The kit is jam up but I've had my fill of hi-perf shops that talk the talk and then turn your parts into junk.
Be leery of a car shop, they will not have the honing tools in small enough boresize for your stuff, I'd press for that. Handboring with boring bar is out, too hard to find competent people to do it and even worse the hand honing to finish it out perfectly. I STRONGLY suggest packing the parts up and sending to a bike specialty place that can do it right on a Sunnen machine and even the honing. Like APE Engineering, you pay but what you get back is ultra primo work.
Last time I bored at a local hot rod BIKE shop I went there and talked to them myself, they knew all the bullshit talk and were known for fine hi-perf work, the cylinder I got back had pistons not even going into holes but they had handforced them in and new pistons scarred up. The bore job itself was so rough the hone did not remove the cutting marks and the whole thing was junk. Quite a row over that one, that's when I quit using any local talent, they just can't do it right.
Boring and honing are fast approaching being a lost art, nobody seems to know how to do it right any more. The element of 'time is money' is too rushed to do it competently. Many shops know it and have given up doing it, rather using the most American of all screwjobs in replacement.............the THIRD PARTY supplier. You appear to be there.
We (Dad and us boys) used to drag race cars a lot and we went through national known shops that did fine work on their own stuff but commonly put out utter crap for work for the public. Ever hear of Blue Max Performance (nationally known funny car winner) or Reher/Morrison Racing Engines? I could tell you you such stories..............beware, most of the best-of-the-best will give you garbage back and still be telling you how damn good they are. We were forced to learn to do it ourselves as no one else could do it and here in the huge DFW Metroplex back in the '70s. That has not gotten any better, in my view anyway.
