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I not sure if you've read my other thread about my intercooler being mounted last week or so.

Well in the other thread I said that I thought I had a leak somewhere.

Well today I pulled the pipes out that the workshop made up and low and behold I found TWO leaks where the welding didn't even join !!! :);)

It stood out like dogs balls that it would leak. I can't believe that they wouldn't have seen them... So I whipped over to a mates place and got them welded up.

Now it's all sweet, the weird screaching noise is gone.

Another thing they didn't do was I told them excatly how I wanted the pipework to run. I wanted the turbo outlet to run to the passengers side (due to flow reasons - the way the end tanks are made), and the motor inlet to come from the drivers side.

Well you wouldn't believe that they even did that the opposite way around.

I'm not happy and I will be ringing them tomorrow to let them know.

If anyone wants to know which workshop it was, drop me a email or PM.

NOT HAPPY JAN.... :):mad:

j

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Yeah - I wasn't happy.

I wasn't prepared to take it back to them, I'd rather a friend do it while I was there.

Plus my mate is a great engineer - his welding was better than the shops !!!

Plus i forgot to mention that when I picked the car up from "The workshop" someone had done about 3-4km in my car while it was there. Not sure why, or even where they took it, but if it was to make sure the plumbing was right - IT WASN'T !!

For your Skyline stuff I recommend Skyline Perfomance out in Mitchell.

J

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mate u obviously have no clue if you think your work will be better done in sydney hahhahhahhahahaha!!!!! Sydney shops are dodgy Central mate that were all these dodgy canberran workshops learn from. The only places in sydney that arent dodgy are croydons and cv, but did i also mention they charge like a wounded bull and if you arent prepared to spend alot with them they dont care about u!!! Phil out at skyline performance does really good work you only have to look at alfs car to see that, for all exhaust work powatone FYSHWICK not city, for all turbo theorising, tuning, or dynoing Jakes Performance in mitchell. These guys probs arent the cheapest around but you get what you pay for i cant stress this enough, if you payed fr cheap work thats exactly wat u get, if you go against advice from ppl who know and have been burnt then you deserve to be burnt yourself!!! No offense to ppl who pay for a job to be done and it just doesnt like what has hapened to jay here but to the rest of you listen to ppl take there advice!!

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From what I have seen from all the work done onmy friends cars both here in Canberra and also by 'reptuble' places in Sydney, I will always feel strange when leaving my car with a workshop just becuase I've been burnt before.

Tom,

How's things going with that R32 ECU remap? I'm still trying to find one for a good price !!! Damn Aust Post :( :(

J

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Originally posted by SupaFly Skyline

Is Alf's car back on the road? i saw it in Skyline Performance about a month ago and Joe told me that it was getting a large power upgrade, on what was already an insane package, will be great to see it back on the road

Is that the harliquin (spelling !!!) coloured one???

If it is, it was still there Monday lunchtime. From the parts that Joe showed me that's going into it, I'd say he'd be aiming for around the 250+ rwkw :eek: :eek: :eek:

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I was in there the other day and they said it's going to croydens very soon, they think it might be going too do close to 300kw. He'll need a good set of rubber on those rears, thats for sure.

Phil's doing a nice and neat job on the car, he knows what he is doin'.

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