cam-a-lot wrote:
http://www.justinchristie.ca/media/web/hi-tech/html/about_us.html
Has anyone here dealt with this place? Any comments/opinions?
I just signed up to the new forum.
I keep forgetting that I still have that site on my servers. I will eventually take it down.
HTD is no longer in business. They sold their business back in 2004/05. I had my Fiero in their shop way back in 2003 - I didn't get it back until 2005. It took 2 years to get 3-4 months worth of work done. They sold their business and moved all their cars (including mine) without letting me know ahead of time. I showed up one weekend to see the progress and everything was moved to a new location. I had to threaten to take the car back and finish myself, and threaten with legal action in order to get it done
Spent way over $15K on engine swap, engine bay resto/paint, new brakes, shocks, etc. I probably spent another $3K fixing 60% of what they did. Garbage paint, bare metal that rusted. They did sub-standard work for the money I paid. I saw the user "farmer" on PFF trying to sell stored Fieros up in Orangeville - those were all HTD Fieros and the HTD owner owed thousands to the guy that stored them for him.
The only guy I know of that still offers Fiero work to local members is Joe (FieroShop Joe). He is on the old forum, but I'm not sure if he signed up to the new one. I just bought a supercharger kit for my 3.4L from a local member back in October, and he was having his 2.8L replaced with a 3800SC via Joe.
I've met Joe once. He does great work, super nice guy, and he's into doing the 3800SC swaps.
Hope this helps!