First of all.

When you brought your vehicle in, it didn't run, the calibration that was loaded in didn't even run the car.

The reason for asking you how high to set your rev limiter, is a basic question. When you were asked to explain what was done internally to the engine and what exactly it could handle power wise, where would be a safe redline for it. You didn't have an answer for me, other than my mechanic said it should make somewhere between 400-450whp no problem.

Sorry for asking "how high these engines rev stock?" Don't see to many 85 Z's.

I spent 3 hours calibrating the MAF cal in the vehicle because the scale was way off. The actual timing on the car was synced with the ignition table, mystifies me how it ended up off.

When your mechanic called to speak to me, and explained to me what exactly was internally in this 85Z if I remember correctly, that was the first time I received any input on what was done to the car.

You had heat range 5 or 6 spark plugs in the vehicle, gapped at .35+. The vehicle broke up past 3000rpm. That's when you got the correct heat range spark plugs installed, and they were gapped correctly, if I remember .20-.22


Then let's talk on timeline. You told me for 3 months in a row, you were going to drop it off. When you finally did, I'm sorry I wasn't able to get to it right away. Since at that point I didn't even expect the car to show up. So I fit it in the schedule the best I could.

Then after spending the first day on it, and fixing a lot of issues and having the flex-pipe blow out that connects the headers together(factory headers, where driver side had been modified to fit a turbo flange/wastegate flange) I contacted you to tell you the issue, you told me you had another one, and brought it a couple of days later.

I then got it on the dyno again, to finish it up, to find out that the nistune had no speed sensor input, which puts the ecu into limp mode(early rev limit under load) a hidden parameter that cannot be changed. This vehicle has a cable driven speedometer.

So finally I got the car running well warm, and you got charged $800.00 to spend 2-3 days on the dyno, spark plugs, and a flex pipe(2-3 hours of labor) to be replaced which is located at the firewall under the intake manifold. I told you that the speed sensor issue would need to be fixed, to finish the car.

Also I spoke to you more then 5 times myself personally, 3 times to your mechanic, during the long 2 week period.

The only question I really have is how is your car running at a 7:1 AFR, and why did you not voice any of the cold start concerns to me first. The car wasn't even finished, and you were told that it needed a speed sensor input to be finished.

I'm sorry you feel the way you do, and I feel that any of your problems could have been resolved if you contacted me, and finished the car, so I could finish my part.

Phil