Hello,
My father and I have been trying to get our typhoon up and running for 2 or 3 years now, roadblock after roadblock...after the second engine rebuild...it still runs like crap and needs work. At this point, we just want to be able to bring it to a shop that KNOWS Typhoons and can do work on them. We are in the albany area but willing to trailer it somewhere. It is a 1 owner 43k mile example. PLEASE someone can you recommend a good clean shop/person that can help us? A real shop, not a shade tree mechanic or bozo that kinda knows cars and a friend said they worked on a Typhoon once. We are sick of the runaround and neither of us has the time to work on it. It's getting to the point where I might just call John Waller and see if we can ship it to him. John helped us out a lot with parts and things like that...but 13 hours is a long haul to bring it to SC lol. Or is that maybe worth it? Please any input would be much appreciated.
The motor has been completely rebuilt, new crank, H beam rods, JE Pistons 30 over, valve job on the heads, new valve springs, retainers, lifters, cam. Upgraded stock turbo...Double roller timing chain, new flexplate...you name it...LOTS of money into this thing...just want it to run well again so we can drive it! The motor builder is very skilled and quite reputable, the motor INSTALLER however turns out, is not...first time was a dealership that screwed us, second time was what we were told was a good well known mechanic, but he did it under a tree quite literally, took over 6 months and left it OUTSIDE the whole time. Ruining a brand new 4k dollar paint job in the process. We are FED UP and want it fixed no matter what it takes lol.
Thanks,
Colin
My father and I have been trying to get our typhoon up and running for 2 or 3 years now, roadblock after roadblock...after the second engine rebuild...it still runs like crap and needs work. At this point, we just want to be able to bring it to a shop that KNOWS Typhoons and can do work on them. We are in the albany area but willing to trailer it somewhere. It is a 1 owner 43k mile example. PLEASE someone can you recommend a good clean shop/person that can help us? A real shop, not a shade tree mechanic or bozo that kinda knows cars and a friend said they worked on a Typhoon once. We are sick of the runaround and neither of us has the time to work on it. It's getting to the point where I might just call John Waller and see if we can ship it to him. John helped us out a lot with parts and things like that...but 13 hours is a long haul to bring it to SC lol. Or is that maybe worth it? Please any input would be much appreciated.
The motor has been completely rebuilt, new crank, H beam rods, JE Pistons 30 over, valve job on the heads, new valve springs, retainers, lifters, cam. Upgraded stock turbo...Double roller timing chain, new flexplate...you name it...LOTS of money into this thing...just want it to run well again so we can drive it! The motor builder is very skilled and quite reputable, the motor INSTALLER however turns out, is not...first time was a dealership that screwed us, second time was what we were told was a good well known mechanic, but he did it under a tree quite literally, took over 6 months and left it OUTSIDE the whole time. Ruining a brand new 4k dollar paint job in the process. We are FED UP and want it fixed no matter what it takes lol.
Thanks,
Colin
We'll see how things work out though.
