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06-12-09, 09:14 PM
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Listen to Tommy and Jeff expect to to pay at least 8 stacks plus, my total is about 9 grand so far and I'm still not done yet as far as drive train and lsd . But here is the most important advice I can give you, if you have any doubts with a shops ability to install and tune your car correctly don't let them touch it many shops will claim their expertise in 2jz's but have only worked on Nismo's , honda's, dsm's, and subies. I had an experience such as this from a alley mechanic *** member on the boards who owns a shop and they did a supreme hack job on it now it is being done correctly as we speak. Research everything from the parts you buy to the shop that is doing the install, and make sure they are familiar with the engine managment you are going to use
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06-12-09, 09:26 PM
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Hell, even big name shops will screw up cars badly. There's a shop here in Dallas that I won't name. They had a customer that dropped a stock IS300 off and he spent around $20k at the shop. They put in all the upgrades including fully built block with forged pistons/rods, turbo kit, clutch, etc. They also dyno tuned it at their facility and then the car let the smoke out. Results was a stack of 6 melted pistons and the car wasn't even making more than 400rwhp!!! Ladies and gentleman, that's on a fully built race block and they managed to melt the freaking pistons. Obviously that guy didn't go back to the shop to fix their mistake, and to make it worse the shop denied all liability and flat out refused to fix the car or compensate him for anything. They even had the nerve to charge $1500 or so to pull the motor out to inspect it AFTER it blew up!
Anyways, that guy is now one of my customers and his car has gone from blown up to rebuilt and ready to pick up in 1 week
Anyways, that guy is now one of my customers and his car has gone from blown up to rebuilt and ready to pick up in 1 week
06-12-09, 09:42 PM
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Hell, even big name shops will screw up cars badly. There's a shop here in Dallas that I won't name. They had a customer that dropped a stock IS300 off and he spent around $20k at the shop. They put in all the upgrades including fully built block with forged pistons/rods, turbo kit, clutch, etc. They also dyno tuned it at their facility and then the car let the smoke out. Results was a stack of 6 melted pistons and the car wasn't even making more than 400rwhp!!! Ladies and gentleman, that's on a fully built race block and they managed to melt the freaking pistons. Obviously that guy didn't go back to the shop to fix their mistake, and to make it worse the shop denied all liability and flat out refused to fix the car or compensate him for anything. They even had the nerve to charge $1500 or so to pull the motor out to inspect it AFTER it blew up!
Anyways, that guy is now one of my customers and his car has gone from blown up to rebuilt and ready to pick up in 1 week
Anyways, that guy is now one of my customers and his car has gone from blown up to rebuilt and ready to pick up in 1 week
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