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I got prices at the local machine shop for work on my engine and I just need opinions on if the price is high or what?

Block work: decked, bore 20 over and hone, clean
Head work: valve job, milled if head is warped any, and cleaned
balance tuner toys rods, wiseco pistons, flywheel, and crank and of course hot tank everything
total: 480..it that expensive??

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sounds apart right. Valve jobs a pricey

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awesome

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Basic price for that stuff broken down

Deck/Bore/Hone 150 (with deckplate) 80-100 without
Valve Grind 16v 3way Clean and Machine 200-250
Balance bottom end 145 (4 cylinder)

So around 550ish would be normal at a good machine shop.

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balancing gets real expensive

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I'm getting basically the same things done to my ZC minus the balancing and just for labor I'm slightly over $200. If he has to buy any parts for the head it's going to cost me a little more.

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i paid 425 for a d series block to be built including bearings, and whatever else he did.

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Spin balancing rotating assembly (crank, balancer, flywheel, PP) runs me $100. Individual parts balancing adds up.

Last head I had valves seated in + milled ran me $178.

$480 sounds about right.

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do you take the whole completed block to them to balance or just the individual pieces? ???

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you can balance the rods and pistons yourself ;)

i wouldnt rebalance a honda crank, did once and it was all out of wack, spun all the mains