Alright im new in the forums here but i came here for a little insight. Typing this on my iphone so excuse my grammer. I dropped my car off at a "shop" december 2nd last year.( not to mention name cause it extremely ruputable world wide.) Its still in the shop after 13 weeks.
I gave a down payments for parts and provided the pistons, rings, springs, clutch , flywheel & fuel system etc... *Greddy kit was already on the car* cracked piston from a shops bad tune. I would love to mention their name.. Anyways the "shop had all the parts delivered within a week. The car sits at this point after 13 weeks sofar put together with an undiagnosed blue/grayish smoke coming out the exhaust on start up. Is this a normal build time frame for a top notch shop?

 

Depends if there were a grip of cars in front of yours getting built.

I wouldn't think so, maybe to be fully built, all problems resolved, tuned, tested, and returned.

 

Yeah I think thats way too long especially if you dont see any progress on it and you only see defects (smoke) that werent there before you left it. I would check that out.

Personally I think they're letting their reputation get to their heads, unless they really are backed up with so many cars that after 3 months they havent gotten to work on your G. GL