One of the things that they did while they had my car was wire up the electric fan controller that I had. They said they weren't able to hook up the DIF fan controller that I had bought so they put on some universal garbage that they had. Anyway, they said they hooked up the stock Fan Relay in my fusebox. It was working ok with the weak 10" fan that they put on my car. I replaced it with a FAL efan and it fried whatever it was that they did in there. The fusebox caught FIRE. And I traced it back to the relay they "hooked up" for the efan.

Modified by s14_sport at 1:24 PM 8/11/2008

Glad it didn't go further through the engine bay. Damn, i don't know what to say.

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they said it was missing the temperature sensor....i even told them that it wires up to the factory temp sensor wires and they said no it cant work that way...

if i can't fix my rb20 i'll die trying to or as many years as it does.

sucks dude i would make them buy you a new s14. thats gonna be a lot to repair that fusebox.

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Sorry to see the problems dude, thats really unfortunate. I wonder what they did to create that fire. I suspect they didn't fuse the line and used an inadequate sized wire for the job.

Evan

EDIT: Maybe the wiring job was adequate for the cheap 10" fan, but the FALs were too much?

If the line had been fused properly, the fire would not have occurred!

Evan

+1

exactly...the FAL fans draw more amps then the universal fan they put on. If it had been fused properly it would have popped the fuse and no harm done....obviously thats not the case.

Thats a big 10-4.

Evan

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Just wonder how anybody could trust anyone with that name. LOW-LIFE !!!Thats a no brainer !

hahahaha, i was going to say the same thing.

A shop here in town did the same thing to a friend of mines RB25, they wired up some FAL's and just hooked it up to a switch and the ACC2 relay. It got so hot it blew the 25 amp ign fuse and melted the main blue power wire for that circuit, that i had to replace.

It amazes me how many shops there are out there that dont understand the fcking basic principles of electricity and how electrical circuits are supposed to work. If you dont know what Ohms law is, you should not touch a wire on a car period.

well, start pulling that entire front-end harness and put in a new one; or cut off the fusebox and solder on the new one...either way, you're in for a time of your life moaning and b|tch|ng

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Just wonder how anybody could trust anyone with that name. LOW-LIFE !!!Thats a no brainer !

lol.. might as well name your shop All Wrong Racing.

the reason i even knew about the low life shop is because the owner of the shop came to me to buy some RB parts...when i spoke with him he came across very knowledgeable. talking about all the customers he's had and the kinda work he does. He sold himself well, but, the work done at his shop was another story....

Man, i just wired my dif fans up. The instructions TELL YOU exactly what you have to do, thats why the dif controllers are so nice. No external sensor needed, they splice right into any OEM temp sensor.

DIY ftmfw when it comes to that stuff.

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Thats bad. I mean.. it is one thing to crash in your 'office' after work, but if you have kids.. no way. You need to step up to the plate..

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I encourage people as well to go after him legally, in any way/shape/form possible. He needs to go down... It's pathetic the "work" he does...or lack there of...

There really should be some sort of sticky informing people about the good and bad shops, and explaining why the bad shops are bad... Just to help out the people that don't already know...

One is an Rb26dett in a s14.
The other Rb in an s13 chasis.

Both cars are hazards to be driving on public streets.

I will make an in depth post about them and include pictures. The two gentleman that own the cars were in Aw as to how someone can call themselves experts, and build cars to such crappy standards.

The two cars were brought to my shop to fix all the errors that were made. I suggest in the meantime, no one goto this place for an Rb swap until they can clear anything up.

Nas

P.S. Greg I will be contacting you sometime this week. I want to see if you will be going to VIR for GTLive as you have done in the last two years.