I checked out a number of shops in the Bay Area. Ones that had been recommended by members on this board. I ended up deciding to have Jay's Precision Machine in Santa Clara do the work. He couldn't take in the work in October, and I had to wait until September 8 to bring in all the parts I had collected.

Jay has been working on these motors for over 30 years. He even did work for Garretson Enterprises when they were racing Porsches in the 70s and early 80s. He has a very calm relaxed manner about him, like a guy who knows a lot and doesn't need to prove anything.

Time passes slowly. I call Jay or go down to his shop from time to time, but things move slowly. In the mean time I have some decisions to make.

I decide on hydraulic lifters and cam because I'm not really keen on setting my valves every 3000 miles. From what I can tell, the main argument against them is that people don't maintain them and they go bad. That can be said of anything on these cars. From what I have read, people who have the Isky hydraulic cams and lifters seem to be pretty happy with them. Here are a couple of links that convinced me that hydraulic is the way to go (at least for me).

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act...f=2&t=74055

http://www.ratwell.com/technical/HydraulicLifters.html