How Forged Performance screwed a GTR owner out of $250,000

[DOC-Z]

and man how much more do tbolt clamps cost shitty hose clamps the thing is covered in home depot hose clamps

Those look more like Vato Zone hose clamps opposed to Home Depot.

With screw up after screw up, I would have pulled the build so much sooner than that guy Todd did. Still, with the previous rep. they had, I really can't blame him for staying with them. The welds aren't bad, but for $250K, I would expect it to look polished...like there is a giant jewel under the hood. The last time I saw someone use that many washers was when I wrecked my fathers Chevy Celebrity Wagon and we shimmed the fender up about an inch and a half with washers-so it would line up correctly.

 

[guspech750]

Should have taken the car to Zack.

 

[jason05gt]

As they say, a fool and their money are soon departed. 250K into a GTR is a ton of money.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

#12

No explanation needed

 

[Ti28]

Yeah for a car like that and money it would have went to AMS!

 

[Stink Star]

lol i was just gonna say he shoulda just gone to AMS and actually had a badass ride

 

[DanJ]

Seeing as the Alpha 10 package is about $64K and makes 1100+ horsepowers, it seems like he would have been able to get the Alpha 12 package and still save a shit ton.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

you never really end up saving money when you try to save $

 

[1quick]

you never really end up saving money when you try to save $

I have to re lern that like once a month, every single time i try to be cheap it ends up fucked up lol

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

now that i have a jerb i find myself wanting things that would have a great side effect of making some things easier on me for the wagn

that guy got took hard

 

[Ti28]

you never really end up saving money when you try to save $

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low pricing is forgotten

 

[TCG Member 5219]

If I'm modifying a car worth that much I'm not taking it to Joe Blow's speed shop. These guys are fucking idiots.

No shit. With that much money invested, AMS themselves could have gotten that goal for him and then some. And probably treated him also to a months vacation in Hawaii while he waited for his car. What a moron. Car owners FAULT.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

dream of gtr, settle for supra

 

[Mook]

I didn't settle for shit.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

lol

 

[UWISHU1]

damn , should have went to AMS

 

[Mike K]

Who spends 250k on a car like this and doesn't just ship it to AMS with their goals? I mean, why would you even chance it? It's what, $800 to ship that car to AMS?

Hell, even if his original plan was to spend 50 - 80k... Ship it somewhere reputable. When you're spending top dollar you go to the best.

 

[VenomInside]

Holy shit...

+1 to the AMS comments.

 

[Vogz]

I don't want to rain on the AMS ball gargling in this thread, but there are actually other shops that can do fantastic GT-R builds.

 

[Mike K]

I don't want to rain on the AMS ball gargling in this thread, but there are actually other shops that can do fantastic GT-R builds.

I'm sure there are but find one of them then... When you're spending that kind of coin you don't sit there and let someone blow hot air to you about how great the car is going to be. Did Forged already have a flagship car that demonstrated their abilities? Were they well known in the GTR community for breaking records?

If they weren't then why chance it when you're spending this kind of cash? This isn't a pulley and an intercooler on a Grand Prix. It's an entire build... People that have that kind of money generally are familiar with the term due diligence. This gentleman unfortunately doesn't appear to have been. I feel bad for him nonetheless.

 

[Mook]

AMS, Top Speed, Boost Logic, Switzer, to name a few.

 

[Vogz]

I'm sure there are but find one of them then... When you're spending that kind of coin you don't sit there and let someone blow hot air to you about how great the car is going to be. Did Forged already have a flagship car that demonstrated their abilities? Were they well known in the GTR community for breaking records?

If they weren't then why chance it when you're spending this kind of cash? This isn't a pulley and an intercooler on a Grand Prix. It's an entire build... People that have that kind of money generally are familiar with the term due diligence. This gentleman unfortunately doesn't appear to have been. I feel bad for him nonetheless.

Forged Performance GT-R Crushes previous Road Atlanta Track Record – Forged Performance News

I'm not here to defend FP, but we do only have one side of the story here and it's from a guy who obviously knows fuckall about modifying cars.

Forged has some pretty nice builds under their belt in the Z and GT-R communities, this wasn't one of them.

 

[Mike K]

Forged Performance GT-R Crushes previous Road Atlanta Track Record – Forged Performance News

I'm not here to defend FP, but we do only have one side of the story here and it's from a guy who obviously knows fuckall about modifying cars.

Forged has some pretty nice builds under their belt in the Z and GT-R communities, this wasn't one of them.

In that case, yeah I'm with you and who really expects a shop like this to hack together a build this bad?

 

[Fish]

Oh, and the welds are NOT bad. They aren't amazing, and they could have ground down the bead a bit, but they are far from bad.

Ron Vogel welded my exhaust better in his garage on my $5K car. If you spend big money, you want top quality. Thats what this guy was promised, yet did not receive.

I don't want to rain on the AMS ball gargling in this thread, but there are actually other shops that can do fantastic GT-R builds.

Your hommie at Forged is obviously not one of them.

 

[Vogz]

Ron Vogel welded my exhaust better in his garage on my $5K car. If you spend big money, you want top quality. Thats what this guy was promised, yet did not receive.

I'm sure he did.

Your hommie at Forged is obviously not one of them.

He's not my hommie.