NEVER advise someone to commit insurance fraud, especially on a public message board. Besides, ********* that do that just **** all of us because more claims=more premium. Try not being selfish, being responsible, and fixing your own ****.

Ninetres, I hope you get something figured out soon. I've been there before and can understand just walking away for a bit.

My guess is you are right-handed?

 

Thanks bro. Yep, right handed.

It is hard to think about my camaro situation, so I have been keeping it on the back burner. I am REALLLLLY antsy to get it back up and running though, so I gotta do something. Also trying to grind out some money. Nothing inside the motor is cheap to fix

 

yea man good luck with whatever comes about hope its nothing to bad cause i can sure understand that some times you gotta take time down to recover...with money and just the motivation to want to deal with it.

my car has been sitting still for a solid 3-4mths and i just want to drive it but man does living in hawaii suck for 1 thing.....shipping

well man hope you find that its nothing really big but like you said...nothing in the engine is ever cheap

 

UPDATE (finally )

Motor is out. Crank is frozen in place. DAMN TSP shortblock!

 

I think i would be giving TSP a call to see if they know what the cause could of been.
You put alot of money and trust in them to give you a product that would be reliable and trouble free,and you got neither one of those.It didn't even make it to your first oil change!IMOA! Hope they can help you work out your situation.

 

SOB Man, I had no freakin idea... Jay didn't tell me anything about your car, **** I didn't even know you had that motor built, for some reason, thought you were going with a 402-408! Let us know man, hopefully you get that thing on the road again. If you need anything, I'll be around, you know how to reach me!

Tony from Tulare

 

I would call TSP. I just wouldn't hold my breath. Something definatley isn't right. If it turns out to be a mechanical malufunction they may step in. I hope it all works out for ya.

 

sorry to hear that dude... good luck with the rebuild

 

I have had nothing but great experiences with TSP and I'm sure they will at least ADVISE me on SOMETHING they could do to help me out. I'm 99% sure it wasn't being overpowered at only 14psi, and it was tuned by Rick at Synergy who has 100s of LS1 FI tunes under his belt, and is considered one of the better LS1 FI tuners in the country IMO and others opinions. As far as I know, spinning the main bearings is supposed to be caused by poor machining on the block, not overboosting or a poor tune anyway.

I sent TSP a VERY NICE email Thursday night and asked that they would give me a ring today (friday) to discuss options.....but I never got a call. No sweat. I will call them Monday.

Can't wait to be back!!!!!

 

ouch, i'm sorry to hear that man.

 

How'd it run til it blew buddy?

 

Real strong.

 

Real strong.....for 3k miles

 

I am by no means saying they wont take car of you. I have been in the engine game before. It just the nature of the beast. Shop builds engine. Customer races car. Soemthing breaks. Customer calls shop on engine. They built it. They can advise you on what may have caused it and offer you a solution to fixing the problem. I would if I was in their shoes. The Performance business is a fickel one. One bad dealing cost big time.

 

Tulare Tony, you have to answer the phone to be told ****! yeah it boke, yes it was fast, it would run with a 'Busa from a roll 50-140 and now it's going back together. You're updated.Jay

 

Did you get you converter from BTP in ND?

 

Fuddle race 3200.

 

Pretty much. Went 1-1 with a zx-14, and 1-1 with a zx-10 that had a couple mods.

 

so what are the new plans? Sucks to hear about an engine like that... hope it gets squared away as it should!

 

Get the motor re-built. O-ring the heads. Only 12ish or so psi....more streetable.