What are you paying to a machine shop for a 32V valve job?

Who did you trust with that?

 

What were you expecting to pay? As a data point, I looked in my old records, and paid $952.76 for a similar valve job in Jan 1992 on my ex-308 heads (at Techcraft which is in your neighborhood if it's still around). With inflation (or judging by CA houses going up 4X-5X since then) $2,600 doesn't seem too crazy.

 

Seems a bit high if all they did was replace/ream the guides and cut seats. QV guides are not as pricey as 355 guides, how much did they charge each guide? I had a set of 355 heads done not long ago and it was just over $5k, including new valves/guides.

 

Yep, I just paid almost exactly that. I have another pair I am trying to save that need springs, valves, seats, everything and they were quoted at $5000.

 

Paid over $2k last summer for QV valve job, new valve stems and surfacing. Replaced all the valve springs.

 

Who are you guys using for these services???

 

There's a machine shop right next to Road Atlanta all the Ferrari shops use in the area called 'Engine Services', they are the best in the South.

 

Do you have a DFW/north Texas shop recommendation?

 

The price of valvework would also depend on the type of valve surfacing being offered. I don't know what the Ferrari 3x8 factory valve surface was - single angle or multi angle? Performance valve jobs for many years were typically three-angle vs OEM single angle but four or even five angle is now quite common with different sets of angles for intake vs exhaust valves. Naturally, a single angle valve job is much less expensive than multi-angle - heck, you can do single angle at home! I'm pretty confident that a three angle valve job would be the "standard" offering from any current performance shop with 4 or 5 angle being available at extra cost. So to compare prices between different shops, the type of valve work being done has to be the same. Again, I don't know what the factory did but it would hurt me to have Ferrari head/valve work done that wasn't at least 3 angle.

 

Call Mitchel at EP Racing. He did good quality work on my recent overhaul. 609-234-4700
He is located in Venus TX south of Mansfield in DFW area.

 

In hindsite I would Contact Red Car Restorations