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Originally Posted by GregWeld
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!!
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Totally agree Greg. I will say there are certain parts of the build that I'm not going to 'assign' blame for certain issues - other than myself, lol.
When you look at this go-round, it was a breather issue we think. Was it the motor builder, BoS or Mike Norris' catch can design? I think the answer is a resounding NO. The dry sump scavenges well enough. The upper has a breather/catch can but it just wasn't enough. Plus I was using GM valve covers that have really really skinny ports for a factory PCV system, which again I'm not using. The catch can filled up after the first AutoX, and the next spirited drive pressurized the bottom end and sent the rear main out the back. It had nowhere to go.
So what's the fix? I'll either drill and tap a -10 fitting into the valve covers or get new ones and give the top end some better breathing.
The rack? That's a whole 'nother issue.
Other parts of the build? Yes there has been lots of fixing and rework, on my nickel. I'll never see those nickels again.
Thanks for chiming in GW. Oh and I love U2
