Colletti Motorsports (the "ripper off-ers") and the customer that had to do his own research because they could not

Steve (the "ripper off-er") Colletti had called me in to talk to me about my car sometime around the beginning of February 2011 (The car was promised to be done at the beginning of March 2011).  He showed me the crankshaft.  He pointed out that the crankshaft was not like standard crankshafts.  I saw what he was talking about and I had never seen one either.  Even though I owned a Grand National, I was not aware that it has the type of crankshaft it does. I bought my Grand National while I was in the military and did not have much time to work on it myself and didn't know anyone else with a Grand National at that time. So my knowledge of these cars was limited.  My father was a mechanic and taught me about cars.  I am not an expert, just a hobbyist, but I know enough about cars to tell the crankshaft was definitely something different.

Steve (the "ripper off-er") Colletti explained that the way the crankshaft was, it would probably not hold up to the kind of stress that high horsepower would put on it.  He had printed out an article where someone had replaced their Grand National's offset crankshaft with a standard one.  This would require changing the firing order as well. I told Steve (the "ripper off-er") Colletti that I wanted to look into this matter of the crankshaft.

I did some research and found that the Buick Grand National's offset crankshaft has a fluid channel that gives the crankshaft added strength to make up for its offset design and holds up to quite a lot of stress.  I told Steve (the "ripper off-er") Colletti what I had found out and told him to not change the crankshaft and firing order, but to rebuild it using the original crankshaft.

Once you change the unique motor of the Grand National, it is essentially not a Grand National anymore.  My first instinct was to get my car out of there because I feared my car was not going to be done right (and it turned out to be true).  But at the time, I gave him the benefit of the doubt and I remembered Millet's Engines rebuilt my motor in 3 weeks time and it lasted for 10 years. It would also be even more difficult now to ship the car to Florida to have KDK Performance rebuild it, instead of Colletti Motorsports (the "ripper off-ers"), since the motor was now out and tore apart.  

In my opinion, you are a very poor mechanic and have a very bad business if your customer has to find out
information for you. As I said earlier though, I gave him the benefit of the doubt that he could still successfully rebuild my motor, but I was very nervous about it.  And this is when I really started documenting everything that happened so if the car did "blow" up, I would have proof of everything. But all this proof I have saved obviously hasn't helped since Steve (the "ripper off-er") Colletti has not reimbursed me for his terrible work.