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Friday Morning I call him around 10am and he never looked at anything and has no answer for me what he can give me a as a discount. I tell him “then when do you want to give me an answer” and he replies telling me by 9:00 PM he will call me with an answer after he looks at the double digits bill I paid him upfront to date. I agree, and call him at 8:30…..no answer, 9:00 no answer, and then at 9:50PM he calls me and says I still have not looked at the bill and asks me what I propose. I give him an offer of ½ the labor be paid for by him, or $2,100. He says he just “cannot do that” and basically says I’ll give you $1,200 off your $14,000 bill. I tell him I’ll think about it and he leaves for China.
On November 27, 2009 I go to his shop, a 1hour 20 minute drive from my house for the 10th time as I had to go to Denver anyway. I see my car in the SAME spot with no more than 1 hours work done to it since he left. His employee greeted me and we chatted. He told me “I haven’t touched any of the cars in the back since he left, I’ve been busy with these ones” (4 other cars) I tell him I’m going to take some photos and see the car and will be on my way. He is nice and allows me in. I take the photos of my car literally untouched with not an hour of work done, all parts still hanging on the wire he painted them on (as Don said it’ll be done a week before that) and it sits with the hood sanded and nothing more done to it. I ask him if Don installed those rod bolts (ones he ordered on Friday) in the engine since he’s there every day and he tells me “not to my knowledge”. I ask him has anyone been back here to work on my car since Don left. He tells me once again “no”. There is no intercooler on the car(like Don said he was doing on that very Friday), the Rod bolts are not in the car, the interior he told me was 98% done was untouched and like 25% done, and those little pieces of tape I did for the mishaps on the paint…..there still there untouched. I look over to see another supra there all polished up since I last left, another car with the motor out of it, a guy working on another car and not mine, and more cars there then when I left! Mine is still untouched. So I take photos of my untouched car and leave. He now gets back on the 1st of December, 1 year and 4 months or (485 DAYS) to date since he has had my car for a paint job (same color), an engine rebuild, and a leather upholstery job all which should take 3 months MAX to do as that is what TITAN Motorsports in Florida did for another guy, and that was for a color change on the car!


Update: as of December 1, 2009: Car has been to new shop to find out engine was built incorrectly, parts were told to have been fixed and were in actually not fixed, and assembly was done incorrectly which could cost me over $4000 in the future to have done right. The main bearings were shreding copper and its all in the oil pan, transmission was never rebuilt like he stated, and cylinder head was suppose to be rebuilt as it was with old unclean parts and never taken to the engine machine shop to be assembled correctly even though that is what was told I was paying for. It also had old gasket sealant still on it! Engine was found to have 2 stripped bolts which were "chased" to work in the piston! Used old bearings which are suppose to be replaced once taken apart from engine, engine was never torque correctly and all bolts could be taken off with fingers. Paint was never done correctly and was 35% complete when picked up from shop on November 30th 2009 and was flaking off onto the new painters hands. Engine was open with no protection of debris falling into it as it was sanded with no cover having me to have the engine taken apart to have cleaned. Rings that were on the pistons were just put on and not gauged properly which could cause another engine rebuild to go down as well as an engine exploding while driving. Auto shop in Denver is providing me with pictures as well as a full written description of the fraud of Horsepower Research and Developments work. In all there was nothing done to my car as it is in worse shape than before it was given to Don Walker and his shop Horsepower Research and Development.