The rumors and gossip must stop.

I am showing my side of the facts from the last 6-7 months about recent gossip rumors and half trues that have been surfacing on the internet about me and my company/merge with JD’s Auto right here, it’s going to take up more bandwidth than it deserves, but these are the 100% facts along with an established timeline using e-mail correspondences, documented funds and cancelled checks as proof of payments that I did indeed cover all my warranty debts and other outstanding work (that will be listed below). Other forum members/witnesses may be brought into this mess to either vouch or tell their side of the story or to simply verify facts. In this post, I am not trying to “win” anyone over, I am not looking for any sympathy or try to re-establish any “good graces” on this forum, I am done completely after this post. I am not going to beat around the bush or tell a half story to “save” someone’s reputation or feelings, if I did wrong, I will flat out admit my faults. I am here to be 100% Frank and shed a true light on any facts not perceptions about the issues at hand or situations. 85-90% that has been posted about bad situations have been grossly distorted or important details have gone unnoticed or purposely omitted to show more bias to the sympathetic ear of forum members. If anyone has a question of any events listed here, they can feel free to e-mail me or call for either more proof/witnesses, as of today, I have lost or sold every asset I have worked for in the past 5-6 years of running JPR Inc. on open internet forums to make my domestic ends meet and to make things right with previous customers. I have nothing else to loose, there seems to be a lot of people starting **** and having fun on my expense because they know I have been off the foums for a while now.

First things first, 1 year ago I decided that I really needed to scale my buissness back because the torrid pace was literally killing me, I tried to work towards that situation because we were getting mail order work into our shop that I didn’t even know where half the **** was coming from, for example, parts arriving and not knowing why heads, blocks and engine related parts are coming in and sitting in piles on the floor,
Appointments being made without me aware that I have a head/cam install for a particular day and not even being there to do them because of communication break down, not to place blame on Dave or Terry, they were doing there jobs and that’s answer the phones and sell, basically, **** was out of hand. I was offered by JD’s performance center to join forces under one roof to work towards building that most likely would have been one of the largest performance shops on the east coast. JD layed out the whole plan for me and I bit. $1,500.00 a week + commissions of 5% of what ever I bring in via JPR Inc that hits JD’s books, so for all intent and purpose, JD and I were looking down the road towards a successful relationship in this industry with PCM’s for less to join in shortly.

Pre November 16.
In the latter part of September I told Joe D. right up front that I had to lay out about 11,000.00 for work/cars that HAD to be cleaned up before I made my move over to PA.
So I moved my equipment into JD’s around Nov 16 and handed over a few COMPLETE unworked on or deposited jobs meaning 100% clean slate in tact to be turn over to JD’s for repairs or performance work to be performed at his shop, I asked for 8 weeks for “clean up” time to get all unfinished work out the door so I could be clean slate once I walked into his building which would give me a start date of Nov 16, I layed out the 11,000.00 with no reservations because my salary and final payments were still due on those jobs but 2 car install jobs were not completed by Nov 16 but I made the move to JD’s anyway, so I kept Dave on here at my shop in NJ passed December on the payroll to finish George Cully’s Vette (my old Camaro engine) and button up Bears Firehawk 427 engine install heads etc which both jobs were subsequently turned over to JD’s for tuning, and other work to be performed.

George Cully’s build was supposed to be an easy job until it was insisted that the old motor was blown from water ingestion and to have the insurance company pay for it, so it was inspected and I gave the insurance company some story that the motor had to be replaced and I was cut a check and applied it towards my Camaro motor and sent a check of 5,000.00 to him back in SC. When I freshened my Camaro motor before the install into his Vette, I used the Fel Pro engine kit with the now known to be bad undersized –o- ring for the oil pump and the pressure really wasn’t right especially after the dyno tune session and took out the crank, we found out later that the Fel Pro –o- rings are not to be used. Duh, The job was turned over to JD's and I paid 4,000.00 to fix that motor. Hindsight being 20/20 I shouldn’t even accepted the car off the carrier, but I didn’t what I was getting myself into and I will leave it at that. now has oil pressure issues again

Mike K had an install appointment for previously purchased heads and I supplied the cam but there was an outstanding ported TB and he burned pistons somewhere between NJ and Florida, or the dyno in Fla or 3 150 MPH blasts, take your pick, then there was the head flow issue that I thought was resolved. My direct fault here was I didn't spot check the heads once the came back from the machine shop nor did I flow test them before I installed them on his car, when they were being developed on the flow bench pre valve job they were flowing fine so shame on me.

Bears car, pretty smooth, besides waiting 3 months into the project for Texas Speed to get parts to us for his original idea of a mini stroker, 2.5 mos later a Darton 427 was finished and laid down some damn respectable numbers, he hasn’t driven the car much because it blew #2 trans right out of it again, now there is a suspected coolant leak from one of the heads but dosen’t leak on a cold over night pressure test, the motor still runs and nothing is broken and has oil pressure.

Some customer with a pick up truck in Texas complaining the my JPR S1 heads weren’t making power and to send another set of heads was just recently found to be a fuked exhaust system and all is well with him now.

Viper, motor is stuck at a tad over 400 RWH with a TR224 cam, he drove to NJ from Ohio for a tune in, PCM’s for less cancelled out at the last minute and we were on our own with edit, long story short, I picked up the lap top and we began editing the next morning, we made 3-4 runs and the lap top went dead between data transfers and smoked the pcm, I sent Eric to the shop in NJ to grab our Trans Am’s PCM and threw it in to get him home, (I still have his old PCM) he couldn’t stay another day to have it fixed and back on the dyno. I would be pissed to as a matter of fact I was but I did the best I could.



Stevie Z, heads, turned over to JD for review for upgrading to S2 HVLD but wasn’t found to be financially feasible heads were returned. I quoted the upgrade too low.

Colin Hoffheimer, had an appointment for cyl leak down, reverse cooled water pump install and dyno tuning and some other stuff pull a head and measure piston to deck +or- this job was turned over to JD and nothing ever became of it, I still owe him 1,200.00 in return deposit for services/parts not rendered.

Joel Leasch, 1,000.00 on deposit and I still owe him 250.00

Michael Knight had a deposit of 2,200.00 on his Darton block which was in house and paid for, I just had to get back to him with a parts list of what it was going to cost to make a complete motor from parts used from his old 382 stroker blown up motor that arrived to see what was salvageable out of it to build a 427 Darton engine and the job was taken over by JD. = blown up due to fragments of old engine stuck in old intake manifold and or something about a corroded wire off the booster fuel pump..

Carter Edwards motor was on order through Darton and the job/deposit was turned over to JD.

Dave Crowley’s motor was in the works with an original deposit of 4,500.00 for heads and cam on stock cubes that turned into a full blown 427 Darton block which was turned over to JD’s. not up and running yet.

Tom Connoly’s S2 LT1 heads (no deposit) turned over to JD’s and billed.

At around this time is when Eric’s 388 all bore was on the fritz, the job was turned over to JD’s for inspection of WTF is wrong with it? it went through full leak down test and some other bullshit and the last words I said to JD before the heads were removed for a more detailed inspection of what happened was “ Joe, what ever is wrong with Eric’s motor, write up a list and I will take care of it”, well the heads were removed and lole and behold, THERE ARE 2 PISTONS BURNED melted at there edges, ( I have them) so I kicked up 3,000.00 +862.00 parts/value (which I have proof of) to fix it and Eric was charged 3,600.00 unknown to me and I took all the blame for the engine problem. My mistake here is I didn’t believe Eric and what he was describing to be the problem, sorry.

Ron Keen and his warranty issue and was turned over to JD, I paid the machine shop bill for the heads to be freshened up, head gaskets/head bolts and helped R&R the heads on MY time, Ron was charge 5,000.00 for trans work 2 torque converter R&R's and a cam downgrade along with re-tuning and head R&R and it didn’t turn **** for power at the rear wheels when completed and had the same idle problems as it had with the 236-236, the car was sold soon after.

 

Paul R. was refunded his Darton deposit because he changed directions with his build, and later,

11 Bravos deposit came in for his Darton build that I am STILL trying to complete but paying for all these listed problems along with 3 sets of heads, It’s real close to being complete but all this forum head return bullshit for no reason is costing me a lot of money. I will have a firm completion date for you on the first.

Erin “WS6TransAm girl” lifter came apart and took out her engine bearings, the heads were sent to an independent shop for flow evaluation and were kicked back as duds, come to find out they were never even on a flow bench or even disassembled for that matter, (they said JPR on the side). I Cleaned and fitted with new valves/seals under warranty.

Sean Wall, LT1 heads flowing fine from day 1, the only problem was the valve job was a bit whacked and now fitted with double spring, BTW, check your rocker to retainer clearance during install. Covered under warranty.

I will pick up right here tomorrow night with part 2, lots of e-mails and documentation of payout.

 

Hey man, I'll talk with you on the first then. I don't think I've hammered you on the board, I know you have had problems and have admitted alot, and I was the last one on here to defend you. Yeah I'm pretty frustrated, I hope you can understand. But if you read my other post, I'm kinda screwed now because I do not see how I can send you a core when the motor is ready. I had planned all along to have it put in when I was on 30 days leave. I don't know what I can do but try to sell it. Unless you can just send me all the parts unassembled, then I can build it and put it in myself at the autoshop on post. And if it blows I won't blame you lol. I have no place now where I can have a complete built motor sent to. We'll see. BTW, I sent you the full amount you quoted (minus core) plus $700 for an LS6 intake and whatever else came up, not a deposit Don't know if that's what you meant or not. Talk to you soon!

 

So is his motor going to be ok?

I'm doing the tuning on his car. I'm by no means an 'expert' tuner but I can hold my own with M6 cars.

There were so many unnecessary changes made to the PCM, we just might get a PCM from a junkyard and start over from scratch. It will just be 10 times easier to do it that way instead of fixing each table cell by cell like I was trying to do a few weeks ago just to get some tables back to a stock form so I had a good starting point.

I hope things work out for you, it's gonna take some time for people to trust you again.

Bill

 

LOL!!! Now who is omitting facts? You say Mike K. burned his pistons up? Technically you are correct in the sense Mike K. took the car from your shop not knowing that he had over 11.3:1 compression and 33 degrees of timing. The sole purpose of purchasing quality parts is to be able to run your car hard every once in a while. Let's see, 1200 miles b4 motor took a crap. 1000 miles of that was easily from NJ to Lakeland, Florida. Mike lives about 50miles from work one way. He took the car to work twice and boom. You claim your direct fault with the heads were you did not spot check them? If so why did you lie about flow #'s, etc. You claim you did not flow the heads b4 you put them on Mike K.'s car? Thats another flat out LIE!! Mike K. and I were both there watching you flow test the heads and you were calling out the #'s to Mike K. to write down. What about the cam specs? What about the call to Mike K. telling him that PCMFORLESS gave him a bad tune and that is why his motor blew? PCMFORLESS said right here on this board that he tuned the car via the information you gave him. I find it hard to believe any tuner would have put that much timing in a car knowing the compression was that high. Do I need to go on and on? Now who is telling half TRUTHS?

 

By the way... Tell the people what bore size you flow your heads on for a 3.90 engine? You keep forgetting JPR we have emails as well. Would you like to edit this post b4 we post them?

 

If I flow tested Mikes heads, I don't remember, it could have been around the time your were swinging your desert Eagle gun around in my shop, if I did call out the flow numbers like you say, then I don't know why they won't flow somewhere else, it was confirmed that my bench is off by 11-12 cfm's in comparison to TEA's and Lorenzos, but not off that far, it did turn 460 RWH right in front of you at JD's without me even being near the car. Mike told me on the phone 2 weeks ago that Thunder Racing did confirm that the heads were milled 30 thousands. I already settled on a solution with Mike to make him happy so don't speak on his behalf.

 

Since when is Mike K. happy, he didnt look happy yesterday or the day before that?? And the numbers that were at your shop, both flow and dyno, havent been able to be reproduced at ANY other shop?? What strikes me as weird, is that with all these customers cars, it seems like you are trying to point the finger back at them...But I'm going to use a little logic that we use in networking, when you see a major failure or outage, you start looking for points in common. One HUGE thing in common is that YOU built all these creations.

You also mention Vince "swinging his Desert Eagle around" but you dont mention anything about Mike K. helping you turn wrenches!! Yeah thats right, the customer, after paying for an install, was having to help the tuner install his setup. Not to mention, what kind of oil was used in Mikes motor, what kind of coolant, what was the timing, hmm whats that thing called a compression ratio, what does detonation do to a motor, why cant two independent shops get the same flow numbers as I can on my bench, has the FBI found anything on my computer yet, WHY ISNT THE CAR RUNNING RIGHT NOW?? Sounds like you have alot more questions to answer...

 

Hey Joe,

In my defense here, when we were done tuning, the car laid down 449/424. I hardly call that **** for power. Thanks for throwing me under the bus though.

You know what, I am tired of keeping quiet. I am the ONLY one of your customers that hasn't said **** about what has gone on over the last year. Because of what I had to go through with you I can't even look at my car anymore. It makes me sick. I still have it, and am trying to sell it. It did make great power....It ran 11.3 at the track. It cost me over 12k to get this car right. It FINALLY runs right, idles right, drives right. That is bullshit. You screwed sooooo many people Joe. I would say just about every single one of us in the last year.

The whole electric water pump **** kills me too. You still owe me 400 bucks from that. I feel bad for all you guys who got your **** messed up in this. I know how you feel. After I sell the T/A I don't think I ever want to own another LS1.....

 

You dont remember flowing his heads? What are you smoking? I was swinging my desert eagle around your shop? First of all it was you talking John Wayne **** about guns and what you have. Thats when Mike K. told you about my desert eagle and YOU asked to see it. I did not volunteer to show it to you. If you were intimidated by it then that is your problem. You are the one telling the entire internet world about it. Not me.

Yes TR confirmed the heads were milled .030, but OBVIOUSLY the valve job brought the compression up more. You sold the heads to Mike K., so you are responsible for the outcome of your product. Your heads were flowed on two separate bench's and the results were more than 12 cfm off. So now you are calling TR liars? TR flowed your heads on every bore they could and could not duplicate the #'s you claim your HVLD flow. At that point your heads were determined to be LVDH, "Low Velocity Disappointing Heads." How about we send the heads you sold Mike K. to TEA and have them flow them?

You claim you were not near Mike K.'s car when it was dyno'd? Liar!!! First of all there was another car on the dyno b4 Mike K.'s car and YOU requested JD to dyno Mike K.'s car for some odd reason. JD was over at the computer for quite some time doing whatever b4 Mike K.'s dyno. The first #'s JD showed us was STD. We had to request SAE and the #'s dropped. It was YOU swapping out belts and **** to get higher #'s. It was YOU that put on the MAFT. It was YOU with the Tech II tool in Mike K.'s car saying you see KR. Did you forget all this too?

As for Mike K. and you agreeing to something enlighten us. I was chatting with Mike K. yesterday. Actually I speak with him almost everyday and each time you call him I know about it. You ask why I am involved? It was my *** that recommended YOU.. I feel like I let Mike K. down

 

joe---you will not slither your way out of this---i will not post all the b.s.

but don't try to make yourself look like the good guy--YOU CAUSED ME MAJOR PROBLEMS WHICH I NEVER HAD BEFORE YOU CAME!!!
i have been here 8 years with no problems--except for the past 6 months.


every job i have been invloved in with you has been a cluster f#*k!!!

i will not post what you actually paid--because we are through and that is it.

one morething--i never merged with you--i didn't have to--i have plenty of work--you were the one with your wife saying you couldn't take it anymore with the stress and just wanted to work for someone--in my office when asking me to work for me--i never called you to join up with me.

now i see what the problem was---ripping into these people and taking there money and giving them nothing!!

i will apologize to everyone here for the **** i said---but i was up against the wall and ready to sell the business due to the stress and b.s. i have incurred from jpr.whatever way i turned it was getting deeper and deeper with him.

i used a friend's name to post this short bit--hopefully it won't be deleted.

hopefully jpr moves on and gives the people he owes what they are waiting for.
this business move costs me thousands---my accoutant was ready to kill me.

good luck joe--and hopefully lorenzo doesn't get involved in this also.


thanks

joe d.

jd's performance center

 

Sigh,,,,,,,,,,, must I do this again. Do me a favor Joe and answer every single one of the below questions.

Why do my heads flow 260 cfm at .600 lift?
Why did I have to help you with the install of my head/cam package?
Why did my heads cc at 60cc's and yet you told me my compression ratio would be 10.5 :1?
Why did you put dirty radiator fluid back into my car?
Why did you put grey wolf oil in my car?
Why did you accept 1000.00 for that install considering above items?
Why did I pay for a dyno tune yet receive a flash tune?
Why does my PCM tune so aggressive?
Why did you accept over 2 grand for heads that flow 40 cfm below what was advertised and is nearly a point above the cr advertised?
Why are you not telling the truth in this thread?
Why did you lie directly to my face?
Why was I not able to repeat the same numbers that I did up there?
How can you not be near the car when it is dynoing and yet tune it with a maft ?

You say we came to a happy medium? We came to the only medium we could considering you say you are broke and I dont want to HAVE to take legal action which is that you send me a new set of heads that do flow well with 2 serperate flow sheets with the understanding that I would again verify the flow numbers. This does not make me happy at all, this is what I HAD to do. Hell you could not even confirm this via email because your computer is at the FBI .......

You really want to make me happy and be a stand up guy??

1. refund me $2100.00 dollars for my heads that flowed 40 cfm less than advertised and raised my compression by close to a point as compared to what was advertised.

2. refund $1000.00 for the install that I helped you on and for doing a shotty job i.e. dirty radiator fluid, shitty oil , missing bolts did I mention that I helped you on this install?

3. refund the money for my dyno tune especially since I did not get one.. That will be $500.00

Do this and I'll be happy. I am not even including anything here for my destroyed due to detonation block (lasted 2k miles,, 1200 of them was the trip back from JPRs to FL)
But Im not too worried about the block , lets just talk about my heads / tune/ install for now. Maybe if you really get on my nerves Ill hash up some facts about the block.



Let me say this blunt Joe.

Give me my money back now!!!! I have so much proof against you including your past emails, multiple flow tests, saved forum threads, a saved copy of your webpage to my harddrive which advertised the HVLD specs. Its all been documented Joe .... No matter what you say I can dispute it because you are not telling the truth and I have proof of it.


I'll first dispute this lie that you already told. You say you did not flow test my heads before they were put on my car correct?? and that you do not remember calling out the numbers to me correct???

Well maybe you recognize your own handwriting lol
I circled in red where you wrote down that these were my cylinder heads and the lift ranges. The flow numbers written are from me when you were calling them out.

Also since I know you have a bad memory don't forget to answer my questions at the beginning of my post.

 

Man this is got nasty

 

BLK01WS6- you are wrong I have not said anything also. I want to apologize to a few people. I was going to make this my own thread but it will probably get more noticed here.

MikeK- I want to apologize to you for a few of my past posts and doubting a few things you have said. It seems that I was just in denial against all this I guess. Me and you seem to be the same type of person. I dont want to post negative stuff, I am a really nice guy and both our engines are broken because of JPR (yours more than mine it seems ). My engine is out my car being repaird now because it was improperly setup. The preload was way too high. My car has been nowhere for engine work beside JPR.

Eastside service- I mention Eastside about a tune I got in a previous post from them. They were right when they contacted me and said it was the first they heard I was disappointed. I should of said something or asked a few questions before I left but I didnt. I realize why and it was because my numbers were low with the JPR stuff in the car and I just wanted to leave. It was nothing against you so I am sorry about that comment and hope to see you guys soon for a new tune.

TTP- They are doing so much for me and I said how I didnt care for any LS1 shops. Honestly it was the same type of thinking with Eastside, I was so upset with all these posts and having the same type of issues I kind of lumped everybody up in one pile. Truth is I cant thank Matt and George enough for what they are doing with my car. They are carefully examining it and for once I am not worried about my car being at a shop for repair. They have also been EXTREMELY understanding in my finicial difficulties right now with the new house and have been giving me great prices.

There are a few other people and this board itself. I have just been bitter the past few months with everything that has been going on.

BTW- My heads are being flow tested next week by an independent party. My heads were one of the last ones to leave Joes place in October. If they dont flow well I am not using them and it will have verified as to what MikeK has been saying.

 

Gonna???
We are there...

 

Mike, that image you posted was obviously photoshopped by the CIA, who probably took it from a spy satellite circling above your house watching you make the 136 150 mph runs you did....oh wait a minute.... Let me do some calculations here real quick, and run them through my supercomputer (which wont fail on the dyno, I promise) 2000 miles minus 1200 for the trip down to FL, minus 50 miles x 2 for your trips to work (which I know it was more than 2 because we rode to lunch together several times in it) minus ~80 miles for the trip to the dyno that one friday; you, me, and Dewain - but for some reason neither Dewain or my LS1 burned pistons that day on the way to the dyno; must have been your magic beanstalk pistons. That leaves 620 miles of you actually getting to enjoy your car, roughly, probably alot less than that. One other thing, I specifically remember you telling me during that short period that your car WAS running, sometimes it felt stronger than others, and unfortunately we now know that your engine was in the process of destroying itself.

I hate to see people take advantage of other people...Honestly, and Mike dont take this the way that it sounds, but I am SOOO glad I DID NOT go up there to NJ with you and VINCE. Sounds like you guys got the royal treatment up there --- and with no lube either. I know how pissed I am now that you got screwed, but I cant imagine how pissed I would be, had I been there with you to be a part of the screwing.

JPR, go back to your hole, let the peoples motors you f'd up die with dignity, dont keep rehashing this crap. Mike has moved on to a better company/vendor and defintely a better setup for sure, and I can say he was pretty happy NOT thinking about you until you post this ****. He was ready to cut his loses and move on, everyone else was telling him to hire every lawyer he could and SINK your ***, but Mike is a good person. You've f'd up not only your business but other businesses and now you are dragging your poor customers down with you.

 

It is $1500 you owe me, Joe- not $1200. When will I be receiving that check?

How much money do you owe Jay Fisher? When will he be getting his money?

When will 11Bravo be getting his engine?

Are you going to fix Bear's engine, Joe, or is that JD's responsibility?

When will MikeK. be receiving these new heads you promised him?

Are there ANY happy and satisfied JPR customers left? I would love to hear from them. Are there any engines that did not blow up, burn oil, lose coolant, collapse lifters, spin bearings, destroy cams, melt pistons, etc... due to your incompetence (or one of the many conspiracies you fell victim to)?

What happened to the guy who dynoed the big numbers over at SLP? Is he happy? Is his car still running?

What happened to the big story GMHTP was supposed to be doing on your car?

Can you update us on the status of the mythical JPR EWP?

BTW, my car dynoed 422 at JD's but never repeated those numbers or ran well at the track with your package- subsequent dyno numbers were 392, 390, and finally 407. All after changes that sould have increased power- new shortblock, Crane dual springs, YT roller rockers, new lifters (they had collapsed), repaired JPR heads (loose intake valve guides, missing spring seat), several dyno tuning sessions, Meziere EWP, new Y-pipe, delete cats, new catback, etc...Best MPH at the track was 110! Bolt-on cars can run that! Can you explain any of this? All the components of my engine are top notch, I spared no expense...the only weak link I see is the JPR HVLD heads.

 

Sounds like a reoccuring theme, maybe not just his flowbench was off, maybe the dyno was bad??


Not to rub salt in your wound....My first run EVER in my 99 C5 with catback exhaust the only mod - I ran 106.7 mph... So you are absolutely correct. You know when Mike K. got passed the being pretty upset point, we tried to make as much humor out of the situation as we could. We were going to flow my stock 99 LS1 heads, when he had his JPR S2 HVLD flowed, and post a comparison - cause I know they probably would have been pretty close. Sad but true...

 

These runs were at Bristol, which is a notoriously slow track...high DA's...it was 3500-3700 that day, but my friend Adam ran me dead even in his bolt-on 2000 TA. I also got wasted by a bone-stock Z06 and a new Cobra

Needless to say, I was pissed. The ET's I blamed on poor traction and my driving, but MPH is more of an indicator of HP, right?

 

Noted about the clearances. Thanks again for the help with the heads Joe.