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Old 04-24-2024, 08:38 PM   #4
Alan Roehrich
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Default Re: current cost of having good stocker head work?

When you pay for good Stock heads, you're usually paying for 20-60 YEARS of hard earned experience gained from long hours. You're paying for what people KNOW, just not what they DO. You're paying for their ability to work within the rules, and what will pass tech.



Plain shop time at any good repair shop is $250 per flat rate hour. Expect premium quality machine shop time to be well above that.



Parts are now at ludicrous prices, IF you can get them. And if your cylinder head shop can get them, it often means they bought them in advance, and tied their money up.



If you have not priced shop tools and equipment, you should try that.


I know what work goes in to a set of record holding legal heads. My friend does extremely nice work, and it passes tech. It's as close to perfection as human hands can make, and it's done with production heads that are worn out usually, and the tolerances are very loose on.


A good set of heads will have every chamber within 0.5cc, every valve height in the chamber within 0.005", every installed height within 0.010", and every stem height within 0.005". Take a guess how long it takes to learn to do it, and what it takes to make it happen.


Most guys doing "speed work" like to eat, like a roof over their heads, and they like to race, too.


Ask MJ Quinn how I know all of this.


By the way, MJ, missed you at the combo on Sunday.
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