I have a very good and positive experience with IAG Performance. Rick, the owner JJ, and the rest of the team, has treated me with utmost respect, dignity and they took care of me from the moment I took delivery of the my Stage 2 Tuff EJ257 short block. I am a customer in California.
Now onto my build. Unfortunately, it failed. Soon after the break-in period and tuning was completed, smoke started creeping up from under the hood and from the oil filler neck. I performed a compression/leak down tests multiple times. Results were consistent with cylinder #4 having low compression with a leakdown of 15%. As any owner who have spent significant time/money resource on a car, my heart sank. After spending thousands of dollars into a build, it all went to drain with this result.
I reached out to IAG Performance for a warranty claim. I had the pleasure of working with Rick. A lot has happened in the last year since the beginning of this build. So this will be a summary of the chains of events.
During this entire warranty process, I was treated as a customer. Not once did I ever felt I was a burden; nor did I ever felt I'm a customer that needed to go away. Rick has been patient with every step of the way from having the short block shipped back and forth for inspections a couple of times, rebuild, etc. Everything that needed to be done to ensure that I was satisfied as a customer was performed.
From their intensive inspections of the motor, clear evidence of heat related issues has occurred. The motor was running lean due to a massive vacuum leak that caused premature damage. No known workmanship related issue was found. If this was by any other company, this information would have warranted a "denial of warranty".
But IAG Performance is NOT just any other company!
Despite having found no known workmanship issues on the motor. All the work required to refresh the motor was performed and completed under warranty. They provided all of the services in good faith. The motor was refreshed with a new bore size up from 99.75, new pistons, new rods, new bearings, block is cleaned, assembled, packaged and shipped back to CA. I am truly grateful for an excellent customer service IAG Performance have provided me. I am now awaiting delivery of my motor to be dropped in and begin the break-in and tuning process.
I can't thank enough JJ, Rick and the rest of IAG Performance team. I am truly grateful for everything that you have done for me. Cheers to a long and continued success. We need more shops like you! read more