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Originally Posted by Dave Noll
OK i'm gonna divert my own thread. 3500.00 in a set of iron heads ??? Liberally I can see a grand in parts. A concentric valve job a 1/2" deep ? Back cutting the valves ? ...... Where's the rest going ?? Roughly 2000.00 for flow bench time ??  |
I thought kind of the same way at first. Then I got to thinking about it. Not unlike any other job. You have to do it for years just to learn to be the best. Then your going to have a large expense in equipment. Then you are going to have to spend some unpaid time doing some R&D on different heads to see what each one likes. Unless your going to use your customers as Guinea pigs. Which is not areal good way to build a business like that. Sure eventually you would figure it out but your likely to upset some customers at the start. It kind of like at my repair shop. People aleways question my flat rate. And why it cost so much to fix cars. I just open the door from my office to the shop and start pointing at different pieces of equipment and what they cost. The little box with the 5000 dollar scan tool that I have to pay every year or so to be updated ends their questions. Because they realize how many cars I have to fix to pay for all that stuff before I get to put a dime in my own pocket. Yes over the years you get some of the bigger items paid off. But you work your whole career to make up for the first few years where you damn near starved to death so you could have the equipment necessary to build your business. If these heads were for street cars you could just throw a valve job on them and let em eat. But they are tring to turn streetcar stuff into Racecar heads without porting them which is not the easiest thing to do. I can't imagine what SS stock heads cost LOL