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I think my motor is done

Discussion pertaining to positive pressure E28s.
Duke
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Post by Duke »

chrism wrote:Todd had built several cars and engines yet you (the one whose engine has blown over and over) are the only one blaming Todd for selling defective goods. Your's is the poorest performing TCD car ever. Worse than 250K mile cars, worse than even cars with unknown junkyard engines. IT even performs worse than my car when I first turboed it 6 years ago from obsolete old forgotten junk.
Wrong jackass (of the TCD Jackass group). Why don't you go and get back on Todd's tool where you belong. If you want to continue giving Todd a virtual blow job, start a new thread.

Good morning all!
chrism
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Post by chrism »

No Duke I'm right. :(

Sorry your still hangin on the banks of a river in Egypt, but your turbo adventures were a dismal failure. I am also hardly a TCD groupie , I think the word you don't understand is friend. As far as I can tell there are many sycophants always ready to get your back who know nothing other than that your Duke the guy who has provided so much to the mye28 community :roll:

My car was assembled with a mis-mash of parts when TCD haddent anything to sell but cold air intakes. I know what it takes and what should be avoided to turbo one of these cars. I did it before it was the in thing to do on internet message boards. 13.8 @111MPH 3 years ago jerkoff. That was with a bastardized turbo off of my old Grand National, an old Cartech intercooler, 36# injectors, a rising rate, MSD 6BTM and a 3 inch exhaust that I built. All of your technical advise is " I think I'm an F1 engineer bullshit" You can take your coated pistons, hylomar, RA ratings and wipe your ass with them for all the good all that krap did you.

It makes me sick thinking of the people that might be into turboing their cars that might have been discouraged by your "wrong move every time" style of building. You tried too hard to build something you knew nothing about. For Christ's sake, Isn't Kyle in NO running around with an engine he scotchbrited the cylinders of that was left out in the open from a junkyard and performing better than yours ever did?? Turbo Dan has accomplished from with oddball parts on his old pile of ugly junk, and is 20 times more impressive that your spit and powder coated pile of shit.

And don't send me any more threatening PMs with tirades about your problems with Todd. Your a stupid and a pussy if you think your going to threaten me with stupid high school extortion threats.

Duke wrote:
chrism wrote:Todd had built several cars and engines yet you (the one whose engine has blown over and over) are the only one blaming Todd for selling defective goods. Your's is the poorest performing TCD car ever. Worse than 250K mile cars, worse than even cars with unknown junkyard engines. IT even performs worse than my car when I first turboed it 6 years ago from obsolete old forgotten junk.
Wrong jackass (of the TCD Jackass group). Why don't you go and get back on Todd's tool where you belong. If you want to continue giving Todd a virtual blow job, start a new thread.

Good morning all!
Duke
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Post by Duke »

^^^^ :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: ^^^^

Ohhhhhhhhhh yea, I am impressed with you now.........................what an amazing skill you have!......................not. How's the car running now?

Nice world you live in Chris.

Here is what I sent Chris......not a tirade, just the facts from my point of view. I sent it to him because he obviously has not a clue about the history. It fell on def ears -

Todd and I met years ago and instantly struck up a friendship. He and I are much alike, big egos, outgoing and very opinionated. Todd later started TCD (Todd C. Dehate), and started making the turbo kits. I was dead set on putting a 200 HP nitrous kit on my Hartge motor. That was until he posted the dyno numbers from his kit. I decided I wanted one and bought his first s2 kit with a nice “good guy” discount from Todd. I received the kit in Germany and installed it over a five month period during the winter.

The car had several problems on initial startup in Germany. My lack of experience with the TEC3 and a bad head gasket lead to delays in getting it running properly. I managed to get the car running well enough for the boat ride back to the states. The engine had a constant knock that stopped all tuning procedures until it was fixed. I deployed to Iraq shortly after arriving in the states. While in Iraq, I started asking the board for references to have my engine looked at, mainly to find out what the noise was and to fix it. I always hoped for an easy fix. You all must realize how hard this was for me to even think of someone else doing major work on my car. Due to my deployment and lack of shop space when I got home we decided to pay to have it fixed. Most important was when I got home I was supposed to not have to worry about the car, it would be fixed. We budgeted $5000 to fix the car; any more would have to come out of investments.

Todd literally begged me for him to fix the car. I initially thought Sweeney would be doing the work. I was very hesitant when I found out that Todd would do all of the work because I knew that Todd did not have a lot of experience building engines, my gut said NO! He assured me that he had pulled many BMW engines and have assembled them since I first met him and he had a “kick ass” shop that would do the machining. He also said he would do this “on the cheap”, because I was already into the project for well over $10K, half of which had gone to TCD already. The car was shipped to TCD’s in Ohio and Todd soon discovered that the engine had not been rebuilt like I had paid for in Germany. It needed new pistons and to be assembled again. So, I had no choice and the HIGHLY recommended shop that Todd was using would do the work. I agreed to the engine build again and told Todd I wanted the engine checked before reassembly. This meant a block pressure test amongst other things. I soon got the word back from Todd that everything was “good” and the engine was being bored for new pistons. To his credit, Todd only charged me the shop fees without adding any profit to that part of the job. Todd also offered to put a salvage engine in my car instead of a rebuild, which was not an option for me.

When the car was ready, I had to fly out to Ohio to help get it running. The wire harness I made had been damaged by the R&Ring of the engine and Todd could not figure it out. I was staying at Todd’s house as his guest and was very thankful for that and enjoyed his company. The bill from Todd was over $8000 ($3000+ over budget that came out of investments) and he kept telling me how he should have charged me another $2000, that I should be thankful.

Well in a short time and two head gasket failures later, I discovered with the help of Paul Burke that the machine work on the head was sub standard. Paul told me that the local High School auto shop produced better work than the shop Todd used. All the exhaust valves leaked due to a very poor valve job, all exhaust valve guides were out of spec and the head surface was so rough (90RA-120RA) that this caused the $250 MLS gaskets to fail. I was very upset. That aside, the engine leaked oil bad. The front cover had to be removed and installed properly as did the oil filter housing. I found many loose bolts and two of the exhaust pipe to turbo bolts fell off completely. The diagnostic plug was also cut off of the wire harness without my permission. I use the SI light to change my oil and so needed the plug to reset the lights. Todd claims that they did not cut the plug off. It was on the harness when deliver to TCD and was cut off when I got the car back. I guess is must have fallen of at Todd’s shop.

The board got to witness first hand how Todd dealt with the head gasket situation. He kept pointing the finger at my tuning and all kinds of other things that were only my fault. His token “gift” of a second (I paid for the first) replacement HG was not even close to making things right with me. Todd offered to replace my head with a salvage B34 (a step down from the Hartge head) that was rebuilt by the same shop that screwed mine up, I passed on that. I even sent the damaged head back to Todd for him to inspect and he witnessed first hand how bad the machine shop work was. (Paul had to talk Todd through what was wrong with the head over the phone becuae Todd did not have the experience to understand what he was looking at) No refund of the shop work ($2500+) or paying what it cost to replace the damaged head was offered. Once he found out the truth about the poor engine work, not a single dedicated thread from Todd explaining he had fired the shop or an apology to me. He made mention to this in a couple of replies that were buried in other threads. He was also VERY angry at me for bringing the situation to the board because in Todd’s words “Guys respect you on the board and listen to what you say. What you are saying will hurt my business. I will have to explain to people now about the head preparation”. Todd also would not give me the name of the shop or guy who did the engine work ( I was thinking of pursuing a small claims case against him which Todd thought to be laughable). Even though TCD was responsible due to the sub-contracting work. The $2000 that Todd claims he saved me will cost me three times that. What about a warranty of your work Todd? You got my money and I received a car with an engine in worse condition that you received it.

So that is over $13,000 I have spent with TCD and I received not only no customer service for that but personal attacks from him and his groupies.

Now this began the TCD vs Duke smear campaign that has about ruined the board. Todd and his groupies make every effort to undermine anything I post in order to discredit me. This is mainly due to the head gasket back and forth debate and because I did not take the S2 kit at face value of being the best it could be for what it cost. The first day I had his kit, I planned many different improvements that in my mind would make it better from finish to function. Sorry, but that is the way I am. I never posted or told anyone that I felt his kit could use improvement, especially for what TCD charged. This in no way deserved the relentless torrent of nasty comments from Todd, chrism, Sweeney and other TCD groupies. I was one of the first TCD supporter/groupie and look what he has done for me. Watch your back.

So here we are. The engine will have to be pulled due to a possible cracked block that is causing my coolant overpressure issues. I paid for the block to be pressure tested and it was not. Here again, if the block is damaged it is yet another item that Todd’s shop missed and or caused. So just how did Todd save me $2000? I believe he cost me over $8000 at this point if the engine needs to be pulled and the block replaced. How about a full refund TCD?

I hope that you guys can see how incredibly restrained I have been over this. But yet, Todd is on the attack? I am the one who spent all the money and did not get the service.

Even if I try to walk in his shoes through this history, I can never arrive where we have. I would have been MORTIFIED that my shop screwed up his engine and would have done ANYTHING to make it right. That meant, pick up the car, fixit, and return it. If he did not want that, a full refund. Not buy him a lousy $250 head gasket and then wash my hands of the problem. The thought of attacking him would have never even crossed my mind.

With the cars sale, I am closing this ugly chapter in my life and take the valuable lesions I learned from it. “Trust your gut”!


Peace.

Oh and, you want to know what started this crap fest again? It was Todd, he could not keep his mouth shut about my good advice, even though he never offers any. His input goes as far as selling his crap here and that is it.
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filmy
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Post by filmy »

Are Todd and Duke really two separate, unrelated people? They sound like two children telling Daddy how the fire in the garage started and how the other brother did it. :roll:

I thought we were all on the same page here, helping each other with questions, tips and friendship. This fu*king rivalry has gone way too far...

"He started it!"
"No, he started it!"

If you can't make your point without taking cheap shots at the other guy then shut the fu*k up, and grow the fu*k up.

That is all.
chrism
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Post by chrism »

You forgot to include the opening:
Duke wrote:Keep pushing and I will post this about your buddy -
And the equally charming closing:
Duke wrote: Chris, you are a funny guy some times. I have never met you and you me but you are in the TCD "groupie" category. You have half the story on my car. Bottom line, because of what Todd did, or did not do, when he had my car caused me to sell it. I blew over $8000 with Todd and received a car back in worse shape that when he received it. If my car was such a POS as you think, why did I get $20K for it and the buyer would have easily paid $28K?

I give TCD other 2-3 years before it is out of business. TCD will be a memory.
Duke, Your advice sucks because your results suck. Thats why Todd dosent just let it slide. Todd has an intrest in seeing his customers and others succede. Your recipies for turboing dont work.
Duke wrote:Oh and, you want to know what started this crap fest again? It was Todd, he could not keep his mouth shut about my good advice, even though he never offers any. His input goes as far as selling his crap here and that is it.
Duke
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Post by Duke »

chrism wrote:And the equally charming closing:
Thank you, you heard it here first.
chrism wrote:Your recipies for turboing dont work.
They are not my recipes Jackass (of the TCD Jackass group), they are what people who have 700+ hp S38 engines have done and are very successful.
chrism
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Post by chrism »

Swell... I would encourage you to get a S38 so you can taste some success :bawl:
Duke wrote:
chrism wrote:And the equally charming closing:
Thank you, you heard it here first.
chrism wrote:Your recipies for turboing dont work.
They are not my recipes Jackass (of the TCD Jackass group), they are what people who have 700+ hp S38 engines have done and are very successful.
Duke
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Post by Duke »

Good Morning!

This morning a funny thing occurred to me.

You see, due to Todd's poor work and unethical practices that in the end lead to the sale of my car. I sold my car to TT.

Now TT was about to cut a check to TCD for over $10K to buy everything needed to turbo a E28. With the purchase of my car, that transaction did not happen.

So, TCD lost out on a $10K+ sale because of his own poor work. If Todd had accomplished even an average level of technical work (talking high school Autoshop here) on my car, I would have not sold it. What goes around, comes around.

Ain't karma a bitch Todd!

You all have a wonderful day, I will now too :laugh:
chrism
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Post by chrism »

Heres whats even funnier...If all these bad people screwed you and your laughing over the Karma on Todd, what did you do to bring all that bad mojo (that you percieve to be coming back around) on yourself? :nuts:
Duke wrote:Good Morning!

This morning a funny thing occurred to me.

You see, due to Todd's poor work and unethical practices that in the end lead to the sale of my car. I sold my car to TT.

Now TT was about to cut a check to TCD for over $10K to buy everything needed to turbo a E28. With the purchase of my car, that transaction did not happen.

So, TCD lost out on a $10K+ sale because of his own poor work. If Todd had accomplished even an average level of technical work (talking high school Autoshop here) on my car, I would have not sold it. What goes around, comes around.

Ain't karma a bitch Todd!

You all have a wonderful day, I will now too :laugh:
Duke
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Post by Duke »

chrism wrote:what did you do to bring all that bad mojo (that you percieve to be coming back around) on yourself?
Good question. I am no saint but have never screwed over a person like Todd has me.

Just ask, I have sold over $30K worth of parts to others on this board.
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