LOL- didnt we have that discussion? A large number of my past workmates are British, Welsh, Aussi, or effin Kiwis, I dated a very lovely girl from Stoke for about 3 years as well, so many of thier mannerisms, witticisms, and the spelling of certian words (colour, labour, etc etc) sort of rubbed of on me. Call it guilt by association. A fair number of those people call me freind still.
Not sure how far you would be willing to travel but Jack M down in the springs is very good and works almost exclusively with dsm's and evo's.
You can find his info on rmdsm
Mike
very, very, very much agreed. I can't think of anyone better to do the job. Jack, Kevin, and Tyler are all extremely smart, and good at what they do. Don't know where you are located but it would be worth the drive to have them do it for you. my .02.
I got my at Street Concept, tommy did a great job and he installed my cams/gears for like 1300 or so. It may have been cheaper but i forget it has been so long.
The stock flywheel is not supposed to be resurfaced. I'm surprised they would even allow it or offer the service, since there are no specs in the Mitsu tech manual for how to resurface it. Anyway, the standard rate at Mitsu is 10 hours @ $100/hr. $1300 is out of control unless you're including the fluids and extra parts in that cost. Installation cost just includes the labor - the rest is extra, so be sure to refer to them separately. Another thing I found out about Phil Long mitsu is that they use a big 55 gallon drum (or something like that) full of generic trans fluid. They don't bother to stock the required OEM fluid. I was dumbfounded by this, but they said they would order the fluids for me when I do my free 30k service if I requested it. You're damn straight I'll request it...
The flywheel issue is no big deal. 10 or 20 thousandths is a miniscule amount of material.
I've gone over this with our fleet Mech's at work. They go both ways, resurface if you can, New flywheel if not. They know more about it than I or anyone less than a Mechanic ever will. They do this work for a living, one of them(Dave), is an old Mits mechanic (more in love with my car than I am) says I am fine doing it once. Not twice. When I got my car back from MAC it was a grabby SOB, so apperently Bill knew his game and made the correct call and saved me two Ben-Gees at the same time.
Fill long is rediculus(---How do you spell this???). I will never take my car to them again. They changed the timing in my Clipse, less than 500 mi. later the "f" in thing snapped. One month later I had my car back from them w/ a same milage used engine.
I do like Mark though (the GM), he has always been good to me. Next Mits will be from Mile High.
Well, that comment about the flywheel resurfacing can't be generalized, because it depends on what damage there is, if any, to the flywheel. People like me who race and have worn out the clutch from abuse also have hot spots that are an indeterminate depth. The only way to find out is to keep cutting until you get there, and by then it could be too late.
