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i got screwed with my new highmount turbo set up the mechanic i took it to stuffed it real good he made his own gasket out of some crap which looked like paper and went every where in my motor, he used the wrong boltz which melted on my head i had to spend well over 1500 dollars to get his mistake fixed not bloody happy never going back to him. its hard to find some one to do your car down in here in tassie

^^ you already know the answer :)

Correct.....that's 2 of us now that have been shafted by that mob......and the only reason I went there in the first place is cause he used to be a so called mate.

I used to work on my Rex in his workshop many years ago and drink beer with him all day, now you can't put 1 foot in his workshop.

I've kept quiet for the last couple of months but obviously its time for my rant because he's burning others as well.

Having a Dyno doesn't make you a tuner. When a car is belting out that much black smoke out of the exh that you cant see the car in the workshop, you stop revving the shit out of it (hoping that it'll clear up eventually) and check your settings on the PFC.......try changing the injector values and latencys to accept the bigger injectors and maybe select the correct AFM values.

When a lower hose blows off the intercooler 4 times, you don't keep tightening it up with bigger clamps until it crushes the alloy pipe, you cut off your crooked pipe and re-weld it back on straight.

When an exhaust comes in with no rattles and leaves the workshop banging against the fuel tank and leaking through a hole in the brand new Cat, you do the job again, properly.

No clamps or ties on vacuum lines, fuel regulator squirting petrol all over the engine bay, I had to tell him how to re-route the fuel line onto the different bigger fuel rail, his old man kept bashing iridium plugs against a steel bench to reduce the gap but ended up squashing all of them then levered a screwdriver against the very fine wire electrode of the iridium (absolute NO NO on iridiums, you never touch the electrode, $150 plugs) until I jumped in again and told him how to do it..........I had to baby sit these guys when I should've found someone with a hoist and mig and done it myself.

But to add salt to injury, he quoted me $1000 for all the bolt on work and 1 day to do it (Shaun at Boostworks was a similar price, maybe a tad dearer). It took 3 days to do the job and when I went to pick it up the price doubled to $2000. He said that nothing was straight forward (derrrrr, is this the 1st GTR he's done) and that I couldn't take the car away until I paid him.

I'm really tempted to get legal with this guy and serve him personally then drag him before a small claims magistrate (up to $5000 without lawyers).

is this bloke a fellow brother :) then no let it be if he isnt then pursue the matter further if your feel that is needed otherwise you have to try and live with the fact that you chose a mate over Shaun

i know that isnt a definitive answer but i think you know what needs to be done

is this bloke a fellow brother :) then no let it be if he isnt then pursue the matter further if your feel that is needed otherwise you have to try and live with the fact that you chose a mate over Shaun

i know that isnt a definitive answer but i think you know what needs to be done

Like I said earlier, I have kept quiet about this for awhile now and have paid various other workshops to fix his stuff ups.

i used to be mates with the business owner of this mentioned "tuner"

when they where at the old shop, seemed like a good bloke, but then again, he was only doing a zorst on my VT.

would never take my line there, not after what adam told me.

This is why I do alot of my own work.

I have the knowledge and the tools. My old man was the head mechanic on the Datsun rally team in the 70s and avid motorcycle racer. My uncle a drag racer. I'd like to think I've been brought up right around mad-scientist-machinery. I know a ring spanner from a blow torch, so I do my own work when I can't trust anyone with my ride.

:)

This is why I do alot of my own work.

I have the knowledge and the tools. My old man was the head mechanic on the Datsun rally team in the 70s and avid motorcycle racer. My uncle a drag racer. I'd like to think I've been brought up right around mad-scientist-machinery. I know a ring spanner from a blow torch, so I do my own work when I can't trust anyone with my ride.

:)

Yeah me too, I have a full workshop of tools that were gathered over almost 20 years of work at Adelaide Engine Service. So I too can build a bike or car from scratch but because I work so much these days, I don't have the time to do any major work (bike was built during 'graveyard shifts') and being self employed it costs me more to take time off work than to pay someone else to do the work.........I still don't like being shafted though!!

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