I think after the second or third time I was misinformed, I would have turned the customer loose on them. Reminds me of an incident I had back in the dark ages. I was just cutting my teeth, so to speak, when it came to wrenching, and had the head done off my car at a local machine shop. They had a good reputation. Got it back together and it skipped. Didn't know what to do so I drove it for a few days. One day I got po'd and put my foot in it and listened. After a minute I decided to take a chance. Went by the Ford dealer and picked up one exhaust valve and a head gasket. Pulled that sucker under the tobacco barn shed and pulled 'er down. Sure enough, they had overlooked a slightly warped valve. 'Bout a year later, same engine, same machine shop, bored .030 over, ground crank, etc. Reassembled engine, back in car, cranked 'er up. Oil poured out the plug in the camshaft bore in back of engine. Had to pull engine back out to fix. Never went back to said machine shop. Oh yeah, don't know about a brick wall, but one of those big engine blocks should suffice.
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