mr299ron wrote:Fuel cut is what 12/13 psi on the rev 1 and 2s? You'd never need to remove/adjust fuel cut unless you were raising boost, so from my pov here I feel as though that's your fault? I'm sure it wasn't, but that's just what it looks like.
What else did you have done? Just that?
Well I didn't intend this to be a full on rant at JD Modified, but I'm not going to sit back while you try to blame me for their incompetence!!
Um.
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firstly my car is a rev3.
And no, you didn't need to touch the boost cut.
They took a turbo that I had preconfigured to run only actuator pressure
(so I could hook up the EBC later) and connected it to my boost solenoid in such a way that the wastegate would never open, leading to an uncontrolled rise in boost.
I couldn't believe how badly it was done so i made some diagrams at the time.
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This is how I presented the turbo:
This is how a boost solenoid would be corrected connected:
And this is how they actually connected it:
There's also the saga of the bodged oil pipes that caused me to miss two track days.
Basically when creating me a custom exhaust manifold, they had an alignment issue that meant the oil pipe didn't fit.
The technician doing the job decided to cut the solid metal oil return pipe and replace it with unprotected rubber hose.
This burnt through
(because turbos and exhaust manifolds get very hot, hence why Toyota made it solid metal!) and dumped my oil all over my engine.
They replaced this with another rubber hose wrapped in essentially tin foil.
This also failed, dumping my oil all over my engine again.
I gave the car back to them again and they fitted a third rubber pipe and I simply refused to take the car back from them like that, which led to the turbo swap with the actuator plumbing issue.
(James raved about how making manifolds is his thing but the performance of the manifold he made me was very poor
- lots of lag and boost instability.
I've had a few turbo configurations on the car and using his manifold was easily the worst)
I've also twice had issues with them positioning my charge cooler such that the pressure cap rubbed on the engine cover and undid itself within 100 miles, unloading the charge cooler fluid over my engine.
There was also the mysterious case when I discovering my air filter had taken a massive knock and was crumpled immediately after collecting my car from them; given they would have given the filter off for that job, I challenged them.
The response came back
"oh yeah, the boys noticed that.
Didn't they say anything?" and they blamed the location of my intake piping.
Funnily enough, I've never had a problem with any other filter I've placed in that location, but I can't say for certain if the filter was damaged when at the garage or not.
I just find it suspicious, given the string of other issues I had.
They did manage to do one job without problems.
They replaced the flexi in my exhaust without anything failing as a direct result.
I suspect a fair amount of the above was due to one junior technician and it was a couple of years ago so maybe he's moved and standards have improved again.
But they made three mistakes on my car that could easily have killed my engine and kept on trying to replace their bodged oil return feed with exactly the same bodge to the point that I had to tell them that if it failed twice, they probably shouldn't do it a third time.
(Why on earth they didn't just use some braided hose, I have no idea!) It all left me wondering why I was paying them money to repeatedly make engine-threatening mistakes; I find my own labour more reliable and more cost effective.
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