But Tman .. doesn’t what happened to 6paker say an awful lot ?

What happened to 6pakdakota should be expected.

He doesn’t own any materials at MCH.

I’m not picking any sides or looking for a fight.
Look at it as a juror - plaintiff vs. defendant.

Seems pretty peculiar that a business would “keep” $25K of inventory from a customer and not reply to any calls or emails from that customer.

You are always going to get a dissatisfied customer now and then - he’ll, look at Indy.

Bad news travels fast. How many guys have dealt with MCH with no issues - a bunch.

Being a MCH customer since 2002, I have bever, ever experienced a problem. Neither Jeff or Bob ever asked me for money up front and always got me my heads back in less than a month.
I'm hoping that this isn't a start of something bad like Shady Dell.
I do know Nob is way over his head, busy.
He needs help but I don't think he wants to hire anyone for some reason.

If that's the case wouldn't it be better to turn away work? Why risk your business?

Any updates on this?

Yes, it's over four years later. A few local people were nice enough to "check in" with Bob at Modern Cylinder Head on our behalf to try to figure out what was going on. Long story short, he did CNC port the 50 heads we sent him. However, instead of sending them back to us, he then sold all the heads directly to his retail customers and kept 100% of the money.

Is this heading to court???

Surprised that someone calling for parts wouldn't have mentioned that along the way.

That's how we found out. People would call us and say "I just bought a pair of your CNC ported Stealth heads from Bob at Modern, I need to order head bolts, or gaskets (etc.) for them" Especially during times when we were out of stock of our heads. So it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what was going on.

So you didn’t answer my question. Is it heading to court

No, not going to waste our time flying to Michigan to chase after a thief. Karma can do what it's going to do. When Jeff ran Modern, we did business for 7 or 8 years before he passed away from cancer. He probably ported a dozen pallets (50 heads/pallet) for us. Then, after Bob took over, he did at least 3 or 4 pallets before he just decided to "re-appropriate" the last pallet for himself. And since then, (of course we had to find another CNC shop,) we've done hundreds more heads. And will do thousands more in the future. We've sold over 15,000 Stealth heads, many of them CNC ported. So he's missed out on huge money. Stepping over $100 bills to steal a few pennies. When he could have been buried in work, now he'll never see another cent from us, ever. And CNC porting charges aren't cheap. There's a reason that every set of CNC ported heads sells for $1000 more than a non ported set. You never get ahead in the long run by being dishonest.

So the honest customers will pay more to make up for the unpunished thieves. Sounds like a great plan to me. Thanks.

So the honest customers will pay more to make up for the unpunished thieves. Sounds like a great plan to me. Thanks.