Alc Machine

What a great shop. Have brought in heads, motors, etc? Always ready to help and share knowledge with customers. Great customer skills. I Highly recommend this shop. After a horrible experiences with Paul’s empire head shop I am glad to have found these guys. Gary at A1A Performance muffler recommended those shop. I send everybody there. Highly recommend this shop for those of us who love working on our cars and want quality work.

It’s been awhile but I had some work done here. I had to tow my 57 Chevy truck in after spending thousands having our local machine shop do a build for me. That build lasted 15 minutes. My engine failed me while driving from one side of Rohnert Park to the other. Being already frustrated and unhappy with the guys that did that build, I asked a friend who owns a local awesome muffler shop, who should I use to analyze and fix what the other guys failed to build. He recommend ALC. So I had the truck towed in. I then went in and we reviewed the invoice from the other guys and talked about what the other guys promised. I then left. A couple of days later Gina called me down to review what they found inside of my engine. It wasn’t what I was sold! I asked Gina to make it right. They did. I drove out of there with an engine that rapidly picks up speed while baking off both tires. It sounds incredible! That was years ago. I have passed that truck on to my brother. It’s still just as strong today as when I picked it up.
Good job!
I’ll be back there again. I have more work to do.
I trust Gina! I’m beyond happy with the performance we are getting from the engine in the 57.

When my boat mechanic broke three studs removing the very old exhaust manifold, he stated it would probably require pulling the heads with a cost of several thousand dollars. Jim at ALC said he could drill them out, replace with stainless steel threads and be better than new. He worked his magic and three hours later my engine was ready for new manifolds. His price was extremely reasonable and I would definitely recommend this shop for any engine repair. WOW

I brought the engine of my 1992 Ranger into ALC Machine to be refinished after losing a piston ring. The engine is a 1995 351 C.I. V8. After the work was completed, the final project became an .030 overbore, SRP Pistons, AFR 185 heads, and a Trick Flow TWS camshaft.
I am more than pleased with the quality of work!
Marlon went above and beyond into this project with his attention to detail and pride in workmanship.
* The engine runs more smoothly than anything else I have ever driven.
* The balance is perfect, easily within 1 gram. While at a cruise I cannot feel any engine vibration at all — I have to check the tachometer to verify that the engine is running.
* Marlon took the extra time to deck the block .002″ at both the high and the low spots to take the ’ roll ’ out of the head surface, thus guaranteeing a perfect fit between the heads and the block.
* The engine is extremely quiet — the valve train is absolutely silent.
* When the overbore was performed, Marlon took the extra time to finely tune the operation to produce a very, very tight engine. Assembling the pieces was an eye opening experience into how fine a detail went into the finished product.
The attention to detail and quality of workmanship is spectacular.
You cannot find a machinist with a better pride in workmanship. A-​1 Quality.
Kudos to Marlon, and the team at ALC machine for refinishing this engine into such a fine project. I am very happy with the finished result, and enjoy this project every time I drive it.
Adam

I cannot recommend Gina at ALC enough! For the first time ever I really felt I could trust my mechanic. I brought my car in one time for a possible leak, she found nothing wrong & didn’t even charge me for looking at it. Another time she had to re-​secure the plastic panel beneath the engine and only charged me the parts (first time ever I’ve paid for a car service in cash!) I’m moving away and Gina is definitely one of my service providers I will miss a lot!