I had a similar experience. I called about 5 different machinist out of the yellow pages one guy was too busy for a street engine (race engine builder) one guy was renovating his shop and was like a year waiting period. Two wouldn't answer the phone and failed too return messages. One guy wouldn't give me a price and acted like I was completely ridiculous ridiculous for wanting a price before the work was done. He said oh we will price it when you pick it up. I was like no i want to know before hand he was like well it depends. Depends on what? It just depends........ wtf im no machinist and I dont know the process but im pretty sure the process is the same every time. All I want is a block bored .030 over how much is that? Depends......CLICK!
finally found a guy who is the fabricator engineer at the plant I work for him his dad and son build engines. He is super cool and helpful seems like s really stand up guy. I told him what I needed and he gave me an estimate and he gave me advice and helped me with my cam selection and valve spring selection. And he didnt turn his nose up when I told him i was doing a budget build street car engine. Most these guys want to build 5-10k race engines.
