i took my car to D'agustino racing and they had my car for almost 3 months and they broke two head bolts and two intake manifold bolts and tried to fill them with silicone just so they would stay in place and i would take the car....and now there saying its not there fault because they hired an outside mechanic and they are not responsible....im just puting this out there for all to be carefull do not take you car to D'Augustino Racing that shop and its owner dereck Dagustino are a piece of trash.....just becareful everyone they are theives...

 

that sucks man

 

where are they located at?

 

umm, they are responsible if you hired them to work on your car and they hired an outside mechanic. Talk to a lawyer if they refuse to fix anything.

 

^ Would you even want them fixing anything if they were persuaded to agree to fix it at this point?

I'd talk to a lawyer STRICTLY concerning monetary compensation for corrective repairs... Done by yourself or somewhere else.

Of course, this is assuming everything the TC has posted is completely accurate.

I have heard of them on some local car forums, but usually never here.

 

...Just waiting for Trent to chime in on this situation

 

if he broke a head bolt....did he reuse the old head bolts? thats common if you reuse the old ones.

 

Jeorges car was in our shop because he thought he spun a bearing. When the car came in I told him it wasn't a bearing it had to be valvetrain noise. He told us to take it apart. We found a lifter that was trashed. The bearing seized up and destroyed the cam lobe. We showed him and he was happy that's all it was and told us to change the cam. Half way through the cam swap he decided he wanted ported heads. We tried to sell him a set of ported heads and recommended AFR's but he decided to use some heads called "Profiler's". I have recently learned there were only a few sets released because the people that made them wanted to see how they would work out. The heads originally had tripple valve springs in them. Now of course those are going to be too stiff for a hydraulic lifter and I would be surprised if the car made it down the street with those things. So we had to change the valve springs. Since the heads were machined for them we could not find a spring that would fit. The dual valve spring required machine work to make them fit over the valve seal and he did not want to send them out. So I gave him a set of comp single valve springs off my personal car to save him money. They fit over the valve seat fine but because of the tripple valve springs and how tall they were the spring sat way too low and that caused valve float up top. So we had the shim the springs. We shimmed the springs as much as we could according to comps spec's, and it still had a little valve float up top. Through out this whole time we were trying to properly set up a head that we had no info on.

Also we didn't hire that mechanic. Our mechanic got bit in the face by a pit-bull so he wasn't working. Jeorge didn't want to wait for his car and wanted it done now. He asked us if we knew anyone that could work on it and Derek (owner) mentioned he knew some mobile mechanic so jeorge said that's fine lets have him do it. Instead of towing the car out of here we let him use our shop so we could help out jeorge. We specifically told Jeorge we could not be liable for the work once the mobile mechanic would finish the install, his exact words were "its just lifters its easy I would do it myself but dont have the time".

Also Jeorge sat in the back and watched the mobile mechanic put together his car. How could you not see him snap 2 head bolts if they were snapped when he put it together? PLUS the head bolts are ARP head bolts....I would assume the block would strip before an ARP bolt would break.

Now he is claiming that we are responsible for the work the mechanic performed because he used our shop. He is just trying to pull a fast one to pay for his mess up.

I could go on and on but im done.

PS-This is the same guy who snatched the keys out of my hand and took off without paying. I had to call the police for him to come back. We understand we are not perfect and make mistakes, but these accustations are way out of line and totally untrue.

 

well now we have the whole story. seems to me this place of business is perfectly fine. just someone wanted there car back. but profilers? who makes those?

 

I dont even know. The heads came from Precision motorsports of Florida (Bob's shop) but hes not the one that made them. He bought them to try them out to see if there was a market for them. They were sold to a gentleman named Johnathon and he kept eating lifters (must of been caused by the springs he had in there). Then they were sold and Jeorge got his hands on them. Bob did everything possible to try and help us set up the heads but even he said he had no idea.

If he would of went with normal heads (hell even some ported LS6 heads) the car would of been done a while ago.

 

yeah those heads seem like a very stupid purchase.

 

Also its not like we sold him the heads....he brought them in and told us to make them work...we tried...didnt work.

 

Yeah im saying it was a stupid choice on his part, you were just doing what he wanted. why spend all that money to get some unkown heads retrofitted when there are so many sure performers out there that fit fine.

 

Funny how there always ends up being two sides to every story. It's also a little fishy anytime someone signs up for a forum for the sole purpose of bashing someone.

 

Damn... I just saw he has one post...

I think it's safe to say his story wasn't 100% accurate.

 

whats funny is that all im doing is warning people about this shop...they had my car for 2 1/2 months for heads they sold me "NORYSS" trents best friend sold them to me because he said they where awesome heads...now he comes and blams it all on me to make his shop look good...its all bull everything that was bought for my car was under there recomendation...not mine you guys choose who to believe i just wanted to warn unsuspecting customers not to get ripped off by them that all.....they are a shady shop just becarefull thats all im saying..BTW i dont post alot but im always on here reading its a great forum full of great info. so im not a newbie by any means...cool

 

You called me and asked me if it was ok if you bought the heads because you knew i wanted them. I told you I didnt have the cash at the time so it was fine. This is before I knew ANYTHING about the heads. I was told they flowed good CFM and that was it. Plus the price was great. If I would of seen them I would of said don't buy them. Thats why after I opened the box the heads came in i told you these heads were set up for a big motor (huge springs, stud mount rockers, etc.). I asked you if you wanted to get rid of these and get a new set or keep em. You decided to keep them. I have given you nothing but options so stop trying to pin this on ME.


I told you what was needed to try and make these heads work. Derek even told you over and over after we were having valve float problems that the problem had to do with the heads and you said it wasn't the heads it was us. Then you told me you planned on selling them on ebay and buying normal heads. I guess you finally realized what he was trying to tell you. Stop trying to pin this on everyone but your self. Im not blaming anyone. It was a problem we could not fix because we knew nothing about the heads. We didnt make you buy any parts. After I told you you needed $1000+ rockers you could of easily said "never mind ill sell them and buy other heads". Also after we took the springs out of the heads and we saw how deep the spring cup is Derek told me he told you we had to try and find a spring that would work in the head because there was so much space.


Were shady? Because i tried to help you and we GAVE you parts and also gave you parts at cost then you had the nerve to blame this on me and talk **** about my car that you have never seen? Your unbelieveable jeorge.

 

^ Thanks for the warning, but you do realize readers of this thread can interpret two sides, right? Have you ever talked again to the seller of these heads to discuss how badly the heads turned out?

 

No he didn't. I even told him to contact the person he bought them from and see if he can get his money back.

 

im not gonna post anymore in this thread because i just dont want a long debate...that will be setteled in court between D'agustino racing abd myself...i just want to warn everyone. You guy's make the chioce for yourself..why would i buy 1100 shaft mount rockers if they did'nt tell me too they said that would fix the problem and they where wrong..I now have my car running and with the very same heads they just have no clue what they are doing when it comes to gm motors....nice guys just dont know anything about real performance shops...just a bunch of internet sellers thats all thay are good for....they dropped the ball with my car and now they dont want to take rersponability for it and are making up a bunch of excuses....i will have my day in court and will see how the judge likes all there excuses....see you there trent and dereck..