Alright so every mod I've done to my car has taken 10x longer than it really should and it's continuing again. CAI took me 2 hours to do because I didn't take the strut brace off and couldn't maneuver my hand in the fender to put on the filter.
Catback had the bolts welded from the H-pipe to the mufflers so we had to buy a dremel, cut all 4, and drill all 4 out. Took 2 days to do and we had to buy a dremel and also went through 8 drill bits even though they were continuously drenched in Mobil1 while drilling.
Cam/Manifold swap one bolt seized into the head and we snapped the bolt 2x trying to torque it out before we were forced to drill it out.
NOW TODAY:
I got my prochamber and figured "self...you know how this goes...have a shop do it"
So I got quoted $50 to install the midpipe and was like good enough for me. I dropped the car off at 5 this afternoon expecting it to take 1-2 hours. It is now 10:29 and they still haven't gotten the passenger side portion of the stock midpipe off of the header. Both bolts were seized, 1 snapped and fell out and the other is rounded off and seized in no matter how much lube/heat they put on it. They aren't expecting the car to be done til tomorrow. These guys are good believe me, they are really cool too, but it just goes to show this car is frickin cursed! They've been working on it basically from 530 to now with some breaks just because the car is pissing them off so much. They had to go out and buy a bolt removal kit because their tools broke trying to mess with it. I'm thinking right now that if I'd have actually tried this job on jack stands in my driveway that I'd be in jail on multiple murder charges...The final price will probably be higher than $50 too but thats cool by me because I can only imagine what I'd be doing right now if we'd attempted it at home.
Just had to semi-rant about that because this just made me a true believer that the car will make any job 10x more difficult than it has to be.
Catback had the bolts welded from the H-pipe to the mufflers so we had to buy a dremel, cut all 4, and drill all 4 out. Took 2 days to do and we had to buy a dremel and also went through 8 drill bits even though they were continuously drenched in Mobil1 while drilling.
Cam/Manifold swap one bolt seized into the head and we snapped the bolt 2x trying to torque it out before we were forced to drill it out.
NOW TODAY:
I got my prochamber and figured "self...you know how this goes...have a shop do it"
So I got quoted $50 to install the midpipe and was like good enough for me. I dropped the car off at 5 this afternoon expecting it to take 1-2 hours. It is now 10:29 and they still haven't gotten the passenger side portion of the stock midpipe off of the header. Both bolts were seized, 1 snapped and fell out and the other is rounded off and seized in no matter how much lube/heat they put on it. They aren't expecting the car to be done til tomorrow. These guys are good believe me, they are really cool too, but it just goes to show this car is frickin cursed! They've been working on it basically from 530 to now with some breaks just because the car is pissing them off so much. They had to go out and buy a bolt removal kit because their tools broke trying to mess with it. I'm thinking right now that if I'd have actually tried this job on jack stands in my driveway that I'd be in jail on multiple murder charges...The final price will probably be higher than $50 too but thats cool by me because I can only imagine what I'd be doing right now if we'd attempted it at home.
Just had to semi-rant about that because this just made me a true believer that the car will make any job 10x more difficult than it has to be.