Has anyone ever delt with Speed-O-Motive. Hows their product. Hows their costumer service.


Thanks for the help.
Chuck

One '66 in so many pieces

I have there Streemaster 383, a good bit of engine for the price. The only time I used there custumer service was to complain about the starter bolt hole thread condition. And I also called before I switched over to Rotella oil which they highly recommended.. My motor has 3years and about 2k miles on it with no problems. Makes good tire burning HP...

From what I've seen, they specialize in selling Chinese cranks and rods.

From what I've seen, they specialize in selling Chinese cranks and rods.

That can't be good.....

The last thing I need is an expensive Chinese rotating assembly. Thanks for the heads up.

Chuck

The last thing I need is an expensive Chinese rotating assembly. Thanks for the heads up.

Chuck
The list of Chinese forged parts includes Scat, Eagle, Ohio, among others. Forged in China, machined here. Good luck buying any crate engine without parts forged in China. Gm? Ok, some of their stuff is made in Mexico so take your pick. Please correct me if I'm wrong.:)

Lots of that stuff is machined over there too. Not the high end stuff, but the cheap stuff is.

Some cranks cost new what a machine shop regrind cost is. You can figure out the time they spent from there machining it.

Has anyone ever delt with Speed-O-Motive. Hows their product. Hows their costumer service.


Thanks for the help.
Chuck

One '66 in so many piecesSorry, no personal experience in using them although I had spoken with them on the phone about a potential purchase. Have you used the search feature on this site? I know there have been tons of posts about them, unfortunately most appear negative. Use the search feature and read the responses for yourself.

I read on another board how one guy waited months and still never got the proper engine he paid for. I'll see if I can find the link to that discussion for you.

speed-motive has been in bussines here in CA for more years then I can remember ... & thats a bunch !!
just like anyplace you get what you pay for .... you want cheap .. they'll build it
you want GOOD .... they'll build it ! I've run & seen several of they're motors that plain flat FLY !!!

its not the companys fault if the customer keeps wanting to cut corners !!!

68 said it well, imho!

S-O-M is fine IF you spec IN WRITING what you want to buy!!

My old 406 SB has a PAW kit in it that's fine too!!

pdq67

From what I've seen, they specialize in selling Chinese cranks and rods.

One thing is for sure Schurkey is gonna make his comments about foreign made parts. I bet half his posts include something about them. :waving: I'd like to visit his house, wonder how much foreign stuff we'll find there ;)

Schurkey's good people so drop it!!

pdq67

I pursched my pistons back in '88 from them
L2383's .030's
$285.00 + $18.00 for moly rings $11.14 tax/ship $314.14 total. still have reicept probably not that good of deal though.

The list of Chinese forged parts includes Scat, Eagle, Ohio, among others. Forged in China, machined here. Good luck buying any crate engine without parts forged in China. Gm? Ok, some of their stuff is made in Mexico so take your pick. Please correct me if I'm wrong.:)

All the more reason not to buy a crate engine ;)

One thing is for sure Schurkey is gonna make his comments about foreign made parts. I bet half his posts include something about them. :waving: I'd like to visit his house, wonder how much foreign stuff we'll find there ;)
My rants are not so much about "foreign" as they are about "Communist" -sourced parts. Chinese products should be embargoed just like Cuban and North Korean stuff.

And you'll find way too much Communist crap here at home--like, for example, the laptop I'm typing this on--because there are no domestic choices. The Commies--with the support of our own government along with "big" and retail businesses--have already destroyed the computer industry and invaded the shoe industry, the toy industry, on and on--I just want to slow down the destruction of the "Hot rod parts" industry.

Does no harm to remind people that NOBODY goes to Communist China to get better quality. They source from China to cut costs in order to improve profits (and bonuses) for the management group. Importing from China is greed-driven; nothing good in the long term can come from that.

Greed or Necessity? All the hoops that manufacturers have to jump through nowadays to satisfy, the government, the lawyers, the insurance, and the unions, what are they supposed to do? You could probably buy Callies for what it costs to buy SCAT if the "good people" would back off.

My rants are not so much about "foreign" as they are about "Communist" -sourced parts. Chinese products should be embargoed just like Cuban and North Korean stuff.

And you'll find way too much Communist crap here at home--like, for example, the laptop I'm typing this on--because there are no domestic choices. The Commies--with the support of our own government along with "big" and retail businesses--have already destroyed the computer industry and invaded the shoe industry, the toy industry, on and on--I just want to slow down the destruction of the "Hot rod parts" industry.

Does no harm to remind people that NOBODY goes to Communist China to get better quality. They source from China to cut costs in order to improve profits (and bonuses) for the management group. Importing from China is greed-driven; nothing good in the long term can come from that. Amen; Schurkey, American management is the real problem. No integrity, no honesty, no ethics and no accountability. A recipe for disaster for us all.

I sure didn't mean to start a Geo-political discussion, but Schurkey is right. I really try and go out of my way to buy things with Made in the U.S.A. on them, whether is under ware or blower pulleys. It usually cost me more, but it makes me feel that I am somehow slowing the eventual demise of our country. China now owns 73% of our country's debt. Don't ever believe they are not a threat.

Chuck
One '66 in so many pieces

Everything now is made in some near third world country, And sadly most all of it has to due with Cost and profit. I'd kill to have seen the days when America made it's own products and there were Domestic car plants through the country with majority American workers supporting the American dream. Sadly enough no one wants a union and most consumers are to weak willed to buy something that's made here, made better and cost more. I don't mean to sound like a negative person here but there's really two ways to look at the recent trend of major business movement to foreign countries it'll stop and we'll see it comes home....

or we'll just be another great empire that falls.

Mike Hateful

No, not 73 percent b/c we are in the hole about $8+ TRILLION vs their owning like $1.2 TRILLION if I have my numbers right??

pdq67

Again, what crankshaft are you going to buy that was not forged overseas? Jim (540HOTROD) did a ton of research, and even at least some of the Callies stuff is forged overseas. I believe only 10% of the production of a product has to be done in America, to be called "made in America". Correct me if I'm wrong on that. The GM 572 crate engines use Scat cranks, maybe rods too. It's just almost impossible to get away from it. Unless you want to buy a $1500+ billet or forged crank, and $1200 rods for your weekend bracket or street strip engine. I would just have to stay with the old 468 I had with cast crank and GM rods and hope it lasted. JMHO. NOT defending communist China, or the way things have gone today, it's just a reality at this point.

yup....reality, like it or not :thumbsup:

And the sad thing is that it would be SOOOO easy to get a grip on it.

Replace the personal income tax--and all the paperwork, record keeping, audits, H & R Block, "instant refunds" and all the rest--with an import tax, paid at the cash register. Use a graduated system--imports from our border neighbors at the lowest rate; imports from Communist or other hostile nations at the highest rate.

Eliminate a bunch of IRS jobs; replace them with additional Customs Service jobs.

When Communist junk (and imports in general) lose their price advantage; manufacturing begins to move back to USA.

If this is effective, the import tax will have to be supplemented with a federal sales tax; I'm not thrilled about that but it's still better than having ordinary people thinking they have to pay H & R because IRS has intimidated so many for so long that they're scared to death of doing it themselves.

And don't get me started on those crooked bastards charging money for "instant refunds".

Its a fact that government rules,regs,tree huggers,taxes,lawyers,unions,insurance ran manufacturing out of this country, and now you want to tax manufacturing back into this country? And then who will be able to afford it? Aint gonna happen.

Shurkey, i agree that from the chinese you get cheap labor, and the product is pretty ****ty. We are in the textile industry and recently tried out 4 container loads of chinese tile. Well the stuff looked like crap compared to the sample and we sent it back.American made products tend to look very costly when compared to chinese parts but there is a difference.