ive got GOOD, BAD and UGLY news
GOOD, GTart are very good people, provide a good service, are very knowledgeable and run a very good business, with some EXCELENT cars theyve done and working on at present,
they had some uber nice skylines there
they say they like to do superb job, once and correctly, and make the customer happy, and at £60 per hour it better be too!!
BAD, as they have got more work to do as i couldnt get it all finished off in time its will take them till SAT!!!!! which ill be there picking it up at 8am when they open
if not i am going to be hugely fucked off! i did mention that to him
this is what i dont get he said it will take 1.5 days solid inc mapping to get it all done, so why so long seeing as it was booked in for MONDAY! yet he told me they wont start it till wednesday
going to ring them tomorro and sort it out.
now for the UGLY,
now, the chap that made my exhaust is a decent enough chap and very good at making exhausts, although is rather stupid as i found out,
he was given strict instruction NOT to start the engine due to the turbo not being connected to any of the oil and coolant pipes and no MAF which he also knew and seeing as i got it there on the back of a flatbed truck and collected it with a trailer!
i told him i would be there at 9am sharp to collect it which i was, but he was a bit impatient and couldnt get it of the ramp so he decided to start it up and reverse it of the ramp! what a fucking plank! were my exact words to him, he said that he turned it on and as soon as he saw oil coming oput of the cross section i made up for the oil feed he turned it off, which he said was about 10 secs, he didnt reverse it all the way off, he just got some momentum, so he said,
now if i get a phone call in the week from GTart saying that my 360 thrust bearing is shagged on my lovely new £575 turbo i am going to go mental!!
GTart says there is a 10-5% chance it could be fucked and i rang turbo technics and he said he has run the same turbo for up to 5mins before with no oil supply but after that it was worthless
luckily tho! there was still the oil that was in it when manufactured which is the startup oil, so it would not have run dry as i kept the pipe bungs in but maybe over heated,
i was nearly in tears sat ah
yeah its a N/A running low comp forged pistons for the pulsar, dont know for sure what C/R it is now but the pistons are 9-1 or 8.5-1 ive got a 1.2mm cometic headgasket too so id say about that
cheers almeraraje who was it youve spoken to