Chapter 4: The Storm
Lets start with some basic information:
1. My supra spent a total of 5 months a Topspeed
"a round about figure"
2. My supra left Topspeed 2 times the first it was returned cause of tranny issues.
3. i paid Topspeed 5400 dollars for the work the did
Alright now that we past that let me go into detail...
Month 1--- as you seen in this picture, which was taken 03-30-2006
My Supra and all parts was dropped off at Topspeed ready for a simple turbo install, no block work with the exception of a headgasket and head studs, and a simple task of pulling the transmission and re-enstalling it once it arrived back from being built.
Well heres what took place during month one the compnay that was suppose to build the tranny ended up shaftin me bigtime, in the end they ended up keeping my NA tranny and i ended up buying a Built Th350 with a custom 4300 stall. because of this 1 months time was wasted, i will take full responsibility for this month it wasnt Topspeeds fault.
Month 2...
According the information i recieved through updates from Trey during this month the install was underway and the tranny had arrived towards the end of the month but appearently during shipment of the transmission the tranny case had been damaged. No problem i immediatly called DaveH "who built and sold me the tranny" and he had another case at Topspeed by the end of the week. keep in mind this is month 2 a whole month passing.
Around the end of this month i get a lil antsy and wonder what the hell is going on why is it taking so long for this to happen so i begin to call and heres some of the reason i hear for the time frame..........
Topspeed has never delt with any Th-series transmissions. they had no clue how about installation, it took cordination between daveh and some outside help for them to get this done, even then it still was fouled up. Hmmm ok no biggy i can let that slide by hey everyone cant know everything and by now ive figured out this isnt a shop use to dealing with a wide assortment of vehicles there use to evo's and wrx's. but ok no biggy we move on and here comes month 3 i get a call to come pick up the supra
heres some work in progress pics at the time
