Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

Originally Posted by REDCOMPG

Checked those mounts out lately?

mounts are like 2 years old now. seem ok. maybe some pollys on the rad side dog bones? my bushing are flipped but one is rather torn up.


im gonna drop pulleys again tomorrow and change the plugs yet once again,,,( i had the front 3 out again today lol) then pray the pc dont crash and brick the pcm again.

Shops always try to find a sucker that's why I try to go to the small joe smo one man or maybe a couple of men operations. They tend to treat you better. Hell all that welded I had done cost me $50 and didn't pay up front until everything was done.. And he was cool with me bringing it to him having the piping tacted then bringing back home to make sure I'm happy with the angle and that they fit just fine. Then waited 2 weeks for the hi flow cat to come in so I can have that tacted.. Mocked up then welded in. Cool older guy who trusted me to bring everything back to him.

Sure couldn't hurt.. Poly up top made more of a difference to me then the flip mounts ever did.

sadly those mom and pop type places are getting harder and harder to find. this was a 3 bay shop, 3 guys inside and the boss. no more no less.

guy had it welded up in less then 5 minutes.


when the guy said 200, i was like thats 20 minutes worth of work tops. lol and they wanted the tb off and i said i would take it off and bring a new gasket, so he didnt have to touch it, even still wanted 175 if i took the tb off, see ya pal.

Originally Posted by Bluemagic

Mom and pop shops are becoming a rare thing.

Because they can't make money.

$30 is a good price for what Scotty had done, but the shop didn't profit on it.

Yea I lucked out finding this guy he was close maybe a 15 min drive.. Does iron work and builds fencing so no lifts or anything but didn't matter since I was bringing the parts to him and not the car. It was a pain I stopped by at least 6-7 places everyone kept saying no you don't want to mig weld that you want to tig weld that blah blah. So do you do tig weld.. Nope and recommended other places and this happened about 5 times..nobody tigged anymore.. Finally found a fabrication shop.. Went and talked to the guy and explained to him what I wanted done he said of you cut it and hold the new piping in place where you wanted it'll be around $400 or so.. Wtf.. Said yea no way I'm paying that for maybe 45 mins of welding if that I'm not paying more then $50 to have this simple crap welded.. Then I found the one guy I was referring too.. He asked me what do you think is a fair price and since all the hassle I had to go through I said $50 is fine with me.

Originally Posted by Bronco Boy

Because they can't make money.

$30 is a good price for what Scotty had done, but the shop didn't profit on it.

they sure did, guy took 5 minutes setting up to finish, i had my own bung for them to install. all they did was use wire and a man for 5 minutes. so he made 20 bucks easy, depending on how much 2 minutes worth of gas and wire is worth lol and a 5/60's of a hour's labor to pay that guy lol

Sometimes it's not so much about profiting because if they do good work there's that chance you'll bring them bigger things in the future to work on. After all I'm sure they didn't lose any money after charging $30 for 2 minutes of work.

Originally Posted by Scottydoggs

they sure did, guy took 5 minutes setting up to finish, i had my own bung for them to install. all they did was use wire and a man for 5 minutes. so he made 20 bucks easy, depending on how much 2 minutes worth of gas and wire is worth lol and a 5/60's of a hour's labor to pay that guy lol

Gas, wire, O2, salary, electricity, rent....trust me, they didn't profit.

Originally Posted by REDCOMPG

Sometimes it's not so much about profiting because if they do good work there's that chance you'll bring them bigger things in the future to work on.

^ This.

Eww sounds like poopy with a resonator

Originally Posted by REDCOMPG

Eww sounds like poopy with a resonator

Watch it

I've legit never heard a nice sounding one unless it was turbo

Well you need to open up your ears drums then!

I wasn't even impressed with borlas lol

Have you heard Borlas in person.. And no I'm not talking about gay YouTube sound clips

Nope I'm the only person with a 3800 around me anymore lol