When I am out cruising this summer on my ski, with an engine that Tom built, I really don't give a rats asz where he built it, in his kitchen, bathroom etc. The most important thing is how it performs, and reliability. Now the long turnarounds that some of you have experienced is another issue that I hope he resolves.
You might be out cruising but many others will be on the beach watching and just counting the days that pass over his estimated deadline.
You might get a kick out of this. He is notorious for saying things were already shipped or that they were lost.
09-18-2008, 03:33 PM #11
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Sorry to hear about that. I guess I had somewhat better luck than you. I finally got my motor back after 3-4 months, and numerous UPS lost my motor excuses. The motor that I finally got looked pretty good, and had good compression. Ran all summer long with no issues.
For the next motor I looked elsewhere. It blew during the summer and I wanted good turnaround so I gave SBT a shot and I definantely do not regret it. I had the motor in and out and only lost 1-2 weekends of usage. Saving a few bucks with someone else was definantely not worth the hassle.
I'll be using SBT in the future.
10-24-2008, 07:58 PM #12
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Tom pisses me off. He saw my post on here, called me with all sorts of "Im sorry, I'm sorry" and told me the cylinders and pistons were in the mail. He said I should get them in a few days, and asked that I post on here that everything is okay, or remove my original post in this thread.
I said sure, I'll do that. A week later I called and said I hadn't gotten anything. Tom, being the compulsive liar he is, said he gave them to a guy to ship out and he'd call me back. He called back a day later and said that the guy shipped them, and he'd try to find a tracking number. A week later, I called and said I hadn't gotten the cylinders. (meaning cylinders and pistons) He said, "ok, well i have them packed in two boxes, so you got the pistons right?" I say no. I haven't seen anything.
A week later Tom called and said "Alright, I finally got the Pro-X pistons in. I can get everything sent out now"
I said "I thought you already had everything boxed and shipped?" and he told me that the pistons were the wrong size.
Basically, nothing he said made sense. He lies until he can lie no more. I finally got the pistons and cylinders after countless phone calls. He only gave me half of the gaskets I needed, but whatever.
Tom is full of crap. Beware!!!!!!!
He now works at East Coast Powersports and uses their name, so dont go there either!!
People like this should not be in business.
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Agree that Tom is a liar and I have unfortunately been a victim of his scams. He is now paired up with East Coast Cycle, so beware. Here is my story:
Initially ordered an engine rebuild on date 5/12/2009 and the engine was received by them on 5/21/2009. The engine was said to be completed and sent back to me within 10 days of receipt. After going back and forth with them, very painfully, they finally sent the engine to me and it was received by me on July 1st, 32 days after it was said to be returned to me.
The engine was defective with water leaks from the head and the crank went out within 20 minutes of operation. Called Tom and he said to send it back up and he would take care of it right away. I sent the engine back to him and it was received by him on 7/28. I was supposed to then get the engine back within one week. It is now 8/18 and still have no engine. I paid the initial 899.00, paid for shipping to East Coast Cycle twice @ 75.00 each time and still have no engine. If I only would have listed to everyone on here and just went with SBT instead of trying to save a couple hundred dollars.
Ironically the East Coast Cycle slogan is "Service while-u-wait" and I would like to emphasize the wait portion of that statement.
Tom has no doubt ruined my summer!
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Does anyone known anything about a company called metalgod,
there selling engines really cheap out of Philly PA. and on the net.
06-01-2007, 12:30 PM #2
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This is too funny that I found this thread. I've had a really great experience with Tom Chrisman at metal god.
I had a blown 787 XP motor that I sent to tom. I was really leary because I never heard of him before and no one that I knew had ever heard of him.
Long story short...I got an F'n great job. I didn't have to take the damn fly wheel or the PTO off like SBT makes you do. And I got back a beutiful engine just the way I sent it to him, only with new pistons, crank and a nice paint job.
I also got the 1 year parts warranty with it. All in all...it's a deal you can't beat. Tom is a great guy, and his customer service is seccond to NONE!!!
DO BUISNESS WITH THIS COMPANY.
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Does anyone known anything about a company called metalgod,
there selling engines really cheap out of Philly PA. and on the net.
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09-01-2007, 01:08 PM #3
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So anyone else do any business with them? I have 3 motor needing to be reworked. What is there address and how does their warranty work. What is the turn around time? Anyone do a BBB check on them?
09-01-2007, 02:53 PM #4
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I had a 787 with cracked block. Tom removed and replaced all the extra parts I left on, welded the case, and sent me the completed engine...no complaints. Great prices compared with others.
03-28-2008, 07:06 PM #5
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Do not ever do business with this company. Waiting > 3 months for my motor and have been told 3 times now "i'm putting it in the mail this week" three months later still no motor
03-29-2008, 12:02 PM #6
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Originally Posted by redrizzo
Do not ever do business with this company. Waiting > 3 months for my motor and have been told 3 times now "i'm putting it in the mail this week" three months later still no motor
After a five week turnaround I ended up getting a nice engine but I sent the core in like feburary and got it back in early april GOD only knows what it would take in the summer and I did notice that there were some inconstantces in what he said,I would not take this chance again.
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03-29-2008, 03:04 PM #7
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you have to send the core in first?
03-31-2008, 09:37 AM #8
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yup, I sent my core in in December
06-30-2008, 09:51 AM #9
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After seeing Tom Chrisman's ad on ebay and reading several positive feedbacks on this website, I contacted him regarding a rebuild of a 718 cc Seadoo engine. He was very responsive in our first dealings, but after I sent him the cash along with my core engine, he was virtually impossible to get in touch with. He would not return calls and when I did get in touch with him, he always had some sort of lame excuse or just outright lied to me about status and ship dates of my rebuilt engine. What started out as a 2 week lead time turned into several months and countless phone calls - not to mention downtime of use for the Seadoo and a couple of lost sales of the bike. When I finally received the engine, everything appeared to be OK until I started to hook up lines and found a fitting missing. After several more unanswered calls, I finally got in touch with Tom and, even though initially he assured me that he would take care of any problems I might have, he told me to just go to Lowes or Home Depot to replace the fitting since it was very common. Of course I had already tried that and only contacted him because it wasn't a common fitting. The good news is, the engine appears to be OK, but after a few hours of break-in time, I sold the bike and gave the new buyer Tom's contact info. in case he had any problems. Hopefully, he won't have to use it.
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I made an account on here just so I could put in my bad word about metalgod. It's more like metalcrap, for many reasons. I sent me engine in last January, two weeks turned into 5 months, I finally got it in the end of june. The thing looked bad, the powervalves didn't fit because he gave me cylinders with melted piston in them, and one cylinder (951 engine) barely had any compression. Installed the engine, put pre-mix in, and 3 hours later after a good break-in, a piston was knocking and the engine went out. took the engine apart and he didnt even use Pro-X pistons like I paid him 150 extra for! They were WSM. So he ripped me off there and tried to get away with it. I called him and told him what happened, and he said send them back and he'll bore them, get a new top end kit, and send it all back within a week and a half. It's been 3 months and he keeps on lieing. UPS lost it, the pistons were the wrong size, Pro-X was out of stock, WSM sent the wrong stuff. Endless BS. He only answers my calls if I use a new phone number, and keeps telling me they'll be here any day. Dont use this guy!!!!
After all of this he conviently changed to ses no more metalgod.