Best Engines - Wake Village Harper Adams: Image #1(dirty)- after I received my block from the machine shop
Image #2(clean)- what I did myself with no machining experience afterwards
If youre looking for a machine shop for dirt track racing, where you dont care about a little smoke from your engine and are not too concerned about your engine not exceeding 50,000 miles, then this is your machine shop. But if youre looking for a machine shop for your every day pride and joy, look elsewhere. I paid 450 overall, billed for vat, brush, magnaflux, bore, hone, and deck. After I picked up my block I discovered that my cylinders still had pitted spots inside them. I pulled out some measurement tools and then found that my cylinders, which were egg shaped, had not been bored 20 over(what i paid for). Each cylinder ranged from between 3.55 (standard) and 3.562, but none of which were 3.57, nor were they identical, or symmetrical. Then I discovered that under all the black and chrome paint on my block(which i did not want or ask for) lay nothing but thick layers of rust. All this money to be practically back where I began. Very disappointing and frustrating. Besides that, honestly, everybody was very nice and the machinist who personally "bored and honed" my block held his composure very well whenever I became belligerent with him. Nice people, yes. Not so good machinist.
