Thanks for the kind words, the shop actually just finished the build yesterday. Of course thats after 4 months of waiting, I am going to test drive the car on monday and then they are going to do a last once over and then I get my z back![/QUOTE]


That's not bad mine with the custom pistons and all took just a bit over 4 months so that's good!!
My wife's 240sx took over 4 years to build with everything that was done so chin up. Send pics when it's all done

 

Well, just an update. Its been months and my z still hasnt come back, we went to go look at the car recently, got there and it was sitting on a lift looking exactly the same as it did when I last visited. Ill post the picture in a bit but basically my z has wasted away in a shop for like half a year with nothing to show for it yet. I asked when it would finally be done "2 weeks from today", not the first time the shop owner has told me that. The shops name is savage street cars now since the shop split, they are a good shop and do good work just they take their time. Its been gone for so long Ive gotten a motorcycle license, two bikes and a daily all in the meantime.

 

I wouldn't be paying if it took that long

 

I'd be taking my car, parts (free of charge), and money elsewhere by this point.........

 

The shop owner was, was is the keyword, a friend of my dads coworker whose had many cars built there. However at this point we decided to give them 2 more weeks, if its not done at those two weeks I am getting my z, built motor and trans, and all the other parts we ordered. Plus our money for labor. After we get these things back its off to jtran tuning in Houston, who specializes in nissans.

 

Didn't someone suggest that place in the beginning. I knew this wouldn't take 2 weeks

 

Someone recommend jtran a long time ago, after my z was already at the shop. And I should have realized from the beginning it would not be a 2 week ordeal.

 

live and learn sir, but you have more patience than most

 

I have more patience, lol. You would not believe that if you were one of my friends that actually know how mad I get every time I call the shop and hear "2 more weeks".

 

6 months later.... i would have pulled it out 3 months ago

 

I had no choice, I wanted to pull my z out in the beginning after we gave them extra money to have them finish it by my birthday, for the record that was last october.

 

yeah that sucks.

 

Especially when we go to check on my car just before my birthday and saw a viper there that had just gone in, that car was finished 3 weeks ago.

 

Well I guess its just time to admit that I was wrong and should have taken it to another shop. So far we are 15k and over a year in the hole with literally nothing to show for it and very little progress is being made. We payed extra to have my car finished before my 17th birthday, and now I turn 18 this Friday and still no car. We have given the shop owner so many chances and so many deadline extensions that he has until tomorrow night to have my car finished, not that it will happen. In the off chance he finishes the car I will enjoy it in the limited time I have left before I ship to bootcamp, but realistically it wont be done and we are going to make a claim and our get our money and shell back and just buy a new car. Thanks everyone for the advice along the way but it looks like this build is 100 percent dead.

 

damn thats a shame. what a dirtbag. move on to something else and hopefully you can get some money back.