Anybody have any experience with JHB. Good or bad. Thinking about having a motor built. Let me know.

 

Let's see, I sent a set of rotors to get them machined for 3mm and my housings to JHB for cermet coating. He destroyed my rotors, and wouldn't pay for them OR refund my money for the work he did. I sent pics to the guys at mazdatrix and they tried to get him to refund my money, but no luck. He did send me my housings after a couple of months. Built my motor, got it running, then it locked up. Pulled it apart and bits of cermet had run through the motor, destroying all the bearings and e-shaft. When I got the housings I was hesitant to use them because there was excess cermet EVERYWHERE. Overspray, cermet dust, and little globs of the stuff, inside the oil and water galleys, just EVERYWHERE. It was like he had sprayed the stuff on with a potato gun. But, he wouldn't return my calls and I cleaned it up as best I could, crossed my fingers that there was nothing loose left and built the motor. I had access to a machine shop with great parts cleaners btw. Hours of time cleaning by hand as well. Building the engine with those housings was a bad move on my part. A huge loss of time, and a bigger loss in money dealing with that guy. Over two years later and I'm still pissed. So, +1 for bad experience.

 

wow, I just called him today to ask him some questions! I asked about sending my iorns to him and he told me he only sells from his inventory? I looked at this stuff to and figured this with ceramic seals would be the bet to get?