Bored and Honed

[blkZooM]

Couple questions you guys a local machine shop has charge me $550 to bore and hone my teskid block. is this a reasonable price?

Secondly, I have little mechanical experience but that isn't going to stop me from picking up a wrench and doing something myself and trying to build my own short block. better late than never I guess to learn to do things to your car. I've been reading up on this site and other forms that are modular engine related and can really say I learn something new everyday.

The block build will be slow there are other things I want done to the car first. so my second question is just how are is it to assemble a shot block. thanks before hand anyways.

[Mike M]

Unless you have the proper tools (I don't mean just wrenches) I would have a shop that has modular motor experience and a torque plate for your engine.

I had a local engine shop do mine, it knocked from piston slap so bad I took it back out and had them do it again and it lasted 2 days before bad noise started. Removed engine again and sent to MMR in California.

I now have just over 1000 miles and so far so good, and I feel their reputation is very good as they specialize in these engines.

These engines run some pretty tight clearance and the room for error is smaller.

I have built many engines in the past but at this point I think I went good with MMR.

I'm not saying you have to ship out your engine to them but I am recommending you take it to a shop with a deck plate and modular motor experience....learn from my mistake.

[blkZooM]

thanks for the reply, but there are actually two shops. I just choose the one that was closer to me, but both are well known and respected in the mustang community. and both know a lot about the modular motors the name is

Mahler's Engine and L&M engines are the two shops. And Ill have the proper tools to assemble it myself. Plus I wanted a shop a lot closer to home just in case I ran into such a problem so it would be less of a hassle on my end.

Fun fact you have the exact same engine build I'm going for

[JohnE]

L&M Engines quality is much higher than MMR. No contest between the two. Get an MMR and then later when that doesn't work out for you, you'll be interested in L&M. This happens all the time, look around the Mustang boards. Why waist your money to realize the cost savings reduces the quality of the product.

[Mike M]

Never heard of them.

[blkZooM]

L&M Engines quality is much higher than MMR. No contest between the two. Get an MMR and then later when that doesn't work out for you, you'll be interested in L&M. This happens all the time, look around the Mustang boards. Why waist your money to realize the cost savings reduces the quality of the product.

Well I've been told by some to steer clear from MMR and have read a a decent amount of story's on another forum of their engines breaking, that's not saying all their engines break, just more than I would like to hear about. but all in all I just really wanted to know if the price I was giving is good and just how difficult is it to assemble a short block