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Originally Posted by Topless
A repair techs worst nightmare is the guy who sources his own parts on eBay and wants you to install them for free. They might be the wrong parts, an incomplete kit, or just of a quality the tech would never use on a good customers car. I am not saying this is you, but your tech has probably seen this scenario many times and it usually goes badly. He will be uncomfortable doing this unless he is confident tha parts are complete and everything will go well. Most techs will charge more to do this due to all the unknown unknowns that might bite him later.
While the gears are out, have them do the ims retrofit, check the clutch and flywheel for viability, and pay him for his valuable time and expertise. This is how he feeds his family.
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I stop by a friend's shop on my way home from work regularly, he runs into this problem regularly. I was there last week and a customer had a 2000 Jeep Cherokee for a cracked exhaust manifold. The customer provided an Ebay stainless replacement that they wanted put on. It fit until you tried to put the intake back on as they are on the same side on the inline 6 and share some of the same mounting bolts. He had the intake on and off 3 times and had to shave it in a couple spots to fit over the new header tubes. Customer was furious with him and he only charged an extra half hour even though he had 2-3 into it. Shops hate customers who supply their own parts and incomplete at that most of the time.