i love prices from local tuners
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I have not. I have money to pay for the fine tuning, and don't really want to sound like a leech trying to get something for free, but I'd love to drink beer on the riverwalk and tune my car simultaneously.
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Along these lines, I just picked up a '91 Mazda 626 for $300 to use as a DD. had a bad idle along w/ a leaking head gasket so I pulled the head off (even though the girl gave me a receipt for $1400 for a R&R'd head <800 miles ago). Boy was I suprised when I pulled the head off.... I guess this shop's idea of a 'head refresh' was clean the mating surfaces and put a new head gasket on. Cyl #3 intake valves were leaking so bad i did a quick 'water test' with the head on the work bench and a full intake runner leaked out through the "closed" exhaust valves in <5 seconds.
good news is that my machine shop will have that head done on sunday for <$250 and i'll have a $550 car that runs perfectly
good news is that my machine shop will have that head done on sunday for <$250 and i'll have a $550 car that runs perfectly
#28
Along these lines, I just picked up a '91 Mazda 626 for $300 to use as a DD. had a bad idle along w/ a leaking head gasket so I pulled the head off (even though the girl gave me a receipt for $1400 for a R&R'd head <800 miles ago). Boy was I suprised when I pulled the head off.... I guess this shop's idea of a 'head refresh' was clean the mating surfaces and put a new head gasket on. Cyl #3 intake valves were leaking so bad i did a quick 'water test' with the head on the work bench and a full intake runner leaked out through the "closed" exhaust valves in <5 seconds.
good news is that my machine shop will have that head done on sunday for <$250 and i'll have a $550 car that runs perfectly
good news is that my machine shop will have that head done on sunday for <$250 and i'll have a $550 car that runs perfectly
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