Hi All, just a warning to anyone working with Dave. He sold me a “working” XR upper. I brought it to my mechanic and popped off the top cap and steering cap and found rust on bearings, and a gear that was missing a tooth or two. I offer to drive it back to his house and he accused me of switching the drive out with another one. I’m out the $3500, but just letting people know my experience dealing with Dave.

CAVEAT EMPTOR! Pull the cap next time?

And since you say you are out the $3500, an indication that the drive is worthless, I'll take it off your hands for free

Yes, you are right. I did mess up. I knew I should have just pulled both caps in front of him.

Haha well i may rebuild it (if parts become available in the near future) but I am going to try and save up for a brand new SCX. No more looking for used components in “working condition”

One would assume he knew the serial number and thus his game would have been up. So sad to see this stuff keep happening. With a few exceptions on this forum, money is pretty precious and to be out three or ten or twenty thousand dollars is devastating.

Yeah, there was no serial number on it. I was lazy and just trusted. Stupid move on my part. Regarding money, I’m not happy I’m out $3500. And honestly, if he would have called me and maybe give me half back so I could use towards a rebuild if parts come available, I would have thought that would have been fair. Maybe others have had better experiences with this guy, but this was my experience.

How does he not recognize the drive he sold with the extended anti cavitation plate and painted over corrosion near the cav plate??

1/2 back ? Um, no. All of it back. You never used it. You should get all back plus a free kick or two at his privates.

Look like the upper he (Prowler) installed last year ?
see pic on Post #13 on this thread:
Winter Upgrade

Aldo note: 598cid with 10-71 was powering this drive. Lol.

Sorry you got screwed over. A Bravo upper is something I would never buy used.

He did, but he accused me of basically switching out the drive for another drive cause his was working perfect and the list of stories and accusations kinda kept going.