I also have to echo the sentiments of this not being your DD. Little things will pop up and cause some down time........it is inevitable. Taking it to Shariff will cut on down on this risk and you will leave with a car you know you can push and be safe. I would certainly set aside a few thousand at least for a worst case scenario situation. You may also want to consider putting the car on a trailor for the trip to Forged. That way if something doesn't check out you can return to the dealership without putting 1000+ miles on the car.

 

Thanks alot, you have one of the baddest z i have ever seen!

Yea just pm me if you find out anything about it.

 

Yeah I have some other cars if something does happens. Driving there never was a option for me....definately going to trailer it. It was sold as is

 

Well lets just hope it all checks out.........I would think you would have some recourse if shariff takes a look and parts as advertised aren't there.

 

sick car.....that looks lik a quality machine...it has all the right parts

 

Thank you for the kind words....

Kyle will contact me and I will find out what I can for you. Trust the guys on here...they know what they are talking about....they are not afraid to correct you when they feel you are making a mistake....thats why I was warning you in advance ...they mean no harm. Alot have been burned by shops......and they are not afraid to call shops out

Welcome to the lions den where our motto is "customer come first"...

Good point.....Give Sharif a copy of your parts list you received from the dealer....

 

Yea Ill give sharif the mod list and see if it has everything as stated by the dealership. I just wanna make sure it has the hks fcon v pro.....where is this usually installed? In the center consol theres some sort of connection thats attached to a cord; its long and flat. Theres also like a phone jack connection thinge that comes out by the rear view mirror

 

fixed

 

haha thanks, im so used to saying and typing z

 

Well, I was looking for the fcon and it was in the passenger side kick panel. Heres a pic of it.

 

I didnt even know SGP was a HKS dealer back when. I guess I am getting old.

 

Maybe SGP didn't tune it? I dunno

 

Yeah, SGP was an FCon dealer & tuner. Mark Gust tuned the cars himself.

 

Well that shows you how little I payed attention to SGP lol

 

OK Juice+......Kyle just contacted me.....Your car was not done when he was there....so get it checked out before you start boosting it...

 

Bummer I was hoping that the car was built during Kyle's tenure at SGP.

Juice+... I know this may sound a bit extreme or paranoid... But I highly recommend that you have that SGP "built" auto trans torn down and inspected immediately. Based on your comment about the shifts, it sounds like the valvebody was done. But you should have the internals inspected to see that the clutch packs have been upgraded on both the direct and input clutches from the standard 6 clutch plates to 8 clutch plates. It's a kit for our trans made by Alto called the Power Pack.

Myself and another AZ customer (mrg1981) got scammed on our SGP "fully built" auto trans purchases and discovered that the clutch packs were not upgraded. Trust me. It will be much cheaper to have it inspected now and fix/upgrade the internals than to wait until the trans fails.

 

member's hard learn experience saving another member's money/life...i'm so glad that i have a Z and on my350z.

 

It can be HKS custom one they made in house. Anyway speed force racing used HKS muffler.

Edit: You can shoot PM to speed force racing owner if you want to confirm, he is our sponsor.

https://my350z.com/forum/members/26557-turbotim.html

 

Whats the usual price of something like this? When I take it to forged can they do this? All these comments about sgp is making me scared to drive it.

 

thats a pretty good bit of labor to check the packs, so it will prolly cost a few hundred bucks.

I dont know if you have to go to forged to do that. a local tranny shop should be able do it for you as well.