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Originally Posted by Confrontational
FE - so you wouldn't buy a supercharger because of customer service...? [img]/images/graemlins/freak[/img]
Why not drop $700 and have a tuner that has installed them before put it in...??????
"not if it was free" again - [img]/images/graemlins/freak[/img]
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Right, that's what I said. I don't need the aggravation. Glad you thought it was funny...
It's been fairly well established you're on your own with the Paxton kit. Add to that the fact that it's made for a stock car and any mods added later will call for a lot of additional stuff that needs to be installed by a competent tuner.
With no tuners in MI that's a long walk if things are bad. Heffner or maybe Tator would be the closest and they're like 700 miles away.
I can agree there's more potential from the Paxton unit, and that's the shame of it. No one around to take the guesswork out of it.
Mike I know you've installed more than few of them. But if I did need assistance you're 360 miles away, and in another country. US-Canada border crossings are routine enough of course, but you just never know when they might want start pulling seats out or something as I go over.
I did appreciate the deal on the headers, but I gotta tell ya, there were more than one email/pm from me to you back then that went unanswered. I just need a closer relationship with someone doing $10K or more worth of work on my car.
That doesn't mean you're a bad guy Mike.
It's not you; it's me, as they say.
Which means that I'm going to have reservations about any tuner who doesn't seem
very interested in the work, a new customer, and takes time to respond. After living overseas for about 3 years, I've also come to appreciate the fact that more than just the speed limit signs can be different when you cross borders.
The natural feeling is if communication is sparse from a tuner when I'm leaning in his direction before the work, how often is he going to respond afterwards?
Maybe you were busy, or..who knows? I just thought the communication just wasn't happening well enough for me to consider handing my car over someday.
I don't need a s/c to be DIY, but with the lack of tuners near enough by I'll just wait for another time. Or place.
I still wouldn't take it for free given the potential complications vs the gain. My often mentioned gripe about the Paxton replacement crossbrace stands . It still isn't right, and I don't want that link set up on my car. Dan Cragin's recent post showed an additional brace running down towards the center of the car from the Paxton brace, but you couldn't see much of it and he's the only one reinforcing it. For starters I'd add another rod end to each side of the Paxton brace (forming a horizontal Y at each end) below the one that's there and bolt it into the Paxton vertical strut below the upper Paxton rod end on each side. Simple enough, and there's room to do it. The each end is triangulated.
Mike, congrats on your Detroit install, and more power to you [img]/images/graemlins/smiles[/img]
.. BTW, it's my car, if someone doesn't like the precautions I take with it, I really don't care. I don't want spend $10K or more on a car that runs just fine to end up with iffy fuel delivery, a flexy front end, and no customer support from Paxton.
Not for free. Not for all the farms in Cuba... (Bob Dylan lyric) if Paxton called and wanted to put it on
for free as the kit is set up now, I'd decline. Thanks, but no thanks.
The only positive Paxton kit (not the tuner kit) installs I remember seeing have been from Cragin or Mike. Just not enough of them done yet for me.
The longer I wait, the better the choices get... I'm in no hurry.
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