Ford 5.8 rebuild

MikeWhitney · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:15 pm **Posts:** 4724

Have a neighbor with a Bronco with a 5.8l V8 in it that he wants to pull out to have rebuilt. Looking for some recommendations of a rebuilder / machine shop in the area who can help him decide what to do (performance options) and do the work.

Any recommendations? I passed on to him the only places I know of (CHS, T-hoff, and CarQuest) but I don't really know who has experience with the Ford motors...

BenjaminGuardiola · **Joined:** Wed May 14, 2014 8:31 am **Posts:** 84

Boyette's

http://www.boyettesmachineshop.com/

Old school shop. Lots of neat machinery you can see through the storefront window. They are within walking distance to lots of places to eat/drink downtown, so it can be worth a trip even if you don't use them.
They have a relationship with T-Hoff. They refuse pretty much all 4cyl/foreign engine work and send it to T-Hoff.

BretLuter · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:42 pm

Unless he just wants to rebuild that particular engine, it's ALOT cheaper and usually easier to just buy a rebuilt engine when it comes to common stuff. As I'm sure you know, rebuilding an engine, even on the cheap, is never cheap.

I'm sure there are plenty of sources, but I've seen crate engines at Summit, rebuilt longblocks or shortblocks from Jasper, even Autozone etc.

:mrgreen:

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:51 pm

Bret, don't you have a certain E36 engine swap to help with? Get busy would ya, cause I'm waiting on your slow @ss. :poke:

Chad Culbertson · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:06 pm

BretLuter wrote:

Unless he just wants to rebuild that particular engine, it's ALOT cheaper and usually easier to just buy a rebuilt engine when it comes to common stuff. As I'm sure you know, rebuilding an engine, even on the cheap, is never cheap.

I'm sure there are plenty of sources, but I've seen crate engines at Summit, rebuilt longblocks or shortblocks from Jasper, even Autozone etc.

:mrgreen:

Machine shop costs add up very quickly. So unless you just really need it to be a numbers matching car/truck or just have some desire to build something unique I would agree with going the reman or crate motor route.

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2016 11:13 pm

unless that's the original engine and want to stay numbers matching, I say go w/ a crate motor that has a warranty.

Aaron Buckley · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2016 8:51 am

RodneyWright wrote:

unless that's the original engine and want to stay numbers matching, I say go w/ a crate motor that has a warranty.

That combined with the downtime is next to nothing. Buy, install and drive. It's what makes "Murica great. - AB

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