Mondi, if they are afraid to talk…they dont exist. What I do know is that people HAVE posted about their experiences with you, none seem to be to pleasant! Your other comment about makiing peoples tunes worse is complete garbage. We have picked up power on 99.9% of the cars we have worked on, including yours…remember 240 more hp at 6K rpm???
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The reason I am a newbie on this site is because I did not know about until one of your unhappy customers pm’d me to post it here.
You ship is sinking fast.
From what I read it sounds like this tranny was bound to bust up, but just to play devil’s advocate…There is one easy solution that should only cost about $35.
It’s called small claims court, if you think that New Era is really responsible for the damage. Now IANAL, nor am I a mechanic but if you really think you can compel a judge you will win the money for the tranny and NE will be forced to pay. However since you couldn’t convince this jury…suck it up as a downside to your hobby. Shit happens.
i also heard that Mondi after getting a brand new motor and clutch in his car pulled out of the shop and ripped thru altleast 3 or 4th gear with no break-in
i also heard that Mondi after getting a brand new motor and clutch in his car pulled out of the shop and ripped thru altleast 3 or 4th gear with no break-in
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I did not floor it, Just seating the rings plus it had been idling for a while at the shop. Please Read:
ide be a little wary to go WOT on a freshly built motor. Ide prolly keep under 3k and just drive it normally. doing hairy burnouts on a fresh motor just seems ridiculous
ide be a little wary to go WOT on a freshly built motor. Ide prolly keep under 3k and just drive it normally. doing hairy burnouts on a fresh motor just seems ridiculous
A quick search on Google and CZ28.com, and I didn’t see anything mentioned about “no break-in required”… All clutches, just like brakes require break in for them to function at their best.
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ok, found it on the mfg’s website… still wouldn’t trust that, even from a mfg…
If you believe in engine brake in, you should go to the engine building plant in Tonawanda and watch. Sounds like everyone agrees that Chuck does a good job tuning. At least there is agreement on something.
I had my T-5 transmission rebuilt on a 92 Mustang. After two weeks of abusing the snot out of it, third gear came apart. It appeared to have a hairline crack under a couple teeth that was missed. It came apart while I was at about 1400 rpm idling down main street, and I hadn’t abused the car at all that day. At the car had < 300 hp. I agree that it can happen when it’s not being abused, and at a seemingly random time. Stop blaming Mike. Bottom line is who cares, fix it. Once it’s apart you’ll find the problem, and I’d bet that it wasn’t Mike’s fault.
Those transmissions are weak anyway, just ask Firehawk853 :lolsign:
If you believe in engine brake in, you should go to the engine building plant in Tonawanda and watch. Sounds like everyone agrees that Chuck does a good job tuning. At least there is agreement on something.
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Yeah I remember 4.3 vortec engines would get run at WOT continuous for maybe 1 min. to verify oil pressure.
Chuck doesn’t do a good job tuning, he does an excellent job without a dyno. When he is tuning on a dyno watch out
I’ll step up with a similar Mustang T-5 breakage story. After 175k miles (I had owned the car since 100k), which included racing on slicks almost every weekend, I had 4 teeth explode off of 3rd gear on the countershaft. What was I doing when this happened? Pulling away from a Wendy’s drive through window at about 5mph.
Power breaks stuff. Stuff needs to be fixed/hardened/beefed to deal with it.
Ok lets say it was bad timing. They had the car. They were responceable for what happened to the car. A good shop would do something to help get the customers car in working order again. No shop is going to have 100% of there customers happy but they should at least try. That what got me. I had no choice but to post up my experiance.
most shops dont deal with highly modified cars that are raced. they mostly deal with cars that just need general repairs and are daily driven.
i dont think a professional tuner would go around beating on random cars. thats pretty un-ethical. Plus, im sure he has his own car that he can go race around in. What does he have to gain by doing that?
Ok lets say it was bad timing. They had the car. They were responceable for what happened to the car. A good shop would do something to help get the customers car in working order again. No shop is going to have 100% of there customers happy but they should at least try. That what got me. I had no choice but to post up my experiance.
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Spell out exactly what you think you are owed and why. I don’t understand where you’re going with the vague terms of “helping out”. I’m sure Mike would have helped you out getting the trans rebuild and reinstalled and probably would have even cut you a deal on labor (which, from what I’ve heard quoted for their trans jobs, is already cheap as shit).
You keep saying you want “help” but never mention exactly what form of compensation you’re looking for.
I think he should of offered free labor.
Instead he quoted me his reg prices.
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Spell out exactly what you think you are owed and why. I don’t understand where you’re going with the vague terms of “helping out”. I’m sure Mike would have helped you out getting the trans rebuild and reinstalled and probably would have even cut you a deal on labor (which, from what I’ve heard quoted for their trans jobs, is already cheap as shit).
You keep saying you want “help” but never mention exactly what form of compensation you’re looking for.
Not to mention asking for compensation after bashing the shop over and over again on multiple MBs…
From what I’ve read in this whole thing; it’s a case of bad timing and he just happened to be in the car when it let loose.
When you’re dealing with highly modified cars everythings a crapshoot; and it’s not if something is going to break, it’s only when. If you race the car all the time and he has the datalogs to prove that it was being driven normally; then you don’t have a foot to stand on that “he broke it”. I find it hard to believe that a tuner would blow a manual tranny that wasn’t on the edge of grenading already.
I have nothing on either side; I’ve never met either of you…
Now if he screwed up the motor after messing with the program, then I can see some help. But after you getting all pissed and then bashing him everywhere; I’d tell you to go pound dirt; as well as most shops especially those who have read this thread just so they don’t get blamed for some other failure that they had nothing to do with.
Bottom line with ANY modified car…
If you have the $$ to modify, you better have the $$ to repair when something goes wrong, because it’s not a matter of IF; it’s WHEN!!!
shackledmaidens FTW
Bottom line is who cares, fix it. Once it’s apart you’ll find the problem, and I’d bet that it wasn’t Mike’s fault.