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Hey guys looking for a workshop to assemble my 25/30 from around brisbane, is there any one you would highly recomend? or any body you would highly recomend not to go to ? or any expierences good or bad im a all ears, ive spoken to one person but he is about 7 weeks away from being able to do anything. everything has been purchased all the parts are there i can think of and machining should be finished this week, just waiting on the head to be assembled then i can go pick it up... ill provide cliffs just in case "tl;dr"

cliffs:

-looking for workshop for engine assembly (25/30)

-recomend some one you have used or some one to stay away from

-machining will be finished this week

-all parts have been brought

-just need some one assemble

-who have you used for you assembly?

thank you ! hope to hear from you guys soon, also hope i put this in the right section >.<

You would be better off finding someone to assemble AND tune it. Someone assembling an engine generally will not offer and warranty if tuned elsewhere.

Or assemble it yourself and then get it tuned.

Which bearings have you bought?

Generally the assembler would choose appropriate bearings based on the the state of the crank and block.

Obviously rings can be gapped to suit if you already have those.

Now this may not be an option for you, but If it was me I would seriously consider shipping the parts to RIPS to get them balanced and everything bolted together.

It will be a longer wait, but at least you know it is done right.

hey Jazzadub, ive got ACL race series bearings main and conrod bearings, the clearences have been checked by the machine shop and i brought the bearings to suit, je pistons and rings, everything has been purchased after all the checks were done, the machine shop had 2 assemblers but one is backed up for 7+ weeks and also said at times he has to put his over seas customers work first but he will try help me out. other isnt picking his cell phone up, so im just seeing if there is any one that they highly recomend, ive only heard the best of things about rips and he is definetly an option, everything has already been sent for balancing... thanks for your imput ill shoot rips an email and see what he has to say... the engine cost me 17k all up and i searched boost and some other forums and every one has something bad to say but not really anything nice to say so its made me really paranoid haha

I would have thought the engine builder would prefer to do the balancing themselves - I'm sure Rob would if you sent everything to him.

What do you mean by everyone has had something bad to say - about what?

What about tuned performance, former Godzilla motorsport mechanic and seems to be getting a good rap so far, if Dan from erd's still building engines on the side I'm sure someone can put you in contact with him

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