Eddings Engine Rebuilding

I had them rebuild my Chevy 350 back in March of 1989. 24 years & 120K miles later, it still runs sweet as ever. Honest, reliable quality!

Eddings Engine is fantastic… Fair prices and quality work. I’ve had them do machine work on a sbc short block, completely rebuild and upgrade a BBC plus dyno, and dyno another BBC. I beat on all these motors hard. One motor is in a v-​drive boat, one motor gets nitrous, etc. Never had a failure. I recommend Jerry, Guy, and Ely to all my friends with complete confidence.

My experience with Jerry and the shop was entirely positive. Only a post-​job delay keeps this at 4 stars instead of 5. Mine was not an engine rebuild, but a bench test and run-​in of the rebuild I have done on a classic car. They were great sourcing a part or two, with Manuel, the actual mechanic, conscientious and thorough from start to end. They also installed and tuned an electronic ignition to replace original points and condenser. We never talked price before the work, yet I felt the charges entirely fair once completed. I’d recommend them.

I would like to say that I got ripped off by this company. I was charged a total of 240.00 to get a head resurfaced, cleaned, pressure checked and had valve seats replaced. the engine head was still dirty when I picked it up, to the point where you could pull dirt and oil out of the head. The head was resurfaced and placed in a hot bath, is all the work that was visible. For the valve seats are still dirty after it had been «replace». I paid them and left I will never return to this place again. Please learn from my mistake this place SUCKS and its a rip off. I wish I could give a no stars review.

Run… Shady operation. I wrote a check to then with year and model of auto and they applied my money to someone else. Auto sat there for 3 months and nothing done.

Frankly, I will never ever do business with this place again. Customer service is ATROCIOUS, they’re rude, and they quote one price then give another.
I dropped off an engine to have rebuilt, and here’s what happened:
1) After quoting me one price to tear it down, they then informed me later that the tear down took longer, and they wanted another $ 75. (Which is a direct violation of Bureau of Automotive Repair rules and laws. You can’t quote one price, then jack it up later without customer approval.)
IF they had explained to me from the start that the price MIGHT go up if the engine was a hard tear down, OK, I could live with that. But they didn’t, and they didn’t seem to understand why trying to jack up the price after the fact is an issue, even though the LAW says they can’t.
2) They told me they’d call me back first thing the following week, and I never heard from them. So I call them a few days later, and they have no idea what’s going on, but will get back to me.
3) Then, they tell me they want to charge me even MORE than they quoted originally to check an extra head I had brought it.
We get disconnected, I call back. Some woman answers the phone, (turns out it’s the wife of the owner), she’s rude, abrupt, and refuses to give me the name of the owner when I asked three times. Then she hangs up the phone on me.
They call me back, and I explain that hanging up the phone on customers, and trying to charge extra after a price has been quoted isn’t acceptable, and the owner, Gerry says:
«why don’t you just pick up your engine and stuff. We don’t want to rebuild it.»
Interesting how a polite conversation about their lousy business practices results in this. Hmmmm.
When I went to pick the engine up, half of the work had been done, half had not. Gerry then tells me the price I paid was to have the block checked, but didn’t include checking the head. HUH? Who rebuilds an engine without checking the head?
I tried to engage Gerry, the owner, in a polite conversation about how they did things, and he just doesn’t get it. His wife who hung up on me sat behind him listening, and not once ever apologized for her rudeness.
Their communication is LOUSY, the owners wife is RUDE, and they left me with a disassembled engine, boxes of parts, and half of it is dirty.
I’d avoid this place, and will NEVER, EVER use them again. No wonder they’ve got other complaints.

Don’t bother taking your car here, maybe they were good at one time but not anymore. A shop is only as good as the mechanic that works on your car and this one sucked, he was a arrogant ass. When I brought my car back in after having problems he would not even listen and the owner Jerry is so hands off he lets this jeck run the place.
They were really expensive and my car never was right

So I came to an agreement to a cash price to have my engine rebuilt by the owner, Gerry. I drove all the way from Palmdale to visit the facility just to see the quality of work that they do. The work looked good and the facility was nice however Gerry wasnt there but his wife was and she said that they were not going to do it for the price that I was told already. She told me that he just hadnt had a chance to email me to tell me. Then she said that to paint the engine it was going to cost $ 25 more when that was in my quote already. I guess they didnt need my $ 1571. Their website has prices that do not match up to what they quote. The thing that was most annoying was the fact that I had my Impala transported to my Mechanic in Los Angeles who i paid to pull my engine out. Everyone is not on the same page over there and the shop where I will be going has heard the same story about Gerry’s Business partner (wife) driving away customers. Whats so ironic is when I first talked to the owner I told him I did not see any good or bad reviews about his business. Well, here you go.