Hey Dave, that was quick mate. I tidied up the post a bit and by that time you'd already responded.
Well, to be honest with you Dave I don't have a lot of trust in many auto shops where I haven't first got to know them. So my first impressions was, I couldn't justify that sort of money I wouldn't have thought.
If it was the going rate or there abouts well, maybe I'd wear it but one thing I won't do is waste money cos I didn't spend some time talking to you guys and looking at all my options both here in Aus, in NZ and OS like where you guys live.
You talk about exchange rate. Well, at the moment the Aussie dollar is going gang busters. In fact a couple of years ago, $1USD was equivalent to about 72cents Aus. Now we are geting $1.04 USD for each one of ours.
As far as NZ, $1.00 AUD = $1.34934 NZD, so what does that say???
I mentioned also that I emailed them back and said I'd be talking to my BA.Com buddies and I get a sneaking suspicion maybe they thought I was some doomby without a clue, I hope not cos I had only heard good stuff about them from Pat (Dinqua) but I believe he was talking about their professionalism. Well we know their pipe's reputation goes way back so their no reason to think their R&D in other performance areas would be any different. It simply get's down to the price and trust I'm I'm getting the best job done for the money paid.
Of course, these days the competition for toy money which is as we know the first to suffer the chop in a tight budget is stronger than ever so who would know. Conversely though, it also means blokes with half a brain will make sure every cent is earnt.
Regarding the high compression pistons. All I know is they are saying they are i.e.
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Wiseco high compression pistons in stock here, they cost about NZ$1000 for the pair
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Also, the head work was:
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port and flow, 3 angle valve seat cut and skim the head to raise the compression. While the head is here we can also shim the new cams to suit so that all you have to worry about is unbolting and bolting it all back up. We need the head, exhaust gaskets and inlet manifolds to do the work and the original cams, valves and associated hardware if you want us to do the valve clearances. Otherwise you can save some labour cost by removing the valves before shipping.
So they definitely know what they are doing, I've got no doubt about that and it was never the issue. My inquiries were always related to expense and determining what the best improvements they thought I could get.
Anyway, I was really hoping you or one of my other Yanky mates would offer to be a means of getting U.S. parts or some other way of reducing the costs. I really do appreciate that generous offer Dave and it'll go into the melting post as my options become clearer.
One question though Dave just to confirm. Do you agree a set of quality cams, high compression pistons and some good head work is mainly what I need to do to get my numbers up?
From what I've read, yeah there are some less expensive extra options but these bigger options are the main way for me to add that little bit more oomph we all love.
Thanks again for your reply.
stacka 
