutch w/in about 10K miles...)

6-No, it can't be the throwout bearing because it doesn't change when 
you depress the clutch.

Etc...plus some little things.

And a relative shortage of money that means I can't just throw money 
at those ideas in the hope that one of them may be the problem.

So my question is...

If y'all wanted to put a 180K SHO back into really fine mechanical 
condition...I live in NYC and frequent some rough neighborhoods as 
part of my job,  so cosmetics are actually something of a drawback.. 
you were free to do without the car for a while and would ship it 
wherever you thought the work would be done really, REALLY well at a 
fair price...nothing fancy, no messing around, no games, just an out 
of the box stock SHO...

To whom would you send it?

Who's the consensus  best of the best?

Thanks...

    S.
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