MRL Performance
If you have proof that you paid for port work and he didn't do it, you can take him to court.
Man, why are good machine shops impossible to find?!
Partially because customers don't get why it is so expensive. I start engine assembly at $1000.00 and it goes up quickly. Yet everybody and their mother can do assembly. Except they can't fit a rear main seal, accurately (if even at all) degree a cam, check piston to valve clearance, correctly hone valve guides straight and round and we won't even get into selecting and doing a quality valve job.
You work for slave labor wages because people think that you LOVE to work for nothing on their hobby, not thinking that they won't work just for fun.
I could go on but this isn't the N&P section. This doesn't excuse some one from charging for work and not doing it, but making a living doing automotive machining isn't easy or fun.
And let's not even add in the cost of machines, tooling and pissing away your day explaining why the "guys" on the internet don't understand how to read even simple data, like flow bench numbers, again, none of which you get paid for.
And then, THEN have an issue and look out. There is only one side to the story and that is the customer side, because we all KNOW the customer is never wrong. Your name will be trashed, now world wide via the net, and that takes time and money to correct.
So yeah, you want quality machining, be ready to pay. Or better yet, bully up to the bar and buy your own shop and get rich.
Thanks dukeboy for giving me the chance to rant, and this is no way directed at you. Just my minimal observations and general thoughts on a difficult way to make a living. It's not directed at you in any way. You asked a very good question, and I addressed it. A little. Engine building isn't as fun as everyone thinks when you do it every day.
