Hennessey Tuner School

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Jock 07
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Anyone have experience with this school? My boss is looking to use his GI bill to send his son to the school if he's accepted. Looks like a pretty cool program, I know they do cool **** out there.
lb3
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The reviews I've seen are hyper negative, as are most personal accounts of anything Hennesey. I'll try to find a link.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/3s8fjz/im_a_student_at_hennesseys_tuner_school_here_is/

I'll keep looking…

Seems like the flurry of automotive press articles all originated with that post.

Here is a review of another school in the Houston area:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/3sdnah/im_a_student_at_the_school_of_automotive/
drumboy
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I've heard the same negative stuff as lb3, lots of folks use their GI bill for it and the job placement numbers were skewed but it's been a while. Maybe they offer you a low paying job once you're done to increase the placement ratio, but the job sucks.
Corps_Ag12
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Still scamming people? what's new?

In other news, water is wet.
CactusThomas
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My brother graduated from SAM back in the day. He went on to become somewhat of a cylinder head guru and one heck of an engine builder. He had nothing but good things to say about his time there.


He has since told me he has heard it went downhill. Old heads retired and they started to get into japcrap and euro trash tuning. When he was there it was 99% American racing stuff and 1% gunsmithing as students and teachers would bring in their side projects.
ILikeTacos
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Can the school be paid for with a Viper hood?
lb3
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ILikeTacos said:

Can the school be paid for with a Viper hood?
Are you referring to the story where a guy brought his viper in to be modded and Hennessy started using it as a parts car for other customers?

If I recall that story they used incoming customer vehicles to fix/upgrade current customer vehicles which resulted in months or years long delays.

It probably started with a dented hood or bodywork and rather than send it to the body shop, they just pulled a part off another vehicle starting a pyramid scheme and culture of raiding parts from other vehicles.
ILikeTacos
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lb3 said:

ILikeTacos said:

Can the school be paid for with a Viper hood?
Are you referring to the story where a guy brought his viper in to be modded and Hennessy started using it as a parts car for other customers?

If I recall that story they used incoming customer vehicles to fix/upgrade current customer vehicles which resulted in months or years long delays.

It probably started with a dented hood or bodywork and rather than send it to the body shop, they just pulled a part off another vehicle starting a pyramid scheme and culture of raiding parts from other vehicles.


Yes. Us "olds" in the racing community have long memories. We knew the original people that got screwed over by Hennessy.
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lb3 said:

ILikeTacos said:

Can the school be paid for with a Viper hood?

Are you referring to the story where a guy brought his viper in to be modded and Hennessy started using it as a parts car for other customers?

If I recall that story they used incoming customer vehicles to fix/upgrade current customer vehicles which resulted in months or years long delays.

It probably started with a dented hood or bodywork and rather than send it to the body shop, they just pulled a part off another vehicle starting a pyramid scheme and culture of raiding parts from other vehicles.

ask me how I know
TitanAGGIE09
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I don't have much positive to say about Hennessy.. take that for what it's worth.
chloelee
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Henneyscrewed for a reason.
Jock 07
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Well clearly I wasn't as knowledgeable on them as I thought I was. Thanks for the insight, I'll have to give my boss a heads up before they pull the trigger.
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jetch17
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went down some of those reddit rabbit holes this morning, lol
TecRecAg
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jetch17 said:

went down some of those reddit rabbit holes this morning, lol

Same. Incredible stuff.
lb3
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jetch17 said:

went down some of those reddit rabbit holes this morning, lol
This is a wild meltdown:

http://www.cherokeesrt8.com/forums/showthread.php?t=649
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