Well I just found out one of my co-workers has another job at a local mechanic shop (actually the owners son and works there).
I told him about my cracked head and he told me he could fix it and do all of this list of work for $950 w/o installation and $1500 with re-installation

- Used head
- Block cleaned
- Surfaces renewed by milling
- Block bored and honed
- Connecting Rods reconditioned
- New pin bushings installed
- Crank shaft ground and polished
- Cylinder heads pressure tested
- Cam lines checked
- Heads checked for thickness
- 3-Angel valve grind
- New pistons
- New piston rings
- New rod bearings
- New main bearings
- New wrist pin bushings
- New thrust bearings
- New head bolts
- New rear main seal
- New frost plugs
- New Gaskets all installed.

Does this sound like a fair deal?

 

That price sounds a little too good to be true if it includes parts. Ask him what brand of parts he is using.

 

X2...........

 

japan engines inc. is the rebuild kit he'll be using. It's just he's charging me cheap for labor because I have known him for a few years

 

If you go through with it, I would DEFANTLY consider throwing a hopped up cam in there. Easy as heck when you are doing a rebuild, get some easy power and open the doors for more easy power.

 

if your getting a new head why the valve job, Cylinder head pressure tested,Cam lines checked, Head checked for thickness??

 

i was just goign to say that thanks you dave!!

and if its a 22re i did mine with a new cam new rods new crank new rings new valve seals new gaskets new timing chain new seals new bearings all for only 1200 and thats with all the work at the shop on the head and stuff to 5 angle valve job and so on and so on

 

5 angle? Explain that 1

 

oops wrong thread my god that sucked!! lol


lol heres the 5 angle valve job just read on it tells ya alot about them

http://www.alaniztechnologies.com/headterms.html

 

MULTI-ANGLE VALVE JOB
A multi angle valve job is the cutting or grinding of 2 or more angles on the seat and valve. The purpose of a multi angle valve job is to improve airflow. By now you have probably heard of 5 angle and radius valve jobs. The truth, this is more applicable in the American iron heads. There just isnt enough material in the small diameter seats or valves to see any real noticeable differences on a flow bench. A .5% gain maybe seen on a flowbench but the flowbench has a plus or minus error factor that has to be eliminated before a true flow figure can be attained. Older American iron heads may benefit from a five angle or radius valve job but only because the head is so bad to begin with. The Honda head is diffrent. Our flowbench testing has proven time after time that the correct angles and angle widths is what is important. More CFM gains have been made through this procedure than applying 5 angles or radiuses.

 

He said it's an old head that he has that he is going to do all that work on.