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If you want to buy a Pontiac Engine or need Pontiac engine help, contact Bruce Fulper, a guy you can trust 100% - at www.PontiacEngines.com
It's so much fun at the top. Most times anyway. However, it's been brought to my attention that a previous customer named Randy Vandergriff decided to host a website to lie about an engine I built for his wife sixteen years ago.
Once in a while someone will ask me why I don't "do something" about this liar. Well, truthfully, the if you read his site it's a anti-mechanical laugh fest. Seriously.
When I first read his accusations I thought anyone with a tiny bit of mechanical sense will see right thru it. I'd venture 99% of you have. How can an engine run for eight years with NON Pontiac pistons in it? It couldn't run for one minute with the pistons he claimed I put in it.
Of course anyone that truely knows me also knows that I know my business, and I treat all customers with respect. In the normal course of business you can never please everyone all of the time. I guess this liar wanted to promote one of my competitors. He often mentions WestSide Peformance - a competitor.
But hey Randy-the-liar - as soon as I can afford a lawyer for this case maybe you'll do the right thing. If you're truely interested, then by all means read ALL of his accusations then read my responses. Here we go:
First lie - I've NEVER used copper head gaskets on a street engine. NEVER. Ask anyone that's ever worked for me or been around me. I tested copper head gaskets on my own race engines and determined they were 100% useless and troublesome. I've made almost 1000 hp with Fel-Pro high performance head gaskets and never had a problem. That's - - NEVER.
I always reccomend cams (and design profiles,) that are much more efficent than the 40 year old Pontiac designs. Anyone that knows anything about my success knows this is a large part of my success. Graduating Chaffey Colleges Advance Engine Design courses makes me the only Pontiac engine builder with this education in cam profiling, head port design, and modern approaches to engine design and function.
I won Indy by using this education.
The liar hints at taking legal action against me. Having not done anything wrong, it's just more of his attempt to scare the you, the reader. Although repeatedly calling me a liar and a cheat will be great grounds for me to take appropriate legal action against him.
He goes on to accuse me of helping him retain the orignal look of his replacement block by stamping it with the original two letter code. This is not fraud. It's done for people who want an engine that looks like the original. If the car owner decides to lie about the block that's HIS ethics. Remember he asked me for this service. (!)
I tell people who are looking for a certain GTO or Firebird high performance code to quit spending big dollars with swap meet hustlers when all they need to do is restamp a regular 400 block with the code they want. Then tell people it's not the original block, but a block that's been restored to look like the original.
If you buy a block with the code you want, IT'S STILL NOT THE ORIGINAL BLOCK. So what's the point? The owner should not misrepresent the replaced block as the orignal should he? Of course not. All I do is help people save money by using any 400 block, which by the way, they're all the same up to 1976, unless it's a factory 4 bolt main. There's no "high nickle" or any other baloney.
So you get my point. There's nothing fraudulent about restamping a Pontiac block as long as it's represented properly. Guys that put big block chevies in a small block Corvette body and claim it's original, now that's fraud.
Sorry - no "red flag" here.
Next b.s. - He says I reccomended he sit the engine on the ground because he wasn't prepared to sit it anywhere else when I delivered it. He claims doing that "sheared" the oil pan gasket by gently setting the engine on the ground. Really? Even Marlan Davis would scoff at that one.
Oh,....and did you catch the part where Mr.Evil (me) here was nice enough to drive 90 miles and deliver the engine to this liar?
Next - A BIG lie. All of my engines are painted Pontiac blue unless the customer requests otherwise.
Liar, liar, liar.
Next lie - Leaks - I take great care to make sure the engines don't leak. That's why all engines, even way back in 1992, were run on a test stand to ensure they didn't leak. Do I walk on water? of course not, but I take great care in sealing my engines. And again, if there had been a leak I would have fixed it.
Next lie - he says he pulled of the dampner and fixed the "gouge in the crank snout with a repair sleeve."
Really. I know I haven't seen it all, but I've never seen a sleeve that covers and/or seals a gouge in the
crank snout. This is another sign of the liars inexperinence.
Next b.s. - He "thinks" a balance hole AND an oil leak caused his pressure plate to fail a year after driving the car. All of my clutch assemblies are balanced. Even if there were a 5/8th balance hole in the pressure plate it would have been placed in a correct spot by the professional balance shop I use.
When a guy starts a sentence with, "I feel" or "I believe" or "I think" it means they have no mechanical background to base their claims. This accuser repeatedly demonstrates his mechanical ignoarnce.
(And his desire to be 100% inimical.)
I make sure people know when I'm guessing, or when
I'm making a point based on experience. It's one of the reasons I no longer have anything to do with High Performance Pontiac magazine.
When an editor is wholley non-mechanical he can't be impressed with something new, or understand what they're being told. If it has some cool catch phrases, or promotes a paying advertiser, then it gets ink.
Next lie - This guy says my pistons had balance holes in the TOPS of the pistons, then never shows you that. Later in his paragraph he shows you the balance cuts on the underside of the pistons. This is where all pistons are balanced. He "thinks" this will weaken the piston. This is a common practice and does not weaken the piston.
Next lie - There are no Oldsmobile pistons that fit in a Pontiac, especially on a stock length rod. (!) From day one when a guy wanted to keep his high compression heads in order to lower compression I would take a TRW forged Pontiac piston and have a dish of the proper size machined into it. The pistons he shows are cast pistons, not forged. More lies and misrepresentation from Mr. "I dunno."
Next B.S. - he claims the cam wasn't a RA4 cam. And points out that when he advanced the ignition timing 15 degrees somehow that proved his point. Yes, folks, that's what we're dealing with here.
Someone who thinks the cam profile has something to do with detonation when in fact he admits he jacked ignition timing outa whack. His ignorance and willingness not learn, but to falsley acusse me is the real "red flag."
Next b.s. - he accuses me of improper poly lock adjustment, and in his assumption, causing oiling problems. Well, after eight years of driving it did this lack of oiling cause any problem? Well no, because if it did you know it would have been "documented" too. But hey, he "feels" it could have been disasterous. (red flag + tin foil hat.)
Next lie - accuses me of using a used rear main seal.
Preposterous.
Next lie - says his valve guides were not replaced. All of my heads recieve new chilled cast iron guides that are honed to the proper stem to guide tolerance.
Next lie - claims I used metric bolts to "jam on windage tray." Again - simply preposterous.
Of course you wonder, why would a guy make accusations? Even if they're 100% bullshit?
After 18 years of being in business I've met most of the personality types. I've come to understand my own better. And I know I do my very best to help educate and treat customers as nicely as possible. I'm willing to bet this guy banged up his oil pan, caused his own oil leak, (because it wasn't leaking on the test stand,) and then he decided to go after me.
It's been a long time since he bought this engine, and by his own admition he drove it for eight years before finding or fixing these supposed problems. ( ! )
Since he bought this engine I've built and sold over 1000 Pontiac engines and ported over 4500 sets of Edelbrock heads. And even with the advent of the internet, which I call the worlds new Bathroom Wall, there's isn't enough jerks to hurt my business.
But I've met many. Jerks and liars who threaten me with internet negativity because I won't give them free shipping or whatever. It's unbelievable what some #$^$!@&s say on-line.
I can't care.
That's why I haven't responded to this website until now. Mr Vandergriff will be talking to my lawyer soon enough.
Until then, if you feel you're a person that feels negatively influenced by this website I urge you to contact me.
I live my life doing good things for the Pontiac engine lover and the Pontiac communtiy in general, and will keep doing so. Need help? Start by reading my FAQ page at www.PontiacEngines.com
Sincerely,
Bruce Fulper
"The Strong HAVE Survived"
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