how much money and time does it take to do a h22 swap into a 6th gen?

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I’d just have to refer you to read what I posted. There was not heavy fabrication on the swap, mounts, rad repair, shifter installation, and the exhaust. Despite Heather’s guessing, a hammer certainly didn’t repair that rad support.

White VW turbo? I know the kid your referring to, but I certainly had no part in that turbo setup. My manifolds are all TIG welded stainless…no MIG mild stuff like that car has. Some guy from Charleroi or somewhere did that.

You never heard me say anytime anywhere I was a master fabricator. I TIG, MIG, and work with composites. I’ve done electronics fab building several pcb’s that can control fuel injection in either sequential or batch fire. I been doing swaps since the late 90’s. I am capable, but never stated I was a master.

Once again, anyone that feels ripped off according to their version of events certainly has the right to pursue legal retribution. I would be absolutely willing to concede to any of the courts findings against me. No need to tell people you were ripped off when you have an out…go to court.

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I remember the TIG you got and that was less than a year ago…I believe that the VW issue is dated back further than that…
In regards to this WHOLE thread…it was merely a legit question to our fellow pittspeeders…I stated facts…with proof to back up…what do you have? Along with that…the same people reading this thread wanted to know who it was that did me dirty…it was a warning to them ( I have seen these threads a million times)

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thank god u didnt do the white vw. i wouldnt even work on it. i told the kid to come get it. thats how bad it was. however, your name was mentioned on the mix.

however, you still never answered this— “all i’d like to know is, how can you have a car for as long as you did, and not get it running? your estimate of 350 hours means you need 9 weeks @ 40 hours to do a motor swap and bolt on shit???”

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Jay (Hybrid)…as far as your assessment of my wiring goes, understand that I made the obd conversion for the car, Stric FAB claimed though they didn’t have it (could have something to do with certain thieves they have working with them). However I chose to wire the swap (as far as pinout location goes) was entirely up to me, as I had control over converting pinout locations at the ecu. That’s the luxury I have by doing MY OWN harnesses, builds, fab, etc. versus outsourcing everything and being a simple middle man. It’s kind of like, if someone made an aftermarket harness for an MR2 with a 3SGTE, you might have actually finished that car. Since you were forced to face it yourselves…it sat there and rotted. All I saw on here, was you blaming the owner for it. Weren’t you the ones contracted to make it run? No need to explain though, it’s irrelevant here.

Also, keep in mind, I cannot vouch for whatever harness issues existed after the quacks at Stric-fab had their hands in it. I talked with the owner on the phone, and he proclaimed that I had added no injector resistor wiring, therefore broke into the harness to add it. I explained to him that I wired it into a 12v junction beneath the intake mani in order to keep it hidden. He just failed to know what the f*ck is going on.

My point is, don’t speak about my quality of work when you haven’t gotten it directly from me. I’ve worked on MANY cars sportin your stickers in the window, with wires weaved through brake lines, twist tied garbage, etc. Granted maybe that’s before you were involved, but regardless I’m not on here broadcasting it.

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you are quite possibly the worlds largest bullshitter i have ever met. lets start off with john’s MR2 here. or better yet, why don’t we start off with his simple LS/VTEC that you could never get fixed for him? It’s funny how many time i spoke with john and heard all of the problems he had dealing with you and how long it took you to fuck up that swap for him and the ridiculous amounts of money it took for you to do that. hmm… sounds kind of like heathers situation here too.

as far as john’s mr2, we had an agreement from day 1 that he would source me the parts to do it and we would get it done. he never came through on the harness he kept promising to get, so it never got done. it did in fact get done with the wiring spliced together with the N/A harness, and then i waited for another 4 months from him to get a set of wheels to put on it. The car never really seemed to be something he gave a shit about so there it sat. the fact of the matter is…being a good person, he didn’t even have a bill with me when the car left. not 1 cent came out of his pocket for that car at our shop. unlike you, who managed to scam heather for $9000+ and hand her back a car that wasn’t finished.

next, your wiring. sorry bud, even if you made your own adapter harness, the car still wouldn’t have ran. you can’t wire your CLK sensor into your tach lead at the distributor and expect to get the signal down to the computer. or you could just leave wires stretched tight as fuck like you did with the knock sensor so that it breaks the plug. ohh, and when you plug the IAB solenoid into the Intake air temperature sensor, it not only doesn’t allow the IAB’s to work properly, but it will also ruin the IAT sensor. speaker wire for the reverse lights? come on bud, if you’re going to bash my “twist tie” wiring, you better bring more to the table then 28 gauge speaker wiring.

ohh, and bang up job you did tightening the nuts on the intake manifold! there was only about 3 of them that were still loose causing a massive vacuum leak when i finally did get all of your wiring unfucked.

the problem is man, out of all the work you mentioned there, no other shop would charge someone as much money as you did. if you think tucking a few extra wires underneath a frame rail with one zip tie so they can rub on the tires and axles and rattle can painting the engine bay is worth the extra 4-5000 dollars that you charged heather, then honestly…you’re out of your mind.

broadcast all you want on here about me son. you started with me a year ago, and i proved you wrong then. if you’d like, i’ll do it again.

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VW16vCabby…It’s not as simple as the terms your placing it in.

I’ve purchased cars with front end damage, no wiring at all, and had them on the road in 4-5 weeks working part time on the car. It was never a matter of capability getting her car done.

When I received the car, work began immediately. Parts and money was needed, she gave it most of the time. Controversy between her and her boyfriend Josh (my roommate at the time) complicated things. She was fired from her job and that complicated things also moneywise. All these factors affected when the car was worked on, and what was done.

The car wasn’t difficult as much as it was time consuming. Your saying just bolting stuff in, but EVERYTHING was prepped, cleaned, painted, etc. The engine bay was painted twice due to the frame rail situation I spoke of earlier. Paint, prep, and such is time consuming and labor intensive. Noone here has paid a body shop to do repair work. I’d imagine to paint an engine bay, repair front end damage, and paint prep a motor would run a substantial amount of money alone!

Like I said, this was never a question of difficulty. It was merely a mixed up, fucked up situation. If you all want to believe Heather is the angel here, believe me she’s quite the manipulater herself.

Could I have done some things differently? Certainly…I’m not perfect. Hindsight is always 20/20. Alot of the problem was mixing what began as my roommates girlfriend with business. It became a circle with her, Josh, and me. Josh’s drug problems, Heather and his physical fights at my house, with me and her car in the middle. Him kicking her car, her expecting me to punch him in the mouth, him mad at me…blah blah blah. Like I said, there is WAY more to this than anyone here knows, all of which very much affected the work being done on this car. I know it, Heather KNOWS it. Heather has her own part in this deal though, which is why this isn’t the place for it. Heather knows the situation, if she wants retribution she has full rights to present her side.

Fact is, the car looks good as hell, everything was done quality, and that’s my work plain and simple. The fact that Hybrid took 3 hours or whatever and had it run out the door is testament to that fact. It was never a matter of difficulty, as I’ve done H22 swaps and sold the OBD conversions on-line prior to ever working on her car. The car is done, Hybrid helped that fact, Heather can take me to court if she feels the need to do so.

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go back and look at dates…reciepts and everything else proves it…the loss of my job happened after ALL parts you requested where bought ( meaning you came to me after starting the swap and forgot to mention the intermediate shaft, fuel rail)…COME ON…your really something. You know your a grasping to make your side count but I have physical proof to BACK UP EVERYTHING I SAY. To add to the job thing…that never had anything to do with the car. If you remember there was a period of time in needed to get the swap money together ( you wanted it upfront ) THEN YOU TOOK ON MY CAR… again your a JOKE…

YOU WANNA ADD IN THE EX thing…for fun…okay we sucked together. That ended along time ago. Of course though…that some how effected you and my car. YOU ACT LIKE MORE OF A GIRL THAN HALF THE PGH POPULATION. Plus the above mentioned was a week deal and it was done…I discontinued coming around and he moved.Why dont you stat the fact correctly.

AGAIN and AGAIN what ever you say…YOU and I know ( again with proof to back up) that parts were in your hands 6months before the swap…MONEY FOR THE LABOR…that was paid upfront because you were wining that you where going to get kicked out ( i was totally against it —BUT YOU WERE MY FRIEND) anytime you needed something that YOU didn’t think about. I CAME WITH $$$$…

“Damage to my car”---- I had a broken headlight bracket…I’d like to see those so called pic you got!!UPLOAD EM for proof of ALL that sooo called damage. I am not at all saying my car wasn’t in an accident. But you leading these people on to the reality of what you really repaired.

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am I the only dirty minded one here that caught that :smiley:

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  1. Watts/voltage=amperage…even supposed 28 gauge wire can operate reverse lights. Beside the fact that isn’t 28 gauge wire. Bust out an AWG table bro.

  2. Your CLK to the tach lead is the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard. The stock distributor wiring didn’t need to change between the Y5 and the H22 just the plug…obviously the work of quack StricFab. Heather certainly knows first hand I have adapted distributors to her car before the swap when we went to Carlisle. My ability to do ignition wiring isn’t in question.

  3. Didn’t tighten nuts to the intake mani? Here’s a surprise…I didn’t get to finish the car. When it left my garage the harness wasn’t even connected to the intake mani sensors at all. Don’t cite work I did that you don’t even know first hand if I did or not.

I instructed the quacks at StricFab on what was what, the fact that they can’t follow simple instructions is hardly my problem.

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you didn’t finish it cause you never worked on it…you never had an actual job either…I’m were most your income came from( you finally got a normal job the minute I stopped dealing with you)…hence the reason you always wanted money…but you never did any work in 10 months…you make no sense! AGAIN laziness was the main factor in this.

With motivation…you may have been able to finish the project.

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So why after a year and $9000 you still did not have this car done? Were you just too busy working on all these other great cars you’ve supposedly put together? If you had completed this job at that price you would have ripped her off pretty good. Charging that much and not getting the job done, even given this ludicrous amount of time, is an insane ripoff.

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So whats the name of the shop?

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^Gimme a break…you know better and you know it.

So, if you paid 9000.00 including all the parts etc. Even if I was by some crazy means able to profit half of that, then your saying I survived on 4500.00 over the period of 10 months? Just stop, your making less sense and making larger assumptions with each post.

I filed out of business…hence my need for income and tax filing.

I’ve stated my side, but everyone has already reached an opinion without obviously reading anything I’ve written. I’m done feeding into this entire deal. If it were to objective readers I may continue, but it’s obviously not the case. Regardless, Heather stated she is filing with the magistrate so it’ll all be resolved in the end favorably.

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no, i dont think you will live off of 4500 for a year. unless mom and dad pays for shit, and i dont think that is the case.

however, you have side stepped every question so far. i still can not imagine what was holding you up for the period of time you had the car? i work in a repair garage, andf i cant think of one car that has been there for as long as you had the car. usually, only cars that sit are cars that teh owners have no money to pay for shit, and that was not the case so far.

i know, i have no clue who you are. i have never met you, and dont know you from a can of paint. however, 9k is a large sum of money. granted, majority of that was spent on parts. however, you deffinitely profited on parts.

iirc, you bitched at me for selling a h22 usa swap for 1800 asking price. saying you could get jdm ones for that amount all day long. so what happeend there? i know supply and demand hasn’t changed for this swap, and the usa dollar didnt go down that bad…

sad thing is, for the money she spent, i bet that if you would have finished the car, she never would have bitched. it is the fact you took her for so much money, not to mention time, that stings.

I think Hycomp’s last post pretty much sums up my feelings.

so i guess you guys will have your day in court.

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You right you don’t have enough motivation…
about your profit and what you lived off of…I only stated that you didn’t have me to give you your little bonus money …you needed a REAL job after I took my car. You found money by short changing other people I’m sure.

ALSO…I am done with this thread!

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I wanna take a shot at this…

looks like 4200?

…i was just curious

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oh ya, and I just tossed an H into turdteg’s ride. w/o having to diagnose some distributor gremlins, it was no more than 3 leisurely days off and on. H’s ain’t no thang.

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