IPS Mike

We spent 5 hours thrashing on one of the cars that came down. We didn't arrive until after Midnight. We had a 2+ hr drive home ahead of us. One car that came with us, an infamous Black STI formerly of Columbus fame, spun a rod bearing. If we were in a cheerful mood, then there's no excuse for you guys not to be. :asshole:

i'm not sure why you threw the asshole in there. jp asked why none of us were in the lot, i was simply pointing that out for him.

sam, no problem at all. in fact we are glad to do it.

that being said there are a few things we need to try and get set-up so that this remains an on-going thing.

the only thing that can end this is our landlord. if he says its over, its over. there have been several complaints of "noise". i am asking that everyone keep away from the south side of the building that we share. there is an ambulance service that is in that space and they are the ones that have a problem with the noise.

so let's say the set of doors to the south of IPS and north is the only part of the lot we use. i will try and get some tape to roll out tonight, or something along those lines. the biggest thing will be self-policing. no need to be dicks, just let people know this is the way it is. no need to crank up the stereo's, and or rev the shit of cars in the lot. i think if we show them that respect they will show us some as well.

i honestly think that the last 2 meets have been great, and i just want to see it keep going. with everyone's help we can all have exactly what we are looking for in a spot, a place to hang out and set-up races.

thanks in advance

IPS Motorsports

just a quick vid

thanks for the run linn

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no problem, that was a good time. i would say i had you be several cars in 4th, you could probably tell a little bit better than i could there.

just as an fyi i turned the boost down before we headed out, but that car is fast for sure.

evo has a few small mods

2.3l 35r car

i am interested to see how it will do when we turn it up

yes we do

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Ok, time for good cop bad cop lol. There is a way to post that your experience was less than perfect and what your specific issues were. Having a girlfriend post about something that happened well over a year ago isnt one of them. Post facts (good or bad) and you wont get your words thrown in your face. Post things like "They took 8 months to do a shortblock swap on my bf's car. Car has never run right ever since" and "As far as the install on the ARC2.. really really awfull i NEVER seen so many usless connections in my time. Looks like a rookie tryed installin this one. as for the boost controller, DID NOT work.. and was installed incorrectly. Might have worked if the car was from 1982 since that was the generation of the boost controller.. " are so out of context and without any background knowledge its amazing.

Jeremys Stealth was here for a VERY long time. Was it because it took us 8 months to figure out how to swap a shortblock in a 3/S (this is a weekly thing here btw) or was it because 3 days after the car was dropped off the engine was pulled and shortblock sent in to Mitsu for Diagnosis/Warranty Claims? Might be good info to include since its worded as if we pulled the engine and spent 7 3/4 months trying to figure out how it went back in LOL. It would also be good to include that the "Car has never run right since" because "It has an Air/Fuel controller my boyfriend doesnt have the faintest idea how to use." Its not a knock on him at all -- we cant stand it either. You either take Jeffs advice and put an AFC2 or Emanage Ultimate in it or live with the fact the car is going to run like complete shit. Either way, it has nothing to do with the work we either did or didnt do here. Both Jeff and myself told him numerous times to sell it and he didnt want to -- his baby. We have brought the car back twice, both times because the plugs were so fouled the car wouldnt even start anymore. Replace just the front three and it would sputter and cough and spit and run like hell but it ran. Spend the extra 10 minutes to do the rears and it starts and runs fine. The car is running 1000% times too rich and until he learns how to tune it its going to be a weekly ordeal.

As far as the CRX guy posting its the same thing. I actually agreed with 95% of what he said but the only problem being we didnt do any of the work he is making fun of. We "Fixed" enough of the ARC2 wiring to make it functional. Jeremy didnt have any money to spend to re-do it correctly so that was all that was done (somebody already posted that for us in this thread I believe). Make fun of it and the boost controller and the fact none of it worked all youd like but it would be good to make a phone call and find out who did it before you make an assumption that it was us. Just my 2 cents....

Bottom Line, like Jeff has said, I have no clue why this is being brought up now and brought up by someone that was never on the phone, not here when Jeremy picked up his car, and somehow talks as if it all happened to her? We did nothing but tell him how to make the car something that would be a "Daily" driver and he wasnt interested so hes the one that either has to spend a few hours reading up on his particular set-up or finally get sick of it and sell it for something simpler. Either way that gives her no right to say a word about IPS or anything we did to his car. Believe it or not, replacing an engine and actually tuning a car are two ENTIRELY different procedures. One we did and one we did not. Why didnt we? Because he had no money for us to do so. Actually, he didnt have money to pay for the engine swap either but being the trusting guys we are we let him have his car back anyway with more than a grand still owed. Guess what happened? Over 50-75 phone calls later spread out over close to 8 months the car got towed back "Running like shit" and was fixed by me personally in less than an hour. Another spark plug change and a quickie couple free minutes of tuning and it was good to go again. Only then did we get paid from the work completed damn near a year before.

I'm pretty sure that is why you arent getting much "Benefit of the doubt" from any of us. We have done nothing but try to help your boyfriend in terms of work, advice, and flexability to work around his finances and first we get stiffed with over $1200 for over 6 months and then we get what we did for him thrown in our faces a year later by two people that had/have nothing to do with him/us/the car. Show some respect and you will get some. Otherwise....

I wouldn't go to IPS if I were you.

There's plenty of places around here that do powdercoating. I'll look around and post back.

I am curious to hear why also...

IPSMotorsports

we have one, let us know.

Thanks for the post. I'm glad we could help you out.

Let us know if you need anything else.

If you find one locally, we can take a look at it for you no problem.

good luck with your search.

Ok, I am getting sick of the ticking noise on my engine. Toyota said I need a new motor. SInce then I drove the car about 3,000 miles. Other people have told me the ticking noise is my valves and I need a valve job. Im looking to get a second opinion/ get the work done. Definitly not taking it to tansky or toyota direct. Would IPS motorsports be a good place to get it checked out at? or should I goto lexus of dublin? Any suggestions would be nice.

IPS would be a great place to have your car checked out.

Call down to the shop if you are still interested, and we'll talk. thanks

Mike

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girlfriend went there with the military.

the country has very bad poverty problems. if you stick to the tourist locations you should be fine.

IPS Mike

the largest rim we can do is 15" until we get a larger oven.

as for the phones, i have been in antarctica and we have been busy with the holidays, so that won't be a problem when i get home.

IPS Mike

IPSMotorsports

call down to the shop on monday if you get a chance.

we have worked with the 4A-GE before, shouldn't be a problem

Mike

http://www.ipsmotorsports.net

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I was lucky to be able to see the buck's play out in tempe in 2002, and let me tell you this. that is a home stadium for them.

should be a good game. i hope antartica has the game!!!!!

I will be at Mid-Ohio April 21, 2006, and will race my 91 300ZX 2+2 against lovemy86's 86 Corolla. LOSER will pay the entrance fee of the WINNER . lovemy86, if your corolla is as good as you say it is, then it will not cost you anything to race.

This is just too funny

 

3) My issues with IPS have long been resolved. As a matter of fact, I've had them recently do work for me, and am in discussions with them about some steps of my winter 346 project falling into their hands. I'll leave it at that, but I do trust the Yetzers and their employees.

I just wanted to highlight this.

No Problems Whatsoever

IPS Mike

Call IPS - they've worked on several. If Brett's available, he'll give you so much information on them that your head will explode.

We have done quite a few of the 300zx's, and pretty much perfected the tt swap into an original n/a car.

The cars really aren't that bad to work on once you get to know them.

call down and we can fill you in on whatever you need.

Just a friendly heads up.....

 

In your gallery, Camaro is mispelled.

unfortunantly my web guy isn't a car guy.

We'll get it taken care of, thanks

yes my head has been there for a min.

but customer work comes first as it always has. I will get it back soon enough.

As for mike at Philips i wouldn't have anyone else build my motor, and yes that is why he is so busy.

Originally posted by Hwilli:

This car goes sweet in the snow smile.gif

Still waiting for an offer, i know someone out there wants this rare car.

Originally posted by Mr. 2:

Didn't know they made an AWD Galant without a turbo. Learn something new everyday.

1991 Mitsubishi Galant GSX AWD Non-turbo.

The car is an automatic, has cloth interior. 116xxx miles

The body is in ok shape, mostly just some hail damage.

Interior is clean. It has the 2-way sunroof, and the switching color gauges.

Engine starts and runs fine. $2500 OBO

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