Oh yea, 911 is a joke in your town. RENO 911 rocks.

 

Guys please post what happened in relation to YOUR CAR or a CAR YOU DIRECTLY WORKED ON as a installer.

 

01-Z was tearing up our reputation on this website. He had never done business with us, he just had half the story on an incident and decided to bash us for it. So I decided to bribe him with some cylinder heads. I did not make good on the bribe so he is back to bashing. I thought if you haven't done business with a vendor then you shouldn't bash?

Shawn, I think there is a lesson for both of us.

Don't bash vendors when you don't know the whole story, and I will never again bribe an ******* to shut him up.

 

Bribe? That doesn't sound good, why would you need to bribe him?

 

Oh boy! I won't be able to calm him down now Brian.

 

Please have ONEBADWS6 post his experience

 

ONEBADWS6,

Please POST THE PROBLEMS YOU ENCOUNTERED within this thread.

01Z's post cannot stay up the way it is written now.

It NEEDS to be firsthand information and you own the car in question.

thanks,
Chris

 

I worked on the car. Is that 1st hand?

 

If you installed/worked on the parts then yes. Feel free to post...

Sorry I edited your post above, I read your last post after I edited.

Can you repost what happened?

thanks,
Chris

 

Deleting that isn't right,you should have edited the "questionable" parts

There will be a whole thread dedicated to Tooley, I will have EVERYONE
post thier experiences.

 

01-Z has helped me with my car from the get go, with installs, parts selection, and disasembly of blown up motors. I was told by Brian Tooley that a new set of heads are on the way to me and will be shipped in the next day or two. If I don't have a traking # by thurday at 12:00 I will start a hole new thread with the whole story in it. Untill then I will say it is a resolved issue for both parties involved and don't want to endanger that.

 

The whole thread was questionable the way you had written it (Before I knew you were the installer)

I apologize for deleting it but I dont have time with the hundreds of threads I have to moderate to edit out 90% of a thread.

Feel free to repost at your leisure. If you have experienced an issue please feel free to post it

 

I will stay silent until Thursday 12:01pm, then we will see.

 

Not sure if this is for real or just stirring up ****. But, b/c I personally don't bash any vendor(but rather take any given issue to that vendor), I hate to see folks intentionally try to harm a reputable co.'s name w/this type of 6th grade BS. Now that you've stated TEA sucks..... why don't you tell us all now, instead of this "Thursday at 12:01" BS?

This almost sounds/looks like some sort of bullshit plan to get "something" for nothing the way you've presented the so called "facts".

Tell ya what I know about TEA. 1st set bought 2 years ago. S 1.5-5.3's. I grenaded my motor. Sent the heads back to Brian for a freshen up(parts at cost and NO CHARGE for the labor btw).... hmmm. Shipping co. damaged the heads. I called Brian and told him of the problem. He said not a problem.... send them back(on HIS dime)and he would repair them..... hmmm.

Got them back. Installed them. Dyno'd the new motor. While the # was "close", it wasn't what I needed to feel good about the effort involved.

Called Brian.... told him I wasn't happy. He(again)said... No problem....send them back(again on HIS dime)and he would "take care of it".... hmmm.

What I got back in return was a set of SI.5 5.3L heads that were given "the treatment". Brian put the "hand finished to competition level" on a completely brand new set of 5.3's ..... NO CHARGE Needless to say.... I'm more than happy w/my #'s .... dyno AND track.

.... that's just my experience w/TEA, BUT.... I personally know many guys running Brian's stuff(LS1 AND Ford owners), and do not know nor have I heard of anyone who was the least bit unsatisfied w/the end result, wheather it be the parts, labor, OR customer service.

Some of the bigger # H/C cars on this board are running TEA heads. How's Damian's 470 rwhp stock cubed dog(w/0 issues)sound? Many others are better than 440 w/the same heads. I know. I'm one of many. Hmmm... yup yer right.... TEA sucks

Now.... show ME another co. that will bend over backwards to help a past, present or future customer, provide a QUALITY product at a FAIR price, work w/anyone to resolve ANY issue the way TEA does, and I'll buy you a steak dinner sir!

Sorry for the rant.... but until I hear some "facts" posted in a manner by which a conclusion can be drawn, I'll call on this poster's "contribution" to this thread.

Btw..... you catch more fly's with sugar than ****. Try it sometime.

Oh... and.... TEA

 

Good call Shawn (01-Z), but I know as soos as Bill (ONEBADWS6) gets his heads its going to be a free for all again.

Just so that everyone knows, I sent Bill a set of 5.3 heads AT A SPECIAL PRICE. He had them flowed, they flowed the number. Installed them on the engine and they made good power.

The heads broke a rocker right away, maybe bent a pushrod and then eventually dropped a valve. We got the heads in, sent the valves back to Ferrea for inspection and they informed us that there was alot of distress on top of the broken valve. When we disassembled the head we found that the top part of the valve guide had been broken off down into the aluminum. It looked as if the head had been dropped on end by UPS (or someone else) hard enough to bend the valve and break the guide. The guide eventually worked its way up out of the head and on top of the spring locator, resulting in the retainer binding against the top of the guide and the locator. This binding broke the rocker and caused the valve to hit the head resulting in the broken valve, and resulting engine damage.

Bill eventually asked us to upgrade his 5.3 heads to 6.0L Stg 2.5 heads, and we did AT NO COST. The new heads got flowed on a 4.00" bore when we did them and flowed 320 cfm @ .600". They should have been flowed on a 3.90 bore but was not, this is our fault. He had them flowed once he got them and the intake flow was not were it was supposed to be, but the exhaust was killer. I blew off the poor intake flow as a mistake with the person he had flow the head. It was supposed to be a nitrous engine so I told him to put them on the car and run em, as they will make killer power on the spray, being the same intake and exhaust program that I made so much power with.

It was not until a few months later that I personally did the same type of head for a customer that I realized the problem. They flowed 325 @ .60 on a 4.00 bore but on a 3.90 bore they flowed less then 310. That was when I asked my porter what bore Bill's heads was flowed on and he informed me it was the 4.00 This is an honest mistake, but I felt that since he had a grand total of $1500 in a $2400 set of heads, that it should be all right. I even offered to send him a block during all of this, and he decided not to take it. I feel really bad any time this happens to anyone, it is a lose, lose deal for everyone involved.

Well, rather then spraying the car like he was supposed to, he decided instead to run it on motor. It has gone low 11's at 120, but with his buddy 01-Z running 10.70's with unported heads, he is not happy. When I saw him at N vs S shootout, I told him that maybe I should send him my LS6 Stg 2.5 heads to try. I have been slow to send them out, but they are a $3000 set of heads, and every time I try to help someone I get SCREWED. Almost every time I have sent a set of heads out without payment, I NEVER GET THE OTHER HEADS BACK OR PAYMENT. I am getting tired of getting screwed.

So bottom line is I'm out alot of money on this deal, Bill is out alot of money on this deal, and neither one of us did anything wrong. The peanut gallery gave me a guilty verdict without knowing the details, they don't care about the details, they just want to bash someone to be bashing. So I have your tracking #, and keep your buddy quite.

 

Well I don't have the queerest 2,500lb cam only car in the world or anything but I have personally owned three sets of TEA heads on two different engines and installed several sets on other people's cars and never had a problem.
I think everyone knows breakage can occur on any car at any time. Brian is a quality guy and has always treated me right.
I hate to see anything bad happen to anyone's car or engine, because I know any minute I could be next. But I can't sit idly by and let somebody bash a very honest and reputable friend of mine either; who just also happens to produce one of the best products in the country.

 

You think I don't have anything better to do than bash you?Bashing people is not
my nature.
You wanna talk performance?
Bring that LG CLONED X2 /TEA headed 250shot nitrous vette out and
I'll bring my G5X-2 /stocked headed 150 shot car and leave you there looking stupid,
we can race for ANY amount you want.

Deal?

 

2500#? sure, whatever you say.Hell, make it 2000# even.
So you've had 3 sets of TEA heads and can't crack the 10's?
Yeah, that's what I thought.

Hell, you couldn't even hit 10's on nitrous.

 

Dude, with each and every reply you make in this post, you're making yourself look more and more like as ***. You're one of the biggest, if not THE biggest LG nuthugger on this site, so it's no surprise to see you jumping on the TEA Bashing Bandwagon.

All you ever have to fall back on is your import-oriented, pull anything out that you don't sit on or shift, just to run the number, internet hero, wannabe drag/street car. I bet the list of things you've taken out of your car just to run that number is longer than the list of things that's still on your car.

Most people around here aren't as desperate as you to run a certain number, just so they can gain some sort of popularity on an internet, just so they can feel like they fit in. Man, I'm willing to bet, off the computer, your life sucks huh? How do you go about bragging to people about your car that don't even know anything about cars? You just pass them by and go hang out with the import guys just so you can flash your timeslips and feel like a big man. Whatever free time you have is spent on the computer trying to impress people with your oh-so fast car. Wow.......life must be good around your house, huh?

 

Done, but why do want to lose "any amount of money"? Did you not read my sig? 9.80's with my 5.3 Stg 1.5 PRODUCTION heads, put on the LS6 heads and made almost 100 RWHP more, enough power to go 9.30's @ 150 in my 3400 lb sled?? If my $3000 Rossler trans or rearend could have made one pass without breaking, then I would be the fastest stock displacement LS1 car in the world, period. With a REAL street car, every factory installed option still on the car, you can't say that. You have been what? 10.40"s, oh, I'm sooo scared. And now you want to tangle with my twin turbo setup that should make close to 1000 RWHP??

If any one around here is "stupid" it would be you my friend. You decide how much money you have to lose and we'll do it, I'm thinking $10K would be a good wager, or how about titles??

Kurt Urban still has the shortblock and the turbo kit is not installed yet, the new 3 speed tranny is not finished yet either. But all will be done soon.

BTW, you don't have enough money to beat me. And what little you do have I'm gonna take.