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What has this world come to???...I got the power back!
Ok, to start off I just want to say that today after a long ass time, my car is running perfect, when I mean perfect I mean 350-370hp perfect!
And I have to thank Luisgonz for it. he is the magic man, he knows his shiet! (How can we not trust out local shops anymore?) (how can professional mechanics that fix SR's for a living let such simple mistakes go by due to pure negligence and trying to make quick big bucks) I always thought hat you get what you pay for, so this time i wanted to do it right and decided to pay high$$$ expecting to get great results.. I got royally screwed!!!.below is my story...it is long, but please read, I know some of you have been there, and some of you will.. so read: As some of you that know me may know I blew my first SR, about 2 years ago. I still knew very little about the motor so I took it to a shop that was recommended to me. The shop was ran by Terry henderson (drift buffet-land-ho etc) and Earnie Fixmer(team Rotora-D1-and currently works local shop) they charged me $900 to pull the motor and tell me what was wrong with it. eventually they called me and told me I had a blown motor, and I needed to rebuild or just get a new one. I decided to rebuild it. I was charged another $2800 to rebuild the motor to stock specs, but adding a headgasket and headstuds. they promised me I would have a stong running motor that they would guarantee. On the day I went to pick up my car, while on the phone with them they warn me that my car sounds like a subaru??? WTF??? I was like what do you mean like a subaru? did you guys fix it? they continuously argued that my tunning must be bad, thats why it wont drive well. my argument was "I have a jim wolfe) tuned ecu, it ran very strong before the blown engine, if you rebuilt the motor why wouldn't it run strong now? so i decide to take the car and buy a Power FC to have it tuned again, wondering if the ecu went bad??or maybe they fucked somethign else up, anyways it had been a few months already and I needed a car to drive, and they promised they would look at the car again if I needed it. ...car ran like shit for almost a year.. During that time I took it to 2 shops and even had Steve shadows come to my place to look at it, but no one could find out what the issue was. Steve actually got close, he said he knew it was Timing, but even after adjusting the timing it still ran weak.he recommended I get it tunned properly on a dyno, which i still plan on doing soon. after buying the power fc, I took the car back to Earnie Fixmer 2 more times he played with the timing, continued saying it was my tunning, and on one occasion even tuned my power fc for me(base tune) but the car still ran weak.. I called Terry a few times, but never got answers, so eventually gave up, earnie couldnt make it work, terry was unreachable. at this point I had gotten to know Luis(Luisgonz) from Zilvia, and he promised me he would take a look at the car. this morning I showed up at his house early in the morning, and he got to work, checked vac lines, wiring, cleaned it all up, and then moved on to under the valve cover, where emediatley he noticed that the timing alignment marks were OFF, way off... the timing was sooo retarded that the car could never run, there was no acceleration. I had acutally mentioned this to Earnie and Terry a few times, (about the possibility of it not being at TDC) I had read up about it. I just want to say how most "tuners" when dealing with timing issues dont wanna get down and dirty, tryign to do the minimun possible and getting paid the max. How can a shop that deals with SR's on a daily basis miss something like this?(this is one of the most important things to watch for when assembling the motor) I just dont get how there could have been such negligence and disregard towards my car,,,even after having got paid big$$$$ $3800???to rebuild a motor to stock specs??? I know I got ripped off, and the worse part is they probably didnt even rebuild the motor they prob just swapped out a different one and didnt mind to make sure it ran well.. and everyone knows that with the money I paid them I could have bought a whole new motor! To finish this off I just wanna give huge PROPS to LUISGONZ ...this man knows his shit! He charged me close to nothign to fix it, I recommend(highly) to anyone near los angeles Fineline tunning (his in-house business name)is the way to go : (also just to clear up, my comments on disregard do not apply to steve, he just was not able to find the prob at the time!)since he only had about an hour to look at the car)I will prob be hiiting him up to due the dyno tune soon! If this is in the wrong section please move Mods,
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congratulations on getting the car running man
i bet it feels good finally and steve will give you a badass tune to top it off just wait til you can rail on it knowing its reliable
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It helps to find an honest person to give you a helping hand good job to luis and yourself on getting it running. now you can go to the track and have some fun
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I have a learned distrust of shops. Some are decent, but many are just out to make quick bucks with little work and will do the MINIMUM (if even that) to try to max profits. Friends, personal contacts and connections and private deals for a few bucks or a couple beers, or whatever is fair for the work, are the way to go IMHO.
Great you got your car running strong. ![]()
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Damn man TIMING is critical... Good to hear the problems are over tho... Im gonna have to come test drive it to make sure it works
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Im gonna hit up luisgonz in the near future to weld up my blastpipes. Saw his work in the premie build threads, amazing work man
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Most shops have their bitches actually do the work while the guys that actually know what's up collect the money. I am willing to bet that's what happened here. The minimum wage laborers, probably acquired south of the border, fucked it up and the guys in charge were total douches because it was warrantied. So typical in the automotive industry.
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lol..thx.. I was pissed!..like WTFD??hehehe picking him up 730 am?
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"star drifter" attitude.. "I dont wanna go work on that peice of shit car" since my engine bay was dirty and my first sr swap was shitty even though it was fast it was rigged..wires hanging..worn out stuff..etc.. you get the idea.. this guy works on superstar D1 cars..then has to work on my sorry ass S14..getting paid ahead of time..makes it even esier to kick to the side and slack off.. but what gets to me is the fact thgat even though i kept telling them time after time..somethign was up with my motor it was not normal..please check it out..they never did.. they allowed to leave their shop..running like shit..knowing it was not put together right..
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Glad you put the info out there. Being in Socal its easy to fine a shop that will work on an SR,RB,CA etc but its hard to find one with exprience and not just milking the teet. At least its actually documented for people looking in the future about the quality of service these people performed.
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If he is truly a technician he would work on any car regardless if it was a total mess or not. Welcome to the REAL world where not every car is setup professionally and clean and ease to work on. And the whole cam timing thing obvioisly show who ever worked onit or diagnosed it in the begining was lazy or did not look/pay attention on what he was doing. Skill, honesty and craftsmanship are getting scarce these days.
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man, thats some shit brotha- thanks for the heads up and glad to hear that thanks to other people on here, you were able to get it going good.
And I think you are right, if they REBUILT the motor, there is no way in hell that it would have been that off- I have a really hard time believing otherwise. I would say count your losses, but $3800 worth is a lot of counting. It just sucks when YOU have to be the ginuea pig and everybody on here knows you wont be the last that they do this to... Stay up man. -Mike
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Sorry to hear you lost all that money and time but glad to hear you're car is running good. All that hp must be nice
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The thing with Luis is that, he was born with this gift. we are all born with God given talents, for Luis its cars. He focuses on the smallest details and he just knows his shit. I know he wont admit to it, but this isnt just a hobby for him, its his passion.
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Glad to hear you got it fixed Gabe, I wouldn't have popped the valve cover if you'd have brought it over here lol. +rep for Luisgonz.
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I have the Powerfc at home, jim wolfe tunning runs fast as fuck, but i am sure the power fc will do even better ! Thanks to all that chimed in, It was pretty emotional for me feeling all the power back..after 2 years.. ask Alex, Luiz bro..when i went to test drive it after he adjusted the timing..and the car got so sideways in 4000rpm..first gear, i almost shit myself.. my legs were shaking when i went to get gas...lol..more of happyness/anxiety..lol... I felt like a little bitch..haha
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Ahahaha...i didn't..lol..max is cool..very chill dog.. expet for when the neighbours dogs come near the fence, he tries to chew the wooden fence..lol..he actualy ate half of the main beam of the fence.its like a 2x6" and he ate threw it..lol
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Thats awesome man, glad you got your car the you want to, its a good feeling. Hope shit like this doesn't happen to anyone, i never go to shops because they all look shady. Went to THE SHOP once and never going again.
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Gabe, I made the information presented here and in PM exchange into a review thread for you:
http://www.zilvia.net/f/showthread.php?t=195670 Anything more if I missed it, let me know. |
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