Evans Ward
Love those LC2/ Y56 cars!
- Joined
- May 24, 2001
Didn't even get the pleasure of joining this elite club. I had my car in a local shop (in the Macon/ Warner Robins area) for electrical repair to the printed flexible circuit board on the rear of the instrument cluster. After the 3rd used unit/ piece and 8 wks later, I get the call that my car is ready. First thing I noticed when driving the car home is that my alcohol injection controller has been turned off. Slight concern for me since I did not lower the boost and had the car tuned set at 23 PSI WOT w/ alky. Drove the car sporadically in the couple of wks after getting it back but noticed some overheating concerns. Checked coolant level in rad and could not see at all! Now comes the time that I get that bad gut wrenching feeling where you realize what has happened. Not that I can prove it conclusively, but I know the car was perfectly fine mechanically when I took it in for the electrical repair, and I know I didn't go WOT in it in some time since I have been trying to get it sorted. Scenario I think happened is that shop owner got one of the younger guys to test the car out to see if instrument panel was working, alcohol injection was turned off (why??) and somebody couldn't resist going WFO in my car! Bet that audible knock detector screamed at him. I'm pretty sure they probably knew what they did too as I noticed anti freeze in the rad when I started draining it. I only had water and RMI- 25. I haven't called the shop and probably won't as I have started the disassembly to change the head gaskets. I thought I could trust this shop but now have been bitten! I could have prevented this by lowering the boost so I'm accepting some responsibility in this. Did get alot off the motor yesterday and a friend and myself will handle the R+R to get it back right again. Seems this car has been giving a rash of bad luck lately but I'm positive and optimistic to fix it again. Hope someone can learn from this including me..... :frown: