Im try to make this is short as possible. I got recommended to shop, they did an E85 tune on my 04 turbo cobra after a couple times of talking the car out racing it blew up (melted a piston) prior to this is was tuned by another shop on pump gas never had any issues but there wait time for tunes was insane which is why I switched shops.
I took the lost of the motor failure as just part of the game since after all I do like to race. $12,000 later after building the motor, upgrading the alternator/injectors since tuner said that was probably the issue.
This is happening over the span of a year, finally get the car back to break it in and literally since day one it wouldnt ride right, cut off all the time, cut off while going through an intersection lost power steering scary stuff. Coolant hose was too close to the engine so it put a hole in it and coolant sprayed everywhere literally thought the car was fire it was so much smoke.
Took the car back, they “fixed” the issues, went to continue on breaking the car in same thing happened again, then again, then again literally I have ton of pictures, and videos. It got so bad the shop owner had to come get the car and finish the reminder break in miles.
Fast forward, I get the call saying the car is broken in and making good power, great. I literally took the car onto the highway one pull and the car just started pouring smoke out the tail pipe. At this point Im hot, this total process is going on two years that the car has been at the shop.
So I lost it and me the builder got into a big argument over it. The reason I lost it is because I went to check the dyno graph to see if it had the AFR ratio on it which it didnt but what I did notice is that the dyno graph stopped at exactly 6k rpm. So I asked him why does my graph only say 6k rpm when its not the redline. He response was and I quote “You shouldn’t be shifting over that point” if thats the case why not tell me that or set a rev limiter.
I just knew the car melted a piston, so builder pulled a spark plug and sure enough it was melted. Not to mention they had to redo my motor again because they put the wrong crankshaft in it. My car is still at the shop and the owner being a baby and not responding to my messages anymore because and I quote “im just talking shit to him”. His shop is quite a ways from me but its within a reasonable driving distance.
My thing is I feel like this is going no where, and he wont own up to his tuning error. I haven’t posted anything about this because I have a 130k followers on my social media and last I want to do is ruin the way someone eat, but at the same time I feel like he not trying work with me here. I kind of feel like Im assed out, but at the same time I have so much evidence against this dude proving negligence on his end.
What do you think? Small claims court? Continue to try to work it out? Take the loss, sell it and let social media handle it or what. I dont know I just want to get this over with.
I took the lost of the motor failure as just part of the game since after all I do like to race. $12,000 later after building the motor, upgrading the alternator/injectors since tuner said that was probably the issue.
This is happening over the span of a year, finally get the car back to break it in and literally since day one it wouldnt ride right, cut off all the time, cut off while going through an intersection lost power steering scary stuff. Coolant hose was too close to the engine so it put a hole in it and coolant sprayed everywhere literally thought the car was fire it was so much smoke.
Took the car back, they “fixed” the issues, went to continue on breaking the car in same thing happened again, then again, then again literally I have ton of pictures, and videos. It got so bad the shop owner had to come get the car and finish the reminder break in miles.
Fast forward, I get the call saying the car is broken in and making good power, great. I literally took the car onto the highway one pull and the car just started pouring smoke out the tail pipe. At this point Im hot, this total process is going on two years that the car has been at the shop.
So I lost it and me the builder got into a big argument over it. The reason I lost it is because I went to check the dyno graph to see if it had the AFR ratio on it which it didnt but what I did notice is that the dyno graph stopped at exactly 6k rpm. So I asked him why does my graph only say 6k rpm when its not the redline. He response was and I quote “You shouldn’t be shifting over that point” if thats the case why not tell me that or set a rev limiter.
I just knew the car melted a piston, so builder pulled a spark plug and sure enough it was melted. Not to mention they had to redo my motor again because they put the wrong crankshaft in it. My car is still at the shop and the owner being a baby and not responding to my messages anymore because and I quote “im just talking shit to him”. His shop is quite a ways from me but its within a reasonable driving distance.
My thing is I feel like this is going no where, and he wont own up to his tuning error. I haven’t posted anything about this because I have a 130k followers on my social media and last I want to do is ruin the way someone eat, but at the same time I feel like he not trying work with me here. I kind of feel like Im assed out, but at the same time I have so much evidence against this dude proving negligence on his end.
What do you think? Small claims court? Continue to try to work it out? Take the loss, sell it and let social media handle it or what. I dont know I just want to get this over with.
