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Originally Posted by zraffz
This motor was actually at his shop twice. He had it for 2-3 months. The first time we got it back I took a lifter out and saw metal shavings along with pieces of rag on the cam. He was supposed to take it back apart and clean it... doesn't look like he did that.
Last night I made a few phone calls and heard nothing but bad things about him. I will say he didn't do a bad job cleaning my heads but even when he tanked my block it came out terrible.
Looks like I'll be taking a trip to Five Star after work tomorrow. Might as well let them clean up the crank, rebalance, change cam bearings, maybe do the final hone and tank it again.
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Alright, let me know what you think of Five Star. I will be needing a machine shop to at least do cam bearings, freeze plugs, and bore out the block for my motor when I get that far. Maybe clearance the block if I need to have that done. Sucks when you have to drive a ways just for machine work. I had to clean up the block he did for me, but I attributed that to the serious amount of **** that was in that particular block. I'm wondering if he tanked yours after mine. If he did then its possible he didn't change the fluid out.
The other guy who is local did the head work on my brother's MR2. Did a very nice job and gave it back to us in a heavy duty plastic wrap. Guy's name is Mark and he runs A-1 Crankshaft. But we've only used him for the one time. I hear he builds serious motors, down side is people complain about his turnaround time. My brother botched the reassembly so I can't confirm anything beyond he did a real nice job with the head rebuild. I would go to him but when I build a motor, I don't want to be waiting forever with the parts to assemble it while he does the machine work. I guess I'll have to talk to him again once I get enough parts to justify starting the build.