Thread: ATTN Shingouki1: Stop spreading rumors and explain the "bunk car" I sold you

Unfortunately this couldn’t be handled by our conversations via text and phone calls, so I’ll have to create this thread to figure out what’s going on. Come to find I’m being bad mouthed by Juan (Shingouki1) claiming I sold him and his buddy Edgar a “bunk car.” I could let this one go and not care, but to have my reputation ruined from his false beliefs I do not agree with, I care. That and I kept in touch because I don’t know how many times I had to ask for them to send my Calum basic Ecu which he promised he’d send back once they got the car home.

2/5/2012 posted a for sale thread for a rolling shell that I acquired not too long ago mainly for the parts, http://www.sr20-forum.com/cars/54119-ca-1999-sentra-se-l-rolling-shell-ve-det-ready.html. Couldn’t sell it as a shell, so decided to throw in my original VVL motor from my personal project car. Juan (shingouki1) hit me up via PM inquiring about the rolling shell for his buddy/cousin Edgar, but I told him I already had the motor installed and was almost ready to fire up. Through our conversations we agreed on a price, and even still he talked me into dropping the price I believe another $200-$300 which I finally agreed on considering Edgar and him were cool people. So from the time I put the car together, I only driven it around the block once since it wasn’t registered or insured. Please keep in mind I did not have this car long so am not aware of EVERYTHING, but addressed most of the issues I came across while the car was in my posession. Anyhow they came over to my house, looked over the car, test drove it, and was satisfied with the way it ran. Smooth clutch engagement, shifted smooth, felt strong even without vvl connected. Only thing I recall Juan mentioning from the test drive is the front end feeling soft. Anyhow they picked the car up April 14.

So going through my text messages here are the main events:

4/18 Asking me when I rebuilt the motor because there’s orange RTV near the top of the cylinder head (front cover). I explain to him that I inspect rod bearings and change the water pump when I acquire a used motor. If you look at the motor, I pretty much changed out most bolts for allan head bolts, and it’s not like I have globs of RTV hanging all over the place. I like to apply the bead, and wipe off the excess so it looks clean. This motor came from my car, and I went over it thoroughly so am very confident nothing will happen despite his concerns. Around the same time asks me if I have the harness he’s missing for the greddy MSS which I shortly mailed to them.

5/2 mentions an overheating problem. I ran the motor with the cap off until I got most of the bubbles out, as well as waiting for both slim fans on the Koyo radiator to kick on. Granted the wiring in the fans looked a bit beat up, but was fully functional when I checked. When he told me about the overheating, I suggested running a stock fan on the driver side since I personally believe it pulls a lot more CFM than the slim fans. It’s one of those things if I had driven the car more I would have caught and swapped out if it even happened to me. At this point I remind him not to drive the car hard because the current tune on the calum basic is not specific to that setup. Also remind him to get the front alignment done so he doesn’t kill the tires.

5/12 axle snapped so he asks me if it needs a non-lsd axle and I reply yes. Yes you mentioned Edgar drives like a grandma so that baffles me how it snapped, but bottom line it left my house in working order. And just to throw it in there, you mentioned about having to replace a balljoint. I checked every single wheel at both 3/9 o’clk, and 12/6 o’clk and all was good.

5/26 asking if I put locktite in the throttle bolts and I reply no. Also mentions the mounts are shot too, some missing the metal insert the bolts goes through. Not sure what that means but it’s not like the motor was rocking back and forth, still FULLY FUNCTIONAL . Those are the mounts that I acquired with the car, and that’s what went back into the car. Was I supposed to buy brand new motor mounts to go along with the used car or something?

6/11 tells me he found only one bolt on the tranny mount. For some reason I’m thinking the rear motor mount and can’t understand how that’s possible. I give him a call to see what’s going on because he texts me “I’m unimpressed with your workmanship. Thanks for the calum ecu.” One of my main points to him is that the car has solid motor mounts, and to look over every single bolt now before he blames me for another bolt rattling off. Anyhow towards the end of the call he tells me he appreciates the call, and that it shows I’m not some shaddy guy (not exact words).

7/1 Edgar decides he wants the 3” exhaust so he drives all the way to my house to pick it up. As he’s pulling into the driveway I notice a sound so have him pop the hood. I see the transmission dangling with the tranny mount not connected at all. I tell Edgar I thought Juan meant the rear motor mount, so now I see why Juan was upset back then. Anyhow during installation one bolt I couldn’t fully tighten because it was stripped, but the other two were good. Not an issue at the time. Anyhow I get under the car and am able to install two bolts (I provided) which I couldn’t fully tighten. I tell Edgar to drive really easy on the way home considering it’s over a 2 hour drive. Mind you at this time he never mentions any tranny issues, let alone 5th gear popout. I also look over the motor, point out a ripped vacuum nipple on the intake, and ask about what looks to be a dried up coolant leak. They were aware of the coolant and I forgot the reason he said it was like that. I just wanted to make sure the car was good for the drive home. Car looked good, he replaced the front bumper, and clear coated the faded CF hood. At this point I have a sense he's enjoying the car, and again tells me he appreciates my help.

7/31 asking me if I have a tranny for sale because transmission has 5th gear pop out. I tell him 5th gear popout was remedied and shouldn’t happen on 1999 transmissions. I ask if the transmission motor mount was fixed already, and to check the shift linkage attachment to the tranny since Edgar was driving with the tranny dangling.

8/11 States he has a blown up tranny and clutch. Tells me he has a JWT pressure plate and b15 disc ready to go in anyway with a 10lb flywheel. Then later tells me the hub falls apart when he removes the axle. I ask didn’t you replace the axle before and why he didn’t mention it fell apart then? He tells me it somewhat did. Anyhow I offer to send him a new wheel bearing since I have one lying around, and this is his quote which finally I’m so reluctant to hear, “It’s all good. No sense in complaining just gotta fix it. It’s a used car so you can always expect the unexpected. Just hope the motor isn’t next.”

Purchased the car April 14, and asks me about 5th gear pop out 7/31. I’m being blamed for the clutch springs popping out, the 5th gear popout, when he drove off with a perfect engaging drivetrain. Setup was a stock pressure plate, and a custom 4 puck fiber tuff/ceramic disc that I got from a local clutch specialty shop. To me the main culprit to this all is the fact that the transmission was dangling and being driven for I have no idea how long. It’s just like resting your hand on the shift knob while driving. Now imagine the load on the shift linkage with the transmission dangling! If that car were still in my possession if that happened, I would have fixed it PROPERLY and RIGHT AWAY and none of these transmission related issues would have occured. Now please someone tell me how I sold him a car with a jacked up transmission and clutch setup with popped springs?!

Last words from Juan is that all the problems are heavily documented, and once the car is done he will be making a thread on it. Sorry Juan but I want your story now considering you’re going around telling everyone I sold you a “bunk car.” Hopefully yourself can read this thoroughly and provide your heavily documented insight so I finally understand what’s going on. For the most part I tried to offer help and provide you with links to the previous owners so you could read up on the car. If anything try to get Edgar in here too because he seems to be frustrated as well, but again happy with the purchase. He told me “don’t get me wrong dude I love my car and I wouldn’t trade it for the world and im grateful you even sold it to me” but goes on to blame me for a cracked clutch and springs that fell off. I really don’t understand what you guys are trying to achieve here. You complain about stuff but don’t ask for anything. I offer help but you don’t take it. Only thing going on is you trying to ruin my rep. I guess my lessoned learned here is before I sell a car that I just recently acquired as a rolling shell, I’ll have to register it, smog it, get insurance, that way I could drive it for at least a thousand miles so I can find every single issue that happens with the used car I bought so absolutely nothing happens during the first 5 months of the buyers ownership. But in all seriousness guys, if you would have just repaired that dangling transmission right away, instead of telling me about it and saying that the two bolts you put back in there you couldn’t tighten down at all, would we really be having all these transmission problems I’m being blamed for?

Womp. I stand by you simply after viewing what you did with that 20v 6 speed Sentra. You take pride in your work and don't cut corners. That car is amazing.

It is a USED car. Every time I have bought someone else's project, there have been issues that need to be addressed. Whether you have stated them or not, it is the buyers assumed responsibility to remedy issues that arise AFTER the fact and to inspect the car far before purchase. Hopefully this thread doesn't end up like that jer 760 Blown K Sport thread. That was some dramatic garbage that just gets this forum's attention centered on false accusations and unnecessary drama.

Moved to the appropriate forum section.

I suggest tagging Shigkouki1 to this thread to get his attention so that he can speak his peace.

same here Bryan is a kool and honest dude

Like this? @shingouki1

Lol, Brian, this is your idea of not starting shit like you stated in a text? You must have really got scared when I stated I would be making a thread of the car lol. You jumped the gun bud because I never stated I would mention your name. Anyway...I guess its my turn to reply. As far as the deal with the Calum basic goes the deal was I would send the ECU back when my Nistune group buy was complete and Edgar (who purchased the vehicle) got his Nistune board installed he would mail you your ECU. The group buy ran long, we spent more time fixing the car than anything else, but no excuses it should have been shipped out a couple of weeks earlier.



We agreed on dropping the price due to me returning the ECU and NOT wanting the exhaust at the time as it was over my buddies budget. Mind you this is my buddies first NISSAN. I gave him a ride in my ve’d b13 and he fell in love. Your shell was a perfect candidate for my buddy with all the parts you had listed. By looking at your white b14 I was more than sure you wouldn’t sell crap parts or a car in this case. I showed up with my buddy, we test drove it and the suspension did feel soft and you stated “Im not sure what it could be”. No worries a soft suspension wouldn’t be something to worry me. Although I know that you installed the motor in the car and would at least let me know the ball joints were blown along with the tie rods. You were down there and you clearly saw that but decided to not let us know. I noticed clicking in the driver side axle and immediately told my buddy it was going to need new axles, again no big deal, I have replaced plenty of axles (at this point I was not aware both boots were torn). The car drove well enough for me to know it may need minor work in the front to get it running correctly. I was saddened that you had stated a hydraulic clutch assembly had been installed in the car and was ready to go so there would be no more clutch cable to deal with but when I showed up you stated you must have given the assembly to your friend and the hydro assembly was never installed in the vehicle. You also stated the transmission was a non-lsd transmission but you were not sure if it had a phantom grip LSD or not because you were not sure if had installed it in that particular transmission or not. You came off as a great guy Brian I won’t argue that but you withheld a lot of information on the vehicle that you knew was wrong with it as you were the one who put the motor and tranny in the car.



I asked because I had no time to dig in to the car until weeks after it was picked up and towed back to Los Angeles. It was an honest question especially since this was your motor and you would know the history of it. You did replace a lot of bolts with allan head bolts that is true but this was your motor and I can see you take pride in the things that belong to you.



The car sat for almost a month as it would not pass smog. At this point my buddy had driven it for a couple of days and hit me up worried that the needle was going passed the half way point of the gauge. Granted my buddy is a noob to nissans and immediately hit me up as he was concerned. I checked his car and one fan was no longer working as the fan stopped working. The car was never driver hard as my buddy had no trust in the car especially after the heating scare. Thanks for mentioning the ecu had the wrong tune for the car AFTER you sold us the car, again more information you failed to mention when we bought it. Granted I should have asked but a guy with a b14 as clean as yours would never fail to mention something as important as the car not running the right program. An alignment was done before you had even mentioned it, but again I appreciate your concern.



This same day my buddy brings the car to my house and tells me he wants me to hear the noise the car is making. I look under the car and the boot is done. I tell my buddy we should replace both axles since I am already down there. Once I drain the tranny I see a lot of metal shavings on the magnetic end of the plug and grow a bit concerned but my buddy stated the tranny was shifting ok but could hear a “clunk” when he drives the car. One of the axles came off in two pieces and when I pull the end out of the hub, a metal ring comes out of the hub. Hmmmmm….that was a first for me, I put the metal ring back in and tell my buddy the driver side knuckle is taking a crap.



As I am tearing in to the car I find more and more wrong with the car. I notice the front dog bone mount has major play in it. It had enough play for me to be able to slide my screw driver through the hole above the metal sleeve for the bolt. This was causing the “clunk” my buddy kept hearing which was the sound of the motor rocking back and forth. I took care of the front dog bone mount with a new prothane replacement (mind you the old mount was a prothane mount as well). It was not your duty to place new ones in there but you saw the shape they were in when you swapped the motor in. Im not mad at that though I just replaced it, along with the axles, trans fluid, new axle seals, ball joints, tie rod ends at this point.



My buddy brings the car back to my house after coming back from out of town as he still hears a “clunk” but it sounds different than the last time. I look through the car again and I notice he only has one bolt in the tranny mount. There is tons of play in the mount and immediately get pissed off and am fed up with fixing a car you put together Brian as a car that was ready to roll. We exchange texts and you tell me that two of the holes in the transmission could be stripped. Again, thanks for giving me that bit of information AFTER we had already bought the car. If you would have told me that before then I would of just had the trans rethreaded. At that point I was like “fuck this bitch, with all the money my buddy is spending just to get this shit on the road I’m going to have him sell the ECU to get some money back”. We immediately spoke on the phone after the text exchange and worked it out. I explained to your Brian I would have appreciated if you would have told me about the stripped bolt holes prior to me having to see it missing two bolts. I let you know I couldn’t believe you would not tell me this seeing how much of a stickler you are for attention to detail with your own car. I tell you that shit happens, I’m going to fix it and I will forgive and not forget.



Because we had talked it out and we were cool again my buddy wanted the exhaust. He shows up and you think I was talking about the rear motor mount? When we spoke on the phone I specifically stated it was the tranny mount, and you specifically told me two of the bolts on the tranny were stripped. Im glad you saw where my anger came from. You install bolts, which by the time he is in LA they already managed to wiggle out since the holes are stripped. The coolant leak was something I saw the day we test drove the vehicle which you stated you would look at since we were not going to pick the car up the fallowing week. We tightened the hoses and the leak stopped. It was a loose clamp. This could have been part of the overheating issues the car had prior. I had told Edgar to constantly keep an eye on it just to be safe.




I hit you up since I wasn’t mad at you, I had let things go prior since the last time we spoke, plus you helped my boy before he came back to LA and I still wasn’t convinced you would purposely sell us something bad knowing its bad. If you would have had a tranny for sale I would of bought it. My buddy calls me and tells me the trans is not engaging. I tell him to check the clutch cable. He states it looks ok and there is no slack in it. Immediately I rush over to his house to look at the car. I knew enough to know the clutch had taken a dump. I talked to my buddy what happened before the clutch gave out and he told me it gave out a block from his house and he pushed the thing home. I ask if the trans was doing anything weird. He tells me no but asked if with Nissan engines you could just push 5th gear out without having to press the clutch. I tell him no, and ask him why he asked. He states “my tranny has done it a couple of times on the free way, I press the gas and it gets out of gear in to neutral on its own”. I immediately get pissed again and tell him he has 5th gear pop out. If he would have been a Sentra guy he would of known about the notorious 5th gear pop out.

I start breaking in to the car a couple of weeks later and remember the shavings I had seen on the tranny drain plug the last time I took the axles out and see shavings again. I pull the driver side axle out and the hub falls apart. I let Brian know what’s going on but at this point I no matter what help he offered I said “fuck him” and just handled it. I let him know its, a used car and there was no sense talking about it. But, I let all my buddies know what was going on and let them know “BUYER BEWARE, IF YOU BUY FROM BRIAN BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK”. I did not want this to happen to someone else I knew. I was not going to come on the forum and let the world know he sold my buddy a bunk car, he knows he sold me a car with a lot of problems and I do to. I let all my buddies know as a service to them just to beware.

I take the tranny apart and this comes out of it…

I look at the rear motor mount and I see this…


Honestly who wouldn’t be pissed. At the moment the car has been on jack stands since July. Everything is getting replaced and done right. There were a couple of bolts missing from the rear motor mount where it attaches to the tranny as well. I have all the receipts for the new hubs and bearings replaced with new OEM ones, the JWT plate/b15 disc ordered from GregV.



I only texted you every time so you could be a witness with the crap you sell and at this point I was bringing this car back to life, part by part. Those who know me know I only buy quality parts. I wouldn’t take help from you after the crap work you did on this car. Although I did want to buy your wife’s car, but that’s only because I’m sure you wouldn’t do crap work on the car your wife drives as I’m sure her well being is important to you.



I never directly blamed you for it, but your work spoke for itself. Its not even my car, but Edgar is my brotha from anotha motha. In this forum we put a lot of trust in the seller to make sure you are buying quality parts. We are a tight knit community and being that you are from SOCAL you know we will meet again why not just be honest with me and let me know all the problems the car had. Not telling me two tranny bolt holes are stripped, not telling me the car was running the wrong program until after I ask about it is SHADY! Seeing your white car I could only assume you would put the same pride in to something you would sell someone else. Never did I think you would go as low as this to get validation from people on the forum. If you had such a problem with what was going on you should of come to LA (since you threaten to send someone for your ecu) personally and we could have handled in any way that would be more convenient for you. I could tell you were very scared of having this get out to the forum or people whom we mutually knew in general. Your reputation is already tainted sir whether you like it or not. I would never purchase anything from you again, and I am more than sure Edgar wouldn’t either.



I will be posting a thread on the car once it all done. But I never mentioned I would say anything about you in it. You don’t deserve to be mentioned with the car as it’s been a car I have been putting back together. I could really tell having this cat get out of the bag was not something you wanted. But you jumped the gun; you ran on here and posted about something no one would have ever known about other than a select few people I consider my friends. I have ran four group buys and have held over $15k in members money here on the forum. I’ve never stole anything from anyone and would never sell something I didn’t believe in myself. Everyone that knows me knows I don’t play with money. I will go to war for my family and friends and you really picked the wrong battle Brian. If you think that by posting this first so that you can come and gain people sympathy it’s a pretty sad attempt of saving your reputation. The fact is your reputation is ruined with me. When you sell something to someone just be honest about your product. I don’t hate you or wish to get violent but to make it clear I DISLIKE you and with good reason after having to fix everything with this car. I am a firm believer in honesty, if you would of just let us know what was wrong with the car before hand I would of not been so pissed because at that point I would of known what we got ourselves in to and consented to buying the car regardless of the condition it was in when Edgar purchased it.

I kept texting you every time I found something else wrong with the car so you could see the crap you put together since you were the one who installed the motor, trans, clutch, axles in the car. I’m glad you felt guilty enough to want to offer me your help, and I’m glad your guilt led to you getting worried about this getting out. You did mention quite a few times that you did not want to be blamed for the car as it would ruin your reputation.

Used items are used items it’s why I told you not to worry about anything because at that point it was useless, we were fixing it and made sure we fixed everything you did wrong or didn’t do at all. If you would have just mentioned the two stripped tranny bolts from the beginning this chain of broken parts would not have happened.

We did lag it getting your calum basic back to you and I recognize that but you threatening to send someone to the address on my buddies license is not something you tell someone here in LA. Don’t ever threaten someone over something as small as an ECU unless you are looking to get hurt. I do appreciate you apologizing for the threat after Edgar told you off.

So lets recap; you stated the car had a vzr clutch pedal assembly with hydro clutch installed in the car but then tell me you gave it to a friend and never installed it when we come to see the car.



You state you aren’t sure if there is a phantom grip LSD in the transmission or not but as soon as I tell you the tranny is broken you ask if you can pick up the tranny to remove the phantom grip LSD out of it, thought you didn’t know if the phantom grip was in it or not? After you I bring up the missing tranny bolts you tell me that two of the holes were stripped. Then you remind me to tell Edgar that he should run the car hard as the program in the Calum ecu was not meant for the car and could damage it. All important information you failed to tell me before buying the car and things I would never think of asking seeing the beauty you have in garage and I thought your workmanship was top notch.

Finally, I won’t be going back and forth with you on this Brian. This will be me my one and only post on this thread. As this is an open forum I welcome all those who read my response to chime in. This was never about the car being “BUNK” it was about your knowing it was “BUNK” and selling it as a running car then letting me know at its real issues after the car is purchased. You could have avoided all this by just being up front and honest with the issues the car had from the beginning then again some may say I should of asked more questions. There is your side, my side and what people want to accept as the truth. I’m not sure what you were hoping to get answered or achieve with this post Brian but I hope I answered everything for ya.

I will say this to everyone and anyone that will ever buy anything from you as a public service BUYER BEWARE!

How is this starting shit when I’m just trying to figure out what’s going on since you can’t be straight up with me. No sir you told me you just needed the ecu to get the car off and on the tow dolly. Later you mentioned the group buy and I went with it. Anyhow, I’ll skip the you said he said stuff and get down to the important stuff only.

Like I said axles were in working order when I installed them, no signs of a torn boot like you’re telling me. Also here is your text from 5/12 “Are se-l all come stock non LSD right? An axle snapped so I wanna make sure in get the right seal.” So now they’re just clicking instead of a snapped axle like you said? Let’s put things into perspective here. Say you acquired the rolling shell with the same exact parts as I installed in the car, and installed everything as I did. Same axles, same ball joints, same tie rods, same fans, same motor mounts, same everything you’re complaining about. Are you going to find someone to blame about it, or fix it as you find them as I have? You have had the car longer than I have, and I don’t know how many times I mentioned I’m glad you guys are going through the entire car. So because I didn’t catch every since thing you found, I’m now holding information from you in an attempt to get the car sold or something?

Yes I told you for a fact that I installed a hydraulic clutch setup with the car. I swapped the hydraulic clutch fork and secondary slave into the transmission and installed it in the car so yes at the time it was hydraulic. The reason I had to pull the transmission off and swap back to the cable setup is I realized I sold the hydraulic clutch pedal setup when I sold my sr16ve hydraulic transmission. http://www.sr20-forum.com/naturally-aspirated/26559-f-s-built-lsd-sr16ve-hydraulic-cable-transmissions.html there’s the sale where the clutch pedal went with. Don’t act as if you didn’t know before you drove out because first of all, I wouldn’t have told you to come down if the car wasn’t driveable.

I know which exact bin is on the ecu because I loaded it myself, Calum VE bin. Let’s see calum ve bin for correct maf, 333cc injectors, same exact as yours. Only concern is that the car has a stock exhaust so might be chocked up and run rich. It’s a base tune for the same setup, so should be close. Here’s my text you’re referring to on 5/2 “Don’t drive the car too hard, the current tune is not specific to current setup.” I never stuck a wideband in there to verify AFR’s, so of course I’m going to throw that out there if you’re talking about overheating. What do you do when something goes wrong, you think of all potential variables and start eliminating these variables right? Please only bring up this tuning issue if you were experiencing knocking, pinging, or if the engine blew up. So now because I brought it up I’m messed up for not telling you in the first place? Move along, the overheating was due to the fans not working there’s nothing wrong with the tune.

In regards to the two stripped tranny bolts. Like I said I thought you were referring to the rear motor mount and I told you that I left one bolt out because it was stripped. This is the part you do not understand, I WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT THE SIDE TRANNY MOUNT. So with that in mind I NEVER TOLD YOU TWO BOLTS WERE STRIPPED. Here’s my text from 6/11 “I put two 17s and 1 14mm bolt through that tranny mount because 1 is stripped. Go through every single bolt now before you start blaming me for everything, don’t forget you have solid mounts on there.” Does that sound like I’m talking about the side mount. The side mount is 3 14mm bolts. And thank you, you just cleared it up for me. When you first discovered the loose bolt, there was only 1 bolt left but no dangling transmission. If at this time you repaired the two WHEN YOU FOUND IT, I wouldn’t have discovered a dangling transmission when Edgar came over. My fault, or your fault for not taking care of it when YOU found it?!!!!!! Oh and a side note please do not complain to me about 1 lose coolant clamp that you found. Good job on repairing that, but it’s already been established that the overheating was caused by the fans not turning on.

Juan you have not talked of the dangling transmission and how it correlates heavily to your 5th gear popout. Is this something you just don’t chose to accept? Can you at least acknowledge this and explain to me how this cannot cause the 5th gear popout, and the messed up clutch disk. It’s another my word versus yours, but when I installed that clutch disc it DID NOT look like that. I originally was going to install an Exedy disc, but threw it away since the springs were loose. Don’t put the blame on me for that, and again you know that it was smooth as butter when you test drove the car. Here is your text from 8/11 “I drained the tranny and there were a load of shavings in the oil and the drain plug. So that I know is probably the 5th gear problem. The clutch I’m hoping is still good or in decent shape….got a jwt press plate and b15 disc ready to go in anyway with a 10lbs flywheel. The clutch stopped engaging though which is why I had him stop driving the car. Once I spoke to him he explained the 5th deal. So 5th was going out before the clutch took a dump.” Mind you but now you’re saying in your response that on 5/12 is when you noticed all the heavy shavings when you replaced the axle?

So lets recap; you stated the car had a vzr clutch pedal assembly with hydro clutch installed in the car but then tell me you have it to a friend and never installed it when we come to see the car. – NOT TRUE

You state you aren’t sure if there is a phantom grip LSD in the transmission or not but as soon as I tell you the tranny is broken you ask if you can pick up the tranny to remove the phantom grip LSD out of it, thought you didn’t know if the phantom grip was in it or not? After you I bring up the missing tranny bolts you tell me that two of the holes were stripped. Then you remind me to tell Edgar that he should run the car hard as the program in the Calum ecu was not meant for the car and could damage it. All important information you failed to tell me before buying the car and things I would never think of asking seeing the beauty you have in garage and I thought your workmanship was top notch. – NOT TRUE. I tell you to pull the phantom grip LSD out of the tranny before you toss it. You tell me you already bought a 5th gear popout kit and will probably repair the transmission. I’m sorry but why the hell would I want to drive to LA for a phantom grip that I have no use for.

At this point Juan, I can clearly see your memory just plain sucks. If you are going to bring up things please back them up with facts, or show the text message since that’s most of our conversations. If you would like any proof of the things I quoted, I could happily provide the picture of my phone display.

And to conclude things, here’s my text from the THREAT I sent you and Edgar, “This is ridiculous guys, one of you call me and tell me straight up why you’re holding my ecu. I’m getting the damn run around now and it’s annoying. I don’t care for excuses, just need a tracking number. I can send someone to the address on your license if it makes your life easier.” Granted I re-read this and see where it may come off as a threat to you guys because for some reason that’s the type of person you perceive me to be when we met in person and talked on the phone. I told you I REALLY needed my ecu MONTHS ago. I looked at the address on Edgar’s driver’s license, and realized that he was somewhat close to one of my buddies. So yes I was that desperate where I was willing to have someone stop by and grab it for me because for some reason you guys just couldn’t do it. Somewhere in there you guys read, “I’m going to send my killer friend to your house with a knife and some nun chucks and have him do some karate on you to teach you a lesson. “ RIGGGGGGGHHHHHHTTTTTTT

I agree, i'm not going to spend too much time with this. I've already said my peace, and am fine with things because now I realize what you have against me is based off your bad memory, and a lot of misquoting what i told you. The only thing you could do at this point is to show pics of those things you claimed i said. If not, BUYER no need to beware. Just for kicks i'm going to show the clutch specialty shop that picture you provided and ask what could cause this without telling them about the dangling transmission.

Funny how some names continually pop up in the user feedback section....

Explanation?

And, THIS is why i no longer sell any cars on this forum. To many people seem to think the modified cars they buy should be perfect, while they are too damn cheap ass to make it worth (those of us who build em) to give a flying fuck. clutches fail, axles break, shit falls apart, these are used cars, built with used parts, ect ect. If the damn thing was together when it left his house, id have to say, whatever the situation, with stuff breaking, thats the game, get the fuck over it. Its a used car, sold as a used car, and has no warranty. i work for a DEALER, and we have a very basic, 30 day warranty. To think youd get anything better from a private seller showes just how self centered and irresponsible a BUYER is. once the car is out of the SELLERS hands, its hard to tell what the BUYER does to it. Breaking an axle? that shit doesnt just HAPPEN. shorn clutch springs? that bitch would not have DRIVEN that way. those things happened due to abuse. id say its safe to say that the BUYER beat the shit out of said car, and then expected the seller to pay for repairs. NOT the first time ive seen this, But i can definatley say, that on THOSE 2 items, you cannot fudge a repair. That clutch was fine when it left, so was the axle. Thanks for reminding me NOT to try and sell on this forum anymore though.