I've been quoted £600 for my engine to be rebuilt. I have every thing it needs so that price is purely for labour question is, is this a fair price as i haven't got a clue

 

sounds very cheap mate, but some peoplpe will charge a lot more than that, remeber you'll have to get it mapped etc etc to
who was your quote from?

 

just a small performance garage in the area he normally works on rx7s and most other jap cars. Not much choice of engine builders round here to be honest i've hered bad things about most of them tbh and he seams clued up

 

Very reasonable price but as mentioned you need to get it to a cossie tuner ASAP if ur jap man cant do it.

I got my local garage to fit my engine and had a manner of problems, i took it back and they shook their shoulders

 

What machine work does that include?
Or has the machining already been done and measured?


If its litteraly just to bolt one together with no machinging or measuring you may as well do it yourself cause thats the easy bit and can be done in a couple of hours!

 

Rebuilding it,in man hours is a piece of piss,getting bits trade you can rebuild a standard cossie engine for 1k doing it your self,depending on what it needs,oh just remembered my rebuild cost 6k



cheeRS stu

 

I'ts just a case of taken it apart then putting it together

 

may as well do it yourself then if thats all thats happening, the important bit of building an engine is measuring everything as you go, thats the expertise you pay for.

 

I wouldn't know where to start chip i can do a service change the wheels and thats about it

 

I think you should ask him what it actually involves, i would hope he will be measuring things like the piston to bore clerance and ring gaps, and acurately measuring the CR for you to tell your mapper, and checking the journal sizes etc.

If its just bolting it together, its actually something anyone vauguely competent with a torque wrench can do!

 

I charge you £500

 

And presumabley will hand it over complete with a sheet of paper detailing every clearance and size etc?

If so

sounds like a plan batman!

 

can do if required!

Alex