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not impressed


but it's going to the shop for a reason, so maybe with a better tune it will be a little more impressive. Also I can now tell you for sure that I don't want to put 19's on a mazda 3.
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[quote author=small town king link=topic=74361.msg1326035#msg1326035 date=1176255154]
why would you even make this thread?

obviously the car has some issues. considering it was shipped from hawaii which prolly cost an arm and leg


damn! i removed my header and now my car is really loud. this exhaust sucks.
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just givin first impressions, when it's working correctly and wows me I'll post that too.
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[quote author=sleeping link=topic=74361.msg1326058#msg1326058 date=1176255544]
I think I see a pattern.
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so do i!
SCI is crap, dont buy from it!
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[quote author=eurotuner link=topic=74361.msg1326085#msg1326085 date=1176255799]
[quote author=sleeping link=topic=74361.msg1326058#msg1326058 date=1176255544]
I think I see a pattern.
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so do i!
SCI is crap, dont buy from it!
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well euro, you can't buy from it, cause they won't sell to you, well or anyone for that matter. you have to be a distributor.

I'm sorry if you're not happy with your service from SCI, but I have been. And just to get a few things right, I'm not on the SCI payroll. They're in my sig because, 1 I have a bunch of their part, 2 cause I like said parts, and 3 cause they're local to me and the other socal members who's thread is advertised right above SCI.
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ps: where is ur car? why arent u driving it?
is that making you the number 3?
there were only 3 guys runing the SCI kit, aside from jerad.
Jake => Dead
ED => runing some hybrid kit (bet he wished he went Hiboost at first)
you => you are not driving your car so i guess its Dead too
and Jerad, i am sure he blew his engine and doesnt want to loose face coming back here.

please try again!
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[quote author=sleeping link=topic=74361.msg1326116#msg1326116 date=1176256250]
[quote author=eurotuner link=topic=74361.msg1326085#msg1326085 date=1176255799]
[quote author=sleeping link=topic=74361.msg1326058#msg1326058 date=1176255544]
I think I see a pattern.
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so do i!
SCI is crap, dont buy from it!
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I'm sorry if you're not happy with your service from SCI, but I have been.
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go say that to all the guys that are waiting for their parts/refund/escuses!
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u said jerad twice !!!!
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:lol:
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[quote author=edrection link=topic=74361.msg1326055#msg1326055 date=1176255472]
[quote author=small town king link=topic=74361.msg1326035#msg1326035 date=1176255154]
why would you even make this thread?

obviously the car has some issues. considering it was shipped from hawaii which prolly cost an arm and leg


damn! i removed my header and now my car is really loud. this exhaust sucks.
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your running you car with no header?
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no, i was making fun of his imbalanced observation of the hiboost kit.
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how long you guys have it for? i'd like to meet up maybe and see what's up. i know one of the SCI owners in the IE was talking about meeting up too, maybe meetup over at F2 or something?

do you guys know what the issue with the car is from first impression? again, if literally, everyone else is doing good with the HiBoost kit, then perhaps this is a "pilot" error as well? i know the kit has evolved a bit, and parts could be a bit better, but i think it's the general "pleasantness" of how the HiBoost kit goes together than makes it nice. not necessarily the way things just "look".

I'll have my car at Buttonwillow on the 27/28th....guessing Ricardo will be there, get some more mazda's out there!
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if it the car i am thinking about then, that car was a guinea pig
the first 06' to get boosted.
eschalon or something like that?
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The fuel is the most important part. With my kit Garrett makes the turbo, personally I like the instant spool of the GT28r, someone else makes the WG acuator, the SCI pipes are generic but they work fine (with some trimming), the SCI manifold is good. Really, if your fuel is good, you can safely run anyone's kit. Im not worried about blowing, if something happened to my car, it would have happened with the Hiboost kit also. Plus Im running lower boost than the others that blew (7psi), and they were both having boost control problems and probably fuel issues

Im waiting for Juan to answer my PM so I can get the Haltech boost controller to cut fuel in case of overboost. I have a auto so with my gearing I might not be as fast as the sticks but the car is pretty damn quick. Peeling out never gets old :D
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my car was in a car crash, and both the motors that I've blown up were runnin n/a, one of the forum members was here when I blew it up and saw under my hood the second time, and the first time I didn't even have the turbo yet.

jerad's car is doing fine, we drove it down to Long Beach to get the other 3

and there are more than 4 SCI kits in existance, one was put on a 2.0 last weekend. But since that person doesn't post here, and SCI doesn't post here anymore, you wouldn't know about any of the other cars. And there are more than you would think.

It's nice that you've jumped on the hate SCI band wagon, but this was my opnion of the hiboost kit, which as I already said, didn't impress me. I didn't say it was bad, I didn't say it was dangerious, I didn't say I hated it.
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Is SCI gonna apologized? refund? ship out?
so many people had trouble with him

if he is alive, he should reply to this ppl

what about the ETD we have been waiting for responses for ever

what about the exhaust, its been now 7 month that it we are supposed to get some updates " tomorow".

this company is done for a lot of people.

and you thread is useless, who cares about what you think (no offense), but "thats nice".
it is 1 vs 10, your comment will not leave a mark!
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idk how you can even form an opinion on a car that has something wrong with it.
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[quote author=eurotuner link=topic=74361.msg1326142#msg1326142 date=1176256875]
if it the car i am thinking about then, that car was a guinea pig
the first 06' to get boosted.
eschalon or something like that?
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Not sure about that

To answer Mr. Tea, well, it's kind of a complicated answer. firstly I can tell you that everything sounded alright, you can here it spooling, hear the bov, so that all sounds normal. He's got a boost guage and an afr guage. The boost guage can't be right, because it was sayin I was holding 10psi whenever I went to change lanes, and getting on it it was building up way higher than that (according to the guage) but it's obvious by the butt dyno that it's not doing anything like that. The afr was eradic as hell it liked to be just above 10 under boost, but was more bouncing around from mid 11 to nearly 16 when holding speed. pretty much the whole time I could smell the car running pig rich, especially since my car runs lean and doesn't smell like ass.

now the car also has an electrical problem, that I don't know anything about but the guages lost power sort of intermitantly, the boost guage stayed on most often, but the afr guage shut off a few times, and there was a 3rd guage that I couln't read cause it didn't come on. The check engine light came on and went off a couple of times, and another drivers light was flashing at me the whole way home. not sure what it was and havn't looked in my owners manuel to figure it out.

on a "the pilot" note I couldn't figure out how to turn the sterio on, I mean it was on but I couldn't get any volume out of it. Between that and the smell, it was a long drive back to Canyon Lake from LB.
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[quote author=eurotuner link=topic=74361.msg1326171#msg1326171 date=1176257537]
Is SCI gonna apologized? refund? ship out?
so many people had trouble with him

if he is alive, he should reply to this ppl

what about the ETD we have been waiting for responses for ever

what about the exhaust, its been now 7 month that it we are supposed to get some updates " tomorow".

this company is done for a lot of people.

and you thread is useless, who cares about what you think (no offense), but "thats nice".
it is 1 vs 10, your comment will not leave a mark!
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your never going to buy a turbo, so wtf?

As far as the other stuff, SCI outsorced the exhaust production though f2, if they're late, it's not SCI's fault. As far as the ETD goes, your not going to buy one of those either so again wtf, and as for SCI's bussiness with other members, that has nothing to do with me, and nothing to do with this thread.
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yes i was gonna buy an ETD, but before the GB really got started i knew SCI wasnt gonna go thru with it!

the exhaust SCI never said anything about F2, this is Jerad putting the blame on some1 else. F2 was not involved in this at first or in the middle, or near the end.

Turbo? who knows.



all you said was " i am not impressed".
well be more specific, that doesnt mean anything.
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[quote author=eurotuner link=topic=74361.msg1326235#msg1326235 date=1176258764]
the exhaust SCI never said anything about F2, this is Jerad putting the blame on some1 else. F2 was not involved in this at first or in the middle, or near the end.
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Are you serious? wth?

why would you know more about this situation than I do?

and why would I lie?

yeah SCI never said anything about the F2's involvment, but then again, they didn't say anything period. I started that thread, and I was the one who blew it by talking about it long before it was out. Eventually SCI said it was coming, and I saw them on the shelves. Then as it turns out the sample and the original fit, but none of the production pieces did. So that caused more delay.

I mean seriously, you know nothing of what goes on with these companies, so why would you assume you know more about what goes on than I do.

This thread isn't even about SCI, it's about my opnion of a car I drove, and since I'm the OP and don't jack your threads why don't you kindly do the same.
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i still don't understand how you can form an opinion on a car while it's in gimp mode.

it's like a pepsi exec drinking an expired coke and going, this shit is garbage!
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Make love, not war.
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