Good shops in the Nw.

[Fendamonky]

Um... if you consider the hours involved to do a rebuild CORRECTLY and add in the cost of parts required for it, $3,000+ (for a keg alone) is perfectly fair. The time and labor involved to NOT half-ass a rebuild pushes well beyond your quoted $1,500. Hell, it took a good 15 hours of work to prep, clearance, arrange and stack my last rebuild (for the record, I didn't build the engine myself, my friends did and it was built in my home. My friends can/would run circles around you on anything rx-7). I used the last BRAND NEW (from Mazda) 13B-REW in America as my donor engine, so we didn't even need to worry much about cleaning... Add to that time frame the additional costs of consumables (I wanna say the basic seals needed will run you $900) and replacement/repair of out of spec parts and your $1,500 price is looking stupidly cheap. Please find an emphasis on "stupid".

Do you even check wear during rebuilds? You obviously don't check apex/side/corner seal clearances, since you blindly reuse them. The ONLY reason I can see where you would get away with a "rebuild" that just replaces the soft seals is if you had a fresh engine with a soft seal failure, that's only going to account for *maybe* 10% of the engines needing rebuilds though. You think it's acceptable to charge people $1,500 to leave 90% of their problems unaddressed?

I'm not even going into the time and effort required to pull and reinstall an engine, then make sure the car can drive happily away.

I'm sorry, if you wanna kick out cheap-ass budget rebuilds then advertise them as such. Don't compare your "services" rendered to competently done jobs and then harp on how their prices are too high (as a selling point for you). You're offering people Filet Mignon but serving them expired Chuck...