kmj 4g63t
10+ Year Contributor
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- May 8, 2009
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montreal,
QC_Canada
Talking with abuddy one day about the new engine I had installed. A young kid wanders over right as we are talking about how high I'm revving it.
Friend: So how high are you taking it?
Me: About 9,000, limiter is set at 9,500 RPM
Kid: Careful! Letting off at that high RPM the vacuum will pull your exhaust valve out the port.
Me: Your an idiot, please leave.
Another time:
Out tuning a buddys Galant VR-4, pulled into a gas station to adjust a few things and grab some drinks. A middle aged guy walks out and starts toward a late 90's Camaro, stops and listens to the Galant, then pauses and comes over to the car. He stops and says "don't drive that car any further, you have a huge air leak, (refering to the lope from the 272's) we both look at him and say the car is fine just boost leak tested it tonight to 35 PSI, no leaks its the cams. He insists for like 5 more minutes that there is a problem with the car, finally we leave, by this time my buddy and I are REALLY annoyed by this guy so we take off. He gets in behind us and attempts a ricer flyby. My buddy let him get side by side and then down shifted to 3rd, pulled away like the F-body was standing still. He tried that game 3 more times and then slinked off into the night.
I could go on for hours.
Here is another good one.
I get a call late (1 am) from the local rice king,
Rice King: "I need a tune, right now, got a money race and the car isn't running right."
Me: make a quick pull, tell me whats its doing (tuned the car previously, nothing had changed)
Rice King: "It just stutters and won't go into boost, only builds 10 lbs.
Me: You most likely have a boost leak, check all the clamps/couplers
Rice King: No man it needs a tune, I'll pay you $50 to fix the tune right now.
Me: OK, bring it over, I'll be ready
Fast forward 20 minutes, I'm in the garage ready with a can of carb cleaner.
Rice king: pulls in all fast hops out, gives me a $50, says lets go
me: hold up a second, I want to check some stuff
Rice king: it just needs a tune man
Me: we'll see, I checked his logs, everything was the same as I had set it up. I start spraying carb cleaner on all the couplers, find 4 leaks in like 20 seconds. I tighten all the clamps up and quickly boost leak check the car, good to go.
Rice king: Are we going tuning?
Me: No, I fixed the car, told you it had a boost leak.
Rice King: Do I get my money back?
Me: No, I fixed it, its 1 am. I'm going to bed.
Rice King: You ripped me off!
Me: You called and said you needed the car fixed, I told you how to do it, you refused and offered to pay me to "tune it" I fixed it, sorry.. tuned it. Good night.
Haven't heard from Rice King in quite some time
HAHAH Tune it man, tune it, it just needs a tune aka everything I need to do the car is "tuning" !