When I was gonna change heads on my car a few years back, (they were 440-1 Indys, but we did all the work) a friend of mine urged me to go with the B1 stuff, I didn't listen and went with a new set of 572-13 Indys, BIGGEST POS heads I have ever worked with, the valve job was a disaster to say the least, valve seats were so far out of concentrically I almost could not get them right w/o replacing the valve seats on the exhaust, and I did the seat work with my Serdi, and a tight pilot, so things were right. I flowed them and the low/mid lift numbers were WAY off from Indys numbers, the peak numbers were off too, but I had more concern for how bad the lower numbers were..
After getting things right, engine went on the dyno, got things done and when taking the engine off the dyno I noticed something didn't look right around the exhaust seats, spun the engine over and found pressure leaking from under the exhaust seats, now we got a mess! I called Russ, all he did was insult me and blame it ALL on me! A dealer for Indy got in the middle of this to try and quite things down, HE took it upon himself to send me another set of heads and said HE would handle things with Russ, well the heads came to me, they were not what they were supposed to be.. OH, let me back up, the previous heads had a 2.350 intake, when I took the heads off for the valve seat problem, I also noticed the intake and exhaust valves were clipping each other, so I didn't want the 2.350 heads that "Russ" had suggested to me in the first place, turns out the replacements were the same, so I said fuck it, I will replace the intake seats myself and install the smaller intakes and fix the fucked up valve job the Indy supplies with the heads, we picked the low lift flow up about 30CFM, just by getting the seat angles right!!!! With a .050 smaller vlave we didn't even lose any flow up top, so all was good..
Ok, NOW I am on cylinder heads #2, on the dyno again, picked up some good power with the seat work, so things look good, well that is what I thought...
Start to take it off the dyno AGAIN, notice a little moisture in the exhaust port, turns out to be a pinhole pissing out water!!!! :smt093:smt076 I fixed the exhaust port myself..
In the end, Russ would not do a single thing, just blamed me for EVERYTHING!!!!:smt097 Also, the dealer said he would take care of everything, well Russ even told him to fuck off and left him holding the deal, I ended up sending him a few hundred dollars to settle with him.. I shoulda never sent him a penny, let him fight it out with Russ, but I was being the good guy.....
I would not give Russ Flagle @ Indy the sweat off my balls if he was dying of thirst!!
IT GETS WORSE!!!!! I bumped into someone who worked @ Indy for a short time, he said he had to leave, that he had NEVER worked for a bigger asshole in his life!!! This guy has always seemed to be a real easy going, nice guy to me, does NOT come across as a guy you would have a problem with, so I believe what he has said... I would NEVER mention his name, he works in the industry still and I would not want to effect that.
I am giving you the short version of this too, there is a bunch more to go with this.. It is AMAZING that a company like that can stay around with that kinda product and service... I guess when you spend HUGE money every month on advertising, you almost CAN'T fail, despite all the effort you make to do such..