haha yah now that thats fixed i gotta find where the damn oil leak is coming from, fix one thing find another problem, and i gotta figure out which of the 3 dangling plugs that are not hooked up goes to the tranny heat sensor, this **** is getting so frustrating!

 

yoour mechanic is a ***** and you need to get your money back.

 

haha............if i wasn't so damn pissed right now that would actually be funny to me.

well found the ******* leak, goddamn oil cooler is leaking like a siv while i was under the car i found that the turbo only has 3 bolts holding it to the manifold and 2 of the 3 are loose as **** every ******* day i find a new ******* deficiency with this car, goddamnitt!

 

Who build your engine ? chevytech?

 

howd you guess......

 

that's the one

 

ahah just found out the goddamn gasket set is on national back order, so now WTF am i suppossed to ******* do! goddamnitt

 

for some odd reason all the messed up build engines on here seem to be releated to him. but he builds a damn good engine for himself.

 

take it we're not gonna ship it on monday then?

 

how? there is no ******* way the car is gonna pass inspection to get on the ******* boat! gotta reschedule again, and hope they'll go for it!

which one would that be, i'm unaware of any engines he has built for himself?

 

his own???

 

nope

 

makes it even worse now. why is the car leaving the country anways?

 

i'm getting stationed in germany, thats the biggest reason i went ahead with the build was so i could have a fast car for the autobahn and nurenburgring. not a leaky POS that i can't even ship!

 

well i fixed the leaking oil cooler with some hight temp orange copper sealant, sealed it up great. the first time the car has been leak free since i got it back. now i gotta get a new bolt for the turbo and get those properly torqued, among other little ******* issues i gotta fix. so i put some oil back in there, was 3 ******* quarts low. i'd have been so pissed if the motor had siezed! good thing i'm a strong believer of constantly checking the fluids on a daily basis.

 

damn you fix one leak find another that little 4 bolt plate on the front cover for the oil pump gears is leaking too. damn dp has en exhaust leak coming out of the welds, discharge flange is missing a bolt. charge piping is pushing down on the plastic wheelwell liner and pushing it onto my tire. missing all 6 torques bolts for my injector cover and coil cover. missing both brackets that hold the wheel well plactic liner in place. missing all clips that hold the upper grill to the radiator support. those are the deficiencies i found last night alone. i found a few previously that weren't even listed yet. charge piping doesn't clear the valve cover, doesn't clear the alternator, doesn't clear the hood. the maf piping was supposed to be 85mm all the way to the tb, but was reduced down to 2.5" before the tb. and there is no catalytic convertor. the bung for the egt guage was not welded in. and the bung for the wb and rear o2 sensor was not welded in. wow thats a lot of **** i gotta fix, to think i paid alot of money to have the charge piping and dp done for me. as well as the motor being built.

 

you sure you didn't miss anything in the write up?

 

there's a couple of other things but i can't think of all of them right now.

 

wow sucks about all the trouble jim... is "the builder" taking any responsibiliy?

 

haven't heard from him, not really trying to either, got lot of the stuff fixed myself over the last two weeks, car goes bye bye wednesday now that i got it to stop leaking.

 

good to know you got it to stop leakin

 

yah there was 3 bad seels and 2 bad gaskets total. all replaced now. so are you in town this weekend? it's my last weekend here, i will be down in sd friday, maybe saturday and sunday too depending on whether we pull a motor or too.

 

yup im here all weekend... i will be outta commission friday but if you are still down there sat and sun, i could head down.

 

cool, if we end up pulling some motors you could end up with one hell of a good learning experience.