I mentioned the latest in another thread, so I guess I might as well bring this thread up to date.
In a nutshell, NOT good....
Since having it towed from the first guy working on it (who wound up putting old parts back in and charging me for new), the turbos have had to be replaced, many of the things the first guy said he did either weren't done or were done in a slipshod manner, had to replace the valve covers, have the engine pulled out again right now to replace the oil pan gasket bolts that were a bit too long and causing an oil leak, and an apparent head gasket blowout. When the heads were pulled they found that a washer or something had been dropped into one of the cylinders that caused some piston damage, requiring it to be replaced.
Been over 17 months now since I first took it into the shop to have work started....
Any light at the end of the tunnel? Well seems every time I THINK there is, it's a light taped to the end of a two-by-four swinging at my head.
But I guess it's not ALL bad. A while back Connie got to worrying about me being depressed about all this for so long and did some MAJOR arm twisting to talk me into buying something else. It meant raping the retirement fund to do so, but the way she put it, we're not going to live forever, and neither am I going to be physicall able to drive a stick shift forever, so let's enjoy life while we can. So here's what we came up with to pull me out of the doldrums....
My arm STILL hurts from where Connie twisted it, I'll have you know.....
BTW, I don't know if anyone would be interested in reading this entire sordid mess from beginning to end, but here it is in two parts:
http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forum...ad.php?t=32739
http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forum...ad.php?t=44697