Code Blue

My story:

Ok now. where to start. lets start when i first dropped my car off to Nick at Speedwurks on may 8th. He was taking delivery of it for a week's time, as i was supposed to pick the car up the following weekend. The things that were supposed to be done were ARP extended wheel studs installed, finish figuring out vtec wiring, street tune the ecu using a wideband o2 meter,dewire the vafc, and install a custom cruise control install given my directions, figure out some little bugs, and maybe install the a/c.

Time and time went by, he said he was way too busy to finish it in the one week that was planned upon, so i said sure a few more days isn't a problem. He messaged me back 3 or 4 days after i got it and said that the cruise control was finished, and that it was functional. also said he had the vtec wiring 95 percent done. A few days after that he said that his laptops **** the bed and that he was trying to get them fixed because those were his tools to tune the car with, but said he would let me know in a few days the outcome.

It then comes forward that his laptops aren't able to be fixed, and he wanted to know if i wanted to get some dyno tuning in, he said he had a hookup with some dyno tuning, it was about an hour away he said and the guys name was "John". Only problem was that John was backed up heavily on the dyno for awhile and had to schedule me in. It took me 5 days of calling him every day to finally push him into getting a date. and that date was June 4th, two weeks from that time. i simply brushed it off and agreed, telling myself it would be well worth the weight to have it dyno tuned and well worth the cost, a measely two hundred dollars.

He came forward about 4 days after that conversation and said he had vtec working before but then it wasn't "cracking" anymore. He said he was going to recheck his wiring and then double check the sensors. well a week went by with no update and i kept asking and he said "yea I'm hoping i can get it working before the dyno time."

After he said that i told him if it wasn't working then i dont want it dyno tuned, as the maps would be far from accurate. I thought to myself " its been almost two weeks, hasn't that given him enuogh time to figure out the wiring???" Also in that time, Nick got into a medium car accident, where he claimed tons and tons of back pain, also said it was interfering with his work at the shop. But come to find out, he was able to take in and finish a couple of peoples cars, which i later came to find out.

So it comes the day of the dyno. Nick says that he drove the car to the dyno and dropped it off with VTEC working, and then when they strapped it up to the dyno they discover that VTEC isn't engaging. So he tells me that the night before my planned trip to go pick up the car. another failure. Nick assures me that he's going to get it the next day (Sunday) and work on it to get vtec working again, then bring it there monday morning so it could be finished by tuesday or wensday.

I was first thinking to myself how Nick could have made it so he got another open spot on the dyno immediately when he was 2 weeks booked up but i thought maybe the owner of the dyno has cut him a break, no big deal.


Thats about the point when nick said that he rechecked his wiring, and all of his connections and his stuff was all set. then he plugged in a stock p28 ecu and said that vtec was in fact engaging at that point. My chip tuner was baffled on how he tested vtec, and we both came to the probable conclusion that he was merely listening for it, not a good sign. Then came the Danbury, CT Honda-Tech Meet. I had asked Nick to bring the VAFC with him to the meet, because i was having a person buy it from me, and they were going to be at the meet also. I also had him bring the "defective" ecu that Nick claimed to be the cause of my problem.

When he showed up he handed me the ecu and when i asked about the vafc he completely forgot and then i asked him if he could ship it out if i get the kids address, which nick agreed to. A week and a half go by and Nick hadn't shipped anything. When i asked him about it he said "Maybe". Unbelievable. So then i send him the ecu, because my chip tuner has already deemed that the ecu is ok and maybe its just the chip thats the problem, so he already sent out a new chip. I set the ecu on Thursday the 17th of June, it got to him the next dau/ But Nick didn't give me his apartment number so it was kept at the ups station.

Then let's fast forward to Monday, the 21st of June. I get 3 or 4 reports over the internet that my car had been seen driving around route 9 in Poughkeepsie. I told myself, "naw could be another similar colored car." That was, of course, until they recalled seeing a spider web crack in the windshield, and they read me my tag numbers, ok, now i have no excuses for Nick. I talked to alot of people in Poughkeepsie and decided i was going to get my car back THIS week, fixed or not.

I called up Jordan, a friend i met at the Danbury meet, and arranged him to pick up the car for me and drive to Albany, NY. About an hour away. I told Nick my plans and he responds with " you dont have to get jordan to do it I will drive your car to Albany for you." I then told him i planned to pick it up on Wednesday, which he agreed to. So now it's Tuesday, I try calling Nick to confirm, nothing but voice mail. So i call and call again, finally he picks up and i ask if everything is set for tomorrow and he says "whoa, wait, what, your picking up the car tomorrow, i never agreed to that !"

So now im thinking, this kid is the most unorganized unproffessional person i have ever seen. I then tell him to simply leave it outside and i will pick it up with my spare key, then i tell him I have to call Rich up to confirm if he could pick up some wheels from another kid for me. Nick says yea call me back in a few minutes. So i get online and talk to Rich, about 5 minutes had passed, and then I call him back. No answer. I call again, the same result. I call 6 times in 2 minutes, voila, nick answers his phone sounding pissed off that i called at 11:30 pm. Umm, wasn't it him that told me to call him back ?!?!?

So then Nick tells me that yea he will see what he can do, to call him back the next morning, the morning before i leave to Poughkeepsie (which is 4 hours away from me might I add.) and that his landlord had called the SPCA because of him abusing his dog and neglecting is, which was "total BS" according to Nick. So I agree and hang up the phone. I go to work the next morning and call him at the time we agreed upon, which is 9:30, which i s my break. no answer, so i call a bunch of other people, then continue to call Nick, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and finally on the 10th call and 4th voice mail message, i give up for then, time to finish my half day of work.

I get done work , go back to my house, and start loading things i need for another trade i plan on doing in Albany for some Konig wheels. Still no answer on Nicks phone, now i notice that he turned it off, because it only rings once. I love technology.

But I come through with a break. Another Nick I met at the Danbury meet informs me that his "landlord" is also his boss at his electrical career. Score. He supplied me with the name, Mannino Electric, and another member actually gave me the website, where i found the phone number. I call up Bob Mannino, the owner and the elusive "Landlord" figurehead.

I explain my whole story and ask for his help in any way and he says that when i get there, if I can't get my car, to call him and he will come down with the police to observe me taking just my car. So then i get to make the fun 4 hour drive, about every 30 minutes i give Nick's cell phone a call, still off.

So i get to Poughkeepsie, and call rich for him to meet me there so we can then go to UPS. Why to UPS you say? To pick up the ecu i sent nick because he sat on his ******* *** and let it sit there since FRIDAY yea thats right, 5 days ago. so we barely made it to ups to pick up my ecu, then headed back to Speedwurks to figure out what to do. Take a guess, yep, my car WASN'T there. so we take a walk around back and I try one of the doors. Unlocked. Nick has to be one of THE dumbest pieces of **** I know. You think I might be happy about this right? Im not.

My car is sitting in an unlocked garage when i was told, at the time i was bringing it down, that there was cameras and locked gates for security. So i open the gate. BAM, almost knocked over with the smell of dog crap and urine. This is not my idea of a working garage. I take a look around the garage, and am pretty disgusted, theres dog crap everywhere around the floor, antifreeze is in little bottles also around the floor. During this time the owner of the building arrives at the shop, and comes inside to make sure we weren't taking anything that wasn't ours or damaging the property. He looks around and asks us if we had swept up around the garage, when we reply no he then replies, "well somebody did, because it wasn't this clean this morning. "

I then recalled to him how I had spoken to Nick that previous night and Nick told me that he had to go to the garage because his boss had called the SPCA on him for false reasons. His boss then clarifies that it wasn't him specifically that called, that somebody at his company next door had called, and also that the reasons in which they were called weren't false either.

Then i stroll over to look at my car, and the god damned thing is half disassembled. theres multiple parts missing, theres tools strung out all over the body of the car, the windows are rolled down, AND the sunroof is rolled down. Wait, thats funny, when i left it at Speedwurks the windows were all rolled up and the sunroof was close, which leads to one conclusion, he decided he was going for a cruise.

The I look around for my keys, which are nowhere to be found. This wouldn't bother me as much if the 50 dollar snap on toolbox key and the brand new 2 way alarm remote weren't attached to the same keychain. So after about 20 minutes of searching for my keys and trying to piece together my car, i give up assemble everything in the engine bay. I then grab the ecu out of the box, and get my old chip i had kept, then go to plug the ecu in.

This is where things start to stand out more. I do notice the VAFC i had asked him to dewire is sitting in the airbag tray, but the end harness isn't. Odd i thought, but nothing i can really do about it at this point. I then look at the ecu wiring and the boomslang harness attached to it. Only one word can describe what i saw, mediocre.

The wiring was, at best, something my 6 year old nephew would produce, definitely not something i would expect from one who's main career lies in being an Electrician. there was bare wires everywhere, pieces or wire were cut and spliced multiple times for no apparent reasons, connections were loose and about 1/3 of the connections actually had heatshrink tubing on them, the others had electrical tape on them or even worse, nothing at all. I think to myself, "gee, i hope this thing makes the trip back home." So I plug everything in, and then go to get in the car, when i turn the key at least the car powers on. I look at the gas gauge and almost choke.

The gas light is on and the needle is buried past empty. I instantly recall that i left the car at Speedwurks with over 3/4 of a tank of gas, then i look at the mileage, BAM, it hits me the, almost 300 extra miles are put onto the car. im thinking to myself, WTF, why is there so many miles if he was only testing it at the shop. The i look around the car and notice that both of the windows are down and also the sunroof is open, which also adds to the fact that there is about 2 inches of dust throughout the car.

So, thoroughly disgusted and upset, i take what hand tools have been left, and start the car, then my gut sinks. it sounds worse then when i dropped it off, the idle is spuratic, dipping to almost 200 rpm's. but i start to creep the car out of the spot, and then i notice another thing, the clutch feels soft.

Really soft, too soft it seems for a stage 4 4 puck sprung clutch. So after about 10 minutes of working it out of the shop, i finally park it and turn the car off. i close up the shop, lock the gate that was actually left unlocked, then go get some food with Rich (who was mainly there to see that i only took my car.) I pay for his lunch, get some gas, then head home for journey back.

I instantly notice that the gas mileage is horrendous, I think my friends Hummer H2 gets better gas mileage. It also hesitate continously between 2k - 4k rpms. I also instantly notice that the cruise control he told me was installed isn't, so that adds to the list of things that tick me off. I get to albany without incident, except for soem weird road noise that i hadn't had before i dropped the car off. I call the person waiting for me to trade some items i brought with me for some wheels, and we meet up, and i start switching wheels so he can use my steel wheels while he gets his new one.

Well as Jim starts to take the first wheel off i happen to glance at the rear bumper, and it honestly looks like it was hit against something, i quickly inspect the rest of the bumper, and notice other marks that weren't previously there. I make a note to myself to thoroughly clean and inspect the car for other damage afterwards. Then Jim's dog comes out to greet us and instantly starts to go crazy around the car. The dog honestly started to run around the car, stopping to sniff the car all over the place, we both thought the dog was going to run into something. Then we realized what was going on, Nicks dog had urinated all over my car.

Then I make the 3 hour drive back to my house, and park the car for the night. The next morning i start detailing the car, starting with the inside and come across a piece of dog crap in my car, there is actually do crap IN MY CAR. After spending about 6-7 hours just cleaning the inside and outside of the car i start to notice little dings and scratches and scuffs that weren't there when i dropped off the car.

So then i start to try and figure out why the engine is dying and hesitating, I replaced the spark plugs, checked the timing, all fine. Still to this date i cannot find out whats wrong with the engine. my guess is something concerning the internals. then i go to start putting my new suspension on, and look at the lugnuts and wheel studs, the 80 dollar cwest lugnuts i bought are now completely cross-threaded. the rear axle covers also look like they were banged in with a ball peen hammer. Not what i expected in the least.

I think i will end this story for now, although im sure i will find more things, and will add to it. As of this moment, im still considering find some sort of compensation. Who knows, only time will tell.

Nick M

My story:

My experiences with Nick Herron, known as 2k1_ITR_0736 on HT:
https://honda-tech.com/zero...07081

Professionally/Personally
I met the guy cause he wanted some H-T.com stickers, he had opened a garage in our town. Seemed like a nice enough guy, seemed fairly knowledgeable as well.

We became friends, hung out, went to bars etc and do whatever 23 year old guys do. I trusted him enough to do electrical work on my car and to use my car to gain experience around WRX’s. He is afterall, an electrician.

I ordered up a turboback exhaust and some other pieces, and I asked him to install a resistor wire, to eliminate the CEL from running catless. He had to wire it into the rear O2 sensor harness.

He never looked at the instructions, and wired it in. When I went to start the car for the first time with the CEL fix in and the exhaust all on, something start smoking, we looked around and figured it was just moisture from the AC dump tube getting on the exhaust or something like that. Well, long story short, the smoking was coming from my rear o2 harness which was basically on fire, it destroyed the rear o2 sensor and everything else that shared the power line from that piece of the harness.
This included:
Rear o2 sensor
Map sensor
Front o2 sensor
And all of the harness touching that power line.
And it also, completely fried my ECU. He fixed the wires he could see, instead of doing a thorough job, so when I got a new ECU, it promptly fried that one as well.

Fed up with his half *** attempts and zero effort in figuring out the issue for approximately 3 months, I took the car to someone who I know is proficient in electronics and wiring, he resolved my issues of my car not running right in about 3 hours of diagnostic work. He spent 0 time researching the issues HE CAUSED, he spent 0 time consulting with Subaru techs and he spent 0 time trying to test sensors and looking through the entire harness. His efforts were just plain sad. He tried to wipe his hands of it.

Some of his best excuses:
”I didn’t do **** to that car, that god damn cel fix was ur problem”
Truth: There has never been 1 other case I could find of a Pony Express CEL eliminator causing a problem like this
“There is nothing wrong with that Barometric Pressure CEL u have, that’s normal”
Truth: That CEL is for a bad MAP sensor, which he never tested.
“So, you have a hiccup at 2k rpm, that’s not a big deal”
Truth: zero partial throttle driveability and 4 CEL’s = big deal

His laziness, lack of competency, and general worthless contribution cost me $1500.
But you know what? People make mistakes, I can forgive and forget. He was a friend right?

Whats that you ask? Did he ever apologize? No, not once.
But still, I am a nice guy, I let it slide.

So is that all he ever did to me? Ha! I’m just getting started!

Personal Side:
I had been seeing a girl for a few weeks, we didn’t always exactly get along, and we weren’t really talking and on the best of terms, but nonetheless, I didn’t consider it “over”. Nick knew her too, and he sold her his LS Integra. So in the process of that deal, he began to hang out with her alittle bit without me being aware.

She then tells me, that they are kinda fooling around etc as well. So, him being my friend, I confronted him and said:
Me: hey man, we’re friends, I don’t think its right for both of us to be involved with the same girl, we should both just be friends with her for our friendships sake. We should always talk about it first if we both meet a girl.
Him: yeah I agree, we’ll confront her, and explain it to her that we should all just be friends

So we talked to her, and explained to her whats up. Everyone seemed to understand.

So I leave, she stays and is talking to him, behind my back I learned later, he said to her “hey lets keep this on the downlow and not tell Nick M (me)”.

Nice guy huh?

In addition to that mess. I met a girl he was friends with as well. He apparently had liked her in the past. I made the point to ask him if it was cool to hang out with her, and if he still had feelings for her. He swore he did not care and encouraged me to hang out with her. But he then told me she was a ****, she was crazy, she was a mess etc etc. I didn’t listen to him and I am glad I didn’t, we hung out for a few months and we still hang out once in a while when she is in the area. She became a good friend and she an amazing person. And I would date her in a second if she wasn’t away for school.

Oh and he totally denies ever saying anything like that to me when I tried to tell her the truth about how he is. lol unreal


So is the story over? Nope! We’re just getting started!

More personal stuff
I had purchased a set of Rota wheels for my WRX, and my garage at home has little room for storage, so he agreed to store my stock WRX wheels in his shop. A few months pass by, apparently he got robbed and someone decided to steal my WRX wheels and worn tires. I had been asking for 2 weeks prior to the theft of my wheels if I could come by his shop to get them. I called him, IM’d him, stopped at his shop, never answered. So I asked my father to stop by, who is a police officer, he discovered my wheels were gone. Meanwhile, I still hadn’t received any contact from Nick to tell me my property was stolen.

What a great guy! I finally get ahold of him on AIM after repeatedly calling him and stopping at his apartment. It took about 2 weeks. He then promises me that he will get me a replacement set “if the wheels don’t turn up”, like they were going to magically disappear on his doorstep! LMAO

He told me he had 2 leads on a replacement set of wheels and they would be on my porch by August 1st. Needless to say, I have no replacement wheels. He has given me no explanation about his compulsive dishonesty and just continues to lie to get his stupid *** out of trouble. I do not expect to get a replacement set of wheels from him.

His hobby
His lies and BS about his car:
He owns a ’94 gsr he put together from a hatchback he crashed. Lets point out all his bullshit and lies 

Where to start, here is the hatchback he purchased, take note of the setup and mods and dyno figures, complete with a tuned Hondata setup: 193whp
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=201997

In this thread, after he purchased it and wants to share with everyone he purchased it, he then claims it suddenly makes 203whp with no change in mods, he also claims it’s a JDM b20 ek, which it isn’t, at all and he promptly gets owned by Mike M
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=219488

In this thread, he brags about buying a $400 Integra, shows his ITR and civic hatch as well as his Toyota Tacoma. What he doesn’t mention is, he didn’t pay for any of it. He had to sell his ITR cause he couldn’t make the payments, his Tacoma got repossessed by the bank for the same reason, not making payments  more about how good he is with money below
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=380192

So, he crashes his hatchback, and buys a salvage Integra, and puts the motor etc from the hatch into the Integra. Now it magically has 253whp and runs 11s? The dyno run is made up, there was no dyno sheet, and it never ran an 11, he lied about that too. He did drag it once, I saw it personally run a 16.9. For some odd reason he didn’t keep Hondata and decided to get tune it himself with a VAFC. Nice job!
In this thread he says: “ide love to see someone build a car even close to this for less than $18,000 in receipts” He has no receipts, he didn’t invest 18k into the integra. He bought it for less than nothing, had it painted, his mom bought some wheels for him and he swapped the motor he didn’t build into it.
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=584732

Sure everyone lies once in a while about the power they are making, but it gets better
In this thread below, he says he wants to compete in the World Challenge professional series that Realtime etc competes in. Keep in mind, hes never spent 1 minute driving on a road course, or an autox course, hes never done an HPDE, and he does not have any sort of competition license from any organization on planet earth. But he manages to make these statements:
“i know my car prolly isnt gonna keep with the M3's and the NSX, but im sure it will hold its own”
“Im well into the $40g mark with my car, and have just placed on order another $5g or so for winter time projects, and that is not including the cost of the car”
Wait, didn’t you just say that you had 18k into your car? And the 18k I proved was a lie, so whats this about 40k? Who are you fooling!? lol
He loves to refer to himself as an autox “guru”, I think hes autox’d twice in his entire life
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=638818

So lets give him the benefit of the doubt, lets say, his Integra really does have 250whp, it handles like its on rails, and its all setup and ready to go for the professional World Challenge series. So if he were to attend say a Honda autox and drag day, he should clean up right? Dominate? Embarrass everyone? How about 23rd place out of 27 competitors? I bet the WC is knocking down his door asking him to join up! As a private owner of course, with all the funds he has to spare! (see below)
http://www.urbanracer.com/arti...&z=17

In this thread he refers to himself as an "autox guru".
Guru - An expert, Implies not only wizard skill but also a history of being a knowledge resource for others
23rd place, been autox'ing 2 or 3 times tops You are a guru!
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=826719

He doesnt mention he has a "rice bar" with harnesses that would get laughed at at a track event.

Then we have this beauty that got 219 replies: In this thread he states hes looking for a 50k car. Alittle background info, he had a s10 extreme that he got into an accident and totaled, so apparently he wanted a much pricier replacement.
Remember that shop he had that got robbed? We he also got evicted for not paying rent to the landlord who was also his boss. See a pattern here? No appreciation for money? So his landlord/former boss took him to court and he was found liable and had to pay backrent, so the professional race car driver with 40k in mods who wants to compete in a professional road racing series didn’t have the 2k to pay his former landlord, so his mom wrote him a check  absolutely hysterical, you cant make this stuff up. And if you are wondering what 50k vehicle he bought, he didn’t get one, his dad bought him a roughly 15k Toyota 4Runner LOL
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=879546


So that’s about it, I could nitpick some more stuff, but I think you get the picture. Stay away from this piece of ****. Hes never said an honest word in his life, has no idea what the word integrity means and he’ll take the shirt off your back and then deny he ever touched it.


No cliff notes

mildly.interesting

WOW....just wow...what a t00l

acuraholic

I read all of that. Sounds like a stand-up guy.

To the thread starter, best of luck in being compensated.

Sticky Tires

Wow, I can't believe you let that guy slide. He is in need of a major *** beating. Burn his shop down, set him up with drugs or something.

PhatboyNYC

Holy ****! I just read through everything and I'm surprised you guys are as calm as you are in your posts. I'd be furious! So has anything happened to this guy to date? I remember back when he posted the pics of his ITR and hatch and the subsequent salvage Integra.

Nick M

He had a couple people call the police on him, hes been taken to court.

Its not worth the effort to lose time at work to take him to small claims court.

He is basically the biggest joke around.

There are many more people he has ripped off, you will hear more stories soon.

The ITR, hatch and Integra werent "his", I dont think hes bought much of anything in his entire life. When I was friends with him, he was working about 10 hours a week. He had an apartment, the integra, the shop, a s10, and he was constantly spending money. It doesnt add up, you cant afford all that being a junior electrician working 10 hours a week.

It was all a big show.

Code Blue

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by PhAtBoY Si &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Holy ****! I just read through everything and I'm surprised you guys are as calm as you are in your posts. I'd be furious! So has anything happened to this guy to date? I remember back when he posted the pics of his ITR and hatch and the subsequent salvage Integra.</TD></TR></TABLE>


its not the fact of being calm, I think throughout all of this i would like to consider Nick M a friend, mostly because we have gone through the same ordeal.

Its realizing that there is pretty much nothing either of us can do legally to bring Nick Herron to justice, legally, and I think we are both too smart to stoop to Nick H's level and do something illegal.


This post has been in the making for awhile, me and Nick M have been throwing around the idea for awhile, we just finally decided to go ahead and do it.

blacks2000

Jesus. I just spent 30 minutes reading about the biggest *** on HT.

ILuvJDMITR

i have no time now, i will fill in later

:::FILLING IN::: Coe Blue came to my house for a wheel deal, trade and what not... he filled me in to all of his experience but It was in fact hard to concentrate from the smell of the dog ****... that DID in fact send my dog up the wall, we had to drag her back in the house. anyone that has a dog, a lab especially, you know how they act when they smell another dog and cant find em. regardless... as we were doing the wheels and after we were doing the wheels we looked over every inch of the car and couldnt find a scratch that WAS on the car when he dropped it off. so... on to my wheels... Code blue had steelies on when he got here, which we all know can hide alot as far as noise and rattles. on our way back to the northwaywe pulled over and Code blue had some noise in one of his wheels, long story short it seemed like me and code blue were gonna have problems over my rims cuz they were doing **** on his car they werent on mine... turns out he had all kinds of suspension problems, destroyed ball joints, that werent there when he gave his car to nick.... these problems THRASHED the tires that were on the rims. I didnt think they were that bad, but i guess they got killed quickly. there is alot I dont know and I am sure I wil remember more later


Modified by ILuvJDMITR at 12:32 AM 8/28/2004

Veritas-Aequitas

Edit: What a piece of ****


Modified by ReBornGSR at 1:32 PM 8/26/2004

Splat

Can't wait to see what other details emerge!

PhatboyNYC

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Evil Nick M &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">He had a couple people call the police on him, hes been taken to court.

Its not worth the effort to lose time at work to take him to small claims court.

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If he's scammed or dicked over as many people as it seems, perhaps it WOULD be worth the effort to do whatever you can to put this guy out of commission for good. I've done small claims cases for 6 years down here in NYC and I'm not sure if the process differs somewhat up where you are, but it's not that time consuming and doesn't require much effort.

Something to note: Judgments obtained through small claims court are good for 20 years. Even if he has nothing of value right now, you can hold your judgments against him for a long long time in case the dipshit does come into money somehow.

Z

Damn that is ridiculous. Nick, you need to beat this guy ***.

9seccivicsi

well what he had done with me is i sold him a gsr block that went in to brian grunnos car. i sold him the block for 400 dollars he only had 300 on him so he was like ill pay the other 100 when i go to the ATM machine tommorow.. i was like ok. SO i called im the next day and asked him for the 100 bucks he was like let me build themotor and see if everything is good.... i was like no how do i know that u are gonna build the motor correctly just give me the 100 bcks and well be done so we went back and forth about the whole deal and he ended up assmbling the motor for brian and yeah everyone knows he put the wrong bearings in and says that it desnt spin then on top of that he putts the compression rings in the oil rings place and the oil rings in the 2 compression rings......well he lled me and sayed i sold him a bad block and crank because it wont turn. so i said pay me the 100 bucks that u ow me and everyone will be good.......He was like welp I been building motors for 8 years and never had one do this on me... i go obviuoslyu havent and pay the money ... he was like meet me at autozone tmmorow i wentt autozone the next day called him he was like i am busy i cant make it up there... so i said ill drive to come pick the money from ur shop he was like no ...then shuts his phone off and yeah i neve got my 100 bucks from him.... so if anyone see this DUFFFY SMELLLING FUCCKEN PEICE OF **** tell me so i can go and kick him in his face!

OH and his motor in his integra is not built ..... it has a stock gsr bottom end with a type r head wooopti do......

Dased530

Damn PHDTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Z

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I wish you luck on this one, really I do.

.bagged

Wow, what a ******* tool

If you combine all loses together it may not be small claims court any more.

Best of luck to all that has lost from this dickwad

RTW DC2R

I met the dood a few times, seems pretty fake and self centered to me.

Sinitron

I hate to bring this up .... I knew Nick Herron 4 years ago, way before any of you ever met him, did business with him, or attempted to help him with the failed abortion of a shop he tried to create (Speedwurks / .com).

I ran a small parts business in the Hudson Valley of NY called 9krpm.com (the site is still up and active). I had a blast modding mine, and my friends cars before it became "mainstream" for that part of NY. I met Nick from Honda-Tech, at the time we both had ITR's.. (mine a mostly prepped 98) and his stock 2001. Over the course of the year or so I knew him, he seemed great at first, was fun to hang out with at car shows + stuff, ... but he seemed to get progressively shifty as time went on. I took him to the only 2 auto-x events he ever went to, and introduced him to my club at the time (Poughkeepsie sports car club) He would promote my website and try to rally sales for me on the side, but he'd always tell people that he was "owner" or "half owner" or something of the little company I created + paid taxes on. Things got weirder as they went on.

I moved to Boston about 3 years ago, and kept 9krpm.com open for the hell of it. I didn't have an e-commerce site or anything, it was just on the side for fun while I was working an day job. After I moved, Nick was telling people he owned 9krpm.com, and was basically lying to everyone about everything. He tried to convince me to "let him run" the business out of some building he had found in Poughkeepsie (later to become Speedwurks) with several 'bays' and a 'large ramp' to get vehicles in and out with. I told him no way, its strictly mine,.... go open your own biz, and get your own liscences / insurance and whatnot. He later started an E-bay account called nick_9krpm_com or something close, and was trying to sell his own personal used parts under the guise of my little company, behind my back, without telling me. That is, ... until the Ebay bill came in, and Ebay came looking for whoever owned 9krpm.com to try to settle up on his listing fee's + ****. I told him to paypal Ebay, ... and I was going to end his e-mail account with me, ... and to not affililate himself with me anymore.

That was 'cool' with him, because he said I was "talking behind his back" or some nonsense about people in NY. I told him since I moved, I really didn't care if I told people he was a hack, and he shouldn't work on their cars. Everyone in Wappingers Falls pretty much knew he was a 'fake'.

Fast forward to the big "Speedwurks" meet that was sponsored by Honda-Tech or whatever.... their grand opening back around February. Ray from Ray-Z-Engineering and I knew Nick ... knew his story ... knew he was a liar... knew he was going to take people for a ride.... He and I CALLED THIS KID OUT on every LIE he had posted on Honda-Tech in that thread. I guess when you 'want' something to work/succeed, you become too loyalistic/blind to see whats really going on, and can't gather the bigger picture.

Edit: Ray actually called me at my shop here in the Boston area, told me Nick was opening a shop out there and we were both like 'WTF? you gotta be kidding me'. As soon as I heard that I knew **** was going to hit the fan BIG TIME after a fiasco of some kind at a later date.

Unfortunately our posts were either deleted, or censored. If you guys had taken an earlier notice at this ... you probably could have bailed out earlier and saved your parts / labor / work / hastle, etc. I guess ever since his grand opening, he went un-checked, and fucked up all kinds of peoples lives / cars / stuff.

Nick is a hack electrican. He's by no means a mechanic. He's certified by no one, and can tune nothing, on any platform. In the earlier post above he mentions "John" dyno-tuning a car. That's the trip that Nick took out to visit me + Jon (who owns The Drop Shop) in NH. John tuned Nicks VAFC for him after his Hondata box failed so he could get home ... sold him his salvage integra (that he traded a turbo + $500 for), and many other sorted details.

I still keep lots of logs of me talking to Nick on AIM ... asking him why he'd lie all the time on Honda-Tech and what in the hell he was doing. He delcared to me in text that he knew he was full of ****, and was going to take all the 'ricer kids' for a ride. He knew what he was going to do to all of you.... it was premeditated. We tried to tell everyone, but nobody really listens to me, so .... so be it.

He's a pathological liar ... and I hope some day he can come clean, and return whatever parts / money he owes people before he ends up dead in a dumpster (if he isn't dead already).

In general, ... if he ever surfaces again, best course of action is to avoid any business dealings with him.

Nick M

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OH and his motor in his integra is not built ..... it has a stock gsr bottom end with a type r head wooopti do......
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It is, its the same motor from the hatch he bought.


But regardless, it made 193whp not 253whp.

Nick M

Thanks for posting Brian

Sinitron

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Dude, I could tell you, and the Honda-Tech community SO MANY MORE THINGS you don't know ... it would make you all puke.

Meet me in person sometime.... we will discuss over a beer.

obviousBOY

iTrader: (1)

ill post when i get home later tonight, I was partners with him (speedwurks) until mid april when it became apparent the lack of skill and knowledge he had about cars and running a business

Captn. Save A Hoe

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