Tommy Sizemore - Cylinder Head RIP OFF

[Dan Fahey]

Originally Posted by james schaechter

If fraud is the case,mail fraud has been extended to include private carriers as well.

I shipped them UPS.
Receipt long gone.
Sure UPS has a copy
D

[black88coupe]

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey

I shipped them UPS.
Receipt long gone.
Sure UPS has a copy
D

If you could provide an approximate date when they were shipped could they try to figure it out?

[FED 387]

Worth a phone call---call the local county atty general/states atty tell them your predicament ask them what they suggest doing---guys like this need to have their vital parts removed---they prey on unsuspecting people because they know you are a thousand miles away and cannot or probably will not do anything---we had a similar situation with a company in Northern Florida Emerald coast machine something or other gave me the complete BS runaround I got on a plane actually went to his area to see my wifes sister got the local sheriff involved went to his business and the sheriff and myself walked in the door---- no more BS want the parts NOW or come with me please you are under arrest!!! Sometimes you have to take a more "firm" approach to a situation--- Buck says he gives you your stuff right away unless he wants to explain IT TO THE JUDGE---Eff him be a Pri&k nail him to the cross you have been too nice for too long

[Dan Fahey]

Originally Posted by black88coupe

If you could provide an approximate date when they were shipped could they try to figure it out?

I did mail the checks.
Have copies of them which I sent the day they were written.
D

[Dan Fahey]

Originally Posted by FED 387

Worth a phone call---call the local county atty general/states atty tell them your predicament ask them what they suggest doing---guys like this need to have their vital parts removed---they prey on unsuspecting people because they know you are a thousand miles away and cannot or probably will not do anything---we had a similar situation with a company in Northern Florida Emerald coast machine something or other gave me the complete BS runaround I got on a plane actually went to his area to see my wifes sister got the local sheriff involved went to his business and the sheriff and myself walked in the door---- no more BS want the parts NOW or come with me please you are under arrest!!! Sometimes you have to take a more "firm" approach to a situation--- Buck says he gives you your stuff right away unless he wants to explain IT TO THE JUDGE---Eff him be a Pri&k nail him to the cross you have been too nice for too long

Yup...been too busy with family and business !
Need to take a break and discover my inner Bastard!
D

[black88coupe]

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey

I did mail the checks. Have copies of them which I sent the day they were written. D

Best of luck to you. That really sucks.

[Ed Wright]

Did people that sent heads to this hillbilly, see his utube video first?

[Rich Biebel]

I am not defending the guy since I don't know him but....

I have all the same tooling for doing heads and his videos may look crude and he may sound like a redneck but the work he is doing is not a whole lot different than how I did heads for years and years.

Sure you'd love to think your heads were being done in modern super accurate machines but trust me you can get very good results using all hand tools on a bench.....

A few machines can add up to a huge investment and produce poor results in the hands of an incompetent person.

I've taken brand new heads out of the box with Serdi type machine cut seats and they were so far out it was ridiculous.

I fixed them with "old School" seat grinding equipment.....Kwikway stones and hand held grinder on aluminum heads with hard seats.....a real pain to do and tedious and time consuming.....and always was...

So maybe the guy is a ripoff artist and a hick but the processes he shows are how I have done many, many heads with good results.

One machine I have seen.....A Newen can do seats and valve pocket work all CNC......Costs around $100 grand I believe...

Thats gonna take a lot of valve jobs to payoff !!!

Maybe I should go back into the head business....


I like the spray welding vids.....never did that process myself....

[Dan Fahey]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Did people that sent heads to this hillbilly, see his utube video first?

YES...Ed..
I was convinced he was an honest person.
Tommy/Tony talks a damn good game, had a decent website.
His videos showed a degree of competence to me.
Including one customer validating what a good job he did.

Up to that point had no reason to question what he was doing.
Nor did some 10 or so people and probably more than that.
Some racers tried diligently to warn the public and did not catch those warnings.

Start investigating when he kept asking for more money and delivery time slipped.
Which I confronted him and the sweet talker he is played me like a fiddle.

I have ported and polished two LT1 Iron Heads and an Exhaust Manifold.
The Iron Heads I did worked very well on our Impala Pinks Car.
FWIW on Sizemore's Videos I did learn a few things that were useful.

My experience before Porting the Pink Cars Heads started with a phone call to Joe Mondello in 2010.
He was very patient learning what to do without a flow bench.
Then bought his premium Porting Kit and went to work and got great results.
2011 he published an article on Vortex Heads and read it thoroughly learning even more.

My hope was to see how a professional would port them for a tow/bracket 383 engine for my Caprice wagon.
Seems no one ports Iron Heads and was way too busy to do another set.
Somehow $1500 project became a $2500 one.

Ed ... I took a chance and got screwed.

There is some poetry here.
Do you know that Tommy Sizemore reads these posts?

Dan

[James Perrone]

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey

YES...Ed..
I was convinced he was an honest person.
Tommy/Tony talks a damn good game, had a decent website.
His videos showed a degree of competence to me.
Including one customer validating what a good job he did.

Up to that point had no reason to question what he was doing.
Nor did some 10 or so people and probably more than that.
Some racers tried diligently to warn the public and did not catch those warnings.

Start investigating when he kept asking for more money and delivery time slipped.
Which I confronted him and the sweet talker he is played me like a fiddle.

I have ported and polished two LT1 Iron Heads and an Exhaust Manifold.
The Iron Heads I did worked very well on our Impala Pinks Car.
FWIW on Sizemore's Videos I did learn a few things that were useful.

My experience before Porting the Pink Cars Heads started with a phone call to Joe Mondello in 2010.
He was very patient learning what to do without a flow bench.
Then bought his premium Porting Kit and went to work and got great results.
2011 he published an article on Vortex Heads and read it thoroughly learning even more.

My hope was to see how a professional would port them for a tow/bracket 383 engine for my Caprice wagon.
Seems no one ports Iron Heads and was way too busy to do another set.
Somehow $1500 project became a $2500 one.

Ed ... I took a chance and got screwed.

There is some poetry here.
Do you know that Tommy Sizemore reads these posts?

Dan

That's what you get for cheating up your pure stocker ..That's why you cant believe everything on the Internet Merry Christmas