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Originally Posted by Calum
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.
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Originally Posted by Rocket.BRZ
Actually you are correct. Thanks for correcting me.
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Originally Posted by SomeoneWhoIsntMe
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.
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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...