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Shaw City Engines


Country United States
State California
City Fresno
Address 5030 W Shaw Ave
Phone 559-275-2001

Shaw City Engines Reviews

Most Useful Comment
  • Dec 19, 2016

I won a no reserve eBay auction for a 532 cu in Ford stroker engine from clewwho40 aka Shaw City Engines for $1,363 . Approx 1/3 of the buy it now prices they ask . eBay policy doesn't allow the buyer to back out(buyer remorse) so this seller clewwho40 simply ignored my requests (8) for the total I need to pay including shipping. They also had the nerve to block me from further bidding on their items & reported me as a non paying buyer . Knowing full well I couldn't pay without the auction without the full amount including freight . After 72 hrs eBay then let's the POS cancel the auction. He gets off Scott free & no one knows the better because I can't leave feedback for an auction that "NEVER HAPPENED" . That's how they have such a good eBay rating. Don't buy from them , they are DISHONEST & bad reviews are all over the Internet.

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  • Aug 24, 2020

They Sell Junk !!!

Bad gasket had to Install correct head gasket that fixed the overheating problem and was able to run engine for break in only to find oil pressure dropped to 0 once engine was at operating temps now that it could be run more than a few minutes. Pulled engine and found oil clearance on mains exceeding .010”. Measured line bore and found line bore was oversized .008”. Took block to local machine shop and they installed new main caps and line bored engine correctly.

  • Oct 13, 2016

I purchased a 496 Stroker engine on eBay from this guy. His eBay rating was good, but that makes sense because people leave reviews when they receive the product not after installing or using. I purchased an engine form him and dropped it off to get it installed. There happened to be another customer who bought an engine from this guy Andy he had to pay 15k more just to fix it. I called Shaw and asked if there was other issues like this. He immediately became defensive and started yelling and using profanity towards me . I asked why is he mad? Because he Has my money Andy I trusted him. He hung up the phone and won't answer my calls. Stay away your throwing good money away. The guy is a crook.. don't know how he personally can handle doing buisiness with every one complaining.

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  • Aug 24, 2020

Same story here also

Same story here also

  • May 17, 2016

I BOUGHT AN 496 STROKER MOTOR WON IT ON BID OF$2,175 AND I CALLED AND AFTER I WON THE BID AND HE SENT ME A BILL I AGREE ON THE PHONE TO PAY $150 FOR A $30.00 CRATE THEN HE WANTED TO CHARGE ME $775.00 TO SHIP AND I TOLD HIM I HAVE MY OWN SHIPPER AT $350.00 AT Freight Quote. the EBAY number is 371606694287 my phone # 717- Denny i have proof!!!!

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  • Oct 12, 2016

Stay away far away From Shaw city engines or its ebay store

I wanted to buy a BBC pulley from this guy on ebay. I asked the diameter measurements and he would not give it to me. He only told me to trust the part number. If an Ebay seller will not answer your question it is a sure sign to stay away. What has he got to hide? Why won't he give me the diameter measurement I request? STAY AWAY FROM THIS SELLER.

  • Aug 24, 2020

Bad Dude

Installed incorrect head gasket and overheated problem and was able to run engine for break in only to find oil pressure dropped to 0 once engine was at operating temps now that it could be run more than a few minutes. Pulled engine and found oil clearance on mains exceeding .010”. Measured line bore and found line bore was oversized .008”. Took block to local machine shop and they installed new main caps and line bored engine correctly.

  • Apr 20, 2020

Straight Crook.

Same story, won a bid for a 496 stroker, at a descent price, then he tagged on a grand to ship it 200 miles, I said I'd pick it up, but before I could I got hit with non payment case. Called him, he said nothing was his fault. Then I started reading the reviews, sounds like he's selling junk motors, glad I got wind of what was going on before handing over my cash. This guy gives machine shops a bad name

  • Jun 5, 2019

eBay scammer

Shaw City Engines, seperformance5 and clewho40 are all the same person. scammer on ebay....

I won a Engine on ebay and his shop is 250 miles away from me so I wanted to pick it up. But before I could send him a message he sent me a invoice with $1600 for shipping! When a said I wanted to pick up the engine and that shipping was crazy over priced it took him almost a day to reply and he said "cash on pick ups!!!" He wouldn't remove the shipping from the invoice and wouldn't send me his address. Then as soon as he could he filed unpaid clam with ebay.

Sounds like this is his standard practice and after seeing all the reviews on the internet I'm glad that the deal didn't go through. The engine is probably junk.

  • May 24, 2017

Shaw City Engines claim to build the best engine on E-bay or anywhere else all blue printed down to the proper specifactions and balanced to within 2grams.. all to quality parts you won't find a better engine anywhere..

Mine made it about 50miles before it was destroyed by a failed lifter that exploded and sent metal fragments through out the engine. upon tear down of the motor they found nothing to be as advertised.

From the heads down corners were cut and the cheapest parts were used the block was never lined bored balanced or blue printed. Had 3 push rod guide plates break push rods didn't match bearing were filed to fit and no longer lined up.What really amazed me is that it made it 50 miles before it blew up. I paid $3000.00 for my lesson you get what you pay for I didn't pay much for what was claimed to be done to this engine and I didn't get much of an engine. it's gonna cost me $8500 to to rebuild this motor the same as it was before it's just to bad I had to spend $3000.00 to learn this lesson.

Save yourself the headaches and expence and don't purchase from this builder he does't stand behind what he sells

  • Dec 23, 2016

Purchased 396 BBC Mark V engine by clewwho40 Shaw City Engines on EBAY. Engine purchased from and delivered by clewwho40 in early 2016. Installed engine 3 months later and found incorrect head gaskets had been installed by clewwho40 which were Gen IV head gaskets that were used on 2 piece rear main blocks that have series cooling that flows through the block and enters head at back of the block unlike GEN V and VI that use parallel cooling that has coolant holes in the head the full length and allows cascading cooling the entire length of the head. The incorrect head gaskets allowed all coolant flow to bypass the block and heads and flow directly to the radiator causing extreme overheating.

Installed correct head gasket that fixed the overheating problem and was able to run engine for break in only to find oil pressure dropped to 0 once engine was at operating temps now that it could be run more than a few minutes. Pulled engine and found oil clearance on mains exceeding .010”. Measured line bore and found line bore was oversized .008”. Took block to local machine shop and they installed new main caps and line bored engine correctly.

Took crank, rods and pistons along with flywheel and balancer to local machine shop as well to verify balance as the engine had a very bad vibration during break-in. The crank was found to be 320 grams off on the flywheel side. The machine shop contacted SCAT and they verified the crank was internal balance from the factory. Clewwho40 drilled the crank front and back to attempt to make it external balance to allow gen IV flywheel and balancer use. The machine shop removed 320grams from the flywheel and got the assembly to balance.

After all of this I reassembled the engine and installed. I upgraded the valve springs and rockers and installed a cloyes timing chain shortened to accommodate the line bore. Engine runs good now and no more issues.

  • Oct 12, 2016

Stay away from this business

I wanted to buy a BBC pulley from this guy on ebay. I asked the diameter measurements and he would not give it to me. He only told me to trust the part number. If an Ebay seller will not answer your question it is a sure sign to stay away. What has he got to hide? Why won't he give me the diameter measurement I request? STAY AWAY FROM THIS SELLER.

  • Oct 12, 2016

Stay away from this business

I wanted to buy a BBC pulley from this guy on ebay. I asked the diameter measurements and he would not give it to me. He only told me to trust the part number. If an Ebay seller will not answer your question it is a sure sign to stay away. What has he got to hide? Why won't he give me the diameter measurement I request? STAY AWAY FROM THIS SELLER.

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