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Jim Adney wrote > I've always had RIMCO do my case work, although I just saw that John Connelly > now recommends a place in Colorado for this. He recently wrote in the newsgroup > that he had been disappointed in much of the work coming out of RIMCO lately. > I'm afraid I figured this was inevitable when, years ago, I saw that they were > including lots of Rabbit/Golf machine work in their price list. That's disappointing. When I went there for the first time (RIMCO) I got a tour of the place and an explanation that at that time, they had the world's most expensive and accurate machinery and tooling set up to work on VW air cooled engines. They boasted that the factory did not even have a setup that came close to what they had for doing rebuilds. I think I would tend to still use them, until they had shown me otherwise. I'm always a little skeptical when a guy says a place doesn't do good work any more and recommends somewhere else. Not that the new place doesn't do good work. My comments were all about engines used on the street, not racing engines. My personal experience was that the Porsche flat four engines held up fine when rebuilt, without an align bore. I started rebuilding VW's and couldn't figure out why they weren't holding together. Then I found RIMCO. I remember one engine in particular, in an old reduction box van. RIMCO did all the work and I drove the van about 30k miles, then sold it to a friend. He didn't understand about the reduction boxes on the ends of the swing axles and was always complaining to me that it wouldn't go fast enough. He would full throttle it for hours on the freeway. More than once it came to a stop and he would find a valve or two stuck open. He would tap on the valve with a hammer, til it closed and then start the motor up and go at it again. He had the van for about another 40k miles after me and it was still running great when he sold it. True story. Made me a RIMCO believer. Jim Showker ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~