Jack, this is Joey's wife. English is not my husband's first language but shame on you for trying to discredit his knowledge for cars and motors. This happens over a year ago so you may not remember all the details but I shall remind you. Joey came to you to repair the motor but you told him that it would take about 10 months because RPE is very busy. Although the time period is very long but Joey agreed with the time and pay $2500 because RPE is the best. You never gave him the option between RPE or RAD. After about 10 months you, Jack, called my husband in for a test drive and the head gasket blew up while we were driving. Remember Jack? Then you kept our car for another few months to fix that problem. After picking up the car a few months later we took it to the track 1 time and the bottom end broke right then. Later that week we took our car to Otto's because it was closer to our home. Otto called Bobby at RPE explaining what happened. Bobby told us to bring it in and if it was RPE's work then he'll fix it without charge. Bobby called us personally saying it was not their work. We decided not to bring our car back to you because we no longer trust you. How could we trust or speak to you when you lied that RPE would install the motor and then over charged us? Otto has nothing to do with this post. He is now our mechanic and he only reported to us of what he discovered. As for the rest that insulted my husbands let me ask you a question. How would you feel if it was YOU that spent $2500 for a ****ty job? You may be happy with Cotton's services but we are not. We are unhappy customers and we have the right to voiced our experience.
Sorry again for the misunderstanding, but you are absolutely wrong. We discussed RPE, I told Joey Bobby would not even take a motor from us, he was backed up. RPE already had several motors from us inline waiting to build. I then told him of our other engine builder who was available and he could look at his blown up motor right away. I thought I was very clear, again, if you didn't understand that,I'm sorry. As for the actual time table... we needed a crankshaft, that backed us way up and Joey also knew that. During the build it was changed several times, after we paid to have his stock heads rebuilt and set up for a roller cam, he decided to go with Champion heads, had to order them in. There was a good chunk of money that went to the heads being freshened that was part of the 2500. I'm not 100 % sure but we also waited for several other parts from Champion that delayed us, all of which Joey was told of. We also were unable to use Joeys original pistons and had to special order in the 40 over pistons. Never once did I say anything about RPE taking 10 months to build the motor other than when we spoke with Joey from the beginning and it was decided to use RAD. Now to go there and say the "line bore" was bad is just wrong at this point. I have spoken with Bob at RPE several times about Joeys motor, he could not tell me what happened to the bottom end. I asked him point blank. I have a difficult time blaming the line bore when a car is driven for 5-6 months with the kind of HP it was making. There was nothing inferior about the machine work, they have built many motors for us the last couple of years with ZERO failures. I also believe you have left out a few key details, one is that the transmission was bad from the beginning, not good with a HP motor and combo. I understand while racing 3rd gear was being blown thru, not good. There were other "problems" that arose with completing the project, we had major overheating problems out of the box, it took us several weeks, on and off and calls to joey trying to figure out what was going on with the car prior to him bringing it in. He had an aluminum radiator he said was new, it didn't look new, but our testing pointed to a bad radiator and he insisted it couldn't be bad. In the end we pulled it out, replaced it and all was well. Turns out the radiator imploded and could not cool the coolant with no air passing through the tubes.
You left out other details about where your husband was the last 2 months before he picked it up, I told him we were almost done, he said he was leaving the country for at least a month and would pick the car up when he returned. We were ready but he kept laughing at me and telling me "I pay with cash" when he came back and "you be very happy".. Then when he came back, he refused to pay the whole bill because he "pay with cash" we haggled back and forth he loaded up his used parts he could take, a few of which he wasn't supposed to and he left. That's the last time I saw Joey, or heard from him. You also left out other details, but that's about all I can say. I don't want to get into a tug or war here. I did nothing to wrong, I absolutely am clear where the motor went to be built and that the choice was given to Joey about the time table and he made the choice to go to RAD. If there was a problem with the motor, all he had to do was call me and bring it in.
After picking up the car a few months later we took it to the track 1 time and the bottom end broke right then. Later that week we took our car to Otto's because it was closer to our home. Otto called Bobby at RPE explaining what happened. Bobby told us to bring it in and if it was RPE's work then he'll fix it without charge. Bobby called us personally saying it was not their work. We decided not to bring our car back to you because we no longer trust you. How could we trust or speak to you when you lied that RPE would install the motor and then over charged us? Otto has nothing to do with this post.
I just want to address this part directly... first off, I have no problem with Otto or his work, but it seems we are missing something here in this section. Did the car not go to Otto for dyno tuning prior to the track visit 5 months after you picked up the car? Also, what exactly happened at the track, seems kind of vaque there as well. Didn't the car go back to Otto for a transmission when the problem with the bottom end began? So to say you don't trust me is why the car didn't go back to me is not quite acurate. When your husband picked up his car from me, he really broke my chops paying the bill, so I would say our relationship was strained from there. I know it was from my perspective. It just seems to me, you are conveniently changing parts of this story to fit your agenda. I'm sorry you hurt the bottom end. I did not over charge you, the head work was included in the machine shop charge, not just the lower end. By the way how was the motor before hurting it, how was the oil pressure for 5 months, how did it run? I didn't hear of any problems after your car was worked on by others, until it was hurt..
As for engine builders, RPE is and always has been our engine builder of choice, over the years Bobby's services have been used by many Buick owners through out the country, his timetable for delivering motors has risen and not all of our customers want to wait. We have given the choice to our customers as to who builds their motors, I would never sell an RPE motor and use someone else's work in place of it. NEVER, that would be suicide...
Comon jack where are you?
