how much did you guys pay for machine work? A head job, honing job, piston install and all the others stuff like squaring up the head? Pretty much internal work.

 

uhm free .....did it myself for all my cars

decking the head is not expensive.
same with the block
honing shouldnt more then 150 bucks
assembly might be a bit if you want it dont right meaning everything measured with a micrometer. a lot of shops and individuals but standard bearings and they have a standard rods and crank. they assume that its is all good as far as tolerances. might not always be the case.

i always torque down the rods and the mains and go in and measure every rod and journal to make sure they are within spec. most of the time you can get away without doing it but after building some racing engines its just second nature.

what kind of head work are you talking about?
decking the head?
replacing guides...if needed?
valve job?
porting cylinder head?

what is exactly wrong with your motor or what are you trying to achieve?

what kind of engine and do you have all the parts and just need the labor done?

give us all the details and im sure more people would respond. simply asking for "internal work" prices wont get you anywhere. it will vary from engine to engine...even if same engine code.

 

I gotta replace my pistons, so just thinking while getting that done mine as well get everything else done too. Its a 2jz-ge. What do you guys recommend doing when replacing pistons?

 

why replace pistons? are you going turbo so you want to get lower compression pistons?

so its a 2jz-ge
how many miles on the motor?
what happened to it that you want/need to replace the pistons?
what else do you want do?
head work?
what is your goal for the car? daily driver stock, dd performance, track car?
what is your hp goals?

your description is way too vague to even offer advice for your situation.

 

It's my daily driver, and I want to get lower compression cause I'm going to end up boosting it
On my other post one of my spark plugs got messed up I think something dropped inside the motor when I had the plugs out and messed up the piston or the spark plug did something bad don't know. cause I looked inside and their were holes and stuff on the piston.
200k on the motor, new water pump and new gaskets.
400-500 hp in the long run.

 

Just grab a known good motor with good compression. Have the head hot tank, resurface and replace valve stem. Put on a thicker headgasket, throw on some ARP headbolts. Replace all the seals. Mark over at ClubNA-T sell a gasket set with a 1.3mm headgasket. Should put you in the low 9:1 compression ratio.

Then throw on a turbo. I bet you that will come out cheaper than rebuilding the whole engine with all new gaskets/seals. New bearings, rings, bolts, honing, headwork.


I'm sure if something fell in your cylinder, probably damanged ur valves, piston and cylinder wall.