912.0turbo wrote:I got my motor from Scorpion Auto Designs here in San Antonio Texas. HORRIBLE motor AND HORRIBLE Customer Service. I'll give them a -5(yes thats a negative five). My motor was locked up and had numerous other small issues with it. If anyone is in this area do NOT deal with this clown.
This is very old but still comes up in search engines. And one of my recent customers brought it up to me on 09/01/09.
In Scorpion Auto Designs's defense---- we sold this motor to our customer (we know who) many years ago at our Kirby Location (at which point is now closed since we have moved to Converse) and this motor was in excellent condition for being a used JDM motor. It came to us very clean with no broken sensors or damaged parts. It is true that alot of JDM engine suppliers only give you 2 weeks to install and run the engine to find out if its bad or not. Reason being these are used motors and they don't want some punk kid out there ragging out engines and crying about them being bad after a month. These are still stock motors and if you want to rag them out and drive them hard, then you need to build your engine for that.
In the case stated above I checked our invoices on this customer and the notes clearly state that the reason this customer is complaining is not because of bad customer service or a faulty motor, but because of lack of money for us to do a professional installation. This customer had his motor sitting at our shop for 2 weeks before he decided to come in and finish paying us. At this point he told us that he did not have the funds for us to install it and he wanted to pick up the motor and take it with him. We helped him load the motor into his truck and he left. (Good Customer Service) About 2 months went buy before we heard from him again, and when we answered the phone the first thing he said was "What is my warranty on this motor?" We asked what happened and he explained that he took it to another shop and they attempted to install it, somewhere along the way they screwed up the motor. He tried stating that the motor was locked up upon recieving it.(He Spun the Crank multiple times before taking the motor home with him) But in reality the other shop told us they messed with timing and after that it locked up, (so timing was off and when they cranked it, poof its locked up.) Of course when we told our customer that we could not help him, to take it up with the people that broke it. We got the short end of the stick and an EX-Customer crying on this forum.
If anyone is serious about doing a swap give us a call and try us out for you own opinions. We have been open for 10 years now and we have made alot of people happy. But it's like they say you cannot please them all, but we try anyways.
Since we are not sponsors of this site, and in order to show respect to them, all we can say is look us up on google.
JeremyScorpion Auto Designs