LS7 failure
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LS7 failure Hello,
I had AHP do my cylinder head and cam on my z06 which had 11,800 miles. They did the moldstar90, valves, springs as well. with less than 2800 miles after headwork by AHP, the valve assembly failed. I'm sitting on possibly needing a new longblock on a z06 with approximately 14,000 miles on the clock. I'm looking for a reputable shop that will honor their warranty for failed workmanship (also any damaged caused by their failure). Do they exist? or should I just start thinking about doing most of the work myself. Any recommendatins
Here is a video of the failure:
I had AHP do my cylinder head and cam on my z06 which had 11,800 miles. They did the moldstar90, valves, springs as well. with less than 2800 miles after headwork by AHP, the valve assembly failed. I'm sitting on possibly needing a new longblock on a z06 with approximately 14,000 miles on the clock. I'm looking for a reputable shop that will honor their warranty for failed workmanship (also any damaged caused by their failure). Do they exist? or should I just start thinking about doing most of the work myself. Any recommendatins
Here is a video of the failure:
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Thanks for the input. Well, hopefully I can find a shop that knows what they are doing. AHP failed twice. Once when they originally worked on my car and again when they had my car back to check on the water consumption. I feel that a competent shop would have caught something being wrong and saved my engine.
Thanks for the input. Well, hopefully I can find a shop that knows what they are doing. AHP failed twice. Once when they originally worked on my car and again when they had my car back to check on the water consumption. I feel that a competent shop would have caught something being wrong and saved my engine.
Hello,
Thanks for the input. Well, hopefully I can find a shop that knows what they are doing. AHP failed twice. Once when they originally worked on my car and again when they had my car back to check on the water consumption. I feel that a competent shop would have caught something being wrong and saved my engine.
Thanks for the input. Well, hopefully I can find a shop that knows what they are doing. AHP failed twice. Once when they originally worked on my car and again when they had my car back to check on the water consumption. I feel that a competent shop would have caught something being wrong and saved my engine.
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Yeah, I should have known. Working on their website, I would get the BS product descriptions they wanted me to upload. The next day of the failure, they told me that they can't cover it and told me to bring it in for a tear down. I refused to drop it off unless they were to give me an estimate of what it would cost for the tear down and any other associated costs. Kohle seemed more concerned that I don't take it to another shop for tear down (maybe to keep someone else exposing their failure). Anyways, at the corvette forum, they are vendors and I would see how they manipulate their posts and then have it removed. I think he does this to ensure that those subscribed to the thread get a final response from him (last word of BS) before he has the thread removed. (I posted it late on weekend, removed the next morning). I did get his response via email since I was subscribed. I made a video of it here
He went as far as putting a paypal chargeback against me for prior webhosting (he makes a comment that I am hosting it from my house when he knows its is hosted on azure). paypal saw through the fraud and dropped it immediately. anyways, he is full of it and would rather lie and cheat a customer instead of owning up to his mistakes (honestly, he doesn't really have much experience and doesn't know half as much as he think he does). Shop is a very small operation pretending to be more than what it is. Most of his expertise is smoke and mirrors.
He went as far as putting a paypal chargeback against me for prior webhosting (he makes a comment that I am hosting it from my house when he knows its is hosted on azure). paypal saw through the fraud and dropped it immediately. anyways, he is full of it and would rather lie and cheat a customer instead of owning up to his mistakes (honestly, he doesn't really have much experience and doesn't know half as much as he think he does). Shop is a very small operation pretending to be more than what it is. Most of his expertise is smoke and mirrors.
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Verdad Gallardo Yeah, I should have known. Working on their website, I would get the BS product descriptions they wanted me to upload. The next day of the failure, they told me that they can't cover it and told me to bring it in for a tear down. I refused to drop it off unless they were to give me an estimate of what it would cost for the tear down and any other associated costs. Kohle seemed more concerned that I don't take it to another shop for tear down (maybe to keep someone else exposing their failure). Anyways, at the corvette forum, they are vendors and I would see how they manipulate their posts and then have it removed. I think he does this to ensure that those subscribed to the thread get a final response from him (last word of BS) before he has the thread removed. (I posted it late on weekend, removed the next morning). I did get his response via email since I was subscribed. I made a video of it here
https://youtu.be/9iYXNFeqwGU
He went as far as putting a paypal chargeback against me for prior webhosting (he makes a comment that I am hosting it from my house when he knows its is hosted on azure). paypal saw through the fraud and dropped it immediately. anyways, he is full of it and would rather lie and cheat a customer instead of owning up to his mistakes (honestly, he doesn't really have much experience and doesn't know half as much as he think he does). Shop is a very small operation pretending to be more than what it is. Most of his expertise is smoke and mirrors.
https://youtu.be/9iYXNFeqwGU
He went as far as putting a paypal chargeback against me for prior webhosting (he makes a comment that I am hosting it from my house when he knows its is hosted on azure). paypal saw through the fraud and dropped it immediately. anyways, he is full of it and would rather lie and cheat a customer instead of owning up to his mistakes (honestly, he doesn't really have much experience and doesn't know half as much as he think he does). Shop is a very small operation pretending to be more than what it is. Most of his expertise is smoke and mirrors.
And I will like to give credit where credit is due. Richard took the high road on all of the sh%$# spewed and I don't think I ever seen him respond once to the lies against him. Now that is a class act business and will show you why WCCH will be around for years to come and AHP will not
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You know what's funny and i learned....A lot of these specialized sites are for BS vendors who pay to be on there so they can peddle the BS, just think about. Another reason i stick to YB, more real people and builders and BS will be called out and the builder..don't post there i don't F with u. I go by the rule of Who's making fast cars and not the BS & Hype. .
Sorry 4 your loss
Sorry 4 your loss
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RHS Heads are TRASH!
Call FED or Dennis Wheat, DM, BES....etc.
Brodix is the best thing going for the cost with Meat for porting and offers a big spring package. Some may say other wise but this is from the best of the best...no sales involved.
All Pro, CID, & Mast are more costly and Brodix heads where only 9 hp off the Mast heads in that Ls7 shoot out. Another mag used the Same engine. 1 group runs Hot Rod, Car Craft, Super Chevy, etc........i read between the lines and BS.
http://www.superchevy.com/how-to/eng...ylinder-heads/
Call FED or Dennis Wheat, DM, BES....etc.
Brodix is the best thing going for the cost with Meat for porting and offers a big spring package. Some may say other wise but this is from the best of the best...no sales involved.
All Pro, CID, & Mast are more costly and Brodix heads where only 9 hp off the Mast heads in that Ls7 shoot out. Another mag used the Same engine. 1 group runs Hot Rod, Car Craft, Super Chevy, etc........i read between the lines and BS.
http://www.superchevy.com/how-to/eng...ylinder-heads/
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Also when you see hi hp street builds ....just look @ the compression. Know of a few making just as much and more with other castings So a name isn't about.......But you know and learned this.
My builder built a 1xxxx hp 5.0 guy F's it up with over Reving it @ the track...spun a main...Guy did something with Locking the dohc, something along those lines. Was told" you buy the parts we'll fix it, but after this Don't come Back."
My builder built a 1xxxx hp 5.0 guy F's it up with over Reving it @ the track...spun a main...Guy did something with Locking the dohc, something along those lines. Was told" you buy the parts we'll fix it, but after this Don't come Back."
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Hello,
I had AHP do my cylinder head and cam on my z06 which had 11,800 miles. They did the moldstar90, valves, springs as well. with less than 2800 miles after headwork by AHP, the valve assembly failed. I'm sitting on possibly needing a new longblock on a z06 with approximately 14,000 miles on the clock. I'm looking for a reputable shop that will honor their warranty for failed workmanship (also any damaged caused by their failure). Do they exist? or should I just start thinking about doing most of the work myself. Any recommendatins
Here is a video of the failure:
https://youtu.be/kGErkFpXEP8
I had AHP do my cylinder head and cam on my z06 which had 11,800 miles. They did the moldstar90, valves, springs as well. with less than 2800 miles after headwork by AHP, the valve assembly failed. I'm sitting on possibly needing a new longblock on a z06 with approximately 14,000 miles on the clock. I'm looking for a reputable shop that will honor their warranty for failed workmanship (also any damaged caused by their failure). Do they exist? or should I just start thinking about doing most of the work myself. Any recommendatins
Here is a video of the failure:
https://youtu.be/kGErkFpXEP8
That's not good at all. Well look at it this way "If you did the work yourself then you would only have yourself to blame"
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Well, I would say it would be a learning experience for me. Problem is, normally you pay a professional to avoid these learning experiences. When they fail at what they were paid to do, then its a different story. wouldn't you agree?
QUOTE=01CamaroSSTx;20149574]Damn!
That's not good at all. Well look at it this way "If you did the work yourself then you would only have yourself to blame"[/QUOTE]
QUOTE=01CamaroSSTx;20149574]Damn!
That's not good at all. Well look at it this way "If you did the work yourself then you would only have yourself to blame"[/QUOTE]
So what is happening with car now looks like some of this happened sometime ago. I presume engine is not apart as you are not sure you need a motor yet? If you were low all that water didn't car run hot or did you just keep topping off?
Have you at least pulled the valvecovers to see if a rocker arm came loose or there is any other visual problem to see? Valve stem height etc...
Sorry to hear about the issues.... High performance cars are certainly not ever going to be trouble free. While it sucks to spend all the money on those heads.... parts can fail... and there is no such thing as a 100% guaranteed perfect result for the rest of the time you own it.
Hopefully they step up in some way to help in some the labor or partial parts coverage if they are in fact at fault.
Sorry to hear about the issues.... High performance cars are certainly not ever going to be trouble free. While it sucks to spend all the money on those heads.... parts can fail... and there is no such thing as a 100% guaranteed perfect result for the rest of the time you own it.
Hopefully they step up in some way to help in some the labor or partial parts coverage if they are in fact at fault.