How many people actually work on their own cars

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

After the last disaster with Vignogna Performance Engines out of Wappingers Falls, New York, I decided to do everything myself.
Except for transmissions and engine machine work.
I had to rebuild 1 indy wedge motor and 1 indy hemi due to poor ,shoddy assembly.
Finding the wrong distributor shafts in 3 engines and head bolts, not torqued, a shop rag left in the head under the valve cover and 0 valve lash on a .019 solid roller cam. I decided to clean up a section of my garage and do everything myself.
I didn't have the time to do it myself but seeing the poor results I obtained from carelessness and 0 care, it was time to go back to my roots.

 

[Darthomas]

After the last disaster with Vignogna Performance Engines out of Wappingers Falls, New York, I decided to do everything myself.
Except for transmissions and engine machine work.
I had to rebuild 1 indy wedge motor and 1 indy hemi due to poor ,shoddy assembly.
Finding the wrong distributor shafts in 3 engines and head bolts, not torqued, a shop rag left in the head under the valve cover and 0 valve lash on a .019 solid roller cam. I decided to clean up a section of my garage and do everything myself.
I didn't have the time to do it myself but seeing the poor results I obtained from carelessness and 0 care, it was time to go back to my roots.

Ow, that hurts.
But thanks for letting others know when a business is not trustworthy.
I had a valuable block switcheroo'd 30 years ago, so I won't blame current people there, but I really do like your anti-advertisement sign.
Hope you put it on a daily driver.

 

[crash89]

I do most of my own work, unless it is warranty work on the newer cars or needs a special tool that I don't have or can't get. I actually find it easier sometimes to work on newer cars. LOL No one touches the Roadrunner but me. I am using it to teach my son to work on cars.

 

[747mopar]

After the last disaster with Vignogna Performance Engines out of Wappingers Falls, New York, I decided to do everything myself.
Except for transmissions and engine machine work.
I had to rebuild 1 indy wedge motor and 1 indy hemi due to poor ,shoddy assembly.
Finding the wrong distributor shafts in 3 engines and head bolts, not torqued, a shop rag left in the head under the valve cover and 0 valve lash on a .019 solid roller cam. I decided to clean up a section of my garage and do everything myself.
I didn't have the time to do it myself but seeing the poor results I obtained from carelessness and 0 care, it was time to go back to my roots.

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Best way to go is always doing it yourself IMO. You always hear people say "but I don't know how", cant learn thinking like that.....

 

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

Ow, that hurts.
But thanks for letting others know when a business is not trustworthy.
I had a valuable block switcheroo'd 30 years ago, so I won't blame current people there, but I really do like your anti-advertisement sign.
Hope you put it on a daily driver.

The anti advertisement decal is on all my cars. Everyone needs to know. Cost me over $35,000 to fix 3 engines and 3 transmissions he built.
The worst was a shop rag caught under the valve cover and the other hemi, the drivers side head wasn't torqued down at all. When I started the hemi up for the 1st time, oil was pouring out of the top rail of the oil pan. What a bitch to take it off and fix the leak.

 

[Darthomas]

The anti advertisement decal is on all my cars. Everyone needs to know. Cost me over $35,000 to fix 3 engines and 3 transmissions he built.
The worst was a shop rag caught under the valve cover and the other hemi, the drives side head wasn't torqued down at all.

In the later 1970s near where I grew up, a disgusted farmer took issue with Farm Bureau's handling of an auto claim. He parked the vehicle in contention in his own field, near a busy highway, and made a sign warning people not to use Farm Bureau. His anti-advertisement lasted many years, and probably saved many from similar treatment.
It was wonderful that Farm Bureau simply had to tolerate his legal, public disclosure of their business idealogy.
I can only hope their local business withered away.

 

[Cornpatch MO]

I have just recently run into this problem. I have always done my own work, but recently needed to get my project on the road sooner than slow me could do it. I took it to a shop that I know the owner is a good mechanic. The problem is that he let some of his non-experienced helpers work on it. I now have a crushed oil pan, parts that I furnished ( line clamps, Zddp additive , trim fasteners, etc. were exchanged for things I do not want or dis-appeared
Next time, I will insist that only certain people will work on my car.................................MO