Turbo6Smackdown
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Ok. So I take my 98 GS to ZZPerformance, for a few bolt ons, and a dyno tune.
I wanted them to install my new manifolds, new fuel pump, injectors, high ratio rockers, pulley, and dyno tune the whole thing.
9 hours later, they ask me what kind of gas I got in this thing, because they couldn't find the source of my knock. I said it's 93 man. So they ask "well what do you want us to do" I said tune my car so that it doesn't knock, that's what!
So after leaving the place, the valve on the bottom of my fuel cannister is stuck shut, starving my car of fuel, the o ring in my fuel pump is pinched, so it leaks fuel, the valve covers leak oil, the exhaust now leaks, and it was given an 8.8:1 tune, with 11 degrees of timing lol.
I take it back (2.5 hour drive) and they un**** the fuel pump issue. I ask them to fix the exhaust leak to. They said they did. I drove away, and it was the same... I said ****it....
So then I order some Moog cargo coils for the car. To stiffen up the ride. I throw the rears on, and they're soo tall, the bottom three coils are stacked up tight against each other. They don't fit. I have a local shop put the fronts on, and they raised the cars height by 4 inches. So now my car looks like it's half way up, doing a wheelstand..... So I go back to stock...again.
The car rides like a boat, so I order new monroe struts. Put them on, and they change nothing.
Every time I go over a small bump, I hear many rattles up front, as if every single component on my front end is loose. (It's all new) I was told it was strut mounts. After my research, I came up with the same thing. The shop replaces them, and the rattle goes nowhere. 500 dollars later.
I put on aftermarket sway bars, and they squeak like a 1977 New Yorker, with 555,000 miles on it.
My car, with all the aftermarket stuff on it, is no better than it was, right out of the factory....
So I order a test pipe from gbodyparts.com. I ask them SPECIFICALLY, if they had any 14" pipes. I asked if they can go back and measure it. They said they did, and that it was 14 inches on the nose. I get it, and it's 17 & 3/8ths inch. Yea.. Thanks. And now I can't modify it, because it's chrome. Why you would chrome a test pipe is beyond me. What, is your exhaust chrome too? No? How 'bout your down pipe. Is that chrome too?? NO? THEN WHY!!!!..... ugh...
I lose every time. I can now see, that if you don't do it yourself, you're SCREWED. I mean, ****ed!!
I bet you there's no exhaust leaks on the guys car, that installed my parts at zzperformance....
People are so worthless it's not even funny.
I wanted them to install my new manifolds, new fuel pump, injectors, high ratio rockers, pulley, and dyno tune the whole thing.
9 hours later, they ask me what kind of gas I got in this thing, because they couldn't find the source of my knock. I said it's 93 man. So they ask "well what do you want us to do" I said tune my car so that it doesn't knock, that's what!
So after leaving the place, the valve on the bottom of my fuel cannister is stuck shut, starving my car of fuel, the o ring in my fuel pump is pinched, so it leaks fuel, the valve covers leak oil, the exhaust now leaks, and it was given an 8.8:1 tune, with 11 degrees of timing lol.
I take it back (2.5 hour drive) and they un**** the fuel pump issue. I ask them to fix the exhaust leak to. They said they did. I drove away, and it was the same... I said ****it....
So then I order some Moog cargo coils for the car. To stiffen up the ride. I throw the rears on, and they're soo tall, the bottom three coils are stacked up tight against each other. They don't fit. I have a local shop put the fronts on, and they raised the cars height by 4 inches. So now my car looks like it's half way up, doing a wheelstand..... So I go back to stock...again.
The car rides like a boat, so I order new monroe struts. Put them on, and they change nothing.
Every time I go over a small bump, I hear many rattles up front, as if every single component on my front end is loose. (It's all new) I was told it was strut mounts. After my research, I came up with the same thing. The shop replaces them, and the rattle goes nowhere. 500 dollars later.
I put on aftermarket sway bars, and they squeak like a 1977 New Yorker, with 555,000 miles on it.
My car, with all the aftermarket stuff on it, is no better than it was, right out of the factory....
So I order a test pipe from gbodyparts.com. I ask them SPECIFICALLY, if they had any 14" pipes. I asked if they can go back and measure it. They said they did, and that it was 14 inches on the nose. I get it, and it's 17 & 3/8ths inch. Yea.. Thanks. And now I can't modify it, because it's chrome. Why you would chrome a test pipe is beyond me. What, is your exhaust chrome too? No? How 'bout your down pipe. Is that chrome too?? NO? THEN WHY!!!!..... ugh...
I lose every time. I can now see, that if you don't do it yourself, you're SCREWED. I mean, ****ed!!
I bet you there's no exhaust leaks on the guys car, that installed my parts at zzperformance....
People are so worthless it's not even funny.