Desperately need advice. Just spent $48k on car that died 50 miles down road - Page 10 - 6SpeedOnline

Aug 18, 2012 | 09:45 AM

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Divexxtreme

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Originally Posted by RufGmbH

"according to David at Prototech, it looks like someone has monkeyed with the fuel system so badly, that in his words, "someone went down to the local hardware store and threw parts on" (i.e., one hose inside another hose, etc). He said it was very clear where he could see Todd Knighton's (Protomotive) work ended, and some idiot's work began. He sent Todd pictures of how badly someone had screwed up his work."

That's the most interesting statement that I've read in this thread so far.

Aug 18, 2012 | 07:30 PM

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Christian

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risk of buying a used car, especially a highly modified one

Aug 23, 2012 | 12:35 PM

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DEEPBLUE

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Damn JD, sorry to hear about your motor, was hoping it wasn't something major :-( This is one of the downsides of getting a killer deal on a monster car.

Sounds like you are replacing all the internals otherwise I'd recommend staying with 3.6 and make power with more boost.

Good luck with the rebuild.

Aug 23, 2012 | 03:09 PM

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XLR82XS

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Originally Posted by c32AMG-DTM

Speaking of business ethics, what did the shop that you used to do the Pre-Purchase-Inspection say about all this? I'd go back to them and raise hell if I were you.

There was talk about me doing a PPI a while back but nothing came of it. It would be nice to know who looked at it if was in my area.