the best one.

sellers pont/gmc/buick in farmington hills

 

I work for Labadie Cadilliac, Buick, GMC in Bay City.

 

Well that's the thing for me too. My car has subframes, rollbar, 12 bolt, LCA relocator brackets, LCAs, torque arm, QA1 shocks all around, k-member & a-arms, Transgo shift kit, 3800 stall converter, trans cooler, poly motor and trans mounts, heads, cam, P&P oil pump, electric waterpump, FAST 78 mm intake, Comp Promag rockers, Comp 'r' lifters, ATI Super dampner, long tubes with my own custom 3" x-pipe true duals, line lock, !AIR, !ERG, !PS, !AC, and all of the small boltons
And when asked who did any particular piece I just puff up a little and say I did. Very satisfying to do it all yourself and go to the track and consistantly run well.

 

I'll give you three reasons.

1). I work two jobs and have a family so my time is VERY limited.

2). No garage to work in. I have a big *** boat in my garage because the town I live in will not allow me to keep my boat in my driveway.

3). I hate working on cars. For years I have replaced my own alternators, brakes, exhaust, starters, serpentine belts, batteries, fuel pumps, radiators, ect. But all the jobs I mentioned have one thing in common. I HATED DOING THEM. I hate getting greasy hands, I hate the one bolt that always gets stripped, I hate the level of frustration that comes when something goes wrong and I hate the mixture of blood and oil on my clothes.

I didn't work at the St. Therese plant in Canada so I can't say I built my car. Since I some how manage to live with the fact that I didn't build the car the first time, I feel it's within my abilities to live with the fact that I didn't rebuild the motor the second time around.

And I was quoted $900 for labor only on a set of heads, cam, timing chain, rods, bolts & LSX intake. For all the labor involved I feel that price is reasonable. Not high nor low but reasonable.

 

"Wow, I'm really surprised how many people here don't do their own work. Any reason why all of you didn't try to learn to do it yourself and save all that money? Just wondering"

for something as involved as pulling heads, cam, timing chains...etc...

fear of screwing something up and ruining a perfectly good engine. i've started taking on harder and harder "fixes"...but i still left the cam upgrade to someone who has done it.
i've never done ANY internal work on an engine...at the time i didn't even own a torque wrench.

so paying someone experienced to do it was a better choice.


and the fact that i dont have a garage either

 

That's currently my problem as well and is the main reason I'm moving.

 

I was quoted $1000 (just physical labor) of head/cam swap by one of the sponsors. That doesn't include shop supplies, the unforseen, etc...