So Cocoa told me the recent news on his car, and they havent finished yet ...BUT the shop took the time to paint his valve covers "blue that fades to silver" without telling him anything until now. If any of you have seen his car, its apparent that it goes with NOTHING on his car! They say it's their "signature" and they do it to every car.'
That is BS. How ugly is it you ask? He emailed me pics:





Hes pretty pissed about this, and he already said hes going to take em off and do his usual flat black over the blue/silver.

In other news..
We all got love for Cocoa, hope to see his beast finally running soon..

 

if it went with the car it would hot. when is this beast scheduled to hit city streets?

 

atleast the shop put in the light weight crank / under drive power steering

that wierd ass blue / silver is awful...

 

Which shop is working on the car?

 

Forgive me for not following everything, but is he basically doing what TypeR did in his car, to a first gen?

 

they mustve been smoking ice while they were painting the valve cover.

chris, paint it gold

 

what a bunch of used smelly douchebags... why the fuck would they paint the valve cover of his engine without asking him?

 

sept its a 6 speed i think ??? actualy, im realy not sure what cocoa is doing to his car. I think he swaped the tranny and motor out of a type s cl and did the 3.5L odessy shit. IDK

 

its definitely a 6 speed... and the 3.5L is in there somewhere

 

omg...wtf is going on at that shop!

 

right then and there is where I would pull my car out of the shop and take it elsewhere... who knows what else they did without him knowing.

Although, if it was me, i'd be doing all the work anyway.

 

good to see it's commming along cocoa!

 

I cant' believe they're just starting on the car right now after all these months. And that blue fading thing is crap. LoL

 

that's horrible, i'd be flipping if they did that shit to my car

 

They needa stop wasting time painting and drop it in already!

 

They did tell me they were going to paint it. But I didn't think much of it thinking it was going to match the car. It's no biggie, it takes about half an hour to take all that off. And another hour to paint it and let it dry. Flat black it shall be

The reason why they did this, was because the valve covers I had received were scratched up. So they did me the favor of repainting them to make them look presentable. Pretty nice of them regardless. I just wished it went with the car, that's all.

 

I'm hoping it'll be ready by next week.

An update with my friends K20 swap into an EM2: That is also scheduled to be ready by next Wednesday. I can't wait for my friends and I to be rolling together again

 

Dammnn....freakin HOTT....

Ok, I have to ask...how long has your car been in the shop!?! Thats like $60/hr. labor costs everyday! How much is install/labor costing you!?! Jeeze!

 

The rate is $100/hour now. But I was quoted for the work on the car back when the labor was at $75/hour. So that's what I'm paying.

 

We're just gonna paint his engine THIS color wtf, they should at least ask that's retarded

 

you had to fucking jinx me, didnt you.....

 

They did tell me they were going to paint it. But I didn't think much of it thinking it was going to match the car. It's no biggie, it takes about half an hour to take all that off. And another hour to paint it and let it dry. Flat black it shall be

The reason why they did this, was because the valve covers I had received were scratched up. So they did me the favor of repainting them to make them look presentable. Pretty nice of them regardless. I just wished it went with the car, that's all.

 

Top Secret style......

 

I just wanted to make sure I had my new car by the time you got this one done

 

It's funny really, my friends and I havent each had our own car rolling all at once in over a year! There is always someone that has their car on down time, lmao. We're getting closer I tell ya! lol...

Right now we have 4 cars that are on down time, lol. 1 expected to be rolling by Saturday, 2 by next week, and the other is still unknown.

 

Heard your looking into the GTO. I've read those things get into the 12's very easily with simple mods (about 2g's worth). Damn you! I was hoping to see you in an SRT-8 like you had planned. Those things are sick as well.

 

if anyone wants a sweet 05' GTO, a buddy of mine's cousin is selling his... brand new, and its all modded up... he says it could theoretically run 11's at the track, but that its putting so much power down all it does is fishtail everywhere so he hasnt taken it yet...

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i'm wondering that too. last i remember it was so cal. fill us in cocoa.

 

cocao, if your in TX ill get your ass in my car and we'll go down there and pick your shit up. have a little road trip / some racing

 

I'm in SoCal right now. I'll be driving the car out to Tx after 2 weeks once I get my car back. Gonna get her tuned out here at SP Engineering. I'm having it tuned on 100 octane with the 125 shot. Then later that week I'll get her tuned to run on 91 octane NA, but a lil on the rich side for when I wanna use the nitrous.

The reason I'm using 100 octane first on the dyno, is to see what the max whp I can get out of her, just so for bragging rights. But as I said, I'll get her retuned so I can drive it on the street wihtout having to fill up with 100 octane fo rth erest of it's life, lol.

 

It's kinda common for machine shops to paint valve covers or spark plug covers of whatever, when they do work on your car. When I had machine work done to my B18C, they painted my sparkplug cover this god awful green color.

This looks like a badass project you took on. I hope eveything works out for you and can't wait to see it when it's done.

 

couldnt you just get a VAFC 2 and run both fueling maps for when ever you wanna do what ever ?

 

cant wait to see what she does

cocoa winZ !

 

Piece of shit shop is saying 3 more weeks.......he hasnt done anything in the past 2 weeks with it.....and the shop is closing down in feb. This is pissing me off.

 

uh oh. time to do some pwnage.

 

what the flip... lets get all the so cal cl guys together to go rob this place, u better own these guys

 

ill sail to cali with my kayak and join the fun

 

kayak!

 

Damn dude, i'd stop payment on a check or somethin, they are dickin you around like crazy, do they realize you are coming out of state and shit? You better let them know u mean business, and hurry up and finish your whip, that's absolutely ridiculous that it sat and they're not touching it, wtf.

 

yeah dude, you cant pussy foot around... you have to talk to them and tell them firmly to finish the car. Even if youve made friends with them sorta ...and it may be awkward to show stance.....you have too. You got to put your size 12s down

bring me to Clai with you and ill talk to them give them the evil eye