Does this sound right?

[Crazy]

I went to a local performance shop today to ask them about pricing to put in a cam, this is what I was quoted: ~$2200.00

includes:
Comp cam 210/218 .531/.531 112
valves, retainers(basically everything needed to put in the new cam)
labor
LS1 edit

And about $700 for a NX wet kit 125 shot-installed

A buddy of mine said it sounded a bit high. If any of you guys live in Texas, preferably Houston area and know of a good shop let me know.

Thanks,
Caylon

[slowprocess]

Originally posted by Crazy@Oct 18 2004, 05:03 PM
I went to a local performance shop today to ask them about pricing to put in a cam, this is what I was quoted: ~$2200.00

includes:
Comp cam 210/218 .531/.531 112
valves, retainers(basically everything needed to put in the new cam)
labor
LS1 edit

And about $700 for a NX wet kit 125 shot-installed

A buddy of mine said it sounded a bit high. If any of you guys live in Texas, preferably Houston area and know of a good shop let me know.

Thanks,
Caylon

I'm kinda with your buddy. That does seem to be alittle steep for that, but I could be wrong.

[RedHeartbeat]

Let's see......$250 for gaskets, probably $300 for valves, $170 for comp 918 springs, $170 for titanium retainers, $450 for a retail price comp cam, $400 to tune up after the new cam and probably about 10 hours to do all the work at maybe $80 an hour. The price is pretty close for retail work. Doing it yourself and searching around for discount prices will cut your price to about one-half.

[kinjo1977]

Originally posted by GREG_92_C1500_2001_LS1_A4@Oct 18 2004, 08:51 PM
Let's see......$250 for gaskets, probably $300 for valves, $170 for comp 918 springs, $170 for titanium retainers, $450 for a retail price comp cam, $400 to tune up after the new cam and probably about 10 hours to do all the work at maybe $80 an hour. The price is pretty close for retail work. Doing it yourself and searching around for discount prices will cut your price to about one-half.

You forgot the NX 125 wet kit installed for $700.

Lets see, if we go by Greg's price estimates which sounds fairly close, then everything he mentioned plus the $700 wet kit, outta bring us to about $2440. Now thats WITHOUT the $80 per hour labor charge. You add that for 10 hrs of labor and the total comes to around $3240. Now even if I left the NX kit out and just added the price of parts alone to install that cam, it would come to $1740 plus the cost of labor, which figured by Greg's estimate of $80 pr/hr X 10 hrs would bring the cam install to $2540.

Sooooo, according to all these figures.........$2200 for cam install, sounds about right. But as Greg said, do it yourself and you could save about $1000. Unless, your like me and almost completely ignorant of cam installing But even then, I would personally buy all the parts I needed and bring them to the mechanic for install, which would save me all the retail overhead costs.

Ron

[RedHeartbeat]

Yeah, I kind of figured the $700 as an add-on for later, so add $700 to the before mentioned total for the nitrous. Honestly, $700 for installed nitrous wet kit is a really good price IMO.