Ryan's Performance

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  Charla Reid
a year ago
This past week my son and I were stranded with a flat tire at the Acadian ambulance adjoining this shop. My husband came to help but we discovered our jack didn t work right.Even though Ryan s Performance was closing the owner and his wife were so gracious and not only let us use their industrial type tools but almost did it all for us!They did not ask for any payment and would not accept any from us.It is rare that we find human kindness like this in our world today. We are beyond grateful for their help.If you have any auto performance need so would definitely start here!

  B. R. MATLOCK
3 years ago
I met with Ryan about a custom tune and after carefully listening to my request and asking numerous questions about my goals, I feel like I have truly gotten what I set out to achieve. I've been hoping for a balance between performance, comfort, reliability and drivability. After leaving last night I am extremely happy with my results. The car runs as good as it can in it's current status with a comfortable stock feel. However, giving it the beans reveals an entirely different and very aggressive experience. I am very happy and pleased with Ryan and his expertise. Now the issue at hand is how to "not" destroy tires and how to avoid "flashing blue lights". Thanks man!

  Mike Gibbs
6 years ago
They do top notch work! I am very selective on who i trust my car with. Ryan and the crew did a excellent job at a reasonable rate. He specializes in Fords but hes not afraid to get his hands dirty on a exotic either. I couldn't be happier with the results. Thanks again guys!

  Brenda Jenkins
a year ago
My name is BJ Jenkins. I just want to tell you what a great guy Ryan is at Ryan's Performance. I had a flat and I pulled up in front of his store on Enterprise Blvd,near and across from the Fire Station. Mr Ryan came out to assist me without hesitation, and he didn't even want anything for helping me change the tire on my SUV. He didn't want anything for helping!please visit Ryan's performance he's a great, great guy!Please go by and visit Ryan's Performance!!!And the floors in his store is clean and shiny.God bless this nice young man!

  James Edge
a year ago
Great shop. Ryan tuned my 2019 Ford Raptor that currently had a five star tune in it and after some highway pulls and adjusting he had that Raptor spinning those 35 s like they weren t even there. Just bought an Explorer ST and he will be tuning that very soon also.

  Bridger Boyt
11 months ago
Great work done on my truck, didn't really know what I was getting into since it was my first modified vehicle but these guys helped me out and coached me through the whole thing. Ryan is not only very knowledgeable but also an excellent teacher, answered all of my questions and he also explained the why instead of the usual "this is the best" you would get from the other guys. Ryan will cost more than the rest but as a fellow tradesman (electrician not mechanic) I completely understand that skilled labor is becoming increasingly difficult to find, you'll get what you pay for here and he gives the best.So an update today(4/25/23) on this review, had an issue with the truck about 2 weeks ago heard a pretty bad tick driving home one night and immediately drove it home and parked it. Fired it up the next morning to a pretty bad knock and then killed it. Due to being in a different town (Freeport TX) and uncomfortable driving it, called a tow truck to take it to a local mechanic. I called several places that do not deal with complete engine teardowns/rebuilds nor performance builds and all gave me the same recommendation. Upon the new mechanic receiving the vehicle we attempted to start the truck and a connecting rod came flying out the side of the block before it even had a chance to completely turn over. Still unsure of the exact cause but I will post more when the destroyed engine is tore down and investigated. I payed 20,000$ for 17,000 miles and that just don't add up. Ryan had his chance and blew it just like my engine blew.

  Matt Foux
5 years ago
Ryan and his guys do great work! Don t make the mistake of bringing your vehicle to the cheaper guys in town to get your ride tuned. You get what you pay for! After putting a cam, intake, and a few other mods on my truck, I brought it to a local shop to get tuned. My truck would barely run when started and was running way too rich to be safe. After trying to do a few adjustments myself, I brought it Ryan s to get a proper dyno tune. The difference is day and night. I can stop at red lights without dying, take off without lagging, and I am getting better gas mileage than before as well as having more power.If you want the job done right the first time, bring it to Ryan and his crew.

  Alex Leon
4 years ago
Made my Corvette run like a champ. Great guy and the lady that runs the place Lisa is so helpful and she gives great service

  Trisha Webb
5 years ago
Stay far away from this shop! They stripped my husbands car, and Ryan claimed that my husband had agreed to selling his short block, plus other parts in exchange for labor. He never agreed, nor heard of this deal before the day he went to pick up his car. To make matters worse, Ryan didn't even know if he had sold my husbands short block, or not. He just told him it might be in the shop somewhere.Ryan did do ONE tune on my husbands car that left his car in way worse shape, which seems to be the norm for this shops tunes.When he opened the hood of the car, and saw that there were zero insides, he addressed employees, but there was nothing but stuttering from all of them. No one knew anything, they had all only been working there for a month. Magically, when they saw that my husband and his mechanic friend were not having their lies, employees started coming out of the shop with SOME of his parts. First they brought out old, raggedy parts, but when my husband told them no my parts were new and not the brand they brought out, they finally brought out his original parts. Parts were missing off of his car that had no business even being taken off for the work that my husband asked for.There has been speculation that this shop is fraudulent, but now it has been confirmed..for us anyway.In my own experience, my husband sold two parts from his car to a person in another state while his car was at Ryan's "shop". One part was mailed from Ryan's shop to the buyer, and surprise, surprise, my husband gets an email from the buyer saying that the part Ryan sent him was not the part that was advertised. My husband knows exactly what parts are on his car; he has had this car for over 20 years. They sent a downgraded part. Odd, because the buyer bought two parts from my husband at the same time, I sent one and Ryan's shop sent the other. The part I sent was sent as advertised, Ryan's shop sent a downgraded part.This shop needs to be investigated. There are too many of the same complaints of fraud for this business to still be running like this. My husband is a kind man and 20+ year veteran who saved for years to be able to have work done on his car. This is repugnant behavior. Do your research, and see why their employee turnover is so high. Most people do not want to work for someone who is screwing people over. And, after reading the other reviews on the Internet, I see my husband is not alone in getting ripped off.

  David Rutledge
a year ago
Terrible. Was supposed to get my truck tuned and it never happened. Every time I talked to him he lied to me. Even told me it was on the dyno at one point which was a complete lie. 10 of 10 would not recommend having them check the air pressure in your tires

  Cory Chromcak
2 years ago
Awesome people that do amazing work Ryan really knows his parts and engines. He builds incredible engines with excellent workmanship and pride in what he does and his wife who keeps everyone and everything in line and on track is extremely dedicated to her job love the work this place does if you want to go fast get it worked on here

  Wayne Openbrier
4 years ago
This is the second vehicle Ryan has tuned for me.First one was 2015 Mustang 5.0 the second is a 2018 2.7 Ecoboost F150. I couldn't be happier!! Ryan is one of the best tuners around. He really did an amazing job on my F150. It's a rocket ship off the line!! Highly recommended

  Superlite17
11 months ago
Would highly recommend other legitimate performance shops with educated tuners with experience, utilizing state of the art tools and up to date tuning software for your performance needs.

  Christopher Stewart
3 years ago
Ryan and everyone at the shop did an outstanding job working on my GTO. They notified me of issues that arose and informed me of the next steps that I needed to take in order to get the car done. The car would ve been done in a couple days had hurricane Laura not came through, but the shop persevered did the cam swap, replaced the fuel pump, got it on the dyno, and has it running like a champ. If you are a car enthusiast or care about your vehicle and want the job done right, take it here!

  Dale Poe
5 years ago
I will not do business with this place again. Brought my truck in for a simple one day tune (Ryans words), two months later it was still not done. Ryan never called me once, he also assured me multiple times, when I called, that it would be completed by/before Friday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years. Rather than be honest and tell you he is backed up, overwhelmed or just don t care he chooses to be dishonest and string you along.$380 dollars later my truck is still running exactly the same as when I brought it with the same two fouled plugs it had when I dropped it off. I am fairly certain he did put it on the dyno and possibly replaced an intake gasket, who knows for sure. I do know they tried to tune it with fouled plugs. All I know is if you say you re going to do something then do it, if not be honest with your customer. I thought long and hard before posting this until I logged on to look at the reviews, it appears to be a trend. Customer beware.4 December 2018In response to Ryans follow up,This was a carb to EFI swap (that I did). I was having trouble with the self-tuning feature; note: it was running fine in carb version.I possess over twenty nine years experience in the maintenance/mechanic field, during the course of these years I have attended numerous schools for gas, diesel and turbine engines. With that being said I agree, sometimes engine rebuilds or overhauls can have issues.I also very much understand that sometimes a customer s expectations vs a providers are different and these things need to be discussed often and in detail in order to avoid disagreements, frustration or instances such as this.I am not editing my review to quibble over education, egos, engine builder greatness or what a swing in the dark your response is. I want to make the following points clear and concise.No one wants to do business with a person/business that is dishonest, misleading or just flat out communicates poorly. These are all things, I feel, you need to work on.Being honest may not feel natural or appealing, but it is an excellent attribute for any business.

  Ron Phillips
4 years ago
Right from the first contact, I had a good feeling about Ryan and Ryan's Performance in Lake Charles, La. When I first spoke to Ryan about some performamce upgrades and questions I had about my 2019 Z06 I let him know I was from San Antonio, Tezas and I had talked to shops with mixed reaulrts and no real straight answers. I let him know he was recommended by my friend but, didn't expect much from a guy 300+ miles away and would never see my car I was pleasantly suprised when he didn't cut me off and patiently listened to my story. When I was done the first thing he said was, "i don't really know too much about those other guys but, here's what I do kniw from all the one's I've done iver here...after about 45 minutes on the phone I now knew what to expect, it was in plain english, not "I think maybe" and from his experience tuning cars on his dyno, I would get what I wanted...the fastet, meanest sounding, crazy fast ocketship.on four wheels. Needless to say those extra 600+ extra miles were more fhan well worth taking my 'Z06 Vette to Ryan's Perfirmance, who alsol went an extra mile for me and my baby...many thenks to Ryan and his crew of professionals in Lake Charles

  Bruce Pullen
3 months ago
Very pleased with the quality of the work and especially the degree of communication on details.

  Elverna Singleton
7 years ago
Service was VERY POOR. We brought our truck there for service on Aug 16. We called before we brought it there and was told the parts were in and he would get to it as soon as possible. I checked back at noon on Aug 19th and Ryan told me the parts were on and he was just waiting on a switch to come in at 3:30 and we could pick the truck up the next day. Well we went to pay Ryan that evening only to find out he lied AND no work was done to the truck at all. So we left checked back Aug 26th still nothing, mind you were are inconvenienced with one vehicle. So I went by Ryan on Aug 31st and told him I wanted to know what's really going on and that we have been lied to three times so far. He again told me everything was done and he was waiting on a switch again. Well, my husband went check on truck only to find out Ryan lied again and no work was even done to truck at all. So we took the truck and Ryan had nerve to have an attitude. Also we lost 200.00 in parts we never got.BAD BUSINESS

  ceaser webb
5 years ago
This is in response to Ryans reply to my wifes review (Trisha Webb)....Ryan I only have a few things to say about this..First, you are a liar, and a cheat. You can't take a few true statements then mix it together with sooo many lies and think its still the truth. I never told you I was giving you my old engine. Yes I did sell parts off the engine and yes you sold the old heads and I told you to keep that money for my bill..You told my wife I called you and asked if you would take the trans for labor charges...Thats a lie. You called me and asked if it was a good trans because you could see where the case had been welded..I told you it was a great trans and was fixed by Chis Tuten from South Carolina..He once held the drag radial record..Is that jarring your memory yet. How about you said you was building a street car that you wanted to put it in..I said I was going auto and you told me we would come with something with my bill....Coming back to you now?? I know its hard to remember to truth sometimes.....Then you said I told you to send my old block to the machine shop to get bored 60 over..Why would I do that when I was having a Dart block built from Fordstrokers, which you knew because you told my wife it was on the east coast...its not the east coast, but that was another lie, no one told you to send that old block to the machine shop...Maybe thats part of your business practices to just do unauthorized work to get the paycheck..And if you did send it to the machine shop who paid for it and shouldn't there be a invoice for machine work..And the tune you supposedly did that you told me was 550 bucks...Yeah..another lie..If you did a tune on my car why is the same auto logic chip in it..you told me you used SCT chips..Lies....I'm not the only one though..I have talked to many people that you have cheated. I thought you was this great tuner..why are you calling other shops for help on a tune..Really...Wish I had known this before now...live and learn.

  Heath Campbell (TheRankWorld)
4 years ago
He is a very nice person and did a fantastic job I really think people's problem is they don't know how to take Ryan because they are used to getting lied to by THE Jokesters that supposably know how to tune and ask him to fix a mess up knowing it will take time and effort just speaking he's the best in southern Louisiana that I could find

  3962ivan
6 years ago
Not a very reliable and honest place! Had my car there for three months just for a tune and they left it worse than it was. Please dont take your car or truck there! Take it somewhere else please.

  David E. Gwartney,Jr.
3 years ago
Got my car running better than when it was new! Also went out of his way to get my car to me since I live so far out and couldn't get a ride at the last minute.

  Adam Payne
2 years ago
Got my vehicle in the next day and tuned while i was waiting. Very knowledgeable and was able to get my vehicle running perfectly

  Chavon Pitre
2 years ago
Great family owned business, Ryan communicates with you before he does anything, he will show you what s broke how it broke and best way to fix it highly recommend this place

  Jared Wilson
5 years ago
Absolutely sucks this dude is a jerky likes talk down customers and insults there intelligence also blew up a few cars on the dyno

  Arthur Spikol
a year ago
Excellent work great performance best place in USA without a doubt!

  Scott Fontenot
4 years ago
Ryan can tune your vehicle just like you want and it will be badass......

  A Google User
5 years ago
They were helpful and courteous and got the job done.

  Jody Reynaud
5 years ago
Very knowledgeable and wont use cheap parts.

  Caleb Cormier
3 years ago
Very professional will get the job done no matter what