disgusted

Hien-eken · 10-07-2002, 01:53 AM

I have an oil line tapped through my oil pan, and an overheated head on my built block that's leaking water. What better way could I have wasted my time and money? I'll try to get pictures.

Mike sr20de · 10-07-2002, 10:33 AM

ripped off by booste factor??!!?:o

Hien-eken · 10-07-2002, 01:25 PM

you sound so surprised, mike. you didnt know my car was there for about 8 months and it still doesnt run?

Mike sr20de · 10-07-2002, 06:24 PM

I know it was there for a long time, but did they rip you off or are they just super slow at business? I'm not trying to defend, but i would like to know, for my sake.

Shoot me a pm.
mz

PlanoSER · 10-07-2002, 07:25 PM

im not surprised at all after seeing their work on some other cars

Hien-eken · 10-07-2002, 10:14 PM

me or james is gonna get some pics posted up soon. be prepared to see a work of art.

TX180SX · 10-07-2002, 11:32 PM

I was at the shop a few weeks ago and I must say that I would never take my car there. The guy talking to us seemed like an idiot. I think he was the owner. The shop is small and crappy looking. Maybe I was expecting something else.

Dswtflip4u · 10-08-2002, 12:31 AM

that's messed up hein. I am sorry to hear that. Maybe it is time for us to have a CLUB SHOP Dallas folks.

Bryan

Ryshe · 10-08-2002, 01:38 AM

Man, sounds like you got leeted. ..... much like...myself

. Dunno who and who hasn't read my post on freshalloy but here it is. You can see for yourself the boostfactor quality. I've got my own set of pictures of my initial raped car and also a video of us trying to drive it on the road. Maybe I'll post them up sometime. hehe =)

http://forums.freshalloy.com/ubbthre...b=5&o=&fpart=1

I also made another post back earlier on this forum too under the tech section that was a little more anger filled. hehe

What can I say. You pay a shop $4000, being led to believe that your sr20det swap would come out with most everything necessary and be in good working order... instead, you get a puffed out beater that looked like it was strewn together by a buncha little kids or something. All I got was pretty much...engine...tranny....jwt ecu.....yep, i think that's about it. Everything else was totally ghetto rigged and sure you could say the car turned on...but other than that you couldn't really call it a car.

How long did I wait for this disgusting POS to come back to me? Let's see....I put the downpayment down in May. ... Waited over 3 months for the god damn ecu to come in... then when they finally did start on my car, it took more than 2 weeks. I've known people who start off not knowing much about the swap and can put together a fully functional sr20det car in 5-7 days max time. And this is a supposedly professional shop we're talking about here.

The first time I got my car back it barely ran as I said. It'd sputter out and pretty much was limited to under 3000 rpms. You try to go over that figure, and BAM...you GET OWNED. Not to mention they jacked my perfectly fine stock radiator too by cracking my inlet. Brought it back to them and the 2nd time I got it back, ran a bit more normally, but it only seemed it was running a lot better just because it was running so insanely unbelievably like crap before. And that would bring you up to the FreshAlloy post.

My car is still not running like it should, but we've gotten some balls reattached to it somewhat. I'm supposed to take my car back to them to have it looked at again this week, but I have really low faith in what they can do after all this. My trust = gone.

I'll be blunt and plain and I don't care if boostfactor's owner reads this or not, but if any of you out there are planning to do a swap or ANYTHING at all with your motor, my suggestion to you is....DO IT YOURSELF or stay away from them....or there is more than 90% chance you'll end up like me and hien, and some others.

I think that's all the ranting and raving i'll do for now.

Laterz all,

A very sad 240sx sr20det

Blackbird · 10-08-2002, 08:34 PM

You guys are sh*tting the crap out of me. What the heck? I was going to bring my car there for installation, for yes, 700 bucks.
I agreed with the guy on the post, we need a nice decent nissan shop for the swap and other smaller parts... Why can those Courtesy guys set out on their own. I have another friend who wanted to invest, but that guy just like Hondas... figured.
8 (*&% months for a sort of complete car... that suck! Thank you for post up these line who ever you are. I thought many of us didn't wanted to say anything negative about Boost Factor... I guess not huh?

Hien-eken · 10-08-2002, 08:54 PM

I am still trying to clear things up with them. My DET is gonna be dropped in any day now and I have no intercooler or pipes to finish up the job. Only half a week has passed by!

james vick · 10-09-2002, 12:54 AM

I wasn't gonna say anything but if you guy's want your sr20's done right come to me. I'm still in the sr20 thing and that's all I tune. I won't dick ya around like some other shops.

Ryshe · 10-09-2002, 01:03 AM

Yah, hopefully I can work out the remainder of my car's problems as well with BoostFactor. We shall see.

James, you needa take a look at my car . Are you working at that Denton shop again with Vick or wutever? Hopefully you know enough about JWT setups to help me get my damn car up to par. hehe.

I wish I had gone DFI. =(
Wolf ownz me.

97 S14 · 10-09-2002, 01:34 AM

I can do a BB swap, I have 5 RWD SR20DET install's under my belt and one BB swap... he posts here as nismo200.

Hien-eken · 10-09-2002, 11:49 AM

Hey, I know him, too. I heard his car is running pretty good. I hope mine will be running like that soon.

nismo200 · 10-09-2002, 05:21 PM

That really isn't good... I thought ur car was almost done for second there too Hein... Boostfactor has its good and bad times it seems. I hope you get your car looked at ryshe. If you need any help you should contact 97 s14 or even me for some help. But 97 s14 is good... We worked togethor on my swap a while back

97 S14 · 10-10-2002, 02:32 AM

yeah... just to clarify, I helped Nismo200 do his swap, not trying to claim all the credit... he did most of the work.

pdr · 10-10-2002, 10:45 AM

Hell I'm willing to help, too. I did my DET swap myself.

nismo200 · 10-10-2002, 01:21 PM

Well we did the same amount of work, but you had more experience then me with motor swaps. But...
Anyways, i think Ryshe should take it back to Boost Factor to give them one more chance, then...If not bring it a local like 97 s14 that will do it right.

Hien-eken · 10-10-2002, 05:03 PM

I'm gonna pay the rest of my invoice and get the rest of my stuff back from Boost Factor. If you have any more comments, please direct it towards me with PMs. Thanks to everyone for their support.