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I Gots STUFF!
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:49 pm
by Murff
Engine is finally at the machine shop, pistons just showed up today so I drop those to the machinist tomorrow,
fuel injection and magneto came back from Spud Miller last week.
I am beginning to get just a teensy bit excited.
Should be assembling in March, might be ready for a pass in April or May,
1st road trip is scheduled for June to Woodburn, OR. for nostalgia's.
Murff
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:56 pm
by jim sanders
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:08 am
by pro70z28
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:07 pm
by Murff
Sigh... A 'minor' setback.
In my haste to snap a few pics of parts I didn't bother to inspect the pistons real close. Yup, .010 too small. S'posed to be .040 and they were .030. I Also failed to notice there were no verticle ports. DOH!
Ordinarily I wouldn't get too jacked up about it, stuff happens, wrong parts get pulled. How well the company steps up to make things right in a case like this tells me more about the character of a vendor than anything else.
Well sadly this vendor has no character in my book. I was lied to repeatedly and when they did finally ship out replacements they refused to FedEx, shipped brown truck ground instead. And disreagrded my instructions to ship to my office and they are now enroute to my home address instead. Just what I want, $$$ worth of custom pistons waitng under the Rhodedendron bush.
So assuming the replacements are correct and show up this Friday as scheduled, and assuming I can regain my spot in the line up at the machine shop (yeah, right) I should end up only 6 or 7 weeks behind schedule.
Pretty sad that even if these turn out to be the best pistons in the whole wide world, I cannot recommend the vendor as their customer service, in this instance, rates about a 1.5 out a possible 10.
Phooey.
Murff
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:44 pm
by draglist
Sorry to hear it Murff. Hang in there. bp
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:30 am
by Lippy
Sorry Murff. I know it can be a pain sometimes, hang in there bud!!
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:52 am
by Rapid Randy Baker
That sucks Murf, it isn't easy!
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:04 pm
by Murff
Well, it gets better, it gets worse, and it gets better again. Sheesh.
Replacement pistons arrived, much later than was told by vendor. Whisked them straight to the machine shop where we eyeballed them together. Right size, ports are there, looks good.
Week later, call from machinist. No way will these domes fit the heads. Yikes!
Call the vendor, big 'he said - she said' ensues with them claiming I never told them what head I was using. And no return on custom orders. Gas porting on a shelf-stock piston constitutes a custom order.
No joy from nine to five humans at vendor so I ask to speak to the owner. Not in right now, he'll call you by Monday (this is Thursday).
Monday no call so I send owner an email with all order details, from my perspective. Tuesday no call, another email and a voice mail to the owner. Do some web research on the owner, don't like what I find and it ain't lookin' good for me.
Owner calls me on Wednesday, much to my surprise and delight. Apologetic, willing to make things right. So pistons have been shipped off to vendor again for rework of the dome, on their nickel. Supposed to be expediting the rework, we'll see.
Meanwhile almost everything is on hold while I wait. I am rewiring the car in the meantime but that only keeps me so busy. Weather here has been crappy as all hell so I am not losing track time yet but my plans had me assembling the engine a month ago.
Ah, well. Could be worse I guess. I mean, I could be into Honda's or something.
Murff
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:09 pm
by draglist
Crazy, man. Hang in there, Murff... bp
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:09 pm
by Rapid Randy Baker
Murff,
Great news on the owner taking care of the problem. Must be a decent company that just made a mistake.
