we charge $55 an hour and we build race cars and race engines from scratch. we have mill,lathes,tigs,migs,plasma cuter, etc etc and have the the top race engineers working with us all the time. so has no right at all to charge more than $55 an hour beside the fact they can and pull the wool over every ones eyes.
we would only let most not ALL dealer mehanics to sweep our floors in the workshop if you get my drift. at $55 that 7.2 hours to change a flex plate we would do it in 2 hours tops. find a good local mechanic its much cheaper.
mick
p.s i did a egine conversion at home by myself in a ae93,changed
from 4afe to 4age 100kw and it took me 5 hours, thats with modifying water and power steer lines etc. so find a good local
mechanic.