Im shure anyone living in the dallas ft. worth area has heard of a Place Called Car tune Formerly known as Boost factor. well dispite screwing i recived from him i am gonna talk about a few friends of mine who got screwd. I had a friend who went and got a motor a while back, sammy installed it and gave him his car back and come to find out sammy gave him the jim wolf computer and distributor swap instead of the coil packs like he wanted, then sammy turned around and said he would swap it out for 700 dollars after my friend already paid 3800 for the swap. then 2 months later he spent 700 on a act clutch and install only to find that sammy put in a used 3 puck clutch instead of the kit he bought. he has a skyline that is owned buy a guy iwho is currently serving our country in the military right now. Sammy runs around saying that its his skyline. the owner wanted a few certain things done to it sammy started putting all kinds of things that the owner didnt ask for on it and charging him, now he is trying to get a mechanics lean on it. pretty ****ed up huh. I have seen contless cars leave his shop unfinished things he said would be done that never are done like power steering hooked up ac hooked up. then im workin on a car that he did a swap on only to find out how much quality he really puts into his installs these pics are from a sr owner that is pissed and wishes for me not to say his name or what part of town he is from. nice huh? For all you 240 owners out there thinking about a swap in the future I strongly reccommend not letting him touch your car everyone who meets sammy is gonna be like "hey this is a really nice guy he is pretty cool" know that half the business is talking (witch sammy is good at) the other half is actually doing it, witch he seems to have a problem. Sammy next time you have a problem with me you come out and do something dont send your little buddies to come try and jump me, little *****
Jace M. hudson
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Man thats unfortunate. It seems like every performance shop out there these days is scamming people.
My question is whether or not the better business bureau can do anything about a shop like this. If so, It'd be worth having them look into it.
As for people jumping you... thats just dirty. Go whip his *** at his own shop. Then pull a F&F And pump motor oil into his mouth.
My question is whether or not the better business bureau can do anything about a shop like this. If so, It'd be worth having them look into it.
As for people jumping you... thats just dirty. Go whip his *** at his own shop. Then pull a F&F And pump motor oil into his mouth.
first of all. enable for sr to have a/c you must have a/c lines made. 3800 is already cheap for the swap. second of all, sammy wasn't the one who putted in the clutch. how can you post something that didn't even happen to you?? how do we know you are not just another shop who is trying to talk trash and bring him down?? you are just such a nice person who doesn't even make that extra step and find out what really happened and just believed what people told you. last, why don't you deal with him in person and work things out instead of talking trash about him on here.
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Onizuka
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my SR was 2700 shipped too, and but i only paid 125 for my harness 
3800 is a pretty damn good price, not what i would call cheap though. Although most cheap swaps are gamble ($3200 at afterdark for a redtop swap, we all know how that turned out). If the shop can get cheap motors and if they are resourceful enough they can finish the swap for under $3000. Like i said though, its a gamble.
3800 is a pretty damn good price, not what i would call cheap though. Although most cheap swaps are gamble ($3200 at afterdark for a redtop swap, we all know how that turned out). If the shop can get cheap motors and if they are resourceful enough they can finish the swap for under $3000. Like i said though, its a gamble.
here is the thing ... who can we trust these days? we trust the shop? we trust other people? many people came out from sammy's place happy, what can we say about that? sr is an engine that is abused by the japanese then send it to us after they crashed. it's a gamble. can't expect the swap to be perfect just beause you gave it to a shop. everyone is trying to be cheap and get their money worth. if sammy is so bad why do all the shop owners go to him and ask him technical questions about sr? why do alamo motorsports send him all the swap?? i've seen the work he has done, and it looked great.
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Onizuka
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thats why I avoided all the complications involved with shops, i just bought my motor from a very reliable shop (http://www.heavythrottle.com) and am installing it myself, because if i mess up something at least i know what it is, and dont have to discover it when im on my way home from the shop.
if the clip is absolute perfect, then yeah..you just might be able to do it under 3000. they are people who try to live too. of course they can sell you the motor at the price that they get, but how would they live??? i got my clip without ****ing intercooler, radiator, and etc. i am stupid for buying it, but i didn't know.
i honestly dont feel like typing to really explain the things that happened but when he changed over from boostfactor i more or less worked with him I lived in the room next to sammys office at cartune and my futon matress is still in there. I do know what happened sammy never got the clutch in the first place he told me he put a used 3 puck and second the guy he did it to is one of my close friends "Abe". when a guy goes to the shop to get a swap and sammy says he will hook up ac and power steering and doesnt. and if you guys are buying red tops for 2500 you guys are getting screwed a bit of advice buy direct from cali not these middle shops go to Marco vargus he always has good stuff cheap http://www.sr20store.com. Second Sammy might not have put it in a guy named Gee did but sammy is the one tht never bought a act clutch in the first place. belive me I have no reason to lie cause i was there. im not trying to be an *** or anything but seriously sammy aint **** and he cant even tell a s13 red top from a black top s13 with out the seeing the valve covers. he didnt tune his blue car Bob norwood did and all he more or less did was bolt stuff on german did the rest like head internals. Sammy was a good friend of mine we went to cali togather and we lived togather for a few months the only reason i feel this way torward him is because i worked my *** off to help him and all he did was screw my friends and me out of money and parts and time, ive heared that some swaps have taken him up to three months to do. and sooner or later the other ppl will see this topic and maybe tell there stories
if you have seen the work he has done and it looks great, well lookin in the crack and crevices at the important thing like the wiring and putting more than 2 bolts on the bell housing thats were he lacks anyone can make it look nice at first glance take alook at the pics is that how your harness looked when you got it done? thats dangerous for the motor those wires power the coil packs and the fuel pump what if your boosting and the wire comes lose there goes 3800 down the drain unless you bought the warrenty he offeres for and extra 1000 which you wouldnt need if he did it right in the first place
i started my own shop with a friend we located it outside of dallas due to the high cost of shop space and permits and what not although we do sr rb and ca swaps along with honda and rx7 work we dont more or less specialize in that we build chassi's (stitch weld and roll cage) paint them and then do motor work as well but im not in compition with sammy or entunning as a matter a fact me and eric and chris Jex are good friends, me and sammy well we got problems seeing as though i cant go over there and just start a fight I'd rather spill his beans. there is so much stuff i can talk about but i just cant type that fast and well ill be here for a while. I started my shop to offer what any other shop does but fairly priced and i treat my customers with alot more respect and what not. but im not trying to promote my business im tryin to tell ppl that this guy is no good so if you are looking to get a motor or an install there are more qualified ppl to do it , eric from entuning was one of the first ppl in texas to do the swap sammy even tryied to get eric to help him with his first swap.
the car pics above is from a new and good friend of mine. I painted the car and next we are gonna pull the motor fix al the little problems ( like re do the harness) maybe put stronger internals we havent decided yet. when the car was first brought to me the timing was off bad the guy had got a clip but only had an radiator and ic no fan shroud or the other things you should use from the clip no coil pack cover and the ca sensor had no cover. just terrible and a waste of money
oooh, a thread about bad sammy (as opposed to good sami, a skyline owner who posts here sometimes). sammy had that skyline at HIN, and also brought it to a Dallas Nissan Enthusiast meet, but he didn't know jack about the car! i've seen an sr20 that boost factor "built", looked stock to me, maybe that's why it blew up.
Megaseth wrote:hey matt, is that the one james had with the "fresh" rebuild? heh, i outta get some pics of the 4dr xe sentra in james driveway. show them the litle number boost factor did on that one. btw guys, is 90psi of compression good for the SR?
yah. i forgot about that car, boost factor did the wiring on it, right? i don't think i've ever seen a wiring job as bad as that one.