I know the owner as well (used to be friends with him), although I don’t talk to him because he started acting like a scumbag. He’s kind of an idiot who is much better at breaking cars and then lying about it than fixing them.
Friends with the old owner, he’s mad chill. Informed me that the timing belt tensioner doesn’t actually, you know, keep tension, which is a big part of why he wasn’t driving the car when it sold. New owner was doing 8000rpm rippers with it.