So what happened to visconti?
 

Havent really followed anything since that thread died out where that guys car got on fire for his faulty part. What happened? I see that hes banned now..

Did he get sued? Or did he take responsibility for what happened? An update if anyone knows would be great

Cremated?

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He's still tuning. If you comment on his FB page about anything regarding blowing cars up or fires, your comment gets deleted and you get reported. Ask me how I know.

I had some tuning questions for him at Wicked Big Meet this past weekend but he seemed a in a real cranky mood so I didn't approach him.

He has tuned a few gtr's around here and they all run perfect. He is doing new sti's wrx's on ecutek and all seem to be making great power and running well too. Guess the frs/Brz tuning died off after the leaky fitting incidents. I have a v2 visconti flex fuel kit installed, it is flawless. Looks like everyone who offers a flex kit now uses the same plug and play fittings that are now available instead of hose clamps and whatnot

The owner of that car was reimbursed. AFAIK Visconti was not the one that did the reimbursement... All I know is there were a number of cars that had fires that started in the same location and I my self have seen a fuel leak in the same location that never had a flex fuel kit installed. I don't know exactly who paid for the car in the end. And as much as everyone hates the guy the one time a car blew up on him he bought the guy an engine.

The reason he got banned was for posting in another vendors thread against forum rules.

That is kind of like calling the Titanic incident "an unintended course correction (to the seafloor)".

you are messing with aftermarket parts. its hit or miss. does it suck that there were issues with some leaky fittings, yes. did everyone have issues, no. just the more reason to check over everything after installation by the installer, and occasionally by the owner. i check over my fuel lines, injectors, etc every time i check my fluids under the hood. even factory systems have leaks and failures (my vw had a factory fuel line issue and burned to the ground in my driveway)

im not trying to stick up for him but him updating the system and replacing faulty parts seems to be the correct response to a situation like that. after about 200 people on a forum (which probably 90% do not even have experience with the product) bash on someone its just easier for everyone to just follow along after that.

This! Yes he sold leaky fittings, but he didn't install them. Anytime you're touching fuel lines you HAVE to be very diligent to check for leaks at install time, and after a bit of time has passed.

There were a few GTI's that burned down from a fuel leak in the engine bay, all 100% stock cars.

In my business we have to perform random vibration on every production unit to "verify workmanship", even if previous production units have passed qualification testing.

The first true vibration test these cars get is us driving them off the lot.

I'm still holding out for my "I survived Visconti Group Buy" t-shirt from way back ;)

I saw him at the wicked big meet. He was a vendor.

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Any details on what actually happened?

that car recieved a visconti flex fuel kit and wasn't running the optional water bottle/fire extinguisher mod

The flex fuel kit that he made leaked and caught on fire. The car is now owned by another person on this forum who is currently rebuilding it. He is also known for making horrible tunes that caused a few engines to blow up.

I was in on the original GB. I jumped ship to Delicious Tuning after seeing just how bad my logs looked. Even after I getting multiple maps from john there was still more knock then my first map from Bill.

I was just asking if the cause of the fire was actually attributed to John's flex fuel kit, or if there was another reason as Nelsmar indicated.

The fire was so damn bad you can't really tell what had happened :/

I am currently tuned by Visconti. He updated his flexfuel kit that uses the same fittings as OEM now so it is impossible to leak. I think he got a bad wrap because everyone pretty much blew up without the facts. We can argue about the quality of the first kit all we want, but any time you mess with fuel systems there is a risk of something not working properly.

Fact; he can be hard to reach and get into really bad moods. There have been times when he's lashed out at me because I called him to ask him a question. Later he apologized and explained that it wasn't because I was calling him but because he was dealing with some other person who was pissing him off. I have thick skin and don't let that stuff get to me. I can see how people could see that side of John and say, nope never again. But there is one thing I've experienced with him, he has never let me down.

I think he's done a lot of great work for the community, and people on here might think I'm an idiot for that, but I don't care.

I think @nelsmar was tuned by Tony at FA20club not Visconti when he had issues.

Actually you are correct. Thanks for correcting me.

I heard he was doing a marshmallows commercial somewhere

I did a little bit of digging when I bought the car, but I wasn't around on the forums when all this happened. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he tuning the car I own now when it burned down? The owner originally said he had gotten a call from the shop saying that they had bad news for him, and he hadn't even taken delivery of it yet when it caught on fire.

Also, in other cases you can pass the buck and say that people should have checked his work, which would be one thing if it was a materials or manufacturing defect, but no, he picked the wrong type of fitting to use. That right there should tell you this guy is a hack and he's got no idea what he's doing. You and I may not know much about different tapered thread profiles, sealing angles, or whatever it is that he got wrong, but you'd think that that would be important information for someone that's supposed to be engineering fuel hoses for a high-pressure direct injection fuel system to be familiar with. Not to mention, he should have performed adequate testing to find this flaw instead of letting his customer base do it for him.

And didn't the guy try charging for the "kit" to fix what was wrong with the first iteration of the product? Real class act right there.

After all this came to light, it's shocking people let him near their GTR's. I wouldn't trust the guy to tune my lawnmower.

Yeah FA20club had tuned my car, never again will I have someone else tune a car of mine. lol The one time that I know of Visconti having a car blow up he actually bought the guy a motor and had it installed for him. Not many shops do that...

As for the kit being related to the fire I never heard the final say on what happened. The fire was started near the DI high pressure pump. The flex fuel kit does not touch any of the high pressure lines. The problem with his kit was he had the wrong ID hose size and it was slightly over sized for the OEM hard line in which it was difficult to create a seal. FA20club fuel kits did the exact same issue by using the correct fuel line size but incorrect fittings (way too small!!). The thing is that car had the new flex fuel kit that required a permanently installed fitting on the hardline so it shouldn't have leaked and if it did it would have leaked near the firewall not at the engine. And from what I understand the fire marshall said that the fire started around the DI pump region.

After seeing a local car spring a leak near his DI pump on the first high pressure fuel line I actually started to lean towards the possibility that the carl legitimately caught fire without any relation to the flex fuel kit.

Just my 2 cents after having sprung multiple flex fuel leaks my self, and dealt with many other flex fuel leaks from multiple manufactures (all of which have resolved their issues afaik) and oem leaks on top...

So much misinformation gets thrown around online, and people jump all over people as they climb on the bandwagon.

Ob boy

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I figured he went back to working at Geek Squad

No, that's Tony from FA20Club, not Visconti.

Yeah, like a chimpanzee performing a heart transplant. That's hit or miss. Selling the wrong parts because you know nothing about engineering and are simply guessing about how to tune a car because you're incompetent has nothing to do with hit or miss. Lol, tuning an ECU and selling a flex fuel kit is hit or miss, not about proper engineering? Good lord, some people can take it up the backside all day it seems. Sure helps to keep bad and dangerous vendors in business.


O really? It had nothing to do with all the leaning out and knock in his tunes or the leaky fittings he sold that more than likely burned down car he failed to support? Other folk with the same kit reported similar leaks in the same spot and this car caught fire when his approved installer worked on installing his own kit! Is 1+1=3 the new math now? Plus he's a douche of a person as both his pics in response on facebook and posts here proved. Why anyone wants to give this individual their money when there are so many alternatives that are actually competent is beyond me.


Exactly!


That's true in a general sense. This Visconti BS is so obvious and reeks to high heaven it is far from the case here.


As far as I know, the dude how absolutely zero engineering and automotive credentials apart from charging people money for services that may or may not kill you. Hell, I won't even let a certified Toyota or Subaru tech touch my car, you guys giving Visconti money are playing Russian roulette IMO. My 2 pence.

Tony wasn't the only one. I recall one person specifically said a supposedly 'fixed' Visconti tune leaned out his FA20. He even got the feeling it was intentionally done.

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Lets not all forget he's a total douche bag as well. I think that says more than his tuning which is why I would never buy anything from him. Just waiting for him to blow up someone elses engine and they kick his ass when he does. That would be a great youtube.

oh shit

http://www.gtrlife.com/forums/topic/...own-nyc-video/

LOL

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ah yes, old thread resurrection to remind me of how many people have been banned for one thing or another...

Fucking great :lol:.

First post, professor? Must've been searching long and hard.. :D

Ahh... Good times... #Viscontinued is back!