i went to shear speed being recomended to them by a fellow racer ,this was to have my 1955 chevy worked on . on the basis that i was gonna be racing the car and also driveing it on the street , a street and strip car.
as i said before this is a 1955 chevy in great condition even paint was flawless. i had already put in a new engine in this car, right from the crate it was running when i brought it to them , but needed to be towed to them because of a broken rear end axel . now the list of things for them to do was as fallows .. put in theese new parts
> rear end
>tranny
>tunnel ram intake and carbs with air scoop
> MSD digtal 6 box and MSD pro billet dist
>gear vendor
> hurst line lock
>run all new fueal lines from fuel cell to carbs
> new brake booster
> 2 new bucket seats
> install nitrous oxside and wire it up in safe working order
> and put in new gadges including new dakoda digital speedometer ...
now while this sounds like a lot its not all that bad . at the absolute most it should have taken 2 months to do this car .. well it dident, see i made the mistake of trusting the shop with my money and my car and yes even my life. i payed them $ 3000 dollars in advance .
this was what they bid the job costing me so they were payed in full on day 1 ..
one month later they call me up and say they need me to come down and look at somthing it apears i have some minor frame damage that they need to fix since im gonna be racing this car. so i ask how much they say $ 1000 more i gave it up just like that ..
now it takes them 2 years to do the car. i was calling everyday for 2 years asking how things were going with the car and i kept going over to the shop and seeing other cars come in and go out fixed while my jst sat and collected dust. i was irrotated very but also very patient as i never lost my temper with them or yelled at the. end of 2 years ive got a 1955 chevy with holes drilled in my ash tray for switches to the MSD ign box. fuel pump. electric fans and i baught and gave them a new fused switch panel for just that ,their reason for not useing the box ? oh i dont like the way its gonna look in the car .. oh my god isent that my choice to make ? but i dident get to. they also cut a hole in my fire fall just to make the carbs fit so now ive got half of the fuel bowl of a carb inside my cab. now for thos of you that dont know what a fire wall is for its to prevent a fire from makeing it into the driver .
so great now if i have a fire and that carb leaks fuel under a load under pressure its gonna feed the fire right into me. keep in mind that i told them i was gonna be racing this car and i always wanted safety first ..not very safe is it ?
well ide like to say thats all of the night mare but its not saddly .. they drilled holes in my fire wall to run the new wires for the MSD ign box but did not use any rubber gromets so my wires are pulled tight against drilled metal so now with time the vibration of the car alone will cause the wires to rub against the metal and it will cut into it causeing a big short and a lot of money by burned out ign system .. ive got scratches in the paint and dings in my windsheild they did not hook up my nitrous. they left it unwired and wires hanging in my engine compartment. the fuel line they ran they did not blow through with a air hose befor putting it on the car , so after my first day of getting it out of that hell hole i started leaking fuel out of every inch of the carbs due to metal shaveings in my fuel lines from their pipe cutter no fuel filter ...
im a big guy im 6foot 1 and 400 lbs they instaled my new seats without me being present so i barely fit the steering wheel rests on my belly and worst part is those seats are mounted by nuts and bolts no washers no metal plates so their is nothing their to prevent those bolts from riping throuhg the floor board and sending me flying to the back of the car from the force of launching off the line at the track at 4500 RPM .
i want all of you to under stand this is not some kid building a back yard racer its a 750 Horsepower big block chevy on a 250 horsepower shot of nitrous its not a toy and even in the right condtiton it could kill me. its ment for running the 1/4 mile in 9 seconds .. would you do that in what i just told you ?
at the end of 2 years they call me up tell me my car is done and come get it i go there and see the end result i get it out before they do anything worse to my car and they even charged me $ 400 dollars more that night for materials . i reluctantly payed it just to get it out of there. people DO NOT GO TO SHEAR SPEED I BEGG YOU im telling my story to you all because im trying to stop anyone else from having this kind of shoty work done to them they could kill you
michael
oceanside, California
U.S.A.