not to beat a dead horse, but I measure everything my machinist does. If I find a discrepancy I bring it back to him and have him measure it with his tools to confirm. This has happened 3 times and 3 times more work was done to get it right. I check my mic's each time and calibrate my bore gauge to the mic I'm measuring the coresponding part with. The discrepancies were at different shops also, just so you know. I wasn't surprised or mad. Everyone has bad days. As long as it's where I want it when it's done I don't mind a trip back to the shop.
I had a set of heads done by Bruce. I also ordered a cam per his specs. Turned out different than I specifically asked for. I wanted wider lobe separation because I was going efi. Sent me his standard "secret recipe comp grind" which I think is a standard part # from comp.
Also took a while longer than promised, but that didn't bother me. What bothered me was the reciept I got.
It had a note chastizing me for drilling oil drains in the back of the head and leaving "a lot of filings" in the heads. Then his signature, and that was it. No total, no list of the parts I bought(close to a grand), no tax, no services rendered(cnc machined port work). I sent him a bare set of heads knowing he'd be replacing the valves, cleaned them up prior to sending them. Before that, they were in the car for 3 years. They were spotless when installed on the motor the first time, and cleaned before sent. Yet they had a lot of filings? No cleanup to the heads was done before shipping them back either. Combustion chambers still had carbon on them. That's being picky, and I wanted to assemble them myself anyway but wtf? Why do port work and seat drinding on dirty heads?
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