top end job - how many times for you?

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05-13-2010, 05:44 PM

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Keep in mind that most shops bill on "book" not real hours. Book for a brake job is far more than real time. Many mechanics go home every day after working 8 hours with 14 hours in the bank. Some of the shorter straight up jobs "book" well and some of the larger ones such as a top or bottom end might not.

Exactly. And it's much easier to bill by-the-book on less intensive work. Work on 10 cars averaging 4 hours book time each when in reality you can beat it by 25%, or one top end that's 40 hours of hard, labor intensive activity? And as I mentioned above, there's always the oil leak or something that's the potential liability on the the back end.

Bottom line is that if the shop is working at full/near-full capacity, I think most mechanics, given the choice, would avoid working on engine internals.

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05-13-2010, 06:34 PM

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+1 mine hardly burns a drop 67k I think the 993 valve guide issue is blown out of proportion. Of the 10's of thousands built I'm sure the failure is much less than people think. were only hearing about a small percentage. imho of course..

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05-13-2010, 06:44 PM

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... And as I mentioned above, there's always the oil leak or something that's the potential liability on the the back end.

Or one stupid engine tin bolt during the job that sucks the life out of you and kills anything that may have resembled a profit

The older cars get, the more of a crap shoot it becomes

Good thing we enjoy it!

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05-13-2010, 06:48 PM

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Or one stupid engine tin bolt during the job that sucks the life out of you and kills anything that may have resembled a profit

The older cars get, the more of a crap shoot it becomes

Good thing we enjoy it!

Perspective's changed a bit since you were just doing this for yourself?

Glad I'm retired. Then again, maybe I'm not. Just resisting being pulled back in for the moment...........

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05-13-2010, 06:54 PM

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Perspective's changed a bit since you were just doing this for yourself?

Glad I'm retired. Then again, maybe I'm not. Just resisting being pulled back in for the moment...........

eh, not much Ken... still loads of fun.

I just resist doing the math. It doesn't help keep it fun

As for "retired"... come back to the dark side...

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