SlowBoyRacing : The worst automotive experience I've ever had.

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@7.5hotrod

take it easy fellas, i dont know the slowboy people but you have to understand, when you are running a “speed” or “performance shop” you dint get rich, you dont get famous and you totally dont please every customer, i am not tooting my own horn but i have customers tell me that they get ripped off everywhere they go except for at my shop… Even i get ripped off by parts suppliers, machine shops, etc, this is a bitch of a buisiness, people always think your rich because the bill is usually big, but let me tell you the parts are always 90% of the bill and we usually dont make nothing on parts, i think if you ask ANY race oriented shops they will agree that the performance end of things is really a hassle, we just do it because we think that maybe this customer will do somethin great with this car/engine/suspension/tranny/roll cage/tune, and tell their buddys about us and get us more buisiness… I had one instance were a customer took it opon himself to buy a DART block for his car i was building, now if you dont know a dart block is a great investment for any performance vehicle, well dart block need to be honed in a certain manner, they are made of super tough metal, and eat up normal hones, so i took the block to a local machine shop that said they had alot of experience with these blocks and they knew just how to treat it, so agoinst my better judgement i let them do the work, well let me just tell yah, they totally ruined the block, it was almost not salvageable, it will not be able to be rebored ever, the decks can never be resurfaced, they milled it way wrong and i am lucky i triple check everything especially the work that other shops do for me, so it was not my fault, not the customers fault, but the machine shops fault but i am held responsible, because i am the one overseeing everything with this vehicle… so what do i do, i have to buy a new 2300$ block for this customer and take the machine shop to court with hopes of getting my money back…

wow that sucks but off topic. I’ve heard nothing but good things from your shop and when i get the $$$ I’ll be down there to get my gears done.