Joey Griffin Engines
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Nothing has changed-- I am a Joey Griffin fan and have owned a pair of Joey's engines with no failures. Using common sense tells me that no one is perfect and has 100% success. Don't let the few comebacks of this engine builder change your mind -- he is a great engine builder.
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YOU may have a good one. I personally know of 4 people that had motors done by Joey - sometimes twice - NONE of them got a good motor. None of these guys run them hard either. Plus the local builders here have many many stories about EXACTLY what everyone mentions on this thread.
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
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Nothing has changed-- I am a Joey Griffin fan and have owned a pair of Joey's engines with no failures. Using common sense tells me that no one is perfect and has 100% success. Don't let the few comebacks of this engine builder change your mind -- he is a great engine builder.
If a mistake is made then the measure of the builder (of anything) is how it's rectified. I'm a contractor of residential homes. If I make a goof I fix it. However I don't tell my clients they are getting X and deliver Y, that's deceit and that's a whole different ball game.
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I have nine engines built by Joey and Chris, Big Blocks , Small Blocks , Blown and natural and have ran the pure living S#$# out of them and had one rocker arm fail. I have had two 850s that had over 80 hard hrs on them before he rebuilt them. They have four races on them now and they still run fine. I don't post much but , how did all these failures happen? Ideling out the cut, I don't think , who knows. Mine might blow up the next time i run them. Griffin has always treated me very fair and in my case, his engines make big RELIABLE Power. I suggest all you guys that have had problems go to Summit , Jegs, World and buy some Create Engines, bolt up your headers, sea pump, and ignition and give that a shot. Jeffrey McCann
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I have nine engines built by Joey and Chris, Big Blocks , Small Blocks , Blown and natural and have ran the pure living S#$# out of them and had one rocker arm fail. I have had two 850s that had over 80 hard hrs on them before he rebuilt them. They have four races on them now and they still run fine. I don't post much but , how did all these failures happen? Ideling out the cut, I don't think , who knows. Mine might blow up the next time i run them. Griffin has always treated me very fair and in my case, his engines make big RELIABLE Power. I suggest all you guys that have had problems go to Summit , Jegs, World and buy some Create Engines, bolt up your headers, sea pump, and ignition and give that a shot. Jeffrey McCann
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He didn't build mine but I know at least one of the guys that had a Griffin motor blow rebuilt it himself.....and it's still running today. When he tells you it has Lunati crank, it blows in 30-40 hours and it has an Eagle crank as well as other parts of a lower level than you were told it doesn't matter if they drove the chit out of it....the man lied about the parts he used to build your motor. Since you are apparently a loyal, repeat customer he'd be foolish to screw you over like he would someone he doesn't expect to see again.
so how do you detemine who will be a repeat customer and who they would never see again ????
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I have nine engines built by Joey and Chris, Big Blocks , Small Blocks , Blown and natural and have ran the pure living S#$# out of them and had one rocker arm fail. I have had two 850s that had over 80 hard hrs on them before he rebuilt them. They have four races on them now and they still run fine. I don't post much but , how did all these failures happen? Ideling out the cut, I don't think , who knows. Mine might blow up the next time i run them. Griffin has always treated me very fair and in my case, his engines make big RELIABLE Power. I suggest all you guys that have had problems go to Summit , Jegs, World and buy some Create Engines, bolt up your headers, sea pump, and ignition and give that a shot. Jeffrey McCann
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I know one twin engine boat Griffin did that lost a motor.....and was rebuilt. Soon after the other one went and the internals weren't even the same parts that were in the first motor. I don't know about you but most people rebuilding both motors tend to use the same parts in each of them.
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