BUSTI
11-13-2003, 05:16 PM
Have any off you ever done business with GEX International? They supposedly make hipo VeeDub engines . Well let me tell you my story and maybe you guys can give me some help. Recently I was in the need for an engine for my baja bug...so i went to Hot VeeDubs Magazine and saw GEX International's full page four color add. Looked impressive and I had met a guy at Glamis that said he had recently purchased a motor from the.
They advertised their place of business from Baldwin Park CA and the guy Larry who was their sales rep when I cvlled seemed nice enough. So proceded to order a stroker deal from him a 2110 in fact. I asked for a new magnesium case, as I am old school and didn't want an aluminum case for personal choice reasons, he said not problem after 20 minutes of trying to sell me a brand new aluminum case. I also asked for brand new pistons, new crank, and rods and all new internals. He also agreed to blueprint and balance the motor. I also ordered new heads and ignition and to make a log story longer a whole brand new engine!
So I gave him my credit card number after he gave me a price and emailed me a qoute. That was on September 3rd, 23003. I recieved the motor 4 weeks late how ever it did show up in a crate and all cromed up. the only thing We had to do was install carburators and we we set! Well with only one week to go to halloween and our first Glamis run we finished the car and fired it up in the garage. It fired right up and sounded healthy. This ass hole larry said he had fired it up and test run the deal before he shipped it.
We went ot Glamis and ran the deal running it easy maybe with about 3 hours on it all in the first two days. On Sunday moring I noticed that when I turned it off a brief wiff of white smoke was coming out ever so lightly. I thought Well we didn't run it hard ..did we glaze the rings? Well then the next time My wife started it up and reved it Up to go for a lil run...POW... the bitch blew up with a bang! while it was standing there! Max RPMs was 2500 just to warm it up...maybe. We tried to crank it up again not knowing it was hammered and while looking at the distributor with the cap off I realized that oyu could hold the rotor in one position with your fingers while cranking it over.
We took it home and tore it apart and this is what we found.
1. Washers had never been installed under the distributor and the distributor had ground itself into the case about 10 thousandths into the case with a big ass grove that was oval.
2. The distributor was toast as a result of this.
3. As the distributor had ate its way down the case its gear teeth came apart and fubared the crank all up.
4. We then noticed that one of the pistons gad come apart scoring the cylinder wall beyond repair. On this piston two wrist pin clips were on one side and none on the other side and the piston blew up and the surving clips were ate up and had caused the piston to destroy it self.
5. In side the case were they had either tried to clearance case I thought it was loaded with JB Weld in a 6 inch by 2 inch patch.
6. Further inspection showed the JB Weld was all the way through the case on the outside as if it previously had been blown up! On the inside of the case iot looked like a 13 year old kid had taken a hand held grinder and tried to smooth it out. The case was definitely not new!
7. These guys had so many shims in this deal to make up for massive unequal tolerances that one of the shims was in the way of the piston and at the top of its troke it was hitting the piston. Good bye number two piston and cylinder.
And the list goes on and on. So I call this guy and he tells me to send him back the motor at my expense and he will determine if what i'm saying is true. i say ok but I want the money refunded while i wait in fact I dont want another engine I'll send you the motor back if i can get a refund now!
Basically he says screw you and send it first. I say I am not exercisng a warranty cuz you defrauded me with a used case. Then i tell him I will bring it over and he tells me the good news and he says you can't I am located in Arkansas. I say what your add says Baldwin Park! He says oh havent been there for over a year.
I go there to Baldwin Park and the current tenent of the building says oh GEX has at least 3 customers per week show up here claiming they have been screwed. Also while I am there a process server shows up with paper for GEX and 2 bill collectors and a owner off another business trying to collect on monies these pigs owe them.
Mean time I am out 2300 bucks plus shipping. WHAT DO GUYS RECOMMEND? I could just scream I am so mad. Now he won't take my calls.
They advertised their place of business from Baldwin Park CA and the guy Larry who was their sales rep when I cvlled seemed nice enough. So proceded to order a stroker deal from him a 2110 in fact. I asked for a new magnesium case, as I am old school and didn't want an aluminum case for personal choice reasons, he said not problem after 20 minutes of trying to sell me a brand new aluminum case. I also asked for brand new pistons, new crank, and rods and all new internals. He also agreed to blueprint and balance the motor. I also ordered new heads and ignition and to make a log story longer a whole brand new engine!
So I gave him my credit card number after he gave me a price and emailed me a qoute. That was on September 3rd, 23003. I recieved the motor 4 weeks late how ever it did show up in a crate and all cromed up. the only thing We had to do was install carburators and we we set! Well with only one week to go to halloween and our first Glamis run we finished the car and fired it up in the garage. It fired right up and sounded healthy. This ass hole larry said he had fired it up and test run the deal before he shipped it.
We went ot Glamis and ran the deal running it easy maybe with about 3 hours on it all in the first two days. On Sunday moring I noticed that when I turned it off a brief wiff of white smoke was coming out ever so lightly. I thought Well we didn't run it hard ..did we glaze the rings? Well then the next time My wife started it up and reved it Up to go for a lil run...POW... the bitch blew up with a bang! while it was standing there! Max RPMs was 2500 just to warm it up...maybe. We tried to crank it up again not knowing it was hammered and while looking at the distributor with the cap off I realized that oyu could hold the rotor in one position with your fingers while cranking it over.
We took it home and tore it apart and this is what we found.
1. Washers had never been installed under the distributor and the distributor had ground itself into the case about 10 thousandths into the case with a big ass grove that was oval.
2. The distributor was toast as a result of this.
3. As the distributor had ate its way down the case its gear teeth came apart and fubared the crank all up.
4. We then noticed that one of the pistons gad come apart scoring the cylinder wall beyond repair. On this piston two wrist pin clips were on one side and none on the other side and the piston blew up and the surving clips were ate up and had caused the piston to destroy it self.
5. In side the case were they had either tried to clearance case I thought it was loaded with JB Weld in a 6 inch by 2 inch patch.
6. Further inspection showed the JB Weld was all the way through the case on the outside as if it previously had been blown up! On the inside of the case iot looked like a 13 year old kid had taken a hand held grinder and tried to smooth it out. The case was definitely not new!
7. These guys had so many shims in this deal to make up for massive unequal tolerances that one of the shims was in the way of the piston and at the top of its troke it was hitting the piston. Good bye number two piston and cylinder.
And the list goes on and on. So I call this guy and he tells me to send him back the motor at my expense and he will determine if what i'm saying is true. i say ok but I want the money refunded while i wait in fact I dont want another engine I'll send you the motor back if i can get a refund now!
Basically he says screw you and send it first. I say I am not exercisng a warranty cuz you defrauded me with a used case. Then i tell him I will bring it over and he tells me the good news and he says you can't I am located in Arkansas. I say what your add says Baldwin Park! He says oh havent been there for over a year.
I go there to Baldwin Park and the current tenent of the building says oh GEX has at least 3 customers per week show up here claiming they have been screwed. Also while I am there a process server shows up with paper for GEX and 2 bill collectors and a owner off another business trying to collect on monies these pigs owe them.
Mean time I am out 2300 bucks plus shipping. WHAT DO GUYS RECOMMEND? I could just scream I am so mad. Now he won't take my calls.