Part 2 by e30cabrio

4 minute(s) of a 90 minute read

Last update for a while.

I am gone for two weeks Saturday. When I come back, I will drop it off at the machine shop that did all the work, they will put it together minus the timing components. The cam sprockets are 300 each and I am using the ones on my motor.

Funny thing happened today. After the first shop was fired I contacted a local establishment, explained what happened, that all machine work was done and that I wanted to have it done properly at a fair price (to both parties) I said I had gotten the parts at great prices, joked that I had pinched pennies and said as a result was willing to pay what had to be paid.

We got off the call with him agreeing to work up an estimate and call back.

The only mention of money was a 2k estimate I had gotten just for the assembly from a guy that had misgivings about the machine shop and said he needed his machine shop to go over the motor fully.

This person took that to mean I expected the full build installed (and machined) for 2k.

I posted on a local board (without ever saying I contacted him) all I want is a reliable shop to do it for a fair price in a reasonable timeframe.

I went out of my way to avoid naming him or s*itting on him.

Today he ranted in my thread as follows:


"I'm gonna be straight up. It's not that you an't find an honest shop with fair prices its that you put ZERO value in a shops time and labor. You said you budgeted $2000 (Doesnt even cover the cost of machine work for us w/ balancing, bore, hone, decking, heat tanking, on the block and then refresh on the heads) to R&R your motor , tear down machine work and assembly along with everything that comes along with it.

You said straight up on the phone that you nickel and dimed everyone you talked to for your parts and labor and wonder why you've run out of places to go to get it done without delays. Look at what that has got you so far, delays and lack of service and honesty.

This post isnt meant to be offensive but, the route you took with the car and the amount offered to the shop to do the work was offensive and thats why no one here at least ever pursued the work since in the end we would've paid you to do the work in house.

wish you luck with the final psoduct and hopefully nothing goes wrong. It is so unfortunate that Loyalty really only seems to go as far as how much you're willing to devalue and whore out your businesses time and labor. Fortunately we have tons of loyal customers that value our work and recognize us as one of the top shops in the COUNTRY not just AZ."

My first reaction is when anyone says any iteration of honestly, what follows is a lie.

Then I got mad. I never stated a price, I asked for an estimate. I told him the machine work was done and he said he had an in house machinist that could quickly deduce if there were issues so that was not an issue and that he would call me with an estimate.  

He never did and I remembered a while ago that in 08 when I wanted to rebuild the CL motor I called there asked for an estimate and NEVER got a call. He says in his rant he is one of the top shops in the universe, odd he has several they suck threads on MY350Z.com 

I have lots of mods and have asked him for pricing, generally he made me wait so long I bought elsewhere.

I love bad businessmen.