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Old 08-01-2008, 10:15 AM   #250 (permalink)
charliex
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I talked to them yesterday, you might remember that we blew out the stock clutch because it made so much power on a smaller pulley than the kit ships with, and they bought a car to make the kit on rather than use a customers car.

So the car went out to have a new clutch fitted (i believe this was the previous need parts delay) and now its back the idle is sporadic, so again rather than ship it out not knowing why, its on teardown examining every part !

They have 25 SC's sitting on the shelf and the associated parts, thats around $100,000 investment gathering dust, i think its awesome they're doing all this work on making sure its perfect before launched.

i personally think that something happened to a sensor or a vacuum leak when the clutch was replaced by an external shop, i'm going to plug into the car over t'internet on tuesday with our fancy diagostics equipment and take a peek at it with them.

We deal with the choppy idle all the time on these cars, and it usually turns out to be a dirty maf, bad 02 or vacuum leak.
i'm as disappointed as you guys its taken so long, but i'm so happy to see something being done with this much consideration.

once the choppy idle has been diagnosed and repaired (and the car ran perfectly before the clutch change, except for the clutch wear obviously) then it'll either go on sale, or something else wil pop up

so thats all i know so far, i know some people are dying to get it, but i know you don't want to be in the position of a bunch of people with aftermarket kits looking at daily running, or after install problems and fixes.
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