As it sits its looking like just myself possibly suprastar... I was planning on starting down say 9am

 

my bolt will be in tomorrow, ill call you sometime tomorrow afternoon jon and let you know whats up.

justin wont be able to take his because its no registered. josh(4doorbullit will alrdy be down there,i think).

and whats up with aron? ill call around and see whats up. heard something about last year they met at the mattress firm off phillips.

but def would be a good irdea to meet up with the daytona guys.

 

Sounds good just let me know.. I'm hoping I'm not hte only one. Got the daytona crews cell so planning on meeting up with them around 10

 

Working days today. Watch ***** to 8 tonight so I might go. Just see how tired I am.

 

I SWEAR TO GOD! you jinxed my ***! Started the car this morning and sounded way different than normal.. sure enough.. found huge exhaust leak at manifold/hotside... hoping I can do a temporary fix.. no wonder the car felt alittle slower than normal...

 

Is it a regular t3 gasket? I'm sure Tracy or Dwight have one or I can take mine of the DSM Jon. Onlyi f you promise to answer texts and phone calls and let me stop by one of these days and grab my stuff lol.

 

If its the T3 gasket,... youl need a new one, try stage 6, if its the turbo-o2/ downpipe, just use RTV. I got a 5 bolt o2 on mine and ets says all they use is rtv, been working great for me. get the kind thats ment for heat though, duh

GL and hit me up if you need any help!

 

Copper rtv. Super high heat but it needs to settle for a good amount of time.

 

Copper rtv. Super high heat but it needs to settle for a good amount of time.

 

Is it a regular t3 gasket? I'm sure Tracy or Dwight have one or I can take mine of the DSM Jon. Onlyi f you promise to answer texts and phone calls and let me stop by one of these days and grab my stuff lol.

 

Sighh
Okay here goes:

I've tried contacting you over all this time in regards to the parts. I've talked with everyone on here and they never hear from you, I've talked to Ron, Mike, Brandon, Freddy, even Will.

The original deal was I store the car for 2-3 months and both YOU and I tear the car apart for parts that you would sell and it would be done prior to your last deploy. What I would get out of this for payment was the coilovers on the car.

This is what happened:

You came by ONE day and got most of the inside cabin parts ECU, stuff from the trunk and various other parts manifold/turbo radiator, things like that. After that everything fell on me to get the parts off the car.
You did come by another day and take the valve cover off the car when I wasn't home. I had removed the cams for you and taken them off so you could get those.

Water got into the motor at that point when it rained. After no real activity for months the car began to rust sitting in my yard. I did ask you about the deal with it at as I was getting complaints about it. Nothing really was said. When I saw you at the JaxSS meet you didn't even say ANYTHING in regards to the car.

Then I get a phone call from Ron and he tells me that the car is going to be picked up by you and a flatbed and taken to Stephans so Ron can get the body panels off the car. I hadn't even gotten the coilovers off the car! No phone calls no heads up etc from you in regards to this.

That didn't sit well with me. I spent most of that evening well into the early AM taking both the motor and transmission out of the car. The clutch was put inside the car. The transmission casing was shot to hell and all the fluid had leaked out. The gears were seized completely and rusted. IMO it was a total loss. IT was picked up by the garabe crew. Next I had the motor and spent my time taking care of it and tearing it down.

I took the head off and gave that to Freddy. He confirmed all the internals of the head were crap due to water damage and being exposed to the elements. He looked at the cylinder walls and found scarring.
I took the bottom end apart to find an absolute nightmare. Upon flipping the motor all the rainwater/excess oil residue poured out including metal shaving and pieces of solid metal banged around. Upon removing the oil pan and pickup I found the source of the metal chunks.

The crank girdle was broken through and through. The crank itself had a crack travelling from the transmission side starting at #4 to #3. Crank was toast. Removing the pistons and bearings found the bearings were toast as well as the pistons and rods. With that much internal damage I can only conclude this:

Upon impact with the ground based transformer, the shockwave travelled through the transmission and from the imput shaft to the crank. The showwave was so violent it shook the crank in its girdle and broke the girdle and cracked the crank. The shockwave is what created the ripple in the roof of the car as well. The bearings were wearing for whatever reason prior to the accident and were on borrowed time I can only surmise. Freddie can confirm the damage to the bearings as I held onto them for alittle time. Everything as far as the motor is concerned was damaged without any possibility of salvage. The bare block was left at the curb and hauled away by some scrap man because I felt if that much damage was done inside to both the crank and girdle then the block is no good as well.

It was a complete loss.

I did get the coilovers from Stephan and in turn gave him all my factory suspension as well as the Tein S Tech springs that were on them at the time so he could have a rolling chassis. All the excess time I spent tearing everything down on the car by myself and storage that it spent at my house for well over 5 months, Im keeping the Tcase as payment at this point.

 

Tcase as payment along with the $1100 coilovers. Also if there was any call saying hey man can you come over and help me pull this or that and or me not being on a completely different schedule I would have been over. Sorry Jon if no calls, messages etc was me thinking you had it and if we actually agreed on me being over there everyday but that wasn't the case. The fact you still owe me money for parts that were never agreed to be sold for less then half they were worth pisses me off and that apparently you can't figure out people in the military don't exactly have a lot of time to go ****ing around with cars they thought were being taken care of for said coilovers. ****. I even put the rear suspension in over at Elite because Stephan didn't know when you were coming back and everything was just sitting after I stopped by to tell him what was going on with the car. If the money for all the parts that were sold and the tcase atleast don't make it into my possession we might just have to go further with this legally. I even stopped by the house and you were fine with me wtf. I guess I should have listened to the DSM guys years ago when they told me about you.

 

sooo whats the deal? were is everyone meeting up at to caravan down to orlando? and what time?

 

Man I dont even know if I am going to go now. Really tired now and the woman is working. We'll see.

 

So whats the deal Jon. I'll make sure to get everybodies phone #'s again and check up with them every week. Damn I didnt know $2K and other misc $$ parts was the deal that you made up in your head along with you making side deals to "friends" for 1/2 of what the average price used anywhere is. I thought Ron would have talked to you earlier than that day and I really didnt think he was going to be coming to get it right then and the motor, tranny and tcase etc didnt have to come out. Me and Ron were going to take that out as part of the deal for the body panels but you "slaved" away one night apparently and got them out. I'm not trying to be a dick because that is not me but you are forcing it by telling me why you think you deserve everything that is left. I am willing to work out the part/money thing easily to just put this situation past me too but you are forcing things in the wrong direction. Direction either towards cops either showing up at your house or civil case which wouldnt bother me since you are so unreasonable apparently. Your choice my phones always on, I might not answer because I sleep during the day most of the time and work at night but always on. If I am on a boat that's just my job and apparently not reachable to the average person with common f*cking sense.