hello, my name is chris from zygmunt motors. i have a question about cylinder head rebuild prices. i have a customer that dropped of 2 heads at my shop, one that had bent valve and another one that was cracked. out of the 2 head we we to assemble one good one. i sent the head to the machine shop and these were the fees.
valve job $175
resurface $60
install thread inserts (5) for the front cover $110 that includes the oversize inserts parts replacing the old inserts that were stripped.
removing parts from old head $25
so i got the head back and ziggy was assembly it and said that the rocker shafts were worn out that would be $33 each. i charged $50 for ziggy's time for reassembing. i told the customer $400 for the job before i new about the front cover insert problem and the rocker shafts being bad. his total will be $486 plus tax for the job. i also told him that the job would be done in 3 days, the oversize inserts took a couple of extra days to get, i will have the rocker shaft tomorrow. he i angry about the price and time it is taking. i wish i had more control over this but i do not know.

i am asking if the prices are fair and 9 working days is to long for this job?

thanks for reading,
chris form zygmunt motors