S P Engineering - City of Industry, California

Henry & Alice Ting

My friend's dad was selling his low mileage, 1 owner 2009 GT-R, and needed a favor to park it at my house "for a while." I was allowed to drive it. Eventually, I began to fall in love with it. The power, the handling, the praise from fanboys whenever encountered. I really wanted this car.

I researched and read on the GT-R Owners Forum that S P Engineering was a GT-R specialist. Even their website showed "Turbo Alex" with Jay Leno. So far, all good.

I made an appointment for a PPI (pre-purchase inspection) via their email and website. When you call their tel#, the outgoing message will tell you to email them, so don't expect to speak with live person. "If you can't email or access their website, you aren't a good fit as an S P Engineering clientelle."

I dropped off the car before they open at 9am, but had to wait for their gates to open. The young man, Clemente slightly late, but very apologetic and courteous. Hey, it's LA traffic. He took my key and said Alex will reach out to me when the PPI was done. The PPI should take about 4 hours.

When I returned, Alex greeted me at door. He was so cool. Nice tats, cool guy. Non-assuming. I wish we could switch careers. What a cool job to work on GT-Rs, Porsches, Lamborghinis and Audi R8 (V10 lambo engines.)

HONEST ASSESSMENT: Because Alex and Clemente are GT-R specialists they gave me an honest and thorough assessment. It was not the report that I was hoping for. They photographed the damages and gave me recommendations of what servicing and repairs needed to be done. Not including the paint job, the service and parts estimate were about $18k total. So what I thought was good deal on a low mileage, carefully maintained GT-R, was actually, a lonely and neglected GT-R, needing a lot of TLC and money. Like an abandoned stepchild.

So its a hard pass in this 2009 Premium. In retrospect, I'm glad I didn't spend $60k on car that needed another $18k to bring it to its glory and potential. Thanks Alex for the "tough love" and honest assessment. Now let's look for a good, late model 911 Carrera GTS, or 2017+ GT-R Nismo (wink.)

Hamid Yosafi

This place is great if you're either A) chinese, or B) really wealthy.

I went into this place to talk to the owner about working on my MR2 per someones recommendation. City of Industry is near nothing that matters so the drive was pretty painful. After a 20 minute wait, I got to talk to the head honcho who essentially blew me off. His and his staffs arrogant front should have been enough for me to walk out but against my better judgement, I had the guy rebuild my MR2's turbo.

Long story short, got the turbo back, installed it and had issues almost from the start. Had to pull it out the same week i got it back and had to take it back to SP and convince them to re-re-build it. Almost a year to the day later, the turbo started acting up again and I ultimately had to pull it and replace it with a Greddy.

Bottom line, my experience with this place was horrible. The poor work is one thing but the obnoxious arrogance and worthless customer service is intolerable. They should simply have a sign out front that says if your budget is under 20K, you are not welcome. If you are lucky enough to be able to spend that much, then I imagine you might be treated with a bit more respect. You'll also do better if you're Chinese or have a Chinese friend as all others are looked treated with a bit less...care.

Nadia Ines Garcia

I had a great experience with SP Engineering. My GT-R needed new brakes, rotors and an oil change. David and his team did great. They updated me when parts arrived, when they were working on the car and when it was ready for pick up. I am very picky with my car and SP Engineering made me feel like I had nothing to worry about. Thank you again David and the SP Engineering Team!

lennard lopez

Lowering my 5 star review to 2. They were great in the beginning when they installed my SP700 package. One year later, I wanted to switch for Cobb to EcuTek. I could not get a hold of David or anyone at the shop, note I live out of state. I emailed and left voice messages and still no answer. It took a friend who knows Alex to get an answer.
So I got fed up and had RD Engineering switch my cobb unit and they re-tuned my car. Ronnie and Raegan provided excellent customer service.

Kevin Rezzadeh

Alex is extremely helpful and honest. Everyone here spent 30 minutes talking to me every time I called about potential modifications for the GTR. We got the SPE 650 package. It's incredible. Could not recommend these guys more.

Edit 4 years later: Car has 50+K miles on it, still runs great!

Mike Chung

Alex and the SP team are knowledgeable, professional and experts in high performance precision tuning. I really appreciate how they are always helpful and stand by their work. This the premier GT-R shop in So.Cal and it's the only place I take my GT-R.

Sanchit Keni

I ordered a Speedometer Cable for a Nissan R32 GTR from their website. The item came earlier than expected and in perfect condition! Very smooth transaction. Would shop here again!

Tim Bradley

Yo one star on a review is BS first get your weight up boy! these spot is built on raw rare performance 1000+HP. Spent xx k on a stage 4 tranny with new clutch and also beefed up the rare axles on my 2012 GTR Black. I'm killing everything around me with know hesitation 650s McLarens, 911 turbo s, R6, R1 get the R1 on the freeway at about 178 mph! And the list goes on. You get what you pay for here.I bet everyone is wondering what I got under the hood right? At this place you want go wrong! See you'll on the streets,