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Old 05-04-2007 | 10:07 AM
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they are probably running damage control.. it appears Jorge has all his bases covered.. so them coming back to retaliate or comment without having a solid argument is going to make it even worse than not saying anything at all.

i wouldn't be suprised if they contacted Jorge privately to work it out.. then posted we are working with GMan to resolve this issue.. with no more comments.
Old 05-04-2007 | 10:09 AM
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I am off on a 3 day cruise to the Bahamas. Woot woot!
say hi to Larry Birkhead and Danny Lynn for me while you are down there.. and stay away from the sharks
Old 05-04-2007 | 12:29 PM
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Jorge is a big ****..suprised you didnt get pissed and do this to him.
Old 05-04-2007 | 12:33 PM
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bro, i'm not defending anyone at all, but the wastegate relocator kit that you paid for wasn't the GReddy one that you posted up, it's this one right here...at least that's what i think cuz i bought the same one for my greddy TT as well

http://sgpracing-store.stores.yahoo....rdwarekit.html

i assume you bought it when they first came out and it MAY have been a little more expensive but i'm just assuming, we should see something at the beginning of the week from SGP i would assume, other than that have fun on your cruise homie! make sure you don't get sick on the boat man!

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Old 05-04-2007 | 01:45 PM
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Jorge is a big ****..suprised you didnt get pissed and do this to him.
Damn..nice gif. Having seen Jorge in person, and the fact that he brings his own protein power and hand blender...shows that this guy means business. Best of luck Jorge.
Old 05-04-2007 | 02:48 PM
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^LOL^, you dont fuhk with a guy that brings his own protein powder! he is a big **** tho.
Old 05-04-2007 | 02:50 PM
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Guys I am sure Mark and SGP have put out some really great numbers on numerous cars and have done great work.. But a shop that is overworked is going to have problems as you must get the cars out ASAP and $hit gets overlooked.. Hopefully they can chime in and do some explaining.. If not, there are PLENTY of other shops to take your ride to get tuned, built etc etc..
If they can't do a great job on every car - then they shouldn't accept any more cars.
Old 05-04-2007 | 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Sharif@Forged
Damn..nice gif. Having seen Jorge in person, and the fact that he brings his own protein power and hand blender...shows that this guy means business. Best of luck Jorge.
Shariff, could you elaborate on the install problems with the HKS since the fix was done at your shop? Did replacing the injectors fix his idling problem or the re-wiring of the HKS?
Old 05-04-2007 | 03:33 PM
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My experience with SGP was with a bad Valve Body...cost 1,000 dollars and it took a year to hear from them,so I'm estimating since you spent 20,000 dollars it should take about 20 years before they get back with you....
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Originally Posted by coachk
My experience with SGP was with a bad Valve Body...cost 1,000 dollars and it took a year to hear from them,so I'm estimating since you spent 20,000 dollars it should take about 20 years before they get back with you....
Old 05-04-2007 | 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by abyss
Jorge is a big ****..suprised you didnt get pissed and do this to him.

awesome gif..haha
Old 05-04-2007 | 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Gman2004
Here are a few more things to **** me off about what SGP did to me.

1. I shipped them my stock block for the rebuild. Kyle was working with SGP at the time. He emailed pics of my bent rod and the new pistons I was getting. I asked what brand they were and he told me Wiseco. At the time I didn't know about what parts were the best so I asked him are there better pistons then that and he told me know. Well we all know the CP piston or Arias are a better choice. Here's what make this situation fuked up. SGP charged my for the long block with CP or Arias pistons. When I finally found out about what happened to me I told Mark and he said Kyle no longer works for the company because he was embelzling from them. Mark made no offer to refund me anything even though I got inferior parts while paying for the better parts.

2. When I shipped my car to SGP for the second motor build I told them I wanted their custom waste gates that dump into the atmoshpere. Mark told me he would hook me up and sell them to me at cost. Yeah right!

Here's what they are selling them for.

https://my350z.com/forum/showthread.php?t=218575


And here is what I paid for mine.....$850. OUCH! I got ripped the *** off. Thanks Mark. I thought you where my friend.

I just noticed that I didn't pick up my car from Mark until Feb 2006 so if the dates don't match from my first post I just want everyone to know I am not lying. I posted the dates as I thought I remember. I was pretty close.
WOW!! So SGP offers forum members $380.00 and then marks them UP more then 30% to sell online and then FIZZELED you into paying higher then even the web price? That is more then 55% of what they were offered to begin with.
And Mark claimed he was selling them at COST to you...LOL!!! :sarcasm:


Oh btw, aren't you a forum member here too? :sarcamx2:

I feel for you.
Old 05-04-2007 | 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by crmd37
bro, i'm not defending anyone at all, but the wastegate relocator kit that you paid for wasn't the GReddy one that you posted up, it's this one right here...at least that's what i think cuz i bought the same one for my greddy TT as well

http://sgpracing-store.stores.yahoo....rdwarekit.html

i assume you bought it when they first came out and it MAY have been a little more expensive but i'm just assuming, we should see something at the beginning of the week from SGP i would assume, other than that have fun on your cruise homie! make sure you don't get sick on the boat man!
yeah you're right. these are the right ones, but they are still $290 cheaper. and if the price I paid includeed install they over charged me cause there's no way it takes almost 4 hours to install them when the block and turbos are out of the car. Mark shouldn't have told me he was going to hook me up with these at cost if he wasn't going to discount chit. I still would have bought them, but don't fuking lie to me especially when I am dropping so much cheese with his shop.

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Old 05-04-2007 | 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by tig488
^LOL^, you dont fuhk with a guy that brings his own protein powder! he is a big **** tho.
LOL at the big jokes. I've lost a lot of weight in the last 2.5 months purposely. I am down from 210lbs to 185lbs. Being big just requires too much food to A) continue growing. and b) to sustain the weight you gain. I was also starting to get winded with everything I did even getting dressed. I still work out and I still bring my protein powder everywhere I go. I got it right here on the ship with me.

Now back on topic. Here is what was wrong with my HKS install. I pm'ed Sam and this he is response. He told me his reply for me to know, but asked me not to post it I am sorry Sam for throwing you under the bus, but I want to look out for my fellow Z and G owners so they don't get fuked up the **** like I did.

1- knock amp was not connected ,there is several wires beside power and ground that need to be connected inputs like the cam and crank signals and there grounds from the Ecu or f con .also the knock output also was not concocted, that basically tells the v pro when knock is acquiring so the vpro can pull timing .the only wires were connected were the a/f feed back and the power and ground to the know amp .,so with out these inputs and out puts the knock amp will never work ,

2- knock amp was not celebrated ,free air calibrations was not preformed because the defaults setting were steel there .

3- the intake temp sensor was install in the wrong location ,it was put on in the intake piping before the throttle body ,to get an accurate air intake temp reading it needs to be in the intake it self ,other wise why even bother .you can uses the air temp being off

4-so between the knock amp not being calibrated and the temp sensor in the wrong location that was the main reason for the rich condition .

5-precision injectors in my opinion are junk they are not true 1000cc injectors they are modified to be able to flow 1000cc ,there spray pattern will cause some serious drivability issue ,wide open throttle is no problem but atomization is very poor ,I don't know if you remember mike eddens it took a lot of convincing to have him switch to denso injectors and he the same precision injectors like you did. he did send them out to be tested and sure enough they were horrible .

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wow, anybody feel like buying my Precision 1000cc injectors?
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Originally Posted by coachk
My experience with SGP was with a bad Valve Body...cost 1,000 dollars and it took a year to hear from them,so I'm estimating since you spent 20,000 dollars it should take about 20 years before they get back with you....
I am done waiting for them to do something for me. In fact I don't expect them to do chit. This post was theraputic for me. I've been holding this chit in for to long. It would have been great if Mark refunded me the labor charges I paid Sam to fix what Mark didn't do right the first time, but he offered a plenum that I never got or will never get.

My job was only supposed to take 1 day. Install injectors and retune the car. Poor Sam worked over 12 hours on my car fixing all the wiring and chit. He had to tune the car then next day cause by the time the car was ready for the dyno it was too late. (Sharif's dorms behind the shop so you can't be dynoing cars at midnight.)
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Originally Posted by failsafe306
wow, anybody feel like buying my Precision 1000cc injectors?

Here is your rich condition problem.

4-so between the knock amp not being calibrated and the temp sensor in the wrong location that was the main reason for the rich condition .


So when you are buying a another TT kit?
Old 05-04-2007 | 11:10 PM
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I had RC injectors not precision, but Sam said they are chit too. Sure they get the job done because at WOT the spray pattern doesn't matter as much, but if you want smoothness at idle and low rpms you need quality injectors. Chit the HKS injectors only cost like $300 more than RC's IIRC. They are definately worth it if you are the type of person that gets embarrassed when you're at a red light and your car sounds like a jalopy. Nobody would guess it's a $90K car between the price of the car and the money invested because it sounds like a yugo on it's last leg.
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Originally Posted by Gman2004
So when you are buying a another TT kit?
When I can find a good deal on a used one
Old 05-05-2007 | 09:45 AM
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Mark would be a better salesman....



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