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yeah but you got what i mean, right? its just a shit go. i want a refund. but the turbo is in pieces at GCG and i dont think aaron is willing to have it returned like that.

thats exactly how i feel. ive never heard of these guys before today. my last repair i sent my turbo to aaron himself. thats why im a bit reluctant on sending it. if HKS came up one day and said, 'ok, we actually dont build our branded turbos, k-mart does'. how would you feel?

you told me to take it to GCG because you have no workshop. i have you telling me this in an msn conversation which i kept the logs of (and which i removed from the conversation i pasted above). i have no problems with them doing the repair as i said earlier, but you told me that i pretty much voided my warranty by having GCG inspect the turbo WHICH YOU ADVISED ME TO DO.

if it was a way that i installed it then there would be scores on the shaft from oil starvation, or oil contamination. GCG have stated that there is no scoring or oil contamination. i've installed plenty of these turbos and have not gone wrong. he just told me by email that my warranty is VOID because GCG had opened up the turbo. wheres the fair go?

aaron did. he specifically told me to go to GCG, this is the exact line he used from our msn conversation. bits were removed as to not let too much of aaron's situation out. 10/09/2007 12:36:27 AM Aaron Joe Rulz... are you able to take it off and take it to gcg to see what they think? 10/09/2007 12:37:58 AM Aaron Joe Rulz... well when you can take it off and send it to gcg and let jase know 10/09/2007 12:38:35 AM Joe Rulz... Aaron so i take it to gcg, then what? 10/09/2007 12:39:06 AM Aaron Joe Rulz... see what the prob is and let jase know 10/09/2007 12:39:18 AM Aaron Joe Rulz... if something has failed he will organise replacement 10/09/2007 12:39:32 AM Joe Rulz... Aaron how dude? 10/09/2007 12:39:44 AM Aaron Joe Rulz... organise through gcg

aaron has again disappointed me. ive just received an email saying that he didnt want me to take it to GCG for them to strip the turbo, and this has voided my warranty. i have no option than to sue, right?

civil case is $26 to apply. department of fair trading is $0. and i'll be sueing for all costs incurred including legal fees which will be around $1500ish because of labour etc. its not a major loss on my part.

i personally know someone who had their slide turbo completely shit itself. slide refuses to pay the GCG fee and postage even after he told me to send it there. i think this is now going to develop into a court case. ive spoken to my old man who said i should go through with it. ill have to contact the department of fair trading first, wont i?

website is down, but ill give them a call on monday. thanks mate.

yeah, ive decided that as long as sliding performance pays for GCG's time and postage that i'd send it to sliding performance personally. i will not send it to a company i have never heard off till now. i think that is being very reasonable.

sounds good. as long as he covers GCG's fees and postage.

thats actually a good idea. problem is, Slide doesnt want me to send the turbo to him at all. he doesnt want anything to do with it as far as i can tell. he's trying to shift responsibility. i dont want to send my turbo to his warranting company because ive never dealt with them, or even knew about them to begin with, so how can i trust them? if slide pays for the GCG quote of $75, pays for postage (not sure what it will cost), ill send it to HIM for him to take care of.

but thats not the issue here. not all of us have the $ to go out and buy the bigger named brands, im still working my way through uni. im not dissing SP at all, i just think for all my efforts im due a working turbo repaired by an establishment who have proven themselves.

so you agree that if i got it back after a repair and it was still faulty, i should be up for a refund? well, this is the 2nd time its been repaired. first time, he told me there was a bit of scoring on the shaft. GCG tell me that the shaft was 100% perfect. not a single sign of wear or oil contamination or oil starvation. so i've got 1 person saying im due a FULL refund. thanks mate.

its been discussed in private. im asking for opinions, Richard.

well if GCG rebuild it i will have a working turbo because they've figured out the problem. i wouldnt have a problem installing it after that. if his warranter repairs it then i'll be alot more reluctant, and i wouldnt want to sell a dodgy product to anybody. it was said that the turbos were built in-house.

if i had a Murnane Motors turbo, i'd do exactly that. i have a sliding performance turbo, so sliding performance should take care of everything since i dont know them, nor have i ever dealt with them.

i bolted it on, but its a sliding turbo. the oil is going through the worn rings.

i actually want the turbo repaired this time mate. cheers.

Well when i first got my turbo everything seemed to be good, till a week or so later i realised that i was losing oil consistently. i'd lose around 1L of oil per week, depending on how i drove. so i looked into having the turbo repaired by aaron. he took it, he said he fixed it then he sent it back.... GREAT, i thought. now my turbo is 100%.....a week later i still had 1L of oil gone. not good. i was speaking to aaron on msn and he was convinced that it was my motor and not the turbo. he said it could be my valve stem seals. so i did them. no change. then he said send it to GCG to see whats wrong with it. ive been putting it off for a while because of how busy i am and i couldnt have my car off the road for more than a week at the most. after hearing that a friend of mine had his sliding turbo fail, the oil problem really started to worry me, so i pulled it off and sent it to GCG under aaron's instructions, as he told my friend to do also. GCG say that it will cost $990 to repair. aaron is now telling me to get the turbo off GCG and send it to whoever is warranting it. mind you, it was sent to them before and they did not repair it then. GCG said: - ring area worn - collars are worn - bearing housing needs to be machined to fit a new bearing in there. - the turbo was showing that it had 50,000km's of wear on it, when ive had the turbo since february with a few months off while sending the turbo off to get 'repaired'. on the plus side, GCG also said: - the shaft had NO sign of oil contamination, no scoring on the shaft (which aaron had said that there was when i first sent him the turbo). - and there was no indication of lack of oil pressure on the motor. now, what do i do? should i send the turbo back to aaron's warranting company for a second time and wonder what will happen next? - i dont want to do this, i've been through enough over this turbo, i think i deserve a working turbo after all of this. - aaron told me to send it to GCG, which i did. or should i push to have GCG repair the turbo properly?

bug and tar remover from repco or supercheap.

i've got an idea. connect the emanage to a laptop and log the data when it is misfiring. click on the data logger option, which is the one ive circles in RED. make sure you choose all maps by clicking the button ive circles in ORANGE and choosing the same ones i have chosen then click OK. to start logging click on start (derr) which is in GREEN. choose to save the logged data then put it into a .zip file then PM it to me. ill have a look at it and see if i can help you with anything.

nothing. people who say that the pfc is better is rather dogmatic. the pfc is just easier to install. once the emanage starts to become more and more popular there will be alot more support out there for aftermarket bits and pieces. in a few years time i'd imagine that the emanage will have aftermarket programs to make tuning and engine management a whole lot easier. there is actually someone on the emanage support forums that is developing a program that auto-tunes the emanage for you with a few inputs and a wideband. i mean, the emanage ultimate was released a few years ago and already there is a program being developed for auto-tune. whats next?

id rather have the same thing as everyone else if that had to be my other option lol.

i've been thinking about how you can remove the AFM with the greddy pressure sensor... cant you log current AFM voltage from the sampling map and paste that into the airflow output map? wouldnt that have the same effect if all i was after was to remove the AFM?