Machine Shop Prices

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how is it possible to bore&hone for 175?? its time consuming, whats Labour/hour rate?

here in norway its like at least 500!

I just bored and honed a stright six diesel , total including tax = $830....
 
seems about right - a friggin' oil change is $45 in some places.. I'll have a better answer soon - once I get my short block back..
 
you have to be pretty experienced to make a presice bore@hone in 2 hours? I mean, the Block has to be set up and ajusted, or does the new machines align themself?

anyone here work at a machine-shop? how long time does it take?
 
Norway-dart said:
you have to be pretty experienced to make a presice bore@hone in 2 hours? I mean, the Block has to be set up and ajusted, or does the new machines align themself?

anyone here work at a machine-shop? how long time does it take?
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I charge $45.00 per hole on a conventional V8 which gives me 4hrs to get it done. I charge $55.00 per hole if a torque plate is required.

I've never understood this trade and the mentality of it, both from a consumer's and shop's perspective. Some customers think every job takes 5 mins and should have Walmart prices and yet the shop has hundreds of thousands in equipment in tooling. J.Rob
 
^^^ Some shops don't survive long term either... The OP's prices are what we pay... but the shops here are older guys with most of their machines long ago paid off. Plus they buy used major tooling (both shops' Serdi machines came used from NASCAR race shops not far away) and they are pretty creative with improving and modifying their tools. And this is a rural area, so there is just not as much money floating around, and so sometimes the local economic market simply sets the pricing that can be gotten.

There IS a shop up on the next county that will charge $400-500 for an impressively automated and VERY precise decking job!
 
RAMM said:
I charge $45.00 per hole on a conventional V8 which gives me 4hrs to get it done. I charge $55.00 per hole if a torque plate is required.

I've never understood this trade and the mentality of it, both from a consumer's and shop's perspective. Some customers think every job takes 5 mins and should have Walmart prices and yet the shop has hundreds of thousands in equipment in tooling. J.Rob
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Well said! For the precision work you do and the cost of the machinery to do it properly, I am surprised it doesn't cost more. tmm
 
................I priced out doing a 440 block with bushed lifter bores for a roller cam........about 4 grand with the taxes........kim...............
 
Not bad pricing.....i just had a 273 worked over, turned mains and rods .010 under,needed one new rod, and had them open up the back of the crank for the large schnout torque converter.....$429. worth
 
The last block I had done . Full boat had everything done that could be done price 780.00
Having a new block machine done looking to send 800.00 to 1000.00 dollar on this block
I know they had to deck the block 40 thousand off the head sacrifice.becuse this block had some old style head gasket rings on the head sacrifice.
 
nm9stheham said:
^^^ Some shops don't survive long term either... The OP's prices are what we pay... but the shops here are older guys with most of their machines long ago paid off. Plus they buy used major tooling (both shops' Serdi machines came used from NASCAR race shops not far away) and they are pretty creative with improving and modifying their tools. And this is a rural area, so there is just not as much money floating around, and so sometimes the local economic market simply sets the pricing that can be gotten.

There IS a shop up on the next county that will charge $400-500 for an impressively automated and VERY precise decking job!
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is there any machine shops in central va or nc youd recommend for small block mopar?? im just below martinsville va.
 
dirty white boy said:
is there any machine shops in central va or nc youd recommend for small block mopar?? im just below martinsville va.
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Napa on Chamberlayne Ave. 804.321.7467.

Carl runs the show but a guy named Chris Marshall will most likely put his hands on it. And Chris is an extremely strong Machinist and a Mopar guy to boot.......

Good luck,
JW
 
dirty white boy said:
is there any machine shops in central va or nc youd recommend for small block mopar?? im just below martinsville va.
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Wish I could help; the old shops in Roanoke are all gone or retired. It sounds like Greensboro is closets to you and there is a strong Mopar club there so maybe run someone down from that club.
 
nm9stheham said:
Wish I could help; the old shops in Roanoke are all gone or retired. It sounds like Greensboro is closets to you and there is a strong Mopar club there so maybe run someone down from that club.
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herb maclandece in burlington retired i hear,..arringtons in martinsville to high an mostly into the new hemi now days it seems....use to be good mopar shop in level cross but...just dont wanta take mopar stuff to a chevy man....bout all around here
 
look normal for Michigan prices. in Florida, I just got my /6 head done with new hardened seats, guides and larger valves for around 325.00, but I bought the valves I wanted from SIvalves. I also have the block in the shop getting decked .060, bored/honed for .030-.060 over pistons(where it cleans up determines the size),cam bearings and pistons put on the rods for 250 labor plus parts (+123.00 to 145.00 for pistons) better prices than michigan but nowhere as good as the one I got in Kentucky 4 years ago.
 
As a businesss owner I'm learning
What you charge hourly never covers the cost !!!!!
People think oh my it's how much per hour ?
As an owner there is so many things overlooked .
When it's all said and done it's not even close to the hotly rate !!
Still wouldn't have it any other way !!
God Bless America !!
And capitalism !!!!!!
 
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