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Old 10-13-2016, 06:26 PM
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I recently bought a cam from TSP, called up a shop near me and they wanted to charge $1700 for install, another $500+ to tune. Anyone know of any shops near Houston, Port Arthur area.
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Damn, they must want to remove the whole engine to charge $1700. Even if labor rates were like 100 an hour, it should be done in less than 8 hours going slow if you supplied all the parts.
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that's robbery. Where are you? Ill fly to you and install it for that price
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Damn, they must want to remove the whole engine to charge $1700. Even if labor rates were like 100 an hour, it should be done in less than 8 hours going slow if you supplied all the parts.
They told me it would be a 17 hour job. I'm like damn, I might have to do it myself.
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Old 10-13-2016, 07:48 PM
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that's robbery. Where are you? Ill fly to you and install it for that price
I live in port arthur about an hour or so away from Houston
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Welcome to the forum. If your mechanically inclined at all you can do it yourself. Then just have someone tune it.
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They told me it would be a 17 hour job. I'm like damn, I might have to do it myself.
I was quoted 2300 for my blower install so I did it myself. Cant say I enjoyed it but no issues and a lot of $$ saved.
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When I was looking at doing a cam swap and having someone do it all the shops around my area wanted 1100-1300 as well not including a tune it's flat out insane
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Welcome to the forum. If your mechanically inclined at all you can do it yourself. Then just have someone tune it.
Yeah I can do I just didn't want to, laziness is all, lol. But oh well, now I'll get to spend a weekend doing that and installing the headers sometime after I'm back on days.
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Where are you in Houston?
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