Well that's cool, hopefully since he knows the guy, just hiring him and having him in contact with the guy might be enough to scare him into being fair with you. There's no way a basic small block rebuild should ever cost that much. Unless you bought a lot of expensive forged or billet internal parts.I know exactly what you mean. Trying to explain this to a few attorneys offices today was exhausting.
The good thing for me is I looked him up on Maryland Case Search. In Maryland any legal proceeding is public information. I found a case where he had to pay a client almost $20,000! I got the attorneys name that won the case against him. The attorney will be familiar with him and how are you operates.
I’m definitely going to make an appointment and see if I have a case at least.
Planning an engine build relatively soon, going to be asking around to find out who is honest and really knows what they're doing. I'm not expecting it to be cheap, but I'll be pretty annoyed if it runs that high. Unless I get an aftermarket block, then I know it'll be more than that.