I live in columbus and need to find a reliable/affordable shop to do a rebuild and mild street port on an N/A 13B. I'm a poor college student, and I really don't have the money to ship the motor out, so it needs to be fairly close to the OSU campus (no more than an hour). Gas is expensive. Any help is greatly appiciated. Thanks.

-Dave-

 

[quote name='WannaBrx7Owner' date='Sep 2 2005, 03:28 PM']I live in columbus and need to find a reliable/affordable shop to do a rebuild and mild street port on an N/A 13B. I'm a poor college student, and I really don't have the money to ship the motor out, so it needs to be fairly close to the OSU campus (no more than an hour). Gas is expensive. Any help is greatly appiciated. Thanks.

-Dave-


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OSU has a sports car club that autocrosses on the west campus. Check with them. The local SCCA (Ohio Valley Region)There may be an autoshop you can use to do it yourself. I was a guest speaker at a few welding engineering classes years ago, and there were full size, and very complete welding and machine shops available that were little used. It is also the home of the Buckeye Bullet, that one of my drivers, Roger Schroer, drove to 316 MPH world record for electric cars. Take a look.



The problem is, that anyone who does it for a living is going to charge you an arm and a leg (going shop rate, 65.00 to 75.00 per hour) to do the work. You need a hobby builder to get you started.



My old house is not sold yet, and my new shop is not set up yet, or I would help you.



For SCCA membership info, contact Sue Rupp 1-740-694-1393. Also the OVR website is: http://www.ovr.org or call me.



Lynn E. Hanover



lehanover@aol.com

1-740-928-0908

 

Thanks for all your help. I was not aware of the full machine shops available to me. The problem is, I am a full time student so I just don't have the ime to rebuild a motor myself. Also, being a fulltime student, I don't have too much money to pay for a professionally built motor either. Not the greatest of situations. I'm not looking to have this done imediatly either, so if you will have your shop up and running later give me some info and I'll would be more than happy to have someone like you from this forum build the motor. Thanks again for your help, Lynn.

-Dave-

P.S. If any other builders on this site are in or around columbus, post here or PM me with info and i would be happy to consider you also.

 

if you don't have atleast $2k saved yet. you should