avoiding hot tank fees

The block has to be cleaned after the boring work - that and honing create all kinds of metal chips. These end up everywhere, so you will have to pull the cam bearings and all the caps and plugs to be able to clean all the gunk from all the passages. This MUST be done. It's not capitalism, it's not over charging - it's necessary process and if you were to argue it I'd tell you go somewhere else. It's not worth their time to then be accused of building a crap engine when it expires.