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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 08:14 AM
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Default FI Horror Stories..Have them?? POST THEM!!

Just wanting to see if anyone has a horror story that happened to them from FI....if So post your specs of your car and what happened!

I think this could be benifical to alot of people!
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 01:21 PM
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how about it took me 6 months to get my STS kit installed and tuned.... those six months were terrible!!! anyways thats my horror story...
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 01:36 PM
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Forced Induction.
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 01:39 PM
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I sliced my finger open when swapping blower pulleys, bled pretty good..
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Country Boy
Forced Induction.
Read any 2000 Tran Zam post.... . No insult to him, he'll even admit he has terrible luck so far.
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 02:00 PM
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My wife balanced the bank acct after all the checks cleared. Took 3 days for the blackeye to go away....
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by WAHUSKER
My wife balanced the bank acct after all the checks cleared. Took 3 days for the blackeye to go away....

LOL, you're supposed to keep her locked up so she can't do things like that!

Ryan K. (hopefully Jill dosen't read this)
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by WAHUSKER
My wife balanced the bank acct after all the checks cleared. Took 3 days for the blackeye to go away....
thats a good one.
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by WAHUSKER
My wife balanced the bank acct after all the checks cleared. Took 3 days for the blackeye to go away....
There is no way I'd let my future significant other know how much I'd dump into the car...

Whatever it's going to be, it'll be divided by 2 (maybe 3 if I could afford a build by W2W or SpeedInc ).
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by WAHUSKER
My wife balanced the bank acct after all the checks cleared. Took 3 days for the blackeye to go away....
a'men, im glad i still have a new gf and doesnt really know much about car parts of FI
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 02:32 PM
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sounds like my buddy who is upgrading his mustang by $20k....."its just going in to get a fuel line replaced"

then he is hiding the recipts lol
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 02:45 PM
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thank god for 2nd bank accounts!

her-- "whats with the whistle coming from under the hood...thought it just needed a water pump"

Me--"well, i think they just forgot to tighten up the belt...ill get it checked eventually"
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 02:58 PM
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Mine was the first protoype of the CAS twin turbo setup originally. My car sat outside for a whole year. I can't believe I let that happen.
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 03:17 PM
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HAHAHA these arent the stories I was looking for but OK!

I was looking for **** about blowing engines up or rear ends or trannys!
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by my01ws6
HAHAHA these arent the stories I was looking for but OK!

I was looking for **** about blowing engines up or rear ends or trannys!
Those are ten times easier to deal with than blowing up wives or girlfriends. Lots of healthy relationships going on here.
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 03:26 PM
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My original installer did not know what he was doing, then went out of business after I paid him money. The second, and tuner, had never tuned an LT1, but did not tell me that. Then the FPR went out, I replaced it, and found that the previuosly installed, upgraded injectors did not actually fit my LT1. Now the car runs well with new injectors, but the oil check valve is now faulty. A replacement is awaiting installation. I am hoping that 2007 is the year of the Formula. I hope.
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Originally Posted by jRaskell
Those are ten times easier to deal with than blowing up wives or girlfriends. Lots of healthy relationships going on here.
Learn something every day.
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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 03:31 PM
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I've never blown anything up but I did go through 3 sets of headgaskets from the head lifting.

My 6-speed always help up when I had that in there with the McLeod Twin disk
I lost a sprag in my TH400 on the street with about 660RWHP

The key is to avoid detonation at all costs. A good tune is critical with the right fuel.
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My story is the amount of money it took to finish the car off, and the dreaded domino effect of fixing something, then another part breaks.


ps: Dealing with dumbass shops in the area that have their head up their ***.
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got screwed by J and J speed shop when I first installed my blower, they were clueless!!! wound up with bad detonation and blown head gaskets, wasted time and money having it tuned and ruined by those ********. met some other nice people that also got screwed by them and helped fix there cars, and also met Bob from EPP who is awsome!!! so I guess some good came out of it
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