my 360 heads were stolen by machine shop

Seen this happen before, and it’s bullshit. The shop that did it should be ashamed.

The biggest issue when I’ve seen this happen is that you have to PROVE what you took to the shop was what you said it was. And that’s not easy.

In 1980 I took a forged crank in to be ground .010 under. A few days later, the guy I was building the engine for grabbed the crank and dropped it off at the shop.

As soon as I opened the box, I could see it was cast. So...I flipped my beenie and called him to go with me to get it replaced.

The end result was when I dropped it off I said it was going in a 318 so they just stuffed a cast crank up my butt. I couldn’t prove what I dropped off, because all I had was a receipt from the wrecking yard where I bought it. They just wrote out small block chrysler crankshaft. I already had a 318 crank, so why buy another if not to get a steel crank.

I was pissed, but we lost out. I went and bought another steel crank and stamped my name on it, and then sent it to another shop to be ground.

I learned a hard lesson there. Sadly, I’ve seen it happen over and over through the years. Sickening.