Originally Posted by Vegas69 (Post 567577)

That's all?:action-smiley-027:

Originally Posted by OBeer-WAN-Kenobi (Post 567580)

The most important thing is that you keep a good attitude....like you said in one of your posts above. It's a project and there's going to be a shakedown period, and there WILL be issues. Just need to have the patience to work through them.

I'd bed you'd really like to get this thing out and take out your frustration by burning the tires off the rims right!?? :drive: And taking a video of course. Might even call it a "Burnout Video". :idea:
:rules:

Originally Posted by glassman (Post 567585)

Sorry to hear about the "ongoing" issues. I guess when we try to make our cars better than a factory BMW we will run into "sorting" out issues. Only one thing i continue to learn being a car guy/builder= Patience! I didnt have a lot of that when i was younger, but we dont have a choice. I know you know this but i feel for ya. I took this week off to install my a/c, well it took five weeks to get here and yep, you guessed it, wrong kit. EFF!

Your car is one of my favorite 69's of all time, i mean, color, rims, driveline, seats, attention to detail, etc. I absolutely love and would love to own an equivelent to it some day.....(or this one lol since your frustrated with it, JK)

Anyways, it was nice meeting you at Sonoma, and sorry for interupting you lol.

Mike

Originally Posted by 214Chevelle (Post 567587)

Wow Ron!! Sorry I don't have any advice to give you as many times as you've answered the phone or returned my calls and gave me great advice. I can offer mental support and say, I hope it gets better. This is just a small hurdle that you will conquer with no problem. Don't worry...fret not, the car will make you proud..

Originally Posted by intocarss (Post 567611)

You know the old saying...

If It Has Wheels Or A Skirt Ur Gonna Have Problems!! You'll get it sorted out :hello:

Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 567619)

I got a good laugh out of Lance's post about you doing the work.... Obviously he isn't tracking for the last decade. LOL


I was on the chassis dyno and the fitting blew out of the rack... took the threads with it. That's the problem with running a REBUILT rack... and aluminum with steel fittings... and who the hell knows the fit on the threads. Might have been galled when the old fitting was removed and took half the threads with it. I bought a BRAND NEW rack to "fix" the problem.

Funny thing about building these cars.... I've buttoned up motors that I've built personally which includes cutting ring gaps etc - and fired 'em up - set the timing and adjust the carb and drove to Reno and back.... and I've had pro built motors that didn't last the week... and pro built motors that never leaked or did anything but work as they should.... I've had two hot rods pro built now - one was a complete hassle and the other was a complete joy. Go figure.

Not all body shops are good mechanics and not many mechanics are good body people... very few have the staffing to have great mechanics and great metal workers and paint people all under one roof... and these cars get taken apart and put back together during the build so many times it's a wonder any of them ever run at all.

Add to this - now we also expect the builders to be a suspension specialists for our PT builds... Oh yeah - and we got the front end from someone and the rear end from somebody else - and then we changed our plan 6 times.

In other words -- welcome to hot rodding.

Originally Posted by SSLance (Post 567620)

I typed that part out 3 or 4 different times trying to not offend anyone...and finally just took the high road. :D

In the end, the car owner IS the only one that has to make sure all the parts and pieces work to his\her liking. It's not a whole lot different than building a house...someone has to make sure all of the sub contractors are getting things done correctly and they'll all tell you, it's not THEIR fault...when things go wrong... Even the general contractor on a job has to be held in check to make sure things get done right.

My brother just had a blow up with a paint shop over the painting of the front fender of his Harley. A simple $275 job turned into a month of mistakes, lies, threats, excuses, more lies, and eventually a customer taking his job out the door, unfinished and unhappy about it. At least an experienced hot rod builder realizes that these things happen and just rolls with the punches.

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal (Post 567746)

Oh and don't worry about offending me. If I was that thin-skinned GW/Dave/Rob/Todd woulda ran me off long ago :D :cheers:

Originally Posted by Richio1 (Post 567644)

Ron... sorry to hear about the issues. We've all been there. I was in the same boat when you guys were playing at Sears Point. The bad news is, this will likely not be the only rodeo for you.

But once this is fixed, check it off the list and move on to the next item. My car has been "done" for a year and I have had it in my possession for 6 months. The other 6 has been working out bugs, changing set ups, and swapping out old vendor parts for their new parts. It will be going back in soon for more "tweaking" then we should be done except for some maintenance things annually... unless he talks me into Stack Injection. :twak:

You'll get there. Plus it never rains in So Cal so you have nothing to worry about. You can drive it all year long.

Originally Posted by tones2SS (Post 567665)

^^THIS!!
Good luck Ron.

Originally Posted by Flash68 (Post 567686)

:lmao:

Don't ever ever ever interrupt... THE Ron. :twak:

Originally Posted by DaleTx (Post 567710)

Sorry to hear about the problems. That can be so frustrating when you've taken the time to do it right and still have problems. Keep at it... it will come together for you! Building these cars will test the patience for sure.

:cheers:

Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 567749)

Here's the part that kills YOU as I know it does me. We're not taking stuff to the cheap quote guys. I don't mind paying whatever it takes to get a top notch job done.... and then you get it home and have to re-do stuff. That's what kills me. Might just as well have taken it to the chop shop!

Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 567749)

If we didn't love ya -- we wouldn't bother with you. LOL


This stuff can be so frustrating some times. It shouldn't be - but sometimes it just is.


Here's the part that kills YOU as I know it does me. We're not taking stuff to the cheap quote guys. I don't mind paying whatever it takes to get a top notch job done.... and then you get it home and have to re-do stuff. That's what kills me. Might just as well have taken it to the chop shop!

This whole thing reminds me of when Steve Frisbee's Auto Restoration (SAR) in Portland Oregon charged me $1500 bucks to remove my taillights and paint the black housing white - so that the brake lights would be "brighter".... Of course they'd put them in and built the car to begin with...and now I'm paying him for this kind of work?? But the only thing the taillights needed was an "adjustment" (which I did after they still didn't work) to the bulb holder so they'd make ground contact with the bulb. And this is a Riddler car builder?? OMG.... it's little wonder people go postal!!