OK ...it all started at the beginning of the summer after I installed my fmax turbo kit with the msd btm option....When I first got it back ..the car was running like crap...after 5500 rpm the car did not want to move..it kept hesitating....Then for the three days i got my had my car back after the install..I took the car back twice to figure out the problem.... Once in a while after I stepped full throttle..the car would shut off completely after two shifts to redline on first and second gear? The third day my engine detonated...The result was a bent rod..in the first cylinder....For about a month and a half I was left with no car...confused at who was liable...I finally got my engine rebuilt last monday and yesterday I went out with my mechanic to tune the new fuel management unit because I think the mf2 fmax gave was crap...I now have a boost gauge in and after one run I noticed the boost peaked out at over 1 bar(over 14psi!!!)..The wastegate that was supposed to be included in the kit was about 8-9psi....After i saw that I was so pissed off...Fmax is definetely going to be paying for my bill...

 

No boost gauge? hmmmmm.... I doubt Fmax is to blame.

art

 

Sorry pal, but YOU blew your motor by not properly (or at ALL in your case) installing a boost gauge PRIOR to beating on the car.

I'm sorry, but I cannot by sympathetic for someone who will dump $5000 into their turbo setup and then boost all over it right away without watching boost readings -- it's just common sense, don't you think?

I'm sure FMAX will tell you the same.

 

Damn Art.. you beat me to the punch by about 30 seconds, heh...

 

Nice avatar..

 

Was FMAX driving when the engine blew??

 

I would be VERY surprised if you got any money out of FMAX from this.....they probably included a bunch of fine writing with the kit that you might want to read.

 

Suck it up. Fmax isn't to blame. Why were you running the hell outta the car untuned, with no boost guage, and u knew it wasn't running correctly.

 

I'm suing Turbonetics right now because I ran 30 degrees of timing on a 14:1 compression engine with 87 octane and it blew!

 

Im with eveyone one on this, not to flame but you gotta cover your butt. If you put all the $ in the car you have to get it tuned etc. I guess take it as a learning experience etc.

 

yep...learn from it..dont try to blame anyone else. had you stopped beating on the car at first it maight have been saved. I know its hard to not beat on a car aftyer a new part but you need to use your head.

 

You are too...maybe we should both get together so are lawyers can work on the case. All I did was run 2 bar on a stock motor and my **** blew...damn turbonetics. haha

 

I'm suing McDonald's because they made me fat !!!!

 

actually, there really is someone suing MC donalds Wendy's and Burger King for causing his helth problems citing they didn't advertise that the food wasnt good for you.

BTW Cliffstar, how did someone from FMAX get a hold of your car and beat the hell out of it? you'll get nothing and desrve nothing.


[Modified by Turbo E, 9:41 AM 9/12/2002]

 

Somebody is already doing that. I heard it on the radio a few weeks ago that somebody is working on a class action lawsuit against several fast food companies, holding them liable for the majority of the American population being overwight.

I'm serious!

 

Damn, you guys scared him away. 1 post and he's gone for good!

 

This is a case for Johnny Cochrain!

 

Im suing my mom because she is a good cook, and im a fat bastard, she will PAY.. its all her fault my MPH's are low

 

That's about all I am going to say about that.

 

Dude bring your car over to Pfmodify and we will get ur **** done right.

 

lets all sue garrett for making the turbos that WE blow up our motors with.

 

what wastegate does f max use? also you installed it. you continued to drive it hard knowing that there were problems, thats called negligence.