I recently sold my built head to someone here on TR. Everything went fine with the sale, but the shop that put everything back together had it sitting around for quite some time, and it got rust in some of the ports, and on the valves a bit. The head was also not assembled all the way, the cam rockers were not put onto the cam and nothing was torqued down. If I had noticed this before, they would've put it back together for me no problem.

Well anyway, I notified the buyer of this at the time of sale. I wasn't aware of it until I was on my way of bringing the head to him all the way out in Orlando.

The head was sold with new valves, and seals, 4 of which had to be replaced because a piston smacked them. I get a call from him a couple days later, saying several things are wrong with the head, per his shop that he took this to. One of which, them saying the head was warped (specifically saying it was off .005). When he advised me of this, I told him I would pay for half the cost of his parts if there was indeed something wrong. Now I was a little upset with my shop, because the head was not assembled when I picked it up. So I gave them a call, telling them how there was rust on it, and how this other shop said a bunch of bad things about the head, being that the porting was too much, the seats were bad, etc.

My shop instructed me to have the buyer bring the head to them, they would warranty anything that was messed up on the head, and not charge anything.

The buyer continues to drop the head off with his shop in Orlando, stating they work with Honda's all the time, and they're great, etc. I was already suspicious of this shop because by "looking" at it, with no straight edge or any tools, saying the head was warped. Well he dropped it off with them, they hot tanked it, and had him go buy valve seals. He never contacted my shop, or had them look at it like I advised. So what should I do here? I told him to take the head to my shop, so they could at least confirm anything wrong with the head, and if so, warranty this. He called me today to let me know his shop has already begun to work on the head, they've hot tanked it for 4 hours to get rid of the rust, because they were afraid to grind it away, as the head's been ported.

Being as he didn't take it to my shop, Im feeling as though I shouldn't have to pay for anything that he and his shop has done to this head, because it was never confirmed through my shop that anything was wrong. Nor did he even seem to care that they would have fixed this under warranty.

I feel like an asshole for not helping the kid out. He's a good kid and all, but this isn't my fault he was too lazy to bring it out to Ybor and get the head looked at. He's going to end up costing at least himself, and possibly me, money.

Comments?