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    Update on Cobra since I know everyones been wondering...

    Well...where do a begin...

    As everyone knows, I dropped my car off @ Rodeheavers 2nd week of March. Everything done to the car is as follows:

    Stock block bored .020
    Diamond Piston and rings
    Clevlite & Federal bearings
    Balanced rotating assembly
    New Ford oil pump
    Arp hardware throughout
    3 angle valve job and new guides on the heads
    26 spline input shaft on trainy
    Ram powergrip HD clutch
    Ram Steel Flywheel
    PA Racing Kmember
    Oil filter relocation kit (thanks lou)
    Painted valve covers
    I think a few other misc things

    Tim calls me halfway through april and says come get it. I'm halfway home (live 55 miles from his shop) and car is acting up big time, running super rich, going through fuel like crazy. I limped it to monroeville where I work and parked it. Timmy then came down saturday night at 8pm and helped me with car till 4 AM. We didn't find the problem this time around. Under some recommendations, we replaced the new bosch o2's with OEM Ford o2's. This fixed the rich problem, but now car ran super lean.

    We then got a recommendation that my ECU got fried somehow. Without any hesitation, Timmy took it to local ford dealer and had a new ECU put in, and without getting into details, Timmy really stepped up to the plate and covered me on the new ECU.

    This still didn't fix the problem. So next, I plugged labtop and xcal2 in, and datalogged the fuel trims and o2 banks on the car, then emailed the file to one of my tuners. He immediately told me that my o2 wire harness was reversed. Meaning when the harness was set down in the car, the left wire was on the right and right on the left, they were backwards.

    So Timmy came out tonight at 6 to my work and followed me home. In pouring rain, he spent half hour under my car fixing the reversed o2 harness's. Car now is running 100% and I can't thank Tim enough.

    Some people look at me like an idiot because my car had problems when I got it back, and I was being calm about it. Well you know what, F**K em lol. Timmy worked with me EVERY step of the way and made sure he fixed it. I by no means expected to spend money on this car and do what we did, and not have it be perfect out of the box. I know problems occur when this extensive work like this car just went through.

    Timmy went out of his way to keep me happy and did this at his own expense, multiple times. He came out 60 miles each way and towed the car back for free, he's come to my house several times now trying to diagnose the car. I really can't thank him enough. Tim, you will have my business for life partner, and you can be sure i'll send customers your way.

    I've been in sales my entire life and make a great living at it, and customer service in my book has been the #1 factor in every sales aspect. Timmy, you got it down pat man!!!

    Heres a video of my car before taking it to Timmy's shop

    Bad Motor

    And heres a video I just made tonight

    New Motor
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    Thats nice that he stands behind his work all the way.
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    Way to go Tim!
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    I don't even like people riding in my car, but I would let Tim take my car on vacation. He backs up EVERYTHING! Great guy

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    That's awesome news Dan. Glad everything worked out in the end. Also great to hear that there's someone like Tim around that is a stand up guy and will go out of his way to make things right. Likewise I'm sure he appreciates you being calm and not getting all worked up about the car not working right away. Now get some break in miles out of the way and hit the track
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    Anytime you have work like that done to your car there are always going to be a few problems and bugs to be worked out. I know when I had mine done it had some issues but they were taken care of, no big deal at all. Sounds like Tim took care of the problem and that's all that matters .
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    cool, glad it running good now. tim came out tonight and told us bout those 02's who would think eh??
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    Quote Originally Posted by INSANELY CRAZY View Post
    cool, glad it running good now. tim came out tonight and told us bout those 02's who would think eh??
    yup lol
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    Now thats a happy ending!!!I've never met you Tim, but its great to see you stand behind your work. Congrats to Dan for his car and Tim for his work.
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    hey you should have brought it out last night instead of putting videos up!

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    tim stands by his work 100000000%.

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    yea tim eill also have me as a business partner also..

    and teh car sounds bada$$ and glad to see its kinks are worked out

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    Quote Originally Posted by One Sweet Day View Post
    hey you should have brought it out last night instead of putting videos up!
    lol but it was SUPER DIRTY, my baby has never been so disgusting her entire life lol. I've been up since 8am detailing her, just got done now. Shes crystal clean and has a smile on her face lol. I just got done driving about 30 miles through town, shes running great!!!
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