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[spyvsspy]

Ok I will update Saturday so far:

Time right now is 4:30pm Puerto Rico time and not a word from Nick. He said he would ship the heads on friday and send me a confirmation number. So far nothing. What gives Nick?
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[jbreddawg]

Well, after some prompting by another member I figured it was my turn to add to this thread.
Let me preface this by saying Nick does top notch quality work. His VW knowledge is excellent . With that being said I am mearly giving my experience , nothing more nothing less. I'm sure Nick will read this and If I have posted anything untrue feel free to call me out on it.

I originally contacted him about some balance work. I decided to let him do all the machine work ,balance work and shortblock assembly. I sent all my parts and prepaid more then half the amount . He was extremely helpful and communication was great ,at first. I did tell him I was not in a particular hurry since i still had quite a ways on the buggy. Well, that was the wrong thing to say.

This turned into more then a year long nightmare. I kept in contact by pm and asked frequently for updates and pics. What i recieved was excuse after excuse after excuse for months and months. after around 7-8 months I was actually starting to get kinda worried . I turned up the pressure a bit. More excuses , working late,out of town,picking up machines,working late, mother had an attack " I sincerely hope shes okay" Camera's broke,lost,borrowed .
I also was told all the machine work was done and just waiting for final assembly and a month later the block was at someones place to be jetwashed before he could start the machine work.
I was finally told it was finished and just need to be packed and shipped. i sent him the remainder of the money "which ended up more then we had discussed " He charged me extra for jetwashing the case which he did himself and was never mentioned up front and a few other things. There were tons of discrepancies in his excuses .
From the time he said it was done and said he received my check it was still many many many more excuses . It finally got to the point where he flat out wouldnt return my pm's for days to over a week even though i can see he has read them .
From the time he said is was done to the time I received it took more then a month.
In the end I did receive my engine . The stroker work looks great . The price was nothing special . I would have gladly paid more money to just have it done in a normal amount of time without all the excuses.
The year long headache I had to endure will make me never use him again or recommend him unless your actually able to drive to his place and deal in person.
I dont think Nicks a bad guy and hope he understands why I wrote this. I just think if he's going to offer these services to people he should actually learn how to get things done in a timely manner and stop making excuses over and over again. Their pretty easy to see through especially when you start getting some of the same ones more then once.
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[nsracing]

Looks like a field day. Nice to see you here too, Jerry. I did cut you a break that is why you paid what you paid. I just wished you kept my family out of it. The washers were present at the time but were not even functioning. I did have your case washed somewhere else the first time around, and then subsequently washed in my washers when running.
Was 30.00 too much for the wash? It is a stroker, you are gonna wash that thing at least 4 times before final assembly.

To Hazet, why not machine for a living? That is like saying, gee you are extremely well-hung, you should do porn. Yea, sure. Go through 4 years of college so I can do VWs and earn 6-figures, right? Turn this VW hobby into a chore to make a living....is not what I have in mind.

The washers are actually very EPA-friendly. Completely water-based, heated, on timer, no waste. Just add water sometimes and run the oil skimmer. There were also outside that day when I got them home and unloaded, washed, re-wired and tested. There were 5 washers! Everyone should get one. These things are great...save your hands from all the chemicals.

I machine it good and machine it well. I am late a lot of times, and sorry for that. Cannot be helped sometimes. Last year was extremely busy for me as I moved machines to the dream workshop.

I am not pressed to get everyone's business. I am just as happy if I did not even get anything from the crowd. These machines are fully paid and here for my sheer enjoyment. I have no desire to mass-produce engines.

...is all.

[jbbugs]

I've had Nick do some Machine work in the past, and I can say the workmanship was Top Notch. I can't remember exactly how long the turnaround time was, but it wasn't anything extreme. I had No problems at all, and wish I was located much closer to Him for More machine work when needed.
I'm not here to defend Nick, just telling of my own experience with Him.
I'm sure He'll come through with the OP's heads, and I'll bet the Quality of the work will be what it needs to be.
Paul
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[nsracing]

Looks like the "get it done" police are out on prowl.

The machines do not sit idle...ever. I do other stuff more than just VWs. I am also into competitive shooting, long-range shooting. I machine sights, arm rests, palm rests, tripods, triggers and other stuff.

I don't advertise how good I am. I just do great stuff. It is natural for me.

I am not going to buy expensive machine and just to have some knucklehead chew it up. I do not think I can stand that.

To Paul, the therapist job is great. Chores? No. It is called saving lives. I am the one who will make sure your sorry ass will survive the code..if ever you come in deceased in the ER. I carry a stethoscope to do my job. I never have to clean anything or anyone. I do bloodgases, manage ventilators and make sure the doctors do not kill you on it.

I am also the one keeping you breathing while the resident sticks his finger up your ass to make sure you have rectal tone.

Yea, my job is uneventful. But pays pretty well, if I may say so.

Heads are taken care of. And it is top-notch.

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[Tram]

[blankmange]

[spyvsspy]

Nick did send me a message saying he would ship the heads Monday since his local post office was closed Saturday. I will keep everybody informed.
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[nsracing]

Well, Tram... sometimes the customer does know what they are looking at when it comes to quality of machine work. So they also get a little more education so next time, some other machinist will have to come up w/ just as good a machine work.

Good machine work is just good machine work. I am not going to accept a shoddy machine work because the machinist was really nice to me. That might be you, but not me.

Take for example Paul. He thinks he can just bring home machines and wake up one day and start producing awesome machine work. That is a joke. I know my own capacity and I am NOT shy about it at all.

You want to settle for some shoddy machine work because you like the fella is entirely your choice. I could care less where your parts get done.

Today is Sunday and I am doing my good deeds at work. Monday is a beautiful day, sunny, a lot of things will get set right tomorrow. I have already given my apologies to Peter.

[jbreddawg]

Nick, your attitude about all this has got me a bit disturbed. You may think it's no big deal and you could care less if you get work off the samba or not. You may be comfy in your hospital job and not need the extra money .
But, from our "or specifically my" point of view that sucks.
I sent away probably close to 2000 bucks worth or parts and paid close to a thousand dollars only to have excuse after excuse after excuse.
I finally got to the point of worrying if I was being scammed or ripped off. You still had my money and my parts so I kept my mouth shut. Thats no longer the case.

You may very well be the best damn machinist on this board but what good is all that talent if we cant get simple honest communication. If we have to wait weeks,months,or in my case over a year for our item to get returned to us ?
Maybe I would not have gotten the excellent machine work from someone else but if they were honest and did a good job I would have went with them in a heartbeat .
Had I known the cost of getting great work done came with all the excuses and a year of my time I would have shopped somewhere else.
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[nsracing]

Paul, I am not the one peddling used stuff at swaps. Not that it is beneath me or anything. Just not my style.

If you can tool up your machine shop, I am more than willing to take you up on it if you can actually show me how to make money on it.

I managed to put all this up without going to the bank. So please don't tell me you are the only one who knows how to do this. You can make some serious money doing brakes or oil change. If the main motivation is money, I would not even think twice of not doing it for good. I just do NOT want to do it that way.

You might have been doing machine work since I was born, I can tell you right now, I will probably blow you out of the water when it comes to holding tolerances w/ toolbits. You might know this stuff, but so do I. Older does not mean squat to me. What do you know about machine work I don't? Can you work for a tool and die company? I can. If all you have learned is automotive machine work, it ain't shit. Now when you know industrial machine work and have some kind of degree in it, then you have something.

And Jerry, the original job was for just the machine work. Which was done. And then you had no clue how to do the shortblock or set deck height or geometry. I did the shortblock for you. I have told you before there were other jobs ahead of yours and you said that was fine.

I have never ripped off anyone. Not my style. But I am not in the habit of bending over for anyone just to please them. Not my style either.

Look around. Who has never experienced delays in sending out stuff or doing the work on time?? You ride me like I am the only one having delays. Well, I suppose you have to go to other places and find out if they can keep you as customer. Not everybody can be pleased. That is fact.

[Tram]

[nsracing]

I get plenty of PMs from questions of machine work to what or how to repair a previous machine work. I answer all of them.

There are plenty of scammers on the site. I am not. Sending anyone money is always scary. I have sold plenty of tools even overseas of over 5K.

If I had tried to scam someone here, I am sure Mr. Everett would have kicked me out long ago.

If you send stuff out to me, you can rest assured you will NEVER get scammed.

[blankmange]

[jbreddawg]

Nick, I have never called you a scammer and certainty do not think you a thief . But what I can tell you is that when things start to draw out like they did with you and some of the same excuses start to come through pm's two or even three times then alot of things start going through your mind.
Yes I did give you alot of leeway on time since I wasn't in a hurry and the year wouldn't have killed me 'I still dont have it assembled yet"
But you know as well as I do the last 3-4 months of me trying to get my engine back from you was a nightmare. Maybe not from your point of view but definitely from mine.

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