Yep a shop is gonna want to tear it all apart and address all deficiencies otherwise they won't accept the car. No way to know what all is mickey moused up otherwise. And there is a nation wide shortage of auto mechanics these days to boot.
i'll do my due diligence and check the criticals, but if it's running *** after you put a cam in it and it's not the distributor out of time, the intake sucking air or something dumb like a fouled plug or bad carb, then you're paying me to teardown and inspect. otherwise go pay somebody else $100+ an hour to chase their tail on it and after they've given up and you've paid them, you can come on back and pay me to do it right.
