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First I wanna say I have a new outlook on bike shops...Sometimes they do like they are suppose to and sometimes they don't. I left Coopers at thinking all my bike needed was gas in the tank and it would be ready to go on the dyno.
Pull up at stedmans at 9AM, meet jay and says i want to look this bike over before it goes on the dyno just to be safe since its never been cranked up....first thing he sees somthing up with the plenum so he suggest we take it off. Theres metal shavings on the inside where someone drilled it for the ams to run off manifold "dont ask me why" we find metal shavings in the Plenum and even some that where falling down in the charge tube, not to mention the plenum has no water in it when its taken apart, and the oil line from the turbo to the pan was practically bent in half from the angle they put it on, then the ams is about 40% not hooked up right with lines not running here and this and no check valve and ect....so the verdict is stedman saved my ass and potential damage to my bike if i had done like the shop said and just put it on the dyno.....Many hours later first pull on the dyno makes 50Hp and blow through the clutch....he takes the cover off and has the WTF look on his face and says only about 20% of you clutch is missing so he goes back and takes the clutch all apart adds the fibers and plates that were missing and walla next pull makes 269 corrected but stutters and completely falls on his face at 9500K just dives down.....He starts looking around and says i bet this tic isnt installed correctly so we decide since the ams 1000 wasn't hooked up correcty why would the tic 1000 be? So we unplug it and boom it goes to redline. Then we datalogg with the microtech and see thats the boost is to high and he goes over to the wastegate and with another WTF look on his face says the mounted something in your wastegate for the ams and i bet its pressure down on the spring or they pinched the diaphram...so we need to take the waste gate apart and see WTF they did to it because it was't pushing 7-8 like you said the spring would be. I guess the most important thing is that the motor sounds really good and cranked right up but all the rest of it was just ridiculous just having to go back over and do work that I already paid for . By this time its 11PM and this is after Jay has already installed another turbo that someone brought in and tuned it.....He has suggested reflashing the ECU on my bike and doing what he called a pump gas and race fuel map....i guess essentially pulling timing 7K and above for 3-4 degrees or whatever......by this time i'm fucking pissed cause i've driven 1100 miles over the last day and my bike still isn't ready, but its a full build and i expect to run into some kinks but this was just ridiculous. I'm going back with my bike monday at 8AM to do the finish tuning it. Overall so far Jay has been alot of help, saved my bikes ass, stayed way later than he should have fixing other people work. I just left with my head hurting so bad cause i was completely exhausted and it seemed like everytime we fixed something the next thing popped right up that you were like did they really freaking do that!!! So my goal for tomr is to figure out the wastegate deal and get the bike to make a pass on spring pressure, we need to put a stator gasket on it, reflash the ECU for the timing, and start tuning again. After all this I'm probably not gonna push it on pump fuel...i might even pull a little timing on pump and just tune it to 360hp or so on pump because thats alot of HP still and i would just rather be safe.....and C16 it up from there. As far as the dyno goes he finished a stage 2 yesterday and with corrected #s' it made 322HP with 14 boost and its compression was somewhere between stock and what a .080 spacer would give you....so i would say the dyno #'s were pretty accurate or at least seem that way. So speaking from my so far experience you might as well just pick a damn shop and got to it...i've already been to a shop with an awesome history and reputation and didn't get what was suppose to be done and now its at the shop with a somewhat negative reputation but so far they have been fixing the other guys problems and getting more done in a day then I've gotten done in the the last month waiting on the other.....So it just all depends on your timing, your luck, and who happens to be working at the shop when your bike is there it seems. I would suggest anybody wanting a turbo to first buy a trailer so you can take it haul it when its not done right and second buy a huge bottle of zanax.....but thats just me and I know some of you guys have had it WAY worse....I really like Jerry and he tries really hard to do right and this is not to bash his business or his work its just my experience...I think Cooper does really good work its just he has no tuner and nobody to do electronics and until he gets somebody who can do that i wouldn't suggest taking your bike for those services,...everybody makes mistakes and nobodys perfect and this is just how it happened so no reason beating a dead horse cause tomr is another day and the sun will still rise and its only a motorcycle
