San Bernardino Machine Shop

Hannah Ramirez

★☆☆☆☆

4 years ago

Horrible service very rude not reliable and will cheat you out of money. Doesn’t care about customers do not waste your money they will not give it back.

Engines R Us Pros

★★★★★

7 years ago

Fantastic service over the phone. We follow them on Instagram all they're work looks amazing.

Zachary Alemar

★★★★★

2 years ago

Owner is absolutely amazing, great customer service and a very quick turnaround time.

Juan CL

★★★★★

5 years ago

Great customer service at this machine shop. Owner Albert always greets you with enthusiasm an is genuinely happy to interact with his customers.

Adam Luna

★★★★★

6 years ago

Good shop. Albert is a great person and will give a 110% honest opinion and professional work to back up the shop and its reputation.

Jesse Martinez

★★★★★

8 years ago

Very clean work and one of the most honest persons to deal with. If you need precision work go see these people. True professionals in my humble opinion.

Andres Olmedo

★☆☆☆☆

3 years ago

The worst machineshop known to man. Never take your engine or anything here. They are garbage and useless. A blind folded monkey would have done a better job.

Joshua Montague

★★★★★

5 years ago

Best place I've ever been for cylinder head work thank you Albert and his team for being passionate about your work best port job I've ever seen if your a gear head like me and your searching for someone thats gonna do outstanding work look no further go see albert tell him Josh sent you and i promise you won't be disappointed.

Thomas Bratt

★☆☆☆☆

3 years ago

Do not use this shop. They installed a bent crank and never checked it and it took out my Built block after 1500miles and now I cant get a hold of them. Hands down worst shop ever!

Darlene Dees

★★★★★

4 years ago

Engine they worked with my friend on a prices for redoing his block and crank and all the kit for gaskets my friend said their prices were good so he'll bring his work there now instead of going to San Fernando

Roberto Ber

★☆☆☆☆

5 years ago

I got 3 different quotes on one engine, by the time engine was complete 3 months later my quote had doubled on price. Dad knew what he was doing this guy is a joke. No quality or customer service

Thomas george

★★★★★

7 years ago

Alberto gave me the best customer service you could give!! The turn around time was insanely fast and the precision on all the ports and installation was superb! I’m a very happy customer and I’ll definitely be back to San Bernardino machine shop! Thank you Alberto for everything!

Dario Diaz

★☆☆☆☆

4 years ago

It’s been almost a year and I’m still waiting to get a call/message for a quote on my engine, I dropped it off and waited until after a week it just didn’t matter to me anymore I decided to go a different way with my project. I just left the engine with them if it’s still there who knows but never even got a quote. Very disappointed with the service mostly because I know that they rush other builders engines and probably forget other that they may consider less important.

James Cardenas

★☆☆☆☆

3 years ago

Worst shop ever! He supposedly did a engine rebuild and man let me tell u! The timing was off 5 teeth. There were hits where my intake manifold was at. Missing parts saying he didn't have and he did. Had to go outta my way to get them and when I picked up the engine he was no where to be found! Sent a guy I never seen before cus he didn't want to face me. What a coward! Long story short. Don't go there at all!

Alejandro Romo

★★★★★

Edited 5 years ago

I have used this place several times for my personal Jobs and have referred outside work here also, this place never disappoints. Always a pleasure to work with this guy!!

Diego

★☆☆☆☆

Edited a year ago

Took a Nissan VQ35 engine to get machined. Basic work cylinder bore/hone and align hone mains. Took 2 months to give me back mains that looked like they got hit with a mallet and a screw driver (literally the main bore has a groove 1/16” deep) which will now always have a decrease in oil pressure and not be good. He also lied about doing an align hone on the mains until I pointed it out and he gave me back the money for that. The bores were also undersized for the pistons that were going to be used and could have potentially locked a piston if assembled. His reasoning was that the piston coating was rubbed off, this makes no sense as I provided the spec recommended just seems like he didn’t care. Block Deck height was also taken down so much on block that now the front timing cover will not line up. The driver side is .030” lower than the passenger side and he claims that’s “normal” and that I should use thicker gaskets. I wouldn’t recommend that when one side will have .030” protrusion above deck. After picking up my engine after 2 months from SB had to pay another machine shop to machine an entirely new VQ35 block, and pay again. He refused to cover the cost of the new block I HAD TO SOURCE. Overall waste of time and money, won’t recommend this shop for any work, especially anything that needs to be done correctly and a timely manner. PSA the shop is a mess, he takes no pride in his work.

Joe Zamora

★☆☆☆☆

a year ago

Horrible Shop, do not take anything there. Owner is extremely unprofessional and gets irate when you ask about warranty POSTING FOR TRANSPARENCY IN THE COMMUNITY Motor was built all by SB Machine shop in San Bernardino, CA. Alberto was a friend of mine and said he could take care of the engine when I blew up the stock motor adding boost. I want it to BE CLEAR that I asked him for a price, not a discount. In the future for anyone regardless of our relationship if we ever have an arrangement related to monetary compensation, YOU need to set your price. I don’t ever want to hear you gave me a deal or didn’t give me your best work due to payment. Miles on the motor since rebuild are maybe 1500. Four oil changes and filters (following SB Machine shops break in oil cycle) and all temps and pressures were always monitored. The engine first had a Vtec issue where it wouldn’t engage correctly on the dyno, found internal issues on the head. Shortly after that it was back to running after a head rework, new head gasket. Then shortly after, maybe another 100 miles it started smoking from the turbo. Took turbo to PT turbos in San Bernardino for rebuild, reinstalled. Drove the car maybe another 40 miles and smoking again. PT Turbo once again rebuilt it, telling me there was contamination in the motor. I removed the oil, cut the filter, and found debris. Some metallic particles along with black flaky material that was not magnetic. I removed the number 4 con cap and found scratching and pitting. I tried to get SB Machine shop to refund me some money to pay another shop to rebuild the engine or give me some parts that I could use in value to the rebuild but I was refused and told that the warranty was just start up and dyno. Just a message for anyone about to choose #SBMachineShop to do more research, read the reviews. The more you do, the more information comes to light. Again, this is for transparency in the automotive community.