badjonny

hello, I live in the columbia gorge and will need a reputible shop to do the machine work on my iron block- LS2 build. Any suggestions for a shop in the portland/ south Washington area?

zlicious94

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In Portland there is PER Portland Engine Rebuilders and I think in vancouver there is summers or somers? something like that that alot of the guys use on here. Where ya from in the gorge? Im kinda in the gorge!

02sslayer

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i drove thru the gorge a couple weeks ago lol

mike13

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Talk to TJ of Wong's performance, he has a machine shop that does all his work, TJ is a perfectionist so they have to be good.

zlicious94

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I think he uses Somers too!

musicman

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I've always used Bearing Service and the shop that's part of Baxter Auto Parts in Delta Park. But that's due to budget restraints.

badjonny

Thanks for your info, I live near White Salmon, just north across the river from hood river. I am building an 4x4 race rig for the pacific northwest 4 wheel drive races. Basically dirt track "jeep" but only thing jeep is the body. I have dismanted a 03 6.0 truck engine and have pretty much all the stock LS2 components.....243 heads, rotating assembly, timing cover etc...

zlicious94

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Very nice!! Well thats a heck of a platform ya got, those 6.0's make big power so good luck to ya and post some cool vids if ya get some

Mikey 97Z M6

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I've used Somers Automotive Machine here in Vancouver for years and they do top notch work. They'll be handling my engine bore and balancing, in the next week or two. With an in-house engine dyno and a Superflow 600 flowbench they can handle any/all engine machine work.

Tabors Machine here in Vancouver also has a decent reputation, and is the shop that TJ Wong uses most of the time.

Mike

Rockin C Racing

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I use Tabors (just dropped parts off yesterday). Depending on what work is needed, Wong uses many different shops (Tabors, Somers, Bearing Service, etc.)

tjwong

For all my LS builds I have been using Bearing Service. They have done stock builds for Land Cruisers, to high power forced induction LS7s for me. Old school big and small blocks I use both Bearing Service and Tabors depending on the customers budget. Bearing Service has been in business for over 50 years. My machinists grandfather built my first BB Chrysler race engines, then his son Gene and now Genes son Brian is building my customers LS engines. Tabor does good work and is very reasonable and a great guy to deal with.