Rear End Install Shop in NorCal

Yeah, that makes A LOT more sense. The rear disks alone are going to be more than $1k of that total, and then add whatever brake lines and modifications you need on top of that since Wilwood never includes the brake lines (shady bastards). Driveshaft is likely $300+ (what I paid for my last one with 1350 joints) and that doesn't include measuring time for labor. And yeah, an extra hour for the diff, an extra hour for the axles, several more hours for the brake conversion, and at a minimum $100+ per hour the "extra stuff" is probably adding a few grand to your total.

Plus the RMS is gonna take awhile. If that's a fully assembled car you're dropping off you've got to drop the fuel tank, peel back any fuel or brake lines in the way, clean the frame rails and prep for welding, weld the cross bar in, clean and prep the rear axle housing, locate and weld on the tabs. Doing it right means mocking it up fully, determining all the angles and lengths, then tacking it all together, taking it all apart again for all the welding then reassembly. It's going to be a lot of hours of labor if you're paying a good shop for the RMS install.

And then you're painting and undercoating, reinstalling the tank, hooking up all the lines again, etc, etc...
it's the "grand rule" man. everything takes $1,000 to do right.

oh, install a fuel tank? no problem! but you can't install a tank and just leave the bobo fuel line up in the engine bay. eighty-five dollars for a steel line? no wayy! so you spend the time buying line, bending one up, get the nice filter, the good hose for the flex portions and good clamps. and you can't install a new tank without new vent lines, and i need some insulation for the tank, and this sending unit lock ring sucks and so does the gasket. and what the F? i gotta half take apart the exhaust to get the tank out? *fume about it and then add it to the ticket* and then get back to wirewheeling the J-bolts... and that's how you end up with 1K on a tank install.

so spot on with wilwood. and a bunch of the other "kits"... if i had a dime for every "i bought the kit, it's all there and ready to install" i've heard. well, i'd have a lot of dimes. probably more than ten dollar's worth.