Be careful picking a shop
I would hardly call the workmanship shoddy... He left you everything you need should it be returned to stock. All the wiring for your wiper resavoir is still there and tied up. The bolt Missing from the IC is not there because you removed the shrouding from underneath the car or It because it wasnt installed yet
There are 2 bolts when installing the shrouding that tie into the core support under the radiator...
Where is the inner fender well ? like Jeremy had already said that is hose goes from the wiper washer pump to the wipers.
Why did you tear the car down or are these pics of finishing up ?? Either way There is NOTHING there to complain about unless you wanted a stripped out car with crazy/useless $ to be spent Should you choose to change it back
There are 2 bolts when installing the shrouding that tie into the core support under the radiator... Where is the inner fender well ? like Jeremy had already said that is hose goes from the wiper washer pump to the wipers.
Why did you tear the car down or are these pics of finishing up ?? Either way There is NOTHING there to complain about unless you wanted a stripped out car with crazy/useless $ to be spent Should you choose to change it back
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Clint first of all you have no idea what we went through with this build ,and Jeremy if I wanted to bash you I could write a 2 page post on what we went through so lets just leave it that all I am saying is the work was pretty sloppy kinda like your shop was. The intercooler bolts do not hold the bumper on ***, and there is no old alarm .


We already have one Epic thread....we are not looking for 2 at this moment....If you have a problem with Jeremy....go about it the correct way....if you then still feel you have been wronged....Then feel free to post up your experience.
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After reading the original post again.... This guy Is messed up. All this stuff had a place prior to him or the body shop dismantling it for Paint. You really should have talked to Jeremy before you posted this up.
I hope your paint guy shows alittle more attention to detail than whats been brought to the surface here. If the tech didnt understand what he was seeing during disassembly. I can only Imagine what will be holding your car together upon completion...
I hope your paint guy shows alittle more attention to detail than whats been brought to the surface here. If the tech didnt understand what he was seeing during disassembly. I can only Imagine what will be holding your car together upon completion...
I remember you starting some issues with Jeremy before your car was finished.....This was when he was in the process of moving....You looked silly then......and I have a feeling you are going to do a repeat...I maybe wrong...but didnt you or your son thank Jeremy in the end and spoke how great a job he did

We already have one Epic thread....we are not looking for 2 at this moment....If you have a problem with Jeremy....go about it the correct way....if you then still feel you have been wronged....Then feel free to post up your experience.


We already have one Epic thread....we are not looking for 2 at this moment....If you have a problem with Jeremy....go about it the correct way....if you then still feel you have been wronged....Then feel free to post up your experience.

Jeremy (Clint too) will/would go out of his way to make anything right (I have first hand experience), but the OP prefers to burn bridges instead. Disgruntled over the time it took to do the install? dunno.. Not to mention, it's obvious these "issues" were created by the body shop.
Clint.. you don't need to defend JT .. he can handle himself pretty well on these forums..
OP.. you and your son are forever jumping the gun on stuff.. you guys strike me as very finicky , over anxious and jumpy... you never take the time to evaluate a situation, you always jump up and act. What you should have done was make a list of your issues, contact JT about it, then if he refused to communicate or work with you, then you create this thread. Right now it looks like you have egg on your face
OP.. you and your son are forever jumping the gun on stuff.. you guys strike me as very finicky , over anxious and jumpy... you never take the time to evaluate a situation, you always jump up and act. What you should have done was make a list of your issues, contact JT about it, then if he refused to communicate or work with you, then you create this thread. Right now it looks like you have egg on your face
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Clint.. you don't need to defend JT .. he can handle himself pretty well on these forums..
OP.. you and your son are forever jumping the gun on stuff.. you guys strike me as very finicky , over anxious and jumpy... you never take the time to evaluate a situation, you always jump up and act. What you should have done was make a list of your issues, contact JT about it, then if he refused to communicate or work with you, then you create this thread. Right now it looks like you have egg on your face
OP.. you and your son are forever jumping the gun on stuff.. you guys strike me as very finicky , over anxious and jumpy... you never take the time to evaluate a situation, you always jump up and act. What you should have done was make a list of your issues, contact JT about it, then if he refused to communicate or work with you, then you create this thread. Right now it looks like you have egg on your face
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Well seeing that people want drama and J T is sitting back like we had no issues heres what went down with our build I dont think I jumped the gun on anything we were very patient through the build ,and I am not saying jeremy is a bad tuner he is excellent and builds some fast cars . Unfortanatly we got caught up in his financial issues he should not have accepted the build knowing he was closing the shop and did not have the means to finish it I personally did not want him to work on the car his shop was to sloppy I wanted VTR to do the car they did our first kit and we had zero issues over 3 years and there customer service is second to none . But frank wanted the power lab kit and felt jeremy was the best person to do it since he had done several of these kits and could tune the fcon and I will say again the car runs great and is very fast there were some tuning issues that were taken care of also the flywheel bolts came loose after less than a thousand miles we were told it was a defect and had to pay 700.00 bucks for him to pull the tranny and repair . But he paid little attention to detail you guys can make all the assumptions you want there were wires left hanging things tied up with mechanics wire we got back had to change a header gasket because he used a old ******** gasket on one side must have lost the right in the mess he had in the shop .In june we contacted jt about doing the build he said he would love to do a built motor with the power lab kit he had not done that yet and felt he could get some good numbers so he sent a quote , I also visited forged while on a trip I was very impressed with there shop and sharif and his staff were very friendly we contacted GTM got a quote and sam called me several times to explain everything on the quote very professional basiclly we picked these shops do to there reputation and the fact they tune HKS but frank wanted the power lab so we went with jt in september we sent him the car and 10,000.00 dollars he said it would be done in 3 to 4 weeks he was going to sell the jwt kit and 3inch aps for 4500.00 and keep that towards the build which he did ,fine he also said he would keep us posted and send lots of pics during the build after6 weeks nothing so we call which we had done only 2 other times during this period and got the usual bs waiting on parts trying to finish up some other cars wait two more weeks same bs intense has not sent the kit blah blah now like mid november I am getting pissed because jt has made very little communication we get no answer when calling the shop and the tim starts answering the phone making lots of excuses then we call and the phone at pf has been cut off and of course jt wont answer his cell so thats when I start to come unglued its 3 months and no car and his shop phone is cut off so at some point jt finally calls and says there is an issue with the phone so I contact a forum member from the area and he swings by and says you might want to come down here I know I am skipping some steps but I am trying to keep it short its now like the third week in november and he is saying the car is almost done he got the turbo kit should have it on the dyno any day this drags on a couple weeks very little communication with jt tim is fielding all his calls saying how streessed out he is, at this point they had said the shop was closing .then they said the car was going on the dyno the next day this went on for a week or two then he said the car was on the dyno and the new clutch failed the fingers broke on the pressure plate so at this point I say to frank lets go down there and see whats going on we let him know we are coming down and they get very uptight and said there is no need to come down they got it covered also like a week prior to this I had sent a transporter down because he said it would be done but I decide to go anyway low and behold we get there and the car that was on the dyno the day before dont even have a turbo kit on it because they wont send it to him due to money issues also the clutch with broken fingers dont exist he had no money for that either, and no exhaust, so we call intense whom we have a great relationship with them bought lots of parts so we agree to pay them 6500.00 for jt so they will send the parts at this point jt is pleading with us not to post anything because he was trying to get a position with several different shops so I agreed now we stood for a week to baby sit getting all the parts and making sure the car gets done being that he has to be out of the shop in two weeks this was a cost of 1100.00 dollars out of my pocket basicly that is some of the ******** we went through front bumper got a hole cut through it when he was cutting out for the inter cooler pipe that was 527.00 underbelly pans not put on thrown out he says he never puts those back used our manifolds and radiator to finish other cars up . Believe me we were very patient and stand up people not trying to post any of this just saying becarefull there are not many shops out there that pay attention to detail like forged ,GTM , VTR, but jt wants to try and make us look like fools he bullshiited us through the whole process there are still things not done polishing ,catch can but at this point I am done I hope this puts to rest a simple post of trying to let fellow members know the details are important the body shop had nothing to do with anything on this car as it is our own shop after all this ******** we have opened our own shop we are painting it here . You can all make your own conclussions but thats the truth we never got any pics of the build so who knows what he really put in the motor with all the money issues he was having but it makes great horse power so I am assuming he did what he said we will see how it holds up.I really did not want to post all this drama .
Wow that is a hard read.
Paragraphs are your friend.
Suxz to hear what went down with you.
Every shop has skeletons in their closet
and things like this are more prevalent than we'd like to hear in this industry.
Never heard of these things with JT before and before I jump to conclusion
(even though it won't matter since the shop is closed) I would like to hear if there
are any other unsatisfied customers.
It's funny that in the beginning of the thread people were saying that the installer was lazy and this that n the other but once it was mentioned that it was JT everyone did a 180deg, just stating facts that can be seen in this thread I have no issues with JT and have spoken numerous times with him.
Paragraphs are your friend.
Suxz to hear what went down with you.
Every shop has skeletons in their closet
and things like this are more prevalent than we'd like to hear in this industry.
Never heard of these things with JT before and before I jump to conclusion
(even though it won't matter since the shop is closed) I would like to hear if there
are any other unsatisfied customers.
It's funny that in the beginning of the thread people were saying that the installer was lazy and this that n the other but once it was mentioned that it was JT everyone did a 180deg, just stating facts that can be seen in this thread I have no issues with JT and have spoken numerous times with him.



Thanks for the info....I was going to look it up....I clearly remember .....He made it seem at first that Jeremy ran off ...