Scorke,

good luck man...

we work with forged quite a bit, and ryan and sharif are great guys, very honest.

cheers

cb

 

I had an oil leak which I was aware of, I was losing oil at a very slow rate, so I assumed it was consumption as I could hardly find any underneath the motor nor smell it burning , which ended up being a rear main seal. After they found that they decided to just go completely over the car and found that the front right drive shaft was installed without the retaining c-clip.....essentially causing my car to be 3WD at times

After seeing these two things Dylan (Tech working on my car at Forged) was not too confident that the rest of the motor was put together correctly as the transmission/motor were obviously put together sort of haphazardly.... So they decided to do a compression leak down test to ensure that at least the cylinders were holding air(due to bent valves), and they weren't after that they found the cylinder walls were scored which constituted the pulling apart of the bottom end to see what was causing it which led to the finding of improper ring gaps. Once it was competely stripped they found 3 of my 4 oil squirters were bent while one was chilling out in the oil pan.

Upon pulling the motor apart they found that lots of the hardware was hand tight, not propery torqued so they are just going to tear the whole thing down to crank rods and bearings and start again.


Scorke

 

Dayum man. That sux big time. You are in good hands with Forged though....

 

Good info, thats insane, I had an oil squirter get broken off on my 1G, def sucks but that was on a stock motor...I cannot believe that happening on a bilt motor, with all of that stuff found I would be asking for compensation from the other shop. Stories like this make me want to rock a stock longblock forever and ever.

How many miles were on the built motor?

 

7k miles!!! Never tracked, never abused, never boosted past 23 psi, pure assembly/install error...

The reason why I am trying to keep track of everything that was found to be done horribly wrong will be part of my case against them, I will be asking for just about all of the labor they charged me for back.


Scorke

 

Who will be tuning the Fcon if you dont mind? I have it in my car and it;s awesome.

 

Forged is a fully Certified HKS tuning facility There aren't that many here

Scorke

 

Dylan is real cool and did my car. I finally have it back and working right! I missed it.....how long will urs be out of commission?

 

2 weeks or so.

Scorke

 

Ah... The classic timeline for any automotive repair

 

what manifold is that in the last pic? gl with the build

 

It will vary depending on how deeply the headgets worked.

Scorke

 

AFI

Scorke

 

gl with the build... i hope u win, against those losers who messed up ur ride....

 

I recognize Dylan in that picture. He's installed my cams and wideband. They are a good bunch of guys.