Hey Ivan, don't get your panties in a bunch man... I said that is only car I know that you helped tune... He always had issues therefore that is the only evidence that I can go by that's all.. No one said you can't tune ... All these years I've known tony,you guys have been friends and you help tune his cars and basically at the end, something happens and he parts them out... No one said it's your fault man so relax... I just never seen any of your cars run or any of your customers cars run. I am just speaking from what I know and heard from him. Tony never said it was your fault. All we were looking for was some data for all of your claims that's all and only car I know is Tonys!
The car you speak of was Chucks Car actually ..
And its funny as all of Tony's turbo problems started the Day he bought a car from you !! HE went to the track how you sold him the car and clicked off low 13's ...
I think he drove it 1000 miles before the motor let go... then another 200 miles after Gary redid a fresh motor before it locked up.
Which is Super IRONIC since it's that very car that after I helped him with the motor and tuned it back in the 90's ran 11.70 with the same few bolt ons on LOW BOOST .. and I don't know how many street races we won with that car after against KNOWN 10 second rides.
EVEN more ironic its that same car that went mid 10's on 80's and a dw300 pump .. which I own now... with the same shitbox problematic motor he had.
NO DFI.. NO GN1's.. NO ROLLER CAM.. NO 70 TURBO .. NO TH400 .. NO SWAMP DRAINER FUEL SYSTEM ... NO FRONT MOUNT
I sold the motor to another customer ( ON HERE) as a bolt in deal... HE ALSO runs higher 10's with it now !!
The car you speak of now was Chucks old blue T .. he dropped it off to me last fall .. after giving up on it as he was ready to burn it . Low Oil pressure.. No start at random times ..no vss..
heavy knock.. breaking up..loose accessory brackets.. fuel pump relay.. and I don't know how many wiring issues I corrected.
I HAVE TUNED this car ONCE ! last year ... like I said it ran "OK" for driving down the track with a locked convertor and not being able to get the car on boost.
I left some in the tune ... as I know better then to set it up on edge.
Fast forward to early this year HE made some changes to it .. some warranted some not .. he found a loose intake ( this was leftover from Chucks work). The intake gasket was destroyed..he replaced it.
He DISCONNECTED the Battery ( i.e. KILLING off my tune and defaulting back to the stock TT parameters) and proceeded to take the car out with the vanilla tune.. After beating on the car for a while trying to resolve a boost issue the car didn't run the same and knocked.
We went out for a quick spin few weeks ago again after he was having issues with it .... I datalogged the car and it was out of fuel causing knock ( dual intank WALBLOWS again setup as Chuck had it). I told him we have to figure out whats up with the fueling.. either a shitty pump or a hobbs not working .... Draw your own conclusions as to why things went south after he dropped me off
...but LEAVE my tune out of it when you don't know what the hell your talking about as it was the DEFAULT TT tune in the car when he popped the head gasket later that nite !!! You need to get the facts of WHY his cars don't run right , what has caused issues before you make implications and suggestions that are complete BULLSHIT !
I can not help it when customers do things that they don't understand the impact ... and I am really frustrated at customers when they decide to just not pay attention to what gauges say or
just lean on their car KNOWING full well that it ISN'T tuned.
IF I posted anything that is not 100% factual on here ... He can post and correct me .. as for your comment of not seeing my cars run or customers car run ... spend some more time on the street and race track ... going to BUICK CAR SHOWS walking around looking at cars is no joy for me . The guys I cater too are actually out proving it on the street . Besides who are you that I need to prove anything to