The problem is the lack of machine shops these days. Back when i started automotive there were 3 local to me.
All three were run by relics from the 60s and 70s.
Two passed away and one of those two shops is boarded up with everything in it. One of the other shops was torn down and is now a parking lot. The building they tore down had been built in 1920. RIP 1920-2008.
The third shop is there but the owner is only there once every few months and spends most of his time in a home. I visit him every once in awhile but he is exhausted with cars and the whole mess and is very grumpy and disinterested.
Then at one time I used the machine shop at the auto school. That was supposed to come to a halt when I graduated. One of the instructors liked me and let me keep using the mschine shop even after graduating. Since then, that instructor passed away, so there is no one I know there anymore.
That puts the next available shop an hour and 40 minutes drive away.
This engine is going to get power washed in the driveway and hopefully that is good enough because it's going to have to be. :)
