EXTRA SPECIAL motor from VIRGINIA SPEED
12-27-2011, 09:12 PM
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I have been there, and have used them before with no issues. This was about 5 years ago though. Before that, I had heard some bad things, and then some friends started going there and using them, and they started to get a good following on here too.
I haven't been there in years, so I don't know if something changed or not, but anything is possible. Hopefully the OP can get everything straightened out and taken care of.
I haven't been there in years, so I don't know if something changed or not, but anything is possible. Hopefully the OP can get everything straightened out and taken care of.
12-27-2011, 09:27 PM
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Damn, what happened to decent shops that would take PRIDE in their work and never send anything out the door until it was done to the best of their standards and abilities? I'm still baffled that they did dyno pulls on an untuned car. If they were going to do that, they should of at least got you a mail order tune from another performance shop if their tuner walked out
12-27-2011, 11:29 PM
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Why doesn't VA Speed get in here and answer these obvious *** questions, like why there are so many guys having problems with their shop? And that's only the guys who are members on this site who have spoken up, I'm sure there are plenty of other people getting fucked here as well.
And how about why the **** the car was on the dyno if he, quote, "Shouldn't have been driving it at all without a tune"? In the other thread VA Speed said "you chose to drive it which has probably caused a lot of damage by now". So how the **** is the guy supposed to get his car home? So the car was obviously not running right, leaking oil like a siv, and spitting raw fuel from the exhaust and you boot it out of the shop? Then say it's his fault for driving it? What what he supposed to do?
And "it needs a tune" is the biggest ******* cop-out in history. I don't know how many times I've heard schmuck mechanics and shops do absolute **** work and blame it on the tune. Bottom line is, if you are a well known shop with a big reputation and want to continue attracting customers, wouldn't you want to keep this quiet, especially on a forum you sponsor? By you copping out of 1 botched job, you are potentially losing thousands, or tens of thousands, of dollars in future business. People who want to pay a shop to build their car are going to chose a place like VA Speed because it is reputable on the forums and obviously knows F bodies. But not if they see things like this!
VA Speeds post in the other thread...
"Please do tell the whole story Sonny. There was so much fuel in the oil from the car running so rich and you continuallly driving it-i'm sure it do damage by this point in time. Told you the day you picked it up that it needed a tune- but instead of tuning it-you chose to drive it.
We refused to work on it again until you changed the oil and got most of the tune done. We do not have lt1 tuning software and don't plan on getting any."
And how about why the **** the car was on the dyno if he, quote, "Shouldn't have been driving it at all without a tune"? In the other thread VA Speed said "you chose to drive it which has probably caused a lot of damage by now". So how the **** is the guy supposed to get his car home? So the car was obviously not running right, leaking oil like a siv, and spitting raw fuel from the exhaust and you boot it out of the shop? Then say it's his fault for driving it? What what he supposed to do?
And "it needs a tune" is the biggest ******* cop-out in history. I don't know how many times I've heard schmuck mechanics and shops do absolute **** work and blame it on the tune. Bottom line is, if you are a well known shop with a big reputation and want to continue attracting customers, wouldn't you want to keep this quiet, especially on a forum you sponsor? By you copping out of 1 botched job, you are potentially losing thousands, or tens of thousands, of dollars in future business. People who want to pay a shop to build their car are going to chose a place like VA Speed because it is reputable on the forums and obviously knows F bodies. But not if they see things like this!
VA Speeds post in the other thread...
"Please do tell the whole story Sonny. There was so much fuel in the oil from the car running so rich and you continuallly driving it-i'm sure it do damage by this point in time. Told you the day you picked it up that it needed a tune- but instead of tuning it-you chose to drive it.
We refused to work on it again until you changed the oil and got most of the tune done. We do not have lt1 tuning software and don't plan on getting any."
12-27-2011, 11:32 PM
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"Told you the day you picked it up that it needed a tune- but instead of tuning it-you chose to drive it."
How about - It needed a tune, but instead of tuning it we just threw it on the dyno and went ***** out full throttle a few times until the shop was full of black smoke and the floor was covered in oil. Yep looks good, pull it out and tell the customer his car is ready!
How about - It needed a tune, but instead of tuning it we just threw it on the dyno and went ***** out full throttle a few times until the shop was full of black smoke and the floor was covered in oil. Yep looks good, pull it out and tell the customer his car is ready!
