The automotive machine shop for Bowling Green and south-central Kentucky.

What engine machine work costs here.

Machine work for a typical engine rebuild in Bowling Green runs $500 to $1,500: a complete valve job on a standard V8 head is $200 to $350, boring and honing runs $60 to $90 per cylinder, decking a block $150 to $250, and grinding a crankshaft $250 to $400. Bowling Green Engine Machine is an automotive machine shop serving Warren County and the surrounding counties, and those numbers come from our published labor menu rather than a phone estimate that changes when you arrive. Most head and crank jobs turn around in about a week, overheated heads get pressure tested before any machining money is spent, and every casting is measured on the way in and the way out with the numbers handed back on paper. The full table is on the cost page, and the invoice matches it.

Looking for an automotive machine shop near me in Bowling Green?

Bowling Green Engine Machine is the automotive machine shop for Warren County and the eight counties around it, with the labor menu on the website and a Bowling Green phone number the machinist answers. Engines come in from Glasgow, Franklin, Scottsville, Russellville, and Morgantown as a bare block or a pair of heads in the back of a truck. If you are searching for machine shops near you with a block on the garage floor, the two things to check before you drive are whether the shop publishes prices and whether it measures in and out on paper. Both are on this site. The deck, bore and hone cost article totals the most common block job by cylinder count so you know the number before you load up.

Need head resurfacing near me? Here is how it works.

Cylinder head resurfacing is $60 to $110 per head here, iron or aluminum, with the surface finish matched to the gasket you are installing. An overheated aluminum head gets pressure tested first, $80 to $110 credited toward the job, because milling a cracked head wastes the whole ticket. Bring the bare head with the valves in or out, and most resurfacing jobs turn around in about a week. The full head menu, valve jobs and guides and seats included, is on the cylinder head page.

This is a car town. It deserves a machine shop that acts like it.

Bowling Green builds the Corvette, hosts tens of thousands of people for LS Fest every year, and runs drag racing at Beech Bend nearly every summer weekend. Under all of that sits ordinary Warren County: over a hundred thousand registered vehicles, farm country in every direction, and repair shops with engines waiting on machine work. Engines here fail the usual ways, overheats, worn bores, spun bearings, and enthusiasts here build engines on purpose, which is the best kind of demand a machine shop can have.

Bowling Green Engine Machine does the machining underneath all of it: the head work, the block decking and boring, the crank grinding, and the race prep, priced in writing before the parts leave your truck.

The labor menu is public. Total your own job before you call.

Every operation has a printed price: valve jobs, resurfacing, pressure tests, boring per cylinder, decking, crank grinding, flywheel resurfacing, balancing. Add up what your engine needs on the cost page and the quote will match your math, because it comes off the same table. The only thing that moves a number is something we find on measurement, and you hear about it before we machine, not on the invoice.