Gude cams "NOT SO NACHO"

[hatchbackkid82]

How is Gude still in business!?

[cdydjded]

Originally Posted by hatchbackkid82

How is Gude still in business!?

Cause there is a sucker born every minute...

[xbgod]

That plus......................

He knows all the right things to say and answer.

It's like the saying "Those that cant do...."Teach"

Belive me I'm coming up with a way to break it off in his ass.

XBG

[Nexus1155]

I feel bad this happened to you, reading in the past and in the back of my mind i thought something would go screwy. I thought you would have better luck than the rest since you have a boosted motor. Seeing all the people on scionlife and the reviews about gude, it seems like the cost was not worth the power or flow given as the 1nz is pretty optimized already?

You can't expect to get a new head and him to do that work for that price though, that much is obvious. A head is a head, mill the surface and I'll use it all day. Even gunked up engines that I have used have lasted over 50k miles with no issues. Your engine won't be clean forever anyways.

I hope he does something to help you out in terms of $$$ or fixing the head for you free of cost and you can either use or sell it. If he does, then props to him, if not then thats just bad business. But damn man, shavings in the engine.... WTF????

[Jason@SportsCar]

Originally Posted by cdydjded

Cause there is a sucker born every minute...

There is always plausible deniability... He did not build the entire engine, so he can always pass the blame when questioned, and most people will believe him because it seems like a plausible excuse.

Even our guy tried to blame our tuner for the loss of Tq. When it seems clearly evident, even with the small sampling of modded 1NZE's, that the loss of Tq is a side effect of a cam change that makes high RPM power.

If you don't know the answer, just say you don't know, don't lie or pass the buck.

[xbgod]

funny how people do that.

I didn't even get a word edge-wise with Bill Gude when I told him of the issue. He instantly went to your engine builder did the timming wrong and bent your valves.

Finally he shut -up and I explained to him I been using the same engine builder and Prior to changing the head I had 180lb across the board. I put his Junk Yard Dynamics on and like a Fairy waving her wand.....Boomb goes the Dynamite.......55lb across the board along with shavings in my motor.

He didn't once even say, Shit sorry to hear what happened or I'll send a call tag to bring it back and look at, to get to the bottom of this. God forbid he take responsability for his product and inspect it.

I wouldn't run his shit if it came wraped in 100 dollar bills.

no matter what he does it will remain a boat anchor in my shop for all to see and I will continue to fuck this guy down every chance I get.

XBG

[Blown_xa]

sorry about your misfortune. I have heard so many stories of shadyness in the performance industry, it is sad. I am a firm believer in testing products before they are sold.

Reminds me of an evo I worked on... guy drove from 5 hours away for us to check out a few issues and then tune his car. As soon as i pulled the car in i heard an odd noise from the motor. I then raised the car on the lift while it was running and as i did so the oil pump pulley shot through the timing cover and the timing belt skipped, motor locked.
I then showed the customer, he told me the motor was just built by another shop... needless to say he was upset. he then had me talk to the owner of that shop, very defensive and swore it wasnt their doing and that the pulley couldnt have come off as it comes preassembled on oem oil pump . I ordered new pump, and not to my suprise.....pulley is seperate, you can't even install it with the pulley on anyhow. They either didnt put the nut on, or never torqued it.
shadyness

[hatchbackkid82]

Anyone know if his rap is this bad witht the Honda guys?

[xbgod]

Even worse with them.

Just Google something like, Gude performance sucks for Honda.

And watch all the other forum posts pop up. It's like magic

XBG

[hatchbackkid82]

That's crazy cause i remember Gude being around as early as 2003, and he's been doing this to people for this long. It's only a matter of time before he goes the ZPI route

[scioncrew]

he has been around long. i use to have one of his heads on my 95 Eclipes back then.

[fnkngrv]

just a shit end of the stick all the way around

[xbgod]

Selling the Gude head package I was going to use. Couldn't get the cams to work correctly. Maby you can.

Kit comes with:

Completely ported, polished head
Valves, springs, lockers, seats, retainers all assembled
Race cams

and Big bore T/B

will sell for 450.00 plus freight.

no seperation of parts. head alone is worth 900.00 by it self.

PM me

XBG

[ilikerice]

is it possible to use stock cams, or stock cames that grinded elsewhere on this head? or is specificly cams for that particular head?

[xbgod]

yes, just remove Gude cams and springs and install your stock stuff into the ported head.

[ilikerice]

hells yea.. thats one hell of a deal then.. if i wasnt about to buy new rear tails and also saving up for a LSD and a roll bar, your head (if not sold) is next on my list

[Tamago]

built, not bought (from gude or your tuner) sounds like a much safer solution to your problems.. but you'd have to get your hands actually dirty then...

[xbgod]

Well I say if you got the money, fuck it, let someone else do the work. especially if they got all the tools and you don't have to buy them to do the job.

XBG