Sorry to hear that man. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt and believe there’s still some good souls out there. It’s been tough. I’ve had a couple instances w this shop and was sick when my Z went down last wknd. I just try to live right and know all this material stuff is temporary anyway. Not tryin to go all religious and stuff, just had a few drinks...lol. Everything will work out like it should bro. Keep doing right and when all else fails, run that Z thru 6 gears and smile!

bro I bought my vette end of March of this year, it’s been at this awful shop since June 12th!!! I just can’t win it seems and I’m probably the definition of crazy because I kept expecting different results when the writing was on the wall, I had some real good help from this forum and did make one smart move to take the entire engine away from these clowns and turn it over to a solid engine builder to do the real work, as much as they would take on, which was the entire motor new cam the clutch/flywheel harmonic balancer basically everything besides the Intake manifold. I figured If I simplified it all the way down to the minimum and made it so all they had to do was drop the motor in and hook up hoses and wires. The moment it could leave on its own power or even drive on to a flat bed I’d pay what’s owned and be gone forever. The thought of taking a car with no motor and that’s in pieces from one shop and drop that nightmare on a new shop just seemed almost impossible logistically and a pretty shitty way to start business with a new shop, so I kept giving them chances to do the right thing and they failed at every turn. Khole and the boys at AHP only took two weeks longer to complete my heads with lots of extras and hand porting, the engine builder did all the machining and polishing measuring and re measureing honing balancing building and triple checking to perfection in 3 weeks and that includes some down time on part ording. I dropped a fully assembled engine off at this awful shop 23 days ago and it’s still not running. It took an entire business week for the completed engine to move approximately 10 ft from one side of the shop to the other side of the shop. I spent well over 30 hours of my own time up there helping running parts and overseeing the ridiculousness I finally made the decision Monday that it was over and I’m shutting it down, paying what’s left in the balance and moving on. I’d give AHP a look or minimum give Khole a call and hear him out. Good luck bro I hate to see this type of ****, but at least you have some good dudes to work with, my engine didn’t even come close to the damage that was done to yours and I’m on day 94 without a car I bought in late March!!! Not trying to one up your “corvette problems” or anything just shining some light on good business practices and shitty ones, I don’t wish what I’ve been through on anyone and I hope the best for your vette in the future, I’m sub’d keep us posted.

I also think it’s a good idea not to openly smash a shop or company unless it’s literally your very last option. There’s not much to gain from it and in some instances one persons experience with a shop or vendor could be completely different, some people have different expatations on services, timelines and punctuation and sometimes good companies/manufacturers have a slip up in quality control, so I respect your instinct to hold back on blasting people publicly. I don’t plan on doing that to this shop even though I probably have every right to, when my rebuild thread goes up and if I get any of the questions you got I believe I’ll tell anyone that must know a name and location to PM if they must know that badly. I’m active duty military so I heard then General Mattis drop this quote before most of the population heard it and it sunk in instantly and I live my life by it......every damn day. I just don’t see how you benefit from not keeping your cool and staying professional, as shitty as that is, it’s more than likely the best position to take when **** like this happens. Sorry to jump in your post and write a damn novel, but I can personally relate and the corvette forum is the only place you can safely bitch and complain about all your corvette problems and fine some genuine sympathy lol.


“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet”🇺🇸

Gen. James Mattis (USMC)

That was the first thing my shop did because they do a lot of business with them. Sent them pictures and explained what happened. I wasn’t there during the conversation, so I don’t know exactly what was said.

“Guy” is the name of the person to speak to?

Hard to say. At this point I just want my ride back. I have a clean slate, but I don’t want to go the crate engine route and have to address the same issues down the road.

Im thinking this and possibly the valve seats weren’t 100% concentric with the valve. Who knows tho.