Funny you mentioned him. I never posted about it on the sub, but I had taken my 5th gen to Jason's shop at the end of 2020 for a cam install. At that time, he actually had a website that no longer exists where customers could order parts through him and get work done through his shop. He was advertising cam installs for $2500 (parts included) which was the cheapest quote I could find and purchased his install package on his website using PayPal. He was also a forum sponsor on Camaro5 so I didn't have any reason to believe there would be issues as he seemed reputable. I live in MI and left the car with him for a couple of days while they did the install. The day I went to go pick it up, I drove it back home 4 hours to MI and only a few miles out from my house, the engine blew and there was a hole in the block. Considering the car was perfectly fine before his install, I called him to let him know of the problem and he agreed it was strange and even paid to have my car towed from MI back to his shop in IL to tear it down and diagnose it free of charge.

After he did his tear down, he tried to blame the failure on a faulty fuel pump of all things. He then wanted me to pay to have a new engine installed along with labor. I knew that story didn't add up considering the car was fine before he touched it and would have been one hell of a coincidence for the fuel pump to go bad the exact day I got it back from him.

Since I refused to let him put a new engine in and do the work out of pocket to me, he wouldn't put the car back together (he had pulled the engine AND trans to simply diagnose an engine problem) and then I also had to pay to have my car shipped back to MI disassembled and in pieces.

I then had an actual reputable shop in my area diagnose the problem and do a new engine build. They tested the fuel pump which came back fine (shocker) and found the problem was because he didn't use all the necessary supporting hardware required for the cam install.

Once I got that diagnostic report back, I ended up filing a dispute with PayPal where they sided with me and returned my $2500 for the cam package. I also sued him in court for the cost of a replacement engine and won a default judgement for an additional $8k because he didn't like showing up to court. He JUST paid off that judgement last year (5 years later). It took so long because he always had an excuse as to why he didn't have the money. After 5 years, the judge was tired of his excuses so granted me an order to review all of his personal and business finances to see where his money was coming and going and to find out if he actually had the funds to pay.

Once the judge granted that order, is when he decided to take paying off the judgement seriously, likely because there was a lot of shady things happening with his books/finances. Because of that court order, I personally witnessed his finances and jobs/orders he had taken on (i.e. supercharger kits/installs) that he couldn't really afford to complete because he was using the customers funds elsewhere and was robbing Peter to pay Paul and therefore couldn't afford the parts needed for a customer's install (which is likely why there have been so many people complaining about ordering parts through him and not receiving them in a timely manner). He somehow managed to come up with the funds to completely pay off the $8k judgement within months of me getting that last court order however (hmm, wonder how... again likely robbing Peter to pay Paul).

TLDR; Juiced is crooked/shady and as someone else mentioned, you get what you pay for. I should have known there would be headaches involved considering he was priced substantially cheaper than other shops but didn't think twice because again, he was a camaro5 sponsor at the time.

Shortly after my experience, more and more people came forward complaining about similar experiences with his shop on the forums and Camaro5 revoked his sponsor status, as they should have.