Originally Posted by Liquidgsr

I took my car down to this shop to have them do some work on making me a downpipe and dumptube and prepare the car to be tuned by Matt Shue. The downpipe dump tube took a while to make and get all the leaks fixed, but it finally got tuned. Put down a lot of power, but the day after when it was being street tuned it dropped a valve and grenade the motor. Instead of bringing it back to NOVA area where I live the shop told me they could do a full build. Long story short, after numerous back and forth, the owner assured on many occasion that the car would be ready by x date. After a year of bogus answers and this and that being in the machine shop as well as giving me personal excuses of why he hadn't finished he stopped responding to emails, calls, texts, or anything else. I also had sent him a head to be built because my head was gone. He told me he send my spare head to the machine shop in June or July of last year. I told him multiple times if you can't do it let me know I will take it somewhere else.

Fast forward to this past weekend I drove down there for the final time and demanded I pick up my car. I gave him $2300 as a deposit for the work. I got the car back with the engine in pieces, interior in pieces, turn in pieces and things broken, the motor missing pieces.

He told me the block along with all the parts were at his house and he kept blowing me off saying he had it wrapped and was going to take pictures for me. The block was never sleeved. The spare head was sitting at the machine shop and other than taking the motor into a million pieces he did not do a single thing.

He built his own race car during the time my car was there.

I am in the process of going through all my stuff and trying to get my parts back. Its been a nightmare. I wish I never took it there and I wish he never touched it. Horrible shop, shady owner, and crooks. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.

The shop moved from Ashland to Richmond. Once he has your money he ducks you and disappears.

The car being worked on was a Turbo S2000 BTW. Hope this helps people out there.