South Bend Clutch - prices went WAY up?
01-30-2013 | 02:49 PM
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Ok based on this - I shot the guy at South Bend an email. I asked him to double-check (and also asked him to make sure he was indeed looking at 944 stuff and not 911 stuff, as I remember when I first called them 2 years ago the guy kept thinking I had a 911).
His response:
Waiting to hear back from Dave @ FRF before I make the final call. I hate to be a cheap bastard but I'm over budget already (and went way over budget on vacation last weekend), so I'm trying to keep costs down.
His response:
Hi Jim,
I talked to one of the other techs. He said our pricing can be all over the board depending on what the customer want done. $250 for rebuilding the PP and relining the disc is no problem.
I talked to one of the other techs. He said our pricing can be all over the board depending on what the customer want done. $250 for rebuilding the PP and relining the disc is no problem.
01-30-2013 | 02:55 PM
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Ok based on this - I shot the guy at South Bend an email. I asked him to double-check (and also asked him to make sure he was indeed looking at 944 stuff and not 911 stuff, as I remember when I first called them 2 years ago the guy kept thinking I had a 911).
His response:
Waiting to hear back from Dave @ FRF before I make the final call. I hate to be a cheap bastard but I'm over budget already (and went way over budget on vacation last weekend), so I'm trying to keep costs down.
His response:
Waiting to hear back from Dave @ FRF before I make the final call. I hate to be a cheap bastard but I'm over budget already (and went way over budget on vacation last weekend), so I'm trying to keep costs down.
Good luck.
01-30-2013 | 03:19 PM
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That tends to be my problem. I hate half-assing stuff (even if the end result is 100% functional) and often prefer to just do it right.
My car still has liquid-filled motor mounts in it. They're holding up, they're not leaking... but the rubber is showing some signs of rot (it's got some cracking...) Since I've got it all apart, might as well throw new mounts at it - everything is out in the open, probably take me 10 minutes to swap them. But it's another item I didn't have in the budget - cha-ching!
I found a couple other things that I wasn't expecting, that could *probably* be left alone or repaired, that I am just replacing, for longevity and peace-of-mind's sake.
Then there is all the "now that I think about it... maybe I should do xxxxx" stuff. Like a boost controller. Running a MBC (which is 100% fine) but with the new turbo and extra power (and knowing the wife will be driving the car), I'm tempted to go back to an EBC so I can easily flip between boost pressures without having to dial-in the MBC every time. Set it to 14-15psi when I drive it... then shut it off (9-10psi) when the wife drives it so she doesn't kill herself while she learns. Cha-ching again.
My car still has liquid-filled motor mounts in it. They're holding up, they're not leaking... but the rubber is showing some signs of rot (it's got some cracking...) Since I've got it all apart, might as well throw new mounts at it - everything is out in the open, probably take me 10 minutes to swap them. But it's another item I didn't have in the budget - cha-ching!
I found a couple other things that I wasn't expecting, that could *probably* be left alone or repaired, that I am just replacing, for longevity and peace-of-mind's sake.
Then there is all the "now that I think about it... maybe I should do xxxxx" stuff. Like a boost controller. Running a MBC (which is 100% fine) but with the new turbo and extra power (and knowing the wife will be driving the car), I'm tempted to go back to an EBC so I can easily flip between boost pressures without having to dial-in the MBC every time. Set it to 14-15psi when I drive it... then shut it off (9-10psi) when the wife drives it so she doesn't kill herself while she learns. Cha-ching again.
01-30-2013 | 03:24 PM
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From: KC, MO
That tends to be my problem. I hate half-assing stuff (even if the end result is 100% functional) and often prefer to just do it right.
My car still has liquid-filled motor mounts in it. They're holding up, they're not leaking... but the rubber is showing some signs of rot (it's got some cracking...) Since I've got it all apart, might as well throw new mounts at it - everything is out in the open, probably take me 10 minutes to swap them. But it's another item I didn't have in the budget - cha-ching!
I found a couple other things that I wasn't expecting, that could *probably* be left alone or repaired, that I am just replacing, for longevity and peace-of-mind's sake.
My car still has liquid-filled motor mounts in it. They're holding up, they're not leaking... but the rubber is showing some signs of rot (it's got some cracking...) Since I've got it all apart, might as well throw new mounts at it - everything is out in the open, probably take me 10 minutes to swap them. But it's another item I didn't have in the budget - cha-ching!
I found a couple other things that I wasn't expecting, that could *probably* be left alone or repaired, that I am just replacing, for longevity and peace-of-mind's sake.
I would look at Semi Solid mounts for your car since you "track" it occasionally.
01-30-2013 | 03:28 PM
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I would look at Semi Solid mounts for your car since you "track" it occasionally.
