:icon14: Ummm... lying to the government about your home address to skirt emissions requirements is not a legal resolution :shakes head:

All that messing around with your engine and no one ever performed the idle air reset procedure? lol

Nope, lol. Crazy right?

I didn't lie to them about my home address.
The option was to change the mailing address not home address.
So technically it is still legal.
The home address is still my home address as it was for the past 20 years xD

I genuinely miss this thread.

Any news on progress?

I'll update it soon. Lots of unexpected things came up. Long story short, financial issues came up so I had to tell Seb I couldnt bring it to his shop. Details coming soon!

Shocker of the year, ‘lots of things came up.’

You don’t say...

xD i can't tell if that's an insult, said to make fun of me or not..but i hope not. i mean i dont want to update this thread anymore if people will just continually talk down about the things happening...x.X

if it wasn't meant as anything negative then i apologize!

With all our builds , THINGS come up! It's just the nature of modifying cars in general.

Short Story Didn't bring it to Seb as I originally wanted to do, financial issues came up so I couldn't do it. He was okay with it, communicated it to him in a timely manner and all was resolved. Brought it to a local shop (read below for my experience with them)

Long Story -- Read Below lol


So, Between June 05 - July 03...


I recently brought my vehicle into an aftermarket local mechanic shop to fix a few things (boost leaks and an SES code). The time it took took to fix these three things was a total of 4 weeks. Mind you, this is after I had scheduled with the shop before-hand that I wanted to drop it off at X date. I let them know a whole month before hand, and told them the things I wanted done.

This shop charges $149/hour

They work on GTRs, Q60s, Hellcats, all sorts of 1000+ HP cars and so I decided my Z should be no problem for them! First week goes by and they don't touch the car. I call them and ask what's going on and they said they work on cars with a deposit faster than the ones without. I said uhhh. why didn't you tell me that? I would've put a deposit in a long time ago! So I did put in a deposit of $500 about 1.5 weeks in after dropping it off.

Then they finally work on it, and the way they work is so unprofessional (Communication wise, and organizational skills wise)...very poor.

Then after about the 3rd week, they say they are unable to talk to my ECU. At this point I'm like ?!?!?!?!?! I brought in a working vehicle and now it's not working? And so they said it could be this or that issue blah blah and said might have been something wrong with my ECU or something. They did not even THINK to check the fuses before removing the ECU.

The owner of the shop says he will remove the ECU for me so I can bring it over to my tuner who will bench test it and make sure it's still in working order.

Guess how long it took him to remove my ECU from the 370z 2009 base edition? It took him a whole 45 minutes! He also light weight complained that it was "some intense labor" to remove.

Let me remind you again... This is coming from a shop that charges $149/hour and works on all types of crazy cars as listed above! Then...the unprofessional shop I brought it to that I just took the car out of..they left a set of mitsubishi car keys in my car / engine bay, lmao At first, he thought it was mine when I was getting my car back, and i said no. Then he brought me my keys. I also didn't know he put the mitsubishi keys back in the Z until about 8 hours later.

Oh, and they ended up charging me for the parts they bought to replace the broken fuses that occurred between the time I brought the car in and picked it up (clearly their fault) but instead they said it is nobody's fault, it's the car's fault and "that's why we aren't charging you labor"

And not to mention...they thought that something was wrong with my Throttle Body! They showed me some exposed wiring and showed me some powder to "prove" that it was shorted out. He said that they would charge me for the parts to replace that too if needed, when clearly was not there when I brought the car into the shop! The heck?!?!

K...That makes sense right?

So the question is:

- Should I wait 1 month before I return the keys back to the shop while anonymously mailing it after a month?

- Should I call them ASAP and let them know I have a set of keys that isn't mine from their shop?

- Should I charge them $16.88 for the fuses that they charged me for as well as wait like an entire month? lol


-- The three things they fixed? ---
(1) Sealed up my MAF holes properly as it was leaking from there when they performed a boost test

(2) Fixed my BOV which wasn't properly installed / seated... not sure how it got crooked but it did lol

(3) Found out that one of my cats (yes I still have cats...!) was gasketless, so they put new gaskets in properly.

===============================================

So I finally take the car out of the shop on July 3rd, and have AAA tow it straight from there to a friend's house who can do everything the shop did in 1 day instead of 4 weeks! This person has worked on my car before and knows my car inside out, and has never done any wrong when making installations on the car or helping with maintenance needs.

The things he did to my car so far:

- Changed out brake pads to brand new Yellowstuff EBC Akebono (Front & Rear)

- Will fix an oil leak coming from the top passenger side timing cover area that he found

- Will put in new front rotors because my current front rotors are bad (I just ordered a pair of Cryo-treated, Slotted Stop Tech Sport Rotors which will be delivered on Monday to his house)

- He saw that the belt was rubbing against something so he will adjust it accordingly and fix that issue

- Putting in a brand new fender liner on driver side because my last one got destroyed lol

- Will fix an odd rubbing noise that my supercharger makes against the subframe only when in reverse (sometimes, not all the time).

- Took out a stupid screw that somehow got behind the panel of the driver side door that was there since the moment I bought the vehicle at the end of July 2018, lol (just an annoyance)

- I may ask him to install my polyurethane CPZ motor mount as well since it will raise the height of things and give more clearance to things underneath the car such as the oil pan, etc.

- Try to find the cause and source of the P2A03 code I still have on my car, and hopefully get rid of it once and for good. Still, nobody knows the source of this code. I am starting to believe my car is cursed with a cold case of P2A03 lol.

If you had a leak at your cats, i think that could cause the P2A03 code. Clear the code and see if comes back since you fixed the leak.

Was cleared and driven not even for more than 2 hours, and the code came back already ):

I seriously thought that was the solution too, but nope. Eugene also thought it would fix the code, apparently the car states otherwise!

Should of saved up and took it to seb

That was the original plan xD
I had to cancel because I only had like 3.5k saved up by that time instead of the planned 5k that he told me to bring.

Didn't have it in time, so I had to cancel =\

In time for what? You have an event scheduled for your car?

You should have waited a bit longer to gather the funds and taken it to Seb. I'm still confused why you wasted money taking it to another shop. Deja vu all over again it seems. Good luck with the repairs.

But you said you just had a gasket put in the cat recently? Next thing I would do is get the back pressure checked for other leaks

Nah it's because I scheduled to bring it to him on the last week of June so he could work on it the first week of July. I had that set in stone with him, that's why xD

Yep. And apparently that wasn't the cause for the P2A03, and if it is, then that means there is multiple things causing the P2A03

I wouldve just postponed instead of cancelled. That would be like wanting to get an FI CBE. You saved up for 4 months, but still 300 dollars short, and settle for an Ebay special instead.

The thing is his schedule is always booked, so if I postponed it to another date it would have been a ton later, lol. Guess this is what happens when I am impatient, hardheaded and stubborn. Oh well. Used to it by now, sadly! haha.

And that's your reasoning for taking it to an inferior shop? :icon14:

That doesn't make any sense...

cupcakez, next time you want to get something done half @ss, think about how much more youll end up spending, how much longer itll take, and most importantly, how safe would it really be when you hit the gas and something breaks because it was done half @ss...

Yup. lol. Learning the hardest way possible!

Yes, Yes, and Yes. xD 100% Agree!

Got damnit snowflake

If you want to throw money away. Throw it my way. You wasted money and time taking it to the OTHER shop.

i'd throw it your way if you were near me and was willing to repair the car LOL

You had a plan. You should have stuck with it. Even if it took you a little long to come up with the cash. Hell, I've been saving up for a set of 4 way JRZ coil-overs for a long time.

shoulda woulda coulda, but obviously didn't.
this only hurts me, lol. i'll accept and deal with the consequences, no worries.
i accept responsibility for everything that occurred as a result of my poor choices. well i sure hope i learn from them lol otherwise my history will just repeatedly repeat itself until i get sick and tired of making poor choices with poor consequences xD

That's pocket change for you. :rofl2:

9 grand.......yea right! I make a plan and stick to it.

There is a saying. If you don't remember your past. You are doom to repeat it.

9k :eek::rofl2:

Rusty, I called up JRZ today and they only had one set left. I asked them if they were going to make some more and the guy said NO! So I freaked out and gave him my credit card number. I hope you can get a set when you need them. I need the low speed and high speed damping. Sorry Dude.

:rofl2:

Well, you missed these. They're about 20K.

http://www.jrzsuspension.com/jrz-14-53.html

Didn’t bother reading your long *** post. F*cking take it to Seb. I took my z to three Mickey Mouse *** shops. One was a legendary Honda tuner. Gave me a **** tune, one injector wasn’t spraying properly, fouled spark plugs. One tuned only exotics. F*cked up my supercharger install. Ended up sucking it up and towing my car to Seb. He had it for a month because I told him to go through everything. He fixed all of my issues.

Moral of the story: do it right. Do it once. Don’t cut corners. Send your **** to Seb and be done with it. Doesn’t matter if you have to eat cup noodles until Christmas. You’ll end up saving more money in the long run than taking it to these **** shops and adding 17 more pages to this build thread about **** that went wrong.

:iagree:

Learning?? As far as I can tell, you haven't learned a thing.

You posted a pic a couple of pages back and I see a lot of issues going on, and it's only about a 6" x6 " pic of your car.

Your Tial is on backwards. You say you have boost leaks yet in that small pic I see a worm drive clamp instead of a T bolt. And why do you have a second clamp outlet on there? I guess it doesn't hurt anything, just looks bad. Like the strip of gold heat reflective tape on your bpv pipe. Lol.

You bought jrz’s

LMAO, NO I didn't. Rusty just needed to be messed with a touch.

Don't let him fool you. He bought them.

Update: (Some of this is a repeat of what has been done before, but I just decided to repost it again and lump it all in one)

- Removed driver side door panel to take out a random screw from behind there (dono how it got behind there in the first place, it was there before I purchased the car lol)

- Inspected and put in a new gasket for the passenger sided cam shaft cover, and put something on it for extra protection. So far no oil leak is showing (put cardboard under the car when it isn't being driven it to see if anything leaks, so far nothing)

- Replaced all 4 brake pads with brand new EBC Yellowstuff Akebono pads

- Replaced front 2 rotors with 2 brand new slotted cryo-treated rotors

- Cleaned engine bay and also under the car

- Swapped the ECU for a new one which fixed the misfiring in 2 cylinders (4 & 6) that occurred after I got it back from the shop

- Pushed and tightened bolts to get rid of the rubbing noise on subframe of car when in reverse mode

- Got rid of some odd noise that was occurring in the back of the car (dono what it was but it bothered him enough to get rid of it lol)

- Filled up washer fluid tank with water, so no more warning light on for an empty washer reservoir tank

- Fixed slight belt rub against the overflow tank

- Re-tuned the car via Eugene (ECUTEK) to make sure things are good to go so far

===============================================

Things to be done soon:

- Will swap out engine mount with brand new Polyurethane motor mount

- Will swap out current transmission mount for an upgraded Polyurethane transmission mount

- Will replace driver side front left fender liner with a brand new one because last one got melted and eaten up by my tire while driving apparently it came off xD