docwyte

Well,

Had my friend with a trailer go get my car yesterday and bring it over to the fabrictor's shop to finish up with the safety gear.

The car is not going back to the mechanic's shop, it will be headed to a different shop. The first mechanic basically threw in the towel on the car, at the very last minute as the deadline to complete it was loaming, leaving me in the lurch.

I dropped the car off late Feburary with a decent bang list of things to get done. Car had to be done by early April to head over to the fabricators so the rollbar and safety gear could get done.

Let's just say that as of yesterday, the car wasn't done. This resulted in me having to cancel my first track day of the season. I'm extremely disappointed about this and incredibly upset as there was more than ample time for the car to get finished.

It's literally been at the mechanic's shop 10 times longer than in my garage at this point. The mechanic more than has the skills, but has an incredibly lack luster work ethic. Let's leave it at that as I'm so irritated I've got far more "colorful" ways to describe the situation. (I was a sailor, let your imagination roam)

Between this latest fiasco and the crap PPI I had done, so far my experience with "mechanics" on this car is less than ideal.

Anyways, the fabricator did an outstanding job, here are the pics. We had to mount the drivers seat directly to the floor, otherwise I didn't have an adequate amount of headroom with my helmet on. The passenger seat is on sliders.

dillon410021

looks great

spyder348

Very nice

carlege

very nice looking car. Liking the wheels

gregeast

What's left to do Doc? SMT6 install?

roman944

looks very comfy! nice!

docwyte

Greg,

The boost solenoid needs to be hooked up, MAP sensor hooked up, SMT6 hooked up, gauge panel and boost/oil temp/wideband A/F hooked up, momo steering wheel, airbag delete, horn hooked up, vacuum leaks chased down, tuning for boost maps and A/F done, car to pass smog, then pull the cat and replace it with the test pipe and the drivers door handle needs to be troubleshot, it doesn't open with the key once the alarm goes off.

I'm getting the car this morning from the fabricator and will do the steering wheel/horn/airbags and I'll try to take care of the gauges as well and look into the drivers door handle issue...

thirdgenbird

beautiful car. any pictures/details on how the driver seat was mounted?

gregeast

Oy, that's still quite a list. Bummer it didn't get done, none of that is particularly hard, just takes some time/effort. At least it'll be fast enough to scare you when it's done

docwyte

Yep and what irritates me the most is that the car should've been at this point a month ago. Then I would've had time to address this and still have the car done in time for the track day.

I used VAC side plates bolted to the seats, then bolted straight to the factory mounting points. We had to make up an extension plate for the forward mounts, as the VAC plates weren't long enough...

George D

[QUOTE=docwyte;7509267]Well,

Had my friend with a trailer go get my car yesterday and bring it over to the fabrictor's shop to finish up with the safety gear.

The car is not going back to the mechanic's shop, it will be headed to a different shop. The first mechanic basically threw in the towel on the car, at the very last minute as the deadline to complete it was loaming, leaving me in the lurch.

I dropped the car off late Feburary with a decent bang list of things to get done. Car had to be done by early April to head over to the fabricators so the rollbar and safety gear could get done.

Let's just say that as of yesterday, the car wasn't done. This resulted in me having to cancel my first track day of the season. I'm extremely disappointed about this and incredibly upset as there was more than ample time for the car to get finished.

It's literally been at the mechanic's shop 10 times longer than in my garage at this point. The mechanic more than has the skills, but has an incredibly lack luster work ethic. Let's leave it at that as I'm so irritated I've got far more "colorful" ways to describe the situation. (I was a sailor, let your imagination roam)

Between this latest fiasco and the crap PPI I had done, so far my experience with "mechanics" on this car is less than ideal.

Anyways, the fabricator did an outstanding job, here are the pics. We had to mount the drivers seat directly to the floor, otherwise I didn't have an adequate amount of headroom with my helmet on. The passenger seat is on sliders.

Car looks great. You must be tall. I have a friend that's 6' 6" and his helmet hits the roof in the factory sport seats. He has to vent his sunroof to clear. My Recaro racing seat is on sliders, but has a deep back and seat. My large friend can't get his *** to fit in my racing seat.

There are few mechanics that are competent with our cars. You have to be careful with whom you allow to work on these cars.

Hope it's done soon. My car should be done in a month. Then I'll change my avatar. As you can see, it's not done yet...

docwyte

It's not really that I'm tall, it's the way I'm proportioned. I've got the torso of someone 6'4", the arms of someone 6'6" and a 30" inseam. That puts me into the front of the sunroof, where it constricts headroom the most, yet I've got this really long torso.

I don't think the mechanic was incompetent, he just had no work ethic to speak of. My car sat there untouched for long periods of time...

docwyte

Well, picked up the car and it's in my garage. Tomorrow is wrenching day, although it looks like I could've gotten away without the quick release hub. I can scoot in and out of the car with the stock steering wheel no problem...

CPR

Doc,

I feel ya'....been there done that with mechanics/shops.

Sorry to hear about this, I know FIRST HAND how frustrating it is. Good luck with completion

docwyte

I'm just confused with the guys behavior. I dropped the car off at the end of Feburary and gave him more than a month to get everything done. Instead I get the car back at the last minute and it's not finished.

Good news is the car drives very well, so I think the work that was completed was done properly.