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Old Mar 16, 2007 | 09:22 AM
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Having long tubes installed, cam, springs, pushrods, retainers, ls7 clutch, and a dyno tune for 1200? this will be on my 2004 gto.
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is this labor only or does it include the parts ?
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just labor
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I would say you're getting a deal!
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Old Mar 16, 2007 | 09:47 AM
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For those that have paid to have things installed would you mind posting up what you have paid.
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1200 isnt bad. The clutch alone is about 350 to 400 for labor. A real dyno tune on a mustang dyno will run you $450. If its just a dynojet then the tune should be no more than $150. Its not a great deal but I would say it's in line with what a shop should charge. I've paid as much as 95/hr for shop and and as little as 42/hr. I do most of my own work but there are some things I sub out, like the dyno tune.
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Thats a good deal for all that work.
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Thats a good deal for all that work.
I agree...that's not bad at all. I'd probably go for it if I had the cash and didn't feel like doing it myself.
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1200 isnt bad. The clutch alone is about 350 to 400 for labor. A real dyno tune on a mustang dyno will run you $450. If its just a dynojet then the tune should be no more than $150. Its not a great deal but I would say it's in line with what a shop should charge. I've paid as much as 95/hr for shop and and as little as 42/hr. I do most of my own work but there are some things I sub out, like the dyno tune.

Where do you get a dyno tune for $150???
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Where do you get a dyno tune for $150???
Haha...really. I thought $250 was a great deal...
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thats all a tune on a dynojet should cost. It's only a WOT tune. It doesnt take long. If the tuner is doing over the road logging and tuning then thats different. But to just sit on a dyojet and tune for WOT $150 should be the going rate. I paid $470 for my last tune. But it was on a mustang dyno and he had a lot of time into it.
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That is going to be road logging also.
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Originally Posted by 99blancoSS
1200 isnt bad. The clutch alone is about 350 to 400 for labor. A real dyno tune on a mustang dyno will run you $450. If its just a dynojet then the tune should be no more than $150. Its not a great deal but I would say it's in line with what a shop should charge. I've paid as much as 95/hr for shop and and as little as 42/hr. I do most of my own work but there are some things I sub out, like the dyno tune.
I think there's danger in saying things like this. Do you know how much a DynoJet chassis dyno costs? Commerical tuning software? If you factor in the initial cost of a dyno, maintenance, and overhead, shops would be tuning cars for free. For a stock motor, your comment has some relevance, but for a cam'd car there's a lot more involved than 5 minutes on a dyno. Also, don't think that you can't do drivability tuning on a dynojet that has a brake installed.

If I owned a shop I would take offense to that comment. If you should be able to dyno tune a car for $150, then what should 3 dyno pulls cost? Ten bucks per car?

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Having long tubes installed, cam, springs, pushrods, retainers, ls7 clutch, and a dyno tune for 1200? this will be on my 2004 gto.
Headers, cam, clutch, and tune for $1700? Sounds like a fair price on labor, but I've never paid a shop for services. You were quoted $1700, I'd have GUESSED around $1550 for the same labor charges;

250 headers
250 clutch install
500 cam install
550 dyno tune

So, your price doesn't sound too far off. It's cheaper than replacing a motor if somethign happens during your cam install or cheaper than swapping out a clutch if it wasn't shimmed right and gets ate up in 2K miles.

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I do all of my own work and think $1200 sounds pretty reasonable, considering the hours of labor involved.
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Originally Posted by Studytime
Headers, cam, clutch, and tune for $1700? Sounds like a fair price on labor, but I've never paid a shop for services. You were quoted $1700, I'd have GUESSED around $1550 for the same labor charges;

250 headers
250 clutch install
500 cam install
550 dyno tune

So, your price doesn't sound too far off. It's cheaper than replacing a motor if somethign happens during your cam install or cheaper than swapping out a clutch if it wasn't shimmed right and gets ate up in 2K miles.

Ben T.
It says 1200...
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