98spydert
15+ Year Contributor
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- Jan 16, 2004
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Phoenix,
Arizona
:::EDIT::: Apparently my story violates Blog rules by including accusations and personal complaints and I've been asked to remove them. I left the story the same and just deleted the personal info to comply. The point of this blog was really more to tell the horror story of how I got this car rather than bash the piece of shit who dicked me over. :::EDIT:::
If you read my first blog, you read how badly **** ****** screwed me over for approximately a year and a half. Here's the follow up drama from retrieving my car from him:
After getting my car home, I start re-torqing bolts and double checking everything. Here's what I found:
My new OEM oil pump and JNZ tuning BSEK were replaced with a Topline pump and the rear shaft was just hacked off with an angle grinder. He had told me some story about getting the wrong pump in the mail and having to pay $270 for a Topline locally and how my JNZ kit wasn't the right kit for the 4G64 (complete bull shit, he installed them on his own 2.3 build and screwed me over) and I this before I left, but what I didn't know is that very unbalanced shaft ate into the pump and ruined it. Luckly it did not suffer a catastrophic failure.
My OEM overhaul kit was not used! Everything was old, reused aftermarket junk. The timing belt was a stretched out Goodyear belt instead of the 4G64 OEM belt I supplied. And the OEM 4G63 belt that was in the kit was kept for his project I guess.
My fresh head had 8 different valve cover bolts holding down the valve cover and most were the wrong threads, forced into the head.
The power steering pump was held on by one bolt. It had moved during the trip and the pulley had ground off the head of another bolt. Somehow it didn't suffer a catastrophic failure.
The t-25 was hanging on by a couple bolts, the water lines were plugged and not used, and it was spewing oil into the exhaust.
The transfer case was missing bolts but again, somehow didn't suffer a catastrophic failure.
The 4 oil drain holes on the back of the 4G64 block that need to by plugged because they don't line up with the 4G63 head were not plugged. They had pieces of a Mountain Dew can laid over them with RTV holding them down. Oil sprayed out of them and all over the engine bay and bottom of the car for the entire trip so I just kept adding a little oil every few hours. The undercarriage was soaked all the way back to the muffler
The MDP sensor, throttle body, timing covers, and other various parts were all broken and patched with RTV and JB Weld. This install was the definition of a shade tree DSMer.
There were other little hack job tricks here and there and I'm sure more major issues I'm missing. You get the picture...
After all of this I tell **** that I want my OEM overhaul kit and 4G64 belt along with everything else he still had of mine. He says he'd send it to me the following day, AND I NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN! Big surprise...
My future blogs will be focused on my un-build and rebuild of this car. I've got a lot done in the last 4 months and have a lot more to do. I'm picking up my OEM oil pump, BSEK, timing gear, and brakes on thrusday. Maybe I'll make a more positive entry next weekend and have my car back on the road! Time will tell...
If you read my first blog, you read how badly **** ****** screwed me over for approximately a year and a half. Here's the follow up drama from retrieving my car from him:
After getting my car home, I start re-torqing bolts and double checking everything. Here's what I found:
My new OEM oil pump and JNZ tuning BSEK were replaced with a Topline pump and the rear shaft was just hacked off with an angle grinder. He had told me some story about getting the wrong pump in the mail and having to pay $270 for a Topline locally and how my JNZ kit wasn't the right kit for the 4G64 (complete bull shit, he installed them on his own 2.3 build and screwed me over) and I this before I left, but what I didn't know is that very unbalanced shaft ate into the pump and ruined it. Luckly it did not suffer a catastrophic failure.
My OEM overhaul kit was not used! Everything was old, reused aftermarket junk. The timing belt was a stretched out Goodyear belt instead of the 4G64 OEM belt I supplied. And the OEM 4G63 belt that was in the kit was kept for his project I guess.
My fresh head had 8 different valve cover bolts holding down the valve cover and most were the wrong threads, forced into the head.
The power steering pump was held on by one bolt. It had moved during the trip and the pulley had ground off the head of another bolt. Somehow it didn't suffer a catastrophic failure.
The t-25 was hanging on by a couple bolts, the water lines were plugged and not used, and it was spewing oil into the exhaust.
The transfer case was missing bolts but again, somehow didn't suffer a catastrophic failure.
The 4 oil drain holes on the back of the 4G64 block that need to by plugged because they don't line up with the 4G63 head were not plugged. They had pieces of a Mountain Dew can laid over them with RTV holding them down. Oil sprayed out of them and all over the engine bay and bottom of the car for the entire trip so I just kept adding a little oil every few hours. The undercarriage was soaked all the way back to the muffler
The MDP sensor, throttle body, timing covers, and other various parts were all broken and patched with RTV and JB Weld. This install was the definition of a shade tree DSMer.
There were other little hack job tricks here and there and I'm sure more major issues I'm missing. You get the picture...
After all of this I tell **** that I want my OEM overhaul kit and 4G64 belt along with everything else he still had of mine. He says he'd send it to me the following day, AND I NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN! Big surprise...
My future blogs will be focused on my un-build and rebuild of this car. I've got a lot done in the last 4 months and have a lot more to do. I'm picking up my OEM oil pump, BSEK, timing gear, and brakes on thrusday. Maybe I'll make a more positive entry next weekend and have my car back on the road! Time will tell...
