MoncefA33
09-07-2011, 05:23 PM
What's up IAF.
I could not find a better place to post this, but many of you may not be familiar with the shop Random House Racing, in Norwalk IA. So I just wanted to give everyone a heads up, that it was a poor experience for me, and I'd suggest anyone who needs work done of any kind to take your car elsewhere. Unless you want it broken. :)
I'm gonna keep this short and sweet - I had Leon Wilson from Random House Racing install some JWT S1 cams/HR valvetrain in my '01 Maxima. This post is rather late because I've been focusing on getting the car running and changing up a few things on the build over the summer.
When I got the car back, two weeks later, it died 10 miles away from my house. A list of what I saw on the car when trying to get it running again...
Random ground cables disconnected.
Knock sensor not hooked up (subharness damaged)
Crank position sensor (one of them) hanging out of my transmission
Belt squeal - tensioner was damaged after install.
Even afterwards, my troubles were not over - The car was running low 11s/high 10s AFR in CLOSED LOOP, and was slower than a stock 3.0 Maxima. Leon said this has to be a tuning issue - how a car with stock MAF, stock ECU and functioning O2 sensors and stock injector PW (confirmed using the e-Manage logger) runs this kind of AFR is beyond me.
So I had another tech check the timing, and lo and behold it was set incorrectly. LOL so after going back and forth between Leon, trying to state that the timing was off and was the cause for the poor performance, he denied any wrongdoing. I had a leakdown test done, and you could physically hear air escaping the intake filter when the valves were supposed to be closed. Leon denied this meaning anything, so while I had some fresh heads getting assembled at a local machine shop, I got this sweet picture of one of the valves. There's a lot more where this came from.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/298441_1572345746751_1178730534_31593847_236877218 _n.jpg
The story continues here...
http://www.jdmcity.com/showthread.php?p=248179#post248179
Thanks for looking guys.
I could not find a better place to post this, but many of you may not be familiar with the shop Random House Racing, in Norwalk IA. So I just wanted to give everyone a heads up, that it was a poor experience for me, and I'd suggest anyone who needs work done of any kind to take your car elsewhere. Unless you want it broken. :)
I'm gonna keep this short and sweet - I had Leon Wilson from Random House Racing install some JWT S1 cams/HR valvetrain in my '01 Maxima. This post is rather late because I've been focusing on getting the car running and changing up a few things on the build over the summer.
When I got the car back, two weeks later, it died 10 miles away from my house. A list of what I saw on the car when trying to get it running again...
Random ground cables disconnected.
Knock sensor not hooked up (subharness damaged)
Crank position sensor (one of them) hanging out of my transmission
Belt squeal - tensioner was damaged after install.
Even afterwards, my troubles were not over - The car was running low 11s/high 10s AFR in CLOSED LOOP, and was slower than a stock 3.0 Maxima. Leon said this has to be a tuning issue - how a car with stock MAF, stock ECU and functioning O2 sensors and stock injector PW (confirmed using the e-Manage logger) runs this kind of AFR is beyond me.
So I had another tech check the timing, and lo and behold it was set incorrectly. LOL so after going back and forth between Leon, trying to state that the timing was off and was the cause for the poor performance, he denied any wrongdoing. I had a leakdown test done, and you could physically hear air escaping the intake filter when the valves were supposed to be closed. Leon denied this meaning anything, so while I had some fresh heads getting assembled at a local machine shop, I got this sweet picture of one of the valves. There's a lot more where this came from.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/298441_1572345746751_1178730534_31593847_236877218 _n.jpg
The story continues here...
http://www.jdmcity.com/showthread.php?p=248179#post248179
Thanks for looking guys.