Ok i only build my car i never work on other people's car other then helping my friends. I just got a phone call from a friends who has a friend with a 92 h23 lude. he wants me to put a t-bo kit on for him. i dont now how much to charge him any sug. ????

 

You're gonna have to figure our how much your time is work. I have never charged for my labor on friends cars (although I have got plenty of free beer) but if you're gonna be puttin in a lot of time I would just charge him a flat rate so you don't get into a dispute as to how much time it takes.

 

see its not a friends car its a friends friend so thats why im goin to charge him. ya know aht im saying. my friends and i usually just do it together but this is some kid i dont know at all.

 

does he plan on paying you? unless your ASE certified, im not paying you to do **** to my car

 

haha yes he wants to know i said like a 100 bucks, i do everything my self motor swap my self and head work my self and my car is perfect now im doin my own turbo my self after the winter project is done. he sees what i can do so....

 

Yeah my bad I miss read ya.... like I said before just give the guy a flat rate for the job... I've had bad experiences chaging my the hour.

 

thanks man. i think depending on how may days it takes me ill charge him

 

$100 is cheap. make sure you know exactly what he has before you give him a rate. if its a premade kit that you just have to put everything on and everthing is for the most part already pre fitted then its gonna be a lot different than if you are gonna have to do a lot of fitting and cutting and all that stuff.

 

I would call the dealer and find out the labor on getting something like that done, then base your decision off that. Maybe even half!!!! It's one thing to help a friend, but when you start hooking up there friends, they will bring more and more people. I would charge half of what the dealer would charge.....

 

I would have to say figure on 7-10 hours work time, based on my past experience.
You should consider that my father wasn't rich enough to send me to MSU, but consider that my knowledge is from over 20 years of working on hondas.
Don't worry about ASE certifications because 90% of ASE questions deal with the 'big3' and 10% of the test deals with 'pacific rim'. Maybe that could be a college course, for uneducated people with rich daddys. "How to pass ASE tests 101 class". LMAO

 

yea i hvae been around cars and **** all my life my dad has had a shop since b4 i was born. Its just a direct bolt kit from turbo-kits.com nothing crazy. i told him buy the kit ill look at it and see what if anything i will ahve to fab and then ill tell you how much and i also told him to go to a race shop and see how much they will charge and ill do def do it for alot less then them. Plus its fun to work on cars sometimes aggrovating but i enjoy it alot. and it gives me something to do for a little bit and some extra beer money haha

 

check before you give a price, some kits the oil return line needs to be drilled and tapped. done one from greddy direct bolt on.