Thought you could all use a laugh

[speedjunkie]

This is a story from a guy on one of our rotary forums. He has his own business rebuilding rotary engines called Rotary Resurrection. This story is not rotary specific though, for the most part. Not the important parts anyway, which is why I'm posting it here. I laughed so hard I cried...I mean I literally had tear drops on my computer. Also, there were some face icons in the story that aren't showing up here, but you can probably imagine what they are lol.


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So I had a lightly damaged steel turbo II hood on ebay that someone bought over the weekend, along with a turbo II stock ecu and an alternator. The guy says he is from down the road and wants to pick the hood up rather than shipping, which is great by me. So today he shows up.

This guy won't stop talking for 30 seconds. Tells me he bought this car for 500 dollars and now has about 10 grand into it. I ask him if he was doing a turbo conversion. He says, yes...it is already done, I have been driving on the NA ecu as he eyeballs the turbo II ecu he bought from me. I give him the face and he says, oh, well I havent been driving it much like that, because it has been getting the interior restored etc. Then he goes into telling me about how his seats are custom covered and embroidered and so forth. And how the hood was the last piece of the puzzle for him to get the car painted 350Z copper metallic.

So he says that he bought the t2 ecu hoping it will take care of things for him, and he elected to do that rather than to use a haltech etc. Then we discuss that the haltech is better for highly modified cars etc. but that if he has just been driving under vaccum and out of boost the NA ecu is fine and will never hurt anything until he can get a better tune. He tells me he's been using boost at times, has been monitoring his a/f ratio with a wideband and it runs lean after 4000rpm, and wants to try the stock ecu and see what it does for the higher rpm A/F ratio for him first. Then he rambles on blah, blah, blah...25psi sometimes 30...blah blah blah...

WHAT?

I must have missed a little bit, so I ask him to repeat that. He says he has been running the NA ecu at 25, sometimes 30psi, and the engine has "held up fine". I inquire, what turbo is hitting 25-30psi, because the stock one shouldn't be able to go over about 18-20psi in theory under any circumstances.

He replies "T-88".

At this point I can't help myself from going:





Then I say, wow, well what fuel? He says, 93. I say no, what fuel system...injectors etc. He says, stock as far as he knows. Just for shits and giggles, I inquire...used motor or rebuild? He says "new" from racing beat. Then he tells me the car has everything new on it from racing beat (except evidently a hood and an ecu, and a fuel system).

I tell him that he won't be anywhere in the ballpark with that t2 ECU and he's damned lucky he hasn't spit every seal out of that engine, and his setup needs a full standalone, fuel system, intercooler, tune, and so forth. He says, yeah, but I want to give this a try first and see what it will do for me.

[speedjunkie]

For those that don't know, a TII is the second gen turbo model, and Racing Beat has been in business since the late 60s IIRC and they put out super high quality stuff that isn't cheap.