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I will have to re-do my intercooler also. It's too damn small. IAT's at Pocono were 160 deg and my car leaned out at 13.5 AFR on E90. The the AFR should have been 10.5 on E85. It was cool at Pocono that day. 68-70 deg.
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For anyone worried about my engine, Mark at Mazworx has got me covered. When he takes it apart, he will see if I had a tuning issue. It will be obvious. If that is the issue, The repair bill will be on me. SOHO sure as crap won't cover it. All good, sometimes you have to spend a little money to find out how people are. It's cheaper over the long run. Mark has been a stand up guy. No issues on his front but he can't control some things. I would do business with him again in a heartbeat. I can't say the same about SOHO. That is a H E double Hockey stick No!
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I should have posted this stuff a long time ago. I was trying to be nice. Now everybody knows. SOHO can say whatever they want. I don't give a crap. Last year was a total disaster with my car. I will get it fixed up. I am not done.
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So, all the little SOHO groupies can kiss my big old butt. They are not worth a crap.
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If you have questions, I will answer them. Just post them.
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I have already bought a brand new main engine harness from Nissan for my car. I will post that disaster later. SOHO trying to figure out how to install a coolant sensor and be able to log it with Ecutek. I thought they already knew how to do it. Welp, they didn't. Never had any major issues with my car until I picked it up from them. Ever since, It has had major issues. I replaced both banks sensor 1's thinking that was the issue. Welp, it was not. I have installed new plugs, etc. That's when I ordered a main engine harness from Nissan. I will install it when I pull the engine.
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I have been sitting back trying to figure out what to do. A VR38 swap is looking good at the moment. MA-Motorsports has done it before on drift cars. It is right in there wheel house. The question is, do I want to do it. I have to start over.
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By the way, My tune was garbage from the get go from SOHO. The transient throttle response was garbage. I always had a stumble at 2800rpm's or so rolling into the throttle. It would go lean and then pig rich. The car would buck. The transient throttle response absolutely sucks. The fueling tables were not right. I got logs of it too. I tried to have Nick fix it. Still had it. It is the most frustrating thing ever. I never had this issue with Vince's tune. Vince tuned my car twice and it was perfect. That's what I expect and the dang guy freaking delivered.
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Here Nick, some training for ya free of charge.
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My wife thinks SOHO took me out on purpose. I don't know if they did or didn't, but it sure looks suspicious. One thing is for sure, they had a ton of skin in the
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I sold 15 of those SOHO intake manifolds for 2500 dollars each. That is $30,000. You would think I could have got that Janky spacer without too much hassle. Oh heck NO!!!!! They couldn't even sell the dang things before our group buy. They should have gave me a new intake manifold machined properly. I couldn't even get the Janky spacer crap. They installed it. They didn't notice it all over the freaking valve cover.
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I am not done. SOHO didn't put me out. They just pissed me off. That's all. I am going to take a sledgehammer to that POS and then piss on it. Yeah, that is going on Instagram.
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That being said: it would raise suspicion (to me) when you think about it... everyone knows how well Mazworx builds engines, yet their first high profile VQ37 engine build encountered issues that "could" be attributed to a competing company (who is also known for high profile VQ37 builds) that also worked on and tuned the same vehicle (to include tuning), who has the potential to lose business should the aforementioned builder's engine run incident free in the 1000+ range.... just speculating, not blaming, insinuating, or anything like that. I hope you come back stronger than ever bro whether VQ, VR, VK, SR, LS, JZ or what-have-you. :driving: |
Soho is best buddies with Moncef at Admintooning, just tells you what kind of people they are. Not sure why you even took your car to them smh..
IATs don't have anything to do with AFRs. You shouldn't be running 10.5 AFR on E85 at full boost. That's pig pig rich. 11.3 at the most assuming your sensors are accurate. As for SOHO purposely taking you out, I hightly doubt that as other Mazworx motors have lifted heads aswell. I'm willing to bet that their motors would push coolant had they actually pushed them with smalelr turbos, not ones that spool at damn near redline lmfao. Now for a VR38 swap, it's definitely doable and has been done on a shop owner's car that I know in Bahrain. It'll cost you approx 50k to do it right if not more, personally the Z is not worth spending 2-3x the msrp when you can have a better car by grabbing the GTR. |
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Yes, it was a duplicate to what they make just to fit a Fast Intentions kit. It sucks and doesn't work properly. |
New Intake manifold on order. Yeah, it's a CJ Motorsport one. ALL the SOHO crap is coming off my car.
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I still have the CJM IC for the CJM manifold sitting around!
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We both know how bad and overrated the SOHO intercooler is I was there with you and saw the logs of high with my own eyes IAT's how it can't handle a long pull of 1760 feet in fall weather. I also have my own logs and data that shows how terrible this intercooler is. It's smaller than the Fast Intentions Intercoolers as well as the BP intercooler. |
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Griffin, shewantsthezee, got pissed because I told him his Janky intercooler wasn't going to work. How did I know? I had one just like it. I then was deleted and blocked on Instagram. Stupid fool. He will find out.
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Finally fixed my stumbling, missing, and 02 code throwing POS. It was the coolant sensor SOHO wired into the factory ecu. It was throwing it for a loop. Unplugged the coolant pressure sensor, now I can drive my damn car. Freaking idiots. WTF!!!!
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One used SOHO intercooler for sale soon. Slightly Pissed on. LMAO!!!!!
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Mr. Griffin, shewantsthezee, has been drinking way way way too much coolaid.
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This has been rather unfortunate series of events for you, sucks that it happens to someone that did this much research and hired only the most knowledgeable hands.
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Enjoy some funk while you wait.
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Just in case you run low.
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Parts gathering is still on going. You will just have to wait and see.
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Sad to hear all these issues you had with SOHO man. From my personal experience they don't really have the best Customer Service. I too was on the fence between Mazworx and their product and even after being a former customer of SOHO on other products, they immediately cease contact or any justification to continue dialogue with me after I told them I was leaning towards going with Mazworx. They didn't even take the time to justify to me why going with them would be better or what made their product superior.
I've been on the fence about their intake manifold as their dyno sheets don't show a huge difference in power gains for the amount of money you have to pay for that specific part. After reading your thread and review, it has solidified by thoughts about their intake manifold. |
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I do wish you would have told me this before I took my car to SOHO. I would have known it was a bad idea. |
I actually experienced this issue with the motor while I was on the fence shopping around and didn't know you went to SOHO until you were already there. I also didn't put everything together until they completely ceased communications with me when I told them I was leaning towards Mazworx. If its one of those "If I only knew then" sort of things.
I was also not sure If i was just reading into things. I actually reached out to redondoaveb when I was experiencing long delays and communications fall from them when I ordered by Catch-Can/Coolant reservoir and he shared his experience with me regarding the issue he had about the pressurized vs non-pressurized option he went through with them. |
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