Cam install

[Black02Silverado]

On 12/12/2018 at 1:18 PM, flipmode815 said:

I got the COMP Cams XFI AFM GM Gen V Camshaft if that makes any difference 

Am I the only one that thinks $500 for a came is kind of high?  I mean, they put a chunk of steel in a CNC machine that has already been programed and within few minutes you have a cam.  Now if it was done old school on a lathe then yeah maybe for the operators time.  My .02

[MikeBMW]

25 minutes ago, Black02Silverado said:

Am I the only one that thinks $500 for a came is kind of high?  I mean, they put a chunk of steel in a CNC machine that has already been programed and within few minutes you have a cam.  Now if it was done old school on a lathe then yeah maybe for the operators time.  My .02

You have to amortize the cost of the CNC machine that produces the cam.
Those things ain't cheap and, after paying it off, gives return on the investment, as it should.

[BeanBeer]

Got a price last week for stage 1 cam, dod delete, install, tune, tax of $5300 for 2015 5.3

[Black02Silverado]

14 hours ago, MikeBMW said:

You have to amortize the cost of the CNC machine that produces the cam.
Those things ain't cheap and, after paying it off, gives return on the investment, as it should.

I understand that with the cost of the CNC.  But I would suspect they make more than just cams.  I understanding a return as well.  Just seems if they offered a lower cost, they would have more demand and it would create more income.

 

Like my mom's old employer in Orlando that owned several hotels.  He offered the rooms at $30 a night while other places were charging $100 or more.  His philosophy was a full hotel brings in more than a 1/4 full one.  This was back in the 80's.  He now owns several more hotels, has child care and medical on site for the employees.

 

Here is some info on him.  Harris Rosen.

[MikeBMW]

12 hours ago, Black02Silverado said:

I understand that with the cost of the CNC.  But I would suspect they make more than just cams.  I understanding a return as well.  Just seems if they offered a lower cost, they would have more demand and it would create more income.

 

Like my mom's old employer in Orlando that owned several hotels.  He offered the rooms at $30 a night while other places were charging $100 or more.  His philosophy was a full hotel brings in more than a 1/4 full one.  This was back in the 80's.  He now owns several more hotels, has child care and medical on site for the employees.

 

Here is some info on him.  Harris Rosen.

A hotel is not a machine shop.
I worked in a machine shop in my 20s - in my 60s now - making parts for F-16 aircraft fuel systems.
We had 5 lathe machines, programmable with allen wrenches and sliders, with 6 different tools and a flip down thread chaser.
Programming required setting detents on each tool spindle on the middle of the machine and parts had to be measured at every 5 pieces in case the tool on a particular spindle needed to be corrected, updated or replaced.
We, also, had to make each cutting tool for each job, mount it in the machine and control the detents to get the cutting within the 10s (.010) mm.
The cost of having an operator able to do such took a lot of training.
CNC has come a long way with computers to control it but the tool machining and setup hasn't really changed. It's not as simple as pushing a button. Or renting out a room.

[MAC1911]

On 12/12/2018 at 1:54 PM, starman8tdc said:

The labor should be in the hundreds, not in the thousands. 

 

Call 10 repair shops, and go with the cheapest one that is reputable. 

 

If it takes you an hour on the phone, and it saves you $2,000 - then you just got paid $2,000 per hour to make phone calls. Sounds like a good job to me. 

     20 years ago might be a few hundred, until chevy decided to bury the lifters under the heads

[Tommymotorhead]

They told me last month, $7,500.00 at the dealership to do the cam, lifter VOLM plate and gaskets and fluids. Crazy right.

7 k miles and two months out of warranty smh. I talked to a young man who quit GMC due to the fact he had at least 3 cams to do every week and sometime 4

[Kevs18]

I have been told 6500 and 7800 for cam swap, dod delete, converter and dyno tuned here in Louisiana...... I asked a shop in Texas how much and they told me 3500. Its worth the drive and hotel! 

Edited January 9, 2022 by Kevs18

[M1ck3y]

2 hours ago, Kevs18 said:

I have been told 6500 and 7800 for cam swap, dod delete, converter and dyno tuned here in Louisiana...... I asked a shop in Texas how much and they told me 3500. Its worth the drive and hotel! 

 

Cheaper isn't always better. At roughly half the cost of your other quotes I would be very leary about going ahead with that. 

[Kevs18]

23 hours ago, M1ck3y said:

 

Cheaper isn't always better. At roughly half the cost of your other quotes I would be very leary about going ahead with that. 

Do you know the going rate for them, just curious. I'm just use to ls stuff...