SoCalZ28

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YOU TAKE A HIKE. I STARTED THIS THREAD. I know your kind. trying to make the cust look like he's the liar. hows your comprehention? I said when he went for the test drive it wouldnt shift out of first, it idle'd at 3-3500 rpm, it was missing off the line, check engine light. with those symptoms you cant tell me you properly dyno tuned his car after the install. you should read some of the questions in the PCM Diagnostics & Tuning area. everyone says it needed to by tuned, A&A got it right the first time. how are you argueing this??? again, im not here to fight, im simply stateing facts. YOU NEED TO DROP THIS, ITS NOT BETWEEN YOU AND I.

SP Motorsports

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i was just addressing the fact that your friend was there for the original tune .so it was dyno tuned it made good power idled fine customer drove the car and the only complint was the fact that it would die out just like we showd him on the dyno it acted like it was loosing ignition and it was.so it was dyno'd and it was tuned .just like the customer pay'd us to.

SoCalZ28

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alright, you say you tuned it. when he test drove it there were some obvious issues, thats why he took off. you said it was done and with your 'finished' product he was not happy at all, specially after what it took to get it back. all the phone calls and messeges, etc, etc. hes a very fair person, but he was being taken advantage of. when I saw it; it wouldnt shift out of 1st, idle, miss firing, etc. when he took it to A&A they saw the same thing and corrected it by dyno tuning and then they even gave him the dyno charts and graphs..... im really over this, dont even reply. this horse has been beaten.

SP Motorsports

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he has the dyno graphs to prove it .so you are stil talking about sh-t that you obviously do not know about.and how was he being taken advantadge of we were not charging him for any diagnostic or repair. have a nice day.

98Z28MASS

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Not trying to ump into the middle but I honestly wouldnt have paid 1 cent for anything if the tune wasnt spot on. Sure you guys might have had it on the dyno and attempted to tune it but if the customer goes to drive the car and it runs pretty bad and they then ahve to have it tuned by another shop thats pretty poor quality IMO. In addition, im not sure if you guys went and did a street run with the car and data logged it but thats what Dez Racing did for me and my car runs perfect. It seems though that its worked out for the best for both parties as no money exhanged hands as the car needed to be tuned again.

SoCalZ28

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you never supplied any dyno numbers, he was told that you were in a big hurry when you tuned it and that you would have to mail the graphs/charts later. I really dont know how your argueing this, facts and numbers do not lie. Dont try to turn this around like I dont know what im talking about. your just trying to take the attention away from the point of this WHOLE thing, which you brought into this thread by tring to defend yourself, from yourself!!
DEAD HORSE.

snakeeater2003

Hello Rob @ Strictly Performance, you probably remember me as the guy that took off with your money... The guy with the red Camaro Z28/SS... I'm gonna state what truley happened through your shop. I dropped my Camaro off along w/a $1500 deposit 23 June 06 for a Head/Cam up grade package, 205cc Dart pro/ 229 Comp cam to be exact, for the price of $3300 plus another $300 for a dyno tune. A week goes by and your shop calls me on 29 July 2006 and states that my Camaro is ready for the dyno tune. I drove 60 miles from my home to your shop to watch the dyno. You had me follow you in my car to "Extreme Automotive" where you dyno tune your cust cars. Yes you did perform a dyno tune the first time but it was unsuccessful. You stated that the engine was showing poor throttle responce. The 1st dyno pull read 370 hp to the rear, the 2nd pull read 431 hp and the 3rd pull read 350 hp. In your very own words, you stated that "there might be a problem with the wiring harness behind the heads, feel free to drive it home (which is 60 miles away) and "maybe it will go away," but if it continues to show poor responce bring it back and I'll disassemble your engine and fix the problem." After an unsuccessful dyno tune we drove back to your shop and I noticed that my A/C, Air/Fuel Ratio gauge and Anti theft system wasn't working like they were prior to drop off. (My Camaro was running better then perfect, prior to dropping it off @ your shop, I have wittnesses and proven documents from a diagnostics test that was performed for Paradise Chevy on 20 June 06) While at your shop, you jacked up my Camaro to try and resplice the Air/Fuel ratio gauge wiring to the O2 sensor while I waited in your lobby. Half an hour goes by, I walked into your garage and noticed that you and your mechanics were "teeter-totering my Camaro on your jack!!!!!" Not very perfectional... After 30 minutes of waiting for nothing I payed you the remainder of $1800 for the head and cam parts and labor cost which came out to $3300. Then you made me pay you $300 for the unsuccessful Dyno tune for a grand total of $3600. Basically you made me pay you for a head/cam upgrade, horrible performance and an unsuccessful dyno... I was not a happy cust. My mistake was that I gave you the benefit of the doubt for the wiring behind the heads and decided to take my car home being it was my only means of transportation I have for work. (I've already smacked myself over that!) The car drove poorly the entire trip home. It misfired, pinged and shut off a number of times. The next day 30 June 06. After renting a car from "Enterprize rent a Center" I brought my Camaro back to your shop for you to kindly fix the issue. You told me that you will get to it when you can and it should be finished in less the a week and a half and it will cost me nothing except for another dyno tune $350. A week and a half turned into two weeks. With in those two weeks you never called to touch base with me on the issue or progress of my Camaro. It was either me or my wife who had to call. Every now and then you or your reception (a lady) would get rude with me or my wife over the phone for calling to much about our Camaro when all we wanted to know was the status on the Camaro! In your words, you rudely said "LOOK I SAID I'D CALL YOU WHEN IT WAS DONE DUDE!" I was renting a car for $220 a week, did you forget that? This went on until 14 July 06 when I called you up to to get the status on the Camaro and you said that you were headed back to the dyno. Several hours go by. "You called me up" to tell me that my Camaro (in your words) "ate ****" on the dyno machine. You would start it up and it would shut off...... (That's a first!) I guess you said that you had my Camaro towed back to your shop to try and dissect the engine somemore. On 24 July 06, I drove 60 miles to your shop to check on my Camaro because the whole scenario sounded a bit shady. I showed up and sure enough the Camaro would start up and shut off...Weird! I spoke with you that day and you said that you will contact the GM mechanic and he will address the issue. 4 Aug 06 rolls around. After four and a half days later and $1000 in rent a cars more your reception calls to tell me that my Camaro is finished. I asked to speak with you to find out what the mechanical issue was with the Camaro and what the numbers were on the second dyno tune that you said you would do and you said, in your words " it's pulling 430 hp boss!" I ask if you could show me the dyno graph sheet when I get there and you said that you will mail it to me because you forgot about it... Then you said that "I" need to change out my ignition switch because it's going bad! That's new? My friend drove me to your shop to pick up the my Camaro... When I got there you were washing my car. Thanks by the way! After that I started the Camaro up and in noticed that the idle sounded a bit strange... Very high and very low. In your words you said "it was normal to sound like that... Go take it for a spin, come back and tell me what you think". I offered to pay you the $350 before taking my Camaro for a spin! I have 3 wittness that can vouch for me! My friend and I took the Camaro around the block. It wouldn't shift out of first gear when I punched the gas, the engine still misfired and the car died! So I called a friend who had a tow truck and he drove all the way from Bakersfield to help me get my Camaro home. I was just around the corner too. So yes I did take off with out paying you the $350 dollars. You never did a second Dyno tune, plus you never even fixed the issue with the wiring. You basically held on to my Camaro for a month long and accomplished nothing while I dished out money for a rent a car.... Thanks! I'm not giving you $350 bucks for nothing hoss. You can take it anyway you want. Call the cops again! LOL. When I got my Camaro home, I fixed the Alarm system in 2 minutes, pump more Freon into the A/C unit and put all of the dash panels back in their appropriate spots (which I guess you forgot)... It happens... You also forgot to put the cross-member back that stablizes the SLP Y-pipe which caused the y-pipe to hit the bottom of the car, I had to pay $100 for another one of those. The worst of all was the rear lug nuts that you removed in the past to perform the first dyno was so loose that my 3 year old kid probably could have taken them off! After all of this, I took my Camaro to A & A Corvette to have them Dyno tune it. "THEY COULD NOT DYNO TUNE IT" because 2 O2 wires were kinked between the transmission mounts which caused the MAF sender to short out. On 11 Aug 06 an excellent mechanic at Paradise Chevy found and fixed the wiring issue in less the 2 hours. (Cost $170) That same day A&A Corvette successfully dyno tuned my Camaro (Thanks A&A.. You Da Man). (Costed $580.) After all was said and done, the dyno read 358 hp and 354 pounds of torque... JR Granattelli dyno'd my car 6 months ago before my Head/Cam up grade and the Camaro pulled 336 to the rear. So after $5450 in rent a cars, minor fixes, Head/Cam up grade and an dyno tune. I only gained 22 hp to the rear... So the actions I've taken towards this is I contacted The BAR Bureau Of Automotive Repair to accuire a customer report on Strictly Performance Motorsports and they could not find one because Strictly Performance Motorsports is ">>STILL UNLICENSED<<". I get free legel through the Military. Everything has already been documented through Navy Legal and BAR association since day one and up to these forums... To all Corvette and F-body owners, I strongly erge you not to go to Strictly Performance Motorsports! I strongly recommend The LAPD performance guys or A&A Corvette. SPMS never mess with military!!!

LS1Z28WIFEY

WOW AFTER READING ALL THE PREVIOUS POSTS I DONT THINK I WOULD BE TAKING MY CAR TO SP...SOUNDS LIKE I WOULD GET DICKED OVER...WAS REALLY INTERESTED IN THE PACKAGE BECAUSE IT IS A GREAT PRICE FOR WHAT YOU GET BUT I THINK I WILL BE THINKING TWICE ABOUT IT...THANKS FOR THE INFO SNAKEEATER IT IS VERY HELPFULL...SP SHOULD REALLY THINK ABOUT RUNNING A BUSINESS CORRECTLY RATHER THAN JUST TRYING TO DICK PEOPLE OVER...

SP Motorsports

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that was for the second dyno he was there for the first and has a copy .fact.............

SP Motorsports

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finaly the man of the house posts up...thanks for joining in...

SP Motorsports

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are you trying to say that all youre dart headed 229 cam ss camaro made was 356 rwhp i do not think anyone here is going to believe that...just so you know close to 300 happy customers with the almost same packadge with a car that does not have problems puts down 400 to 430 rwhp depending on other mods....

SP Motorsports

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and just to ad alittle insight to all the people getting a kit out of us acting like asses..it is funney that you go and say that the car ran perfect no problems whatsoever .when youre wife ,you know the one that runs things ,not that there is anything wrong with that,calls me and we have a long talk about what was going on with the car and why it is takeing so long to figure out the problem ,tells me that from day 1 you have had nothing but problems after problems with this car and that she does not even know why you are putting money into it seeing as it is allways breaking down on you .and that you found out that the previous owner had nothing but problems and that is why the wireing harness is butcherd......but whatever ...i give up you win you are right we where just out to f--k you over ...you caught us....you can have the thred now i am done arguing hope you have better luck somewhere else....

SoCalZ28

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wow. you own and run a business? how do you stay afloat? must be hard... well, i guess you THINK you won this time. you beat your customer to a pulp, feel good? its temporary. IM GLAD YOU HI-JACKED MY THREAD AND HAD A CHANCE TO SHOW EVERYONE YOUR TRUE COLORS ROB55. LMAO

98Z28MASS

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Honestly man maybe there were mistakes with his car before, and maybe it wasnt all your fault, but seriously making comments about a guys wife (above) and taking over $5000 and having a car run like **** isnt acceptable at all. FWIW I paid $3000 total for everything that was installed in my sig at Dez Racing. That included a cam kit with 232/238 custom ground cam, comp duals, tit retainers, hardened pushrods, underdrive pulley, ported TB, and 160 degree thermostat. They also installed the following parts provided by me: installation of weld in SFCs, bilsteins and new shocks, ls6 intake manifold, LCA's, panhard rod, new ls7 clutch and ls2 flywheel, new master and slave cylinder, new knock sensors and knock harness, fuel filter, gutted my cats, and changed the tranny fluid and coolant for me. On top of all this Don spent hours tuning my car doing street runs and data logging, then bringing it back to the dyno and tuning it some more, and repeated this process a couple of times to make sure that the car was running perfect. Although I didnt have heads installed he was willing to order the prc ls6 heads I wanted, along with the new valve covers, coil packs, gaskets, arp head bolts, etc that I needed, and installed thema nd dynoed it again for only another $2000. That would have been $5000 total, with my car running in PERFECT shape. Also, I know Don wouldnt have let the car leave the shop if it werent running in tip top shape. If you guys want to keep customers and have a good rep on this board you need to take care of them, not charge the **** out of them and give them a car that runs like crap back. Im sure if you were up front that there were issues with the car the owner would have paid you to fix them, but to install a bunch of parts, then have the car run like **** and act like it isnt your problem is a joke. Anyways to the original poster glad the car is finally running right after taking it to A&A and those numbers seem kinda low so id double check to make sure you even have the cam and heads your supposed to as that combo should make a lot more power.

snakeeater2003wifey

First of all I dont know who you think that is...but I am not the "Man of the House" I am the "Woman of the house". You are just pissed off because now everyone is going to know exactly what kind of job you do...or dont do I should say....I never told you that we had lots of problems with the car I told you that when we first got the car that we did have issues and we have had the car almost two years now...do you really think that we would not have fixed the issues we had when we first bought it? Maybe you misunderstood me when I was talking to you.....but maybe if you knew how to RUN your business the "wifey" would not have to call and keep calling until you give the information....and whats this about you mailing the graph to us??? If you had performed the dyno there would be no graph to mail you would have had it in hand...when the car was taken to A&A they WERE NOT ABLE to perform a dyno on it because of the problems it had from your shop so explain to me how you performed one??? The car was in tip top condition with no mechanical or running errors until you had it for 6 weeks and then it ran like crap...luckily A&A fixed it and it has never been better...no thanksto you and your shop.....who takes 6 weeks to fix a few wires anyway??? I do know that customer service is the #1 important factor when you run a business and you have the sorriest customer service ever...when a customer pays you a lot of money to upgrade their car the LEAST you can do is update them DAILY with the status whether it has changed or not!!! PEACE

snakeeater2003

If this dyno is to hard for you to believe, Contact A&A Corvette and ask for thier Dyno specialist and he'll give you the numbers. (805) 278-4107

snakeeater2003

Wow, this is really perfectional of you to say hoss! Trying to make "me", "the driver" of the Camaro SS sound like the cowardly one... Did you forget that I was the very one that to drove over to your shop to get a status on my car after you so boldly said that my Car (ate ****) on the dyno. You were pretty quick to shake my hand?? ?? To break it down in simple terms, my wife was plan and simply looking after her husbands needs because her husband was performing small military training ops... We'll leave my personal life @ that! But anyways... That's for taking care of a military man that looks after you. I salute you!!!!!!!

snakeeater2003

Let's give it up to the greatest Navy wife in the world!!!! ILU

snakeeater2003

Thank you for your support!

98Z28MASS

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No problem, hate to see people get taken by shady performance shops. I cant even imagine waiting 6+ weeks for my car after dropping it off for a simple H/C/dyno installation. My car was at Dez Racing for less than a full week and everything was done to perfection, and from the list above and in my sig you can see it was a ton of stuff. Although it sucks that they took so much money from you and never did what they said they would, its good to get the feedback on shady performance shops so that the rest of the board knows enough not to go there. Hopefully their shop gets whats coming to them in the end.