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I don't usually like giving my 2 cents but here it is anyway....

If you pay to get a job done and there is a problem.....forget about the original estimated completion time. Like Rob said, he wasn't contactable for quite a while so basically Will would have needed to move on with other jobs to keep the cash flow rolling. He would also have other deadlines to meet and people to keep happy. Once you blow out the allocated time, it starts overlapping your next job and the next and the next. Pretty soon you have too much to handle....like me :)

There comes a point in time where you need to stop answering the phone, stop booking in work and just get them done and then start from scratch again. At the end of the day, you have one of the best engine builders in the industry doing the job, it wasn't his fault Rob wasn't contactable for that period of time and Rob understands this. He is happy to wait longer to make sure the job isn't rushed.

As for money up front. f**k carrying all the burden for parts costs until the job is done. We've got 28 cars in the shop at the moment, if each one owed me only $2k in parts........?

Well said mate!!! pretty sure the nail just got smashed on the head well and truly!!

PS. still laughing to myself about your tall thin bucket of icecream

Edited by Force Fed

And that's a perfect example of why i decided not to go into business full time in the auto motive performance industry to many shady people around trying to rip you off, never pay up etc, My lil workshop is just a Hobby like those small workshop in Japan, don't build many cars, but when they do, they are freaking awesome Quality over Quantity. But yeah 28 cars on the go f**k that's gotta be one big headache :woot: .

10 of 'em are Sean's but still, I'm on my own haha. I'm kinda the same as that too Ben. I spend more time than I charge in most cases because I like to make sure it's perfect. The only time I haven't been happy with work going out was when I had employees so now I'm solo again.

If you want something done right you gotta do it yourself. I'm just glad my customers don't live by that motto :D

Haha yeah true true gotta do it yourself to do it perfect and than you only got yourself to blame when something f**ks up. Always yelling at myself lol...joking I yell at my brother he breaks everything.

Only reason I didn't go to Elite is because I knew I was going to be away. A lot. So I went through a middleman to look after it and he uses JHH. No offense given to you, Dan. I've only heard great things about you.

Only reason I didn't go to Elite is because I knew I was going to be away. A lot. So I went through a middleman to look after it and he uses JHH. No offense given to you, Dan. I've only heard great things about you.

None taken mate. I was/am probably too busy to do it anyway. The only thing that matters in my book, is that you get a decent job. It's the only reason I even started the business. Too many people getting ripped off and I felt I had to do something about it

None taken mate. I was/am probably too busy to do it anyway. The only thing that matters in my book, is that you get a decent job. It's the only reason I even started the business. Too many people getting ripped off and I felt I had to do something about it

wonder woman over here :P

sooo i got me new plenum... 6mm now and good for 100+psi woot woo

let me know what ya think ppls

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wonder woman over here :P

sooo i got me new plenum... 6mm now and good for 100+psi woot woo

let me know what ya think ppls

manifold.jpg

Looks like a giant alloy seagull flew over your house and took a dump on your engine

Hahaha jks mate looks good. Who made it?

How much boost do you plan on running? 6mm seems over kill. You running a 6mm thick intercooler as well? and 'cooler piping?

high 30 something psi maybe more see what happends.... plazmaman cooler and the piping will be stainless and thats a bit stronger then alloy. so its overkill everywhere

How much boost do you plan on running? 6mm seems over kill. You running a 6mm thick intercooler as well? and 'cooler piping?

The plenum has the highest load on it because of the pressure wave and potential backfires. There is a soft link between the piping and the plenum and that's called a silicon joiner. If you make everything so secure that it will not budge, you then a chance of your piping becoming the weak link.

Plenums usually come apart due to backfiring and heat/distortion/stresses rather than actual boost pressure. It's usually just that the guys running big boost are usually always running nitrous as well. A nitrous backfire will tear that shit right up. With 6mm plate, it's likely to either blow a silicon joiner instead or only pop it off the throttle body.

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