I purchased a turn key 383 stroker engine. I paid an extra256.00 for cranking the motor. Adjusting the valves and stud girdles. When I received the engine it had never been started it had no oil ever been in the engine. No starter, distributor or spark plugs has ever been in the heads. We had to chase the threads in the heads in order to start the spark plugs. It never had an oil fitting adapter attached to the motor. The mini torque starter was made in tiawan. The flex plate was made in Mexico. Those 2 parts went bad before it even started had to replace with American made flex plate and starter from summit 279.00 worth. The valves were never adjusted they rattled so bad when we started the engine we shut it off immediately and called Jim. He said to run it and the engine wouldn't run. We adjusted the valves 4 different ways the lifters were bad they were 3 good ones 13 bad ones after we broke engine down again. Replaced the lifters 413.00. Finally got engine running and had water in the oil Water pump leaking had to replace water pump 109.00 from summit. The head bolts were pioneer and made in China. Heads never sealed water went straight into oil had to tear motor down again and the heads are now in the machine shop. The heads were 7,000ths unlevel will have to cut down 10,000ths don't know the price yet. The machine guy said valve seals are cheapest made on the seals. All I can say about this company is they lied to us all the parts we've encountered were not American made and the extra money paid for services for not rendered. I will never recommend this company to anyone I will warn them. Can't get Ebay to take them off
Don't buy from him he will tell you to sent cashier check so you have no way to protect yourself if you send down payment he will keep it and say there are no refunds on deposits he is scam
We decided to buy a 383 stroker engine on eBay. Found one that was being advertised by West Coast Parts in Greenacers, Washington.
We had some questions on the engine so we decided to follow the instructions on the ad on eBay and called the phone number that was shown. Once he answered all my questions he said he would send me a Paypal request and we just needed to send the deposit and he would hold the motor for me as shown on eBay.
We placed the deposit of $500.00 through Paypal. Once we did that we checked to be sure it was going through eBay - our email correspondence is below:
Us: We sent the deposit for the 383 stroker 425 hp - I don't see it in my recent purchases in eBay - is it because it's only a deposit or an error on eBay's part - if so I'll contact them - please let me know. (We didn’t want to buy it directly because we wanted the protection eBay provides in the event something goes wrong.)
His response: You are buying direct. If you want to go through eBay you'll have to pay the price on the eBay listing plus a $350 core charge and a $180 crating. Buying direct we waved those fees.
We were sent the new invoice – it was supposed to be a two year warranty and now we saw that it was one year.
We began to find it suspicious that when we Googled his company name nothing was found in addition to when paying through Paypal it was being sent to someone by the name of Katie Roby who supposedly is associated with this purchase along with james tanner (who we believe is James Cecil Roby).
We feel he is very dishonest – he is trying to take customers away from eBay by selling directly. Once you question him he says you are buying direct to save money – we wanted the eBay warranty. He has now inflated the price so much we don’t want the engine now. He will not return the deposit. We have done some further research – he keeps changing the name of his company not to be found anywhere. Whenever he gets a complaint he changes his business name.
Other names he goes by - Enginesunlimited509, Hpenginesuperstore, Xtremeperformance ltd
West Coast Parts Dist Reviews
I purchased a turn key 383 stroker engine. I paid an extra256.00 for cranking the motor. Adjusting the valves and stud girdles. When I received the engine it had never been started it had no oil ever been in the engine. No starter, distributor or spark plugs has ever been in the heads. We had to chase the threads in the heads in order to start the spark plugs. It never had an oil fitting adapter attached to the motor. The mini torque starter was made in tiawan. The flex plate was made in Mexico. Those 2 parts went bad before it even started had to replace with American made flex plate and starter from summit 279.00 worth. The valves were never adjusted they rattled so bad when we started the engine we shut it off immediately and called Jim. He said to run it and the engine wouldn't run. We adjusted the valves 4 different ways the lifters were bad they were 3 good ones 13 bad ones after we broke engine down again. Replaced the lifters 413.00. Finally got engine running and had water in the oil Water pump leaking had to replace water pump 109.00 from summit. The head bolts were pioneer and made in China. Heads never sealed water went straight into oil had to tear motor down again and the heads are now in the machine shop. The heads were 7,000ths unlevel will have to cut down 10,000ths don't know the price yet. The machine guy said valve seals are cheapest made on the seals. All I can say about this company is they lied to us all the parts we've encountered were not American made and the extra money paid for services for not rendered. I will never recommend this company to anyone I will warn them. Can't get Ebay to take them off
Don't buy from him he will tell you to sent cashier check so you have no way to protect yourself if you send down payment he will keep it and say there are no refunds on deposits he is scam
We decided to buy a 383 stroker engine on eBay. Found one that was being advertised by West Coast Parts in Greenacers, Washington.
We had some questions on the engine so we decided to follow the instructions on the ad on eBay and called the phone number that was shown. Once he answered all my questions he said he would send me a Paypal request and we just needed to send the deposit and he would hold the motor for me as shown on eBay.
We placed the deposit of $500.00 through Paypal. Once we did that we checked to be sure it was going through eBay - our email correspondence is below:
Us: We sent the deposit for the 383 stroker 425 hp - I don't see it in my recent purchases in eBay - is it because it's only a deposit or an error on eBay's part - if so I'll contact them - please let me know. (We didn’t want to buy it directly because we wanted the protection eBay provides in the event something goes wrong.)
His response: You are buying direct. If you want to go through eBay you'll have to pay the price on the eBay listing plus a $350 core charge and a $180 crating. Buying direct we waved those fees.
We were sent the new invoice – it was supposed to be a two year warranty and now we saw that it was one year.
We began to find it suspicious that when we Googled his company name nothing was found in addition to when paying through Paypal it was being sent to someone by the name of Katie Roby who supposedly is associated with this purchase along with james tanner (who we believe is James Cecil Roby).
We feel he is very dishonest – he is trying to take customers away from eBay by selling directly. Once you question him he says you are buying direct to save money – we wanted the eBay warranty. He has now inflated the price so much we don’t want the engine now. He will not return the deposit. We have done some further research – he keeps changing the name of his company not to be found anywhere. Whenever he gets a complaint he changes his business name.
Other names he goes by - Enginesunlimited509, Hpenginesuperstore, Xtremeperformance ltd