Mike is the main guy in the machine shop and he's a very polite, nice gentleman to work with. Unfortunately he works with a system that doesn't provide customers with quotes so he'll tell you one price, time passes, you return to pick up your finished parts and the price has inflated quite a bit (hundreds). I would have given Mike and his guys another chance with my next engine project provided we had costs in writing next time, until I started putting together the parts from my first one I got back from them... the magnaflux dust they use to check for cracks was in every single threaded hole and under my valves. Unfortunately I did not catch this until it was too late and an injector hold-down bolt seized into the threaded hole and I snapped off the head of the bolt. I've had engine parts machined from three other shops in the Midwest and I've never gotten parts back that still needed hours of cleaning. On top of that, the heads were painted with some silver coating which is wreaking havoc on my engine paint. I've gone through a dozen cans of brake kleen so far trying to clean these heads up which I paid $400 for labor on already. "Rushed work" is not what I want from my engine shop. If you are thinking about having Manlove work on your projects, get all quotes in writing and inspect them closely before paying.
I live 2 hours away from Dover and there are nearly zero machine shops close to me that do block work so I took a chance and drove 2 hours each way to Manlove's machine shop in Dover to get my 400 sbc block cleaned, checked for cracks, mains align honed, freeze plugs and oil galley plugs replaced, cam bearings installed and the block bored with torque plates. Mike in the machine shop was very professional and advised me on a few added things he though I should consider that really were good suggestions. Told me what it would cost roughly and did it at that cost in about 3 weeks. Im very pleased with the finished product.
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Both the machine shop in the back and the front retail staff let me down.
They get my stuff taken care of but it takes a while because everyone sends their stuff here. Napa is also in the same area but they have a bigger team of people. I've been to both and Napa did an AWESOME job cleaning up my heads but Manlove I've been going to for years and I appreciate the 1 on 1 kind of service.
I'm sticking with N A P A from now on.
I was passing through the back engine shop to the front and I stopped to browse their store. While I was walking around, the staff members who were working the counter were discussing financial info of Manlove Auto Parts' clients who have accounts with the store, making fun of them for how they run their businesses. By the time I left the store I knew which of Manlove's accounts were past due, which of them were slime-balls and who's charge accounts were closed due to non-payment. Very unprofessional.
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