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Who reffered me to 5 star motorsports in Hollywood??

3.8K views 100 replies 31 participants last post by  CableTec  
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This place is the absolute worst place in the entire universe they completly destoyed my car they did not know what they were doing on the install, and nothing works, it was the worst experience I have ever had!! Alll I can say is NEVER go there!
 
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#5 ·
Everything in my sig, plus gauges, and nothing work he broke panels ruined the seats the car wont even run!!! i dont know what im going to do I spent so much trying to get this thing goin I dont have more money to drop on another guy to get it right.....

I mean when he relocated the battery its sitting in the middle of the trunk not bolted down he electric taped the terminals on, the gauges dont work the boost controller screen was not working the car wont run, the kick panel wont go back on because he tryed to shove so much **** back behind it, he didnt provide me with the stock clucth and flywheel which leads me to believe he didnt swap it out, the intercooler sticks out of the bottom of the bumper like 3 inches, the exhaust piping is like 3 inches from the ground... the list goes on total disaster!!!!!!!
 
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#23 ·
Everything in my sig, plus gauges, and nothing work he broke panels ruined the seats the car wont even run!!! i dont know what im going to do I spent so much trying to get this thing goin I dont have more money to drop on another guy to get it right.....

I mean when he relocated the battery its sitting in the middle of the trunk not bolted down he electric taped the terminals on, the gauges dont work the boost controller screen was not working the car wont run, the kick panel wont go back on because he tryed to shove so much **** back behind it, he didnt provide me with the stock clucth and flywheel which leads me to believe he didnt swap it out, the intercooler sticks out of the bottom of the bumper like 3 inches, the exhaust piping is like 3 inches from the ground... the list goes on total disaster!!!!!!!
SUE THEM FOR ALL THAT AND THE COST OF A RENTAL CAR.

Excuse the caps, but even I'm pissed off reading all that.
 
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#9 ·
I didnt take possesion, I tried but got 1 mile down the highway and it broke down and then i had to pay an additional 150 to toe it back to his shop!!!! He wouldnt answer my phone calls cause he knew that **** wouldnt work. So what do u guys suggest Im gonna suue but what about my car? I dont have a car now and im in like 6G's!

I even put a 05 bumper which he chipped and put on incorrectly! My stereo wont turn on, the linterior lights wont work... he basacally destroyed the whole vehicle and on top off all this hre told me it would take him 1 week hes had the car for 5 week already!!!!!!!!!!
 
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#10 ·
The Worst Part Is Someone On Here Reffered Me To This Clown!!!!!!!!
 
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#11 · (Edited)
pics and also, if he did NOT give you the stocker clutch and flywheel, than i can nearly 100% garentee he did NOT swap the clutch, does anything bout the clutch "feel" different, or does it feel like a stock one...

their is a way to check and bust his ***, if looking at the front of the car (hood open)look on top of the tranny, see the selectors for the gears and the slave cyl for the clutch.
alright now if looking and feeling down the tranny towrds the starter on the car, youll see to grommet vents for the tranny (2) these are vents for the heat the clutch makes, if you remeber what the pressure plate looks like (color) you can remove those grommets and take a small flachlight and look INTO those 2 holes (a very thin profile one (light) is the best, as you can put it in on hole and look through the other.
if it looks like a stock clutch in their then it is.
you should be able to see the color of the pressure plate (act is yellow, centerforce is orange, southbend (XTD) are red, cluthcmasters is white, and ripps are green.
Chase
 
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#13 ·
Yeah I dont think he knew what he was doin with the electrical, but It seems he didnt put the clutch in the car, it was a stage 3 clutchmaster and findenza flywheel, but he didnt give me the stock clutch, so that concerns me! Also he was suppose to have the manifolds ported and I can almost guerantee he didnt do that either! To me the clutch felt the same!

I work at a collection company so tust that a suit is comming very soon ill sue him for the max I can is small claims which is 7500 and i know he has assets
 
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#14 ·
did u put any of it on a credit card? start disputing.

that is real crap man that he did that. u totally gotta sue. rent a car too and sue for the cost of the rental b/c u gotta get to and from work.
 
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#16 ·
That is freakin rediculous......... who the hell would even attempt that large of a project if they had no idea what they were doing.... I don't know how to do that stuff, and I know I dont, but you don't see me going and taking people's money and attempting to "learn" on their car.... not to mention, who the hell uses electrical tape to hold on the wires to the battery... even I know you can get terminal clamps from the store....

This just pisses me off... good luck getting your stuff back together.... hopefully you won't let this bad experience ruin you addicition to the modding....

Keep us informed on what happens.
 
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#18 ·
whoa. sorry to hear about your car mang. i would be royally pissed if it was mine. are you sure it was someone on here that referred you to that shop? i've never even heard of it. If you want i can give you a number to another shop i know that does good work. they specialize in custom fabrication so they might be able to fix what the other guys messed up but you will definitely see alot more downtime (they work on most of their cars by appointment only). if you don't mind that.

heres a link to their shop:

http://www.danstoy.net/contact.html

also i can probably compile a list of other shops from the subaru and honda forums if you want a shop that's closer. just let me know and i'll see what i can find.

And for $6k, danstoy would have custom fabricated a full turbo kit from the ground up =X

but yea, don't bite the bullet on this one; take LOTS of pictures, rent-a-car, take your car to a shop that can fix it, and then SUE him for whatever you can get

http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/smallclaims/scbasics.htm#howmuch
 
#19 ·
the problem is im low on funds I have to get it towed out of his shop first off and then from there, I need to get it to a new shop that can fix all of his fu*k ups and then pay for that which is a bunch more money!

Oh and yes im sure that someone on here reffered me too him, unfortunatly!
 
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#21 · (Edited)
Post pics of everything and I/we will try to walk you through the fix to each thing. There are a couple of people on the boards with custom turbo setups they designed and installed and most of them are more then willing to help anyone out. Also if you paid with a check or credit card cancel the payment.

edit:: Did you hit the boost in that one mile? Also what happened when you tryed to restart the car it could be something as simple as a coupler poped off. I had serious issues with that when I first got my turbo.(and thats an easy free fix)

edit:: for starters just to get it running so you can get it home go buy some battery terminals (as i assume thats probably the main reason the car isn't running) and install those then completely bypass your turbo setup (just attach the TB to your MAF and your MAF to your filter like a SRI setup). If the car still wont run after that its most likely a fuel problem so you would need to pull out the fuel pump and/or injectors and figure out what he ****ed up there.
 
#25 ·
What fuel tuners on computer systems are you guys running on these turbo setups so i can get this thing tuned.
 
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#28 ·
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!
sue sue sue sue sue sue!!! that is friggin bull$hit, take pics of everything that he f*cked up and sue the bastard. I would do as suggested, talk to a lawyer get it all set up, rent a car, sit back and watch his business fall apart....... I mean it sucks to say but there really isnt anything else you can do. You could post pictures of everything and we could make suggestions as far as getting the car running again. I would just get a damn good lawyer and screw him the same way he screwed you.
 
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