Quote Originally Posted by Itoldyouso
Saxman: What you are running into is the same thing we've seen for years. Every sbc that was installed in any car was suddenly a "corvette" engine, not a "chevy" engine. You would ask any rodder what was under the hood and it was always "Corvette." Your seller either told you a lie, or believed that it was a 330hp because of what a previous owner told him.

Was he the guy who built this car? If so, he should be able to provide you with an invoice for the Summit engine. Or, at the very least Summit should have some record under his name of selling him the engine. Most companies keep these kinds of sales on record for warranty purposes.

Bottom line, it is pretty obvious you do not have a 330 horse, but a generic Goodwrench base engine. Nothing wrong with that, but if you paid for the 330 and based your purchase on that, then you have something to talk to the seller about. At the very least he was deceptive and at the most, some fraud was involved.

You have to make the decision about how important those extra 80 horses are to you in the overall purchase, and act accordingly.Don
Thank, Itoldyouso,

They guy I bought it from built it and said that his Mother-in-Law (Ann Davis) bought a 330hp GM crate engine from Summit a couple years ago. Summitt can't look it up without a zip code, and since the seller will have nothing to do with me (now that I know the engine is not what he said), I can't even get her zip. Besides, he knows he lied - so my advice to all: do NOT do business with Steve Yanda at Yons Racing in Colliers, WV.

The last guy that did this to me cannot sell his kit cars anymore because I made sure the word got out in the kit-car community. All I want Yons to do is tell me what engine is really in there...

I will be looking for some steel Vortec heads soon to give this "LM1" a little boost.

Thanks again for the advice, everyone!