Intense can provide the invoice for the fully builty auto trans I ordered and paid for through Intense. Up until my transaction, Intense had a good working relationship with SGP and never posted anything negative about them in the forums. Intense is not known to be an "enemy" of SGP here on my350z and there is no history of bad blood. Other members here can vouch for that, if you need some historical perspective.

So if the inspection of my trans yields similar results to what was discovered on Marshall's (mrg1981) independant 3rd party inspection on his trans, you will be hard pressed to allege that our claims are illegitimate fabrications.

We have no ulterior motive(s). The situation is delaying my car project and is keeping Marshall off the road after he had just completed (so we thought) his car project. Trust me when I say that neither one of us want to pay twice for a transmission build. We both want our cars up and running YESTERDAY.

 

Im all done argueing on here as for the rest of you you should do the same.

 

 

You're not the boss of us...

 

Ok guys, let's have some respect. If Mark lost a relative it doesn't need to be dragged through the coals on here. I personally will give him the few days to tend to his family. No matter what bullshish has happened there are morals I won't slash no matter how p1ssed off I am. I'm just asking to leave that point out of posts. No need to disrespect the deceased. I'll update the thread with what happens on Friday as according to Mark my tranny is crated up and ready to ship last week before the incident.

As for delaying on filing. At one point I was still hoping that there was actually a storm of events that put everything behind and hoping to get my transmission. I'm guessing a lot of people wanted just to get their stuff back and filing a report is kind of the last effort when you KNOW you're not getting it back.

On a last note. I've been PM'n another shop a few times for quotes on 1: building a new AT and now 2: swapping with a 6MT and no responses. WTF man, I guess you need to be buddies with shop owners to get stuff done or show up with cash in hand to make it happen. I say we need to create a section for vendors and have different topic areas for each vendor/shop like other car forums have. Then threads can be posted congratulating or calling out the goings on and each shop could easily manage incidents without having to search the forum for their name. Also a great place for them to advertise specials, new stuff, etc... Mod's do we have, can we have this? Anybody else think that's a good idea? I am one of those mentioned above who at this point doesn't trust anything anymore. All I read were good reviews of SGP on here and I think they were a great shop that ran into issues. However, had I seen a thread like this in the past I would of never shipped my tranny in. We need a place to keep everybody honest and everybody informed. That's half the value of this forum is for n00bs to get the info they're looking for right?

 

I think you still have some good choices here... but I have to give my nod to SFR. Tim has gone out of his way to get mine back together and even upgrade it to make it one of the baddest 5AT's available.

 

Yeah I totally trust Tim too but at this point if I actually decide to keep a Z I'll be swapping it to manual. I can change a clutch on my own but not sure about a clutch pack. Only 1 shop I know who does the conversion. Waiting for them to hit me up with some pricing to make my decision and ship my car off or just throw it all away.

 

Anyone can vouch for me on this thread. I have not bashed Mark, even though I have not defended him either. I posted my story regarding my situation with SGP/Mark. I walk around the shop more frequently than most, and I know there are cars outside, that are in limbo because of some of the things that have occured with the shop having problems.

I'm not saying you're crazy or blind, I just don't think you have the same perspective as myself who has spent plenty of days at SGP.

 

the junks you speak of outside are cars that have been paid in full. they are taking up space due to no parts or there motors are at the machines shop waiting on payment from him.

 

iamdigital where did you ship your trans from? what state and city?

 

I thought you picked up your GTR from SGP because you felt he was shaddy

 

He speaks da troof

 

Only after phone calls from some people on here. So instead of doing something irrational, and pulling the car out I got a ticket and flew down to see for myself. Everything was getting performed that I asked.

Sincerely Glen

 

So you asked Mark to build you an intake, exhaust and build your trans . Didn't he also tell you he's able to upgrade the GTR's transmission . You're in for a rude awakening my friend! Don't be surprised if you find 350z parts in your trans.

 

I trust him also how the hell could you fit 350z parts in a GTR they are totally different cars especially transmissions.

 

So, he has no money for machining or to finish customer's builds, but he has enough to get ahold of super expensive GTR transmission upgrade parts? Where are the GTR parts coming from anyway?

 

There are none that's the thing. Mark is suckering this guy into purchasing upgraded trans parts

 

WRONG!!! Scott at RA is selling his new custom RA designed GTR transmission parts. It is all part of their new custom designed line. He was also going to start making his own custom designed upgraded turbos for cars

 

Wow.....