RonOwensRacing

Thanks Wesley And i also want to thank Ute.
I hate to see people get riped off and i know that the people from other countries are afraid to deal with us since there so far away and it makes it hard for them to do anything about it.
I hope i have helped restore some faith in the USA that not everybody is a crook.
UTE gave us another chance and I hope the others do also .
THANKS TO ALL Ron Owens
RonOwensRacing.com

bjuice

bagracing

Did Ute351 ever get payed or his engine?

sc646n

Is this Steve Ramage the same A$$H@L# that represented himself as R&S Competition Machine in West Babaloon NY.? A couple of years ago he addvertised a 582ci race motor on Race Junk under the name of speed merchant. I talked with him and he told me this was a engine with very low runs that he had removed from his 10.5 Camaro to replace it with a larger motor. He stated that he had freshened it with new rods, pistons and ect. He stated that the motor was as new! When I ask him who did the work he stated that he was a race engine builder and give me a bunch of names of racers he did work for. He also stated he was good friends with Scott Shafiroff and when needed did work for him. We come to a price of $8500.00 and the engine was to be shipped right after recieving my money. 1st thing that happened was it took almost 2 months to get the motor. I called him almost every day and he always had some sort of excuse as to why it was not his fault. I did realize that he was on the East Coast and I was on the West Coast but not 2 months. I expected about 2 weeks at least. When I did get the motor I put it in my dragster right away for a race that weekend. When I was filling the car with water I noted that it seemed to never get full. When I checked the oil I found the oil full of water. I removed the engine and after removing the intake found a hole in the block in the lifter valley. I called Steve and he said this was something they had missed but told me that if I shipped the motor back to them at my expence they would plug this hole. I plugged it myself due to the expense of shipping. Next I put the motor back in the car and started it. At start up it shook so bad that I shut it off for fear of shaking the car apart. Again I contacted Steve and he told me to check the dampner to make sure they had put a internally balanced dampner on it and to also check that I had used the proper flex plate. I did all this and missed my race.(I was #3 in points) I contacted him and again was told that I could ship the motor back to him but due to back log of work he could not promise I would have the motor back to finish the season. Instead I took the engine to a local engine builder Eastco Machine and they disassembled it to find that the engine had not been balanced, The new rods were used, the new pistons were used with cracks in the skirts and the block had a crack in the #4 main that some onr had tryed to weld up. I was told that the motor look like someone had swept the shop floor and used all the garbage to build a motor. I called steve with the findings and faxed him a copy of Eastco Machines report. I called him back after giving him a chance to look the report over and he said he owed me some money for the motor and all my trouble. Needless to say that money never came and when I tryed to contact hin again the phone number was no good. I called Shafiroff and Scott told me that in fact he was a friend of Steves and was even his best man at his wedding but would no never do busness with him. Anyway this is my sob story about the CROOK. Does anyone out in www land have his phone number or address? Im sure I will never get any thing back from him but would take great pride in some how making his life pure HELL!!!!! By the way, Due to him I ended up 32nd in Div. 6 points that year. You can contact me direct at [email protected]

topsportsman1

Here is your man,he is still at it under another name But its Steve

http://www.racingjunk.com/post/59330...KIT-02462.html

Notice all the nice engines and such he has 4 sale,word of advise BEWARE and stay far away

As stated above UTE351 needs to reply to this thread and give us an update

This guy Steve is bad news,as the thread has already reflected this.
Hey Steve post up!!He won't because he has NO BALLS.
But he is posting away on RJ every day LOOKING for another easy VICTIM

excelerater

I dont know how the guy sleeps at night.....
Steve AKA Porky are one and the same

bagracing

This guy is a POS

ute351

hi fellow racers yes i havent forgotten about my engine and yes im realy pissed about the deal that i didnt get
but wait as i scrolled through forums i read a post about steve at landys and post stated that steve got nothing to do with landys and stop running landys down
the next best thing to do was ring ralph him self and tell him from the horses mouth about steve and he said are you shaw about that so i sent all the paper work over to him and ralph got onto it straight away and rang me to say that hes write onto it know and he assured me i would get my motor or my money back

ps and again landys is only baby sitting steve /porky ore what ever name he uses
AND AT THE END OF THE DAY I WILL GET MONEY OR MOTOR DONT WORRIE ABOUT THAT
EVER DOG HAS HIS DAY AND BOY ARE THE DAYS GETTING SHORTER

cb75

Hey ute351, I'm in the same boat as you - being in Australia and having some guy in the US jerk me around on a motor deal. It's not the same guy as you, but it's been a year and still getting the run around and rubbish excuses.

Have you looked into the legal side yet? I think the only way I'll get my money back is by initiating a fraud suit, but how to commence proceedings?

Any of you USA guys got any suggestions? Went through Better Business Bureau and they did fvck all, and "could not resolve the dispute". That was the only agency that I got a reply on, after complaining to the list of different US Gov agencies that is mentioned in this forum.

ute351

thanks