no ur not stuck bro. its time to open up, broaden ur perspective, shift your paradigm... embrace the fact that malaysian tuners(if u insist that malaysian tuners are no good for Vpro, Garage R singapore is proven to be a solution to even the fussiest malaysian owners), though not as glamorous n meticulous as japanese tuners, are competent enough to tune ur car
no offense intended.
No problems bro... I totally agree with you with KL local tuners.
Don't get me wrong but I did broaden up long time ago... Way way too long. But the fact is, I'm here in Kota Kinabalu. If only you have been here and you'll know. There are no known tuners here, in fact there is none. (please read my previous post-I'm working in Borneo). You are in KL... If only you've seen the way they work on your engine... I blew my previous cars' engines too many times, turbos leaking... missing bolts and nuts... missing parts... Ask around people from KK and you will know. Btw, if you can find me one HKS V-Pro tuner in KK, I'll be glad to send my car to him. Once again, I'm in
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. (I noticed no one paid any attention to what I said previously regarding my other post when I said Kota Kinabalu and some just jumped to the conclusion that I'm stating overall local tuners)
Some mechanic busted my turbos without my knowledge back in the 94 when he boosted my turbo to 1bar on my pajero 2.8l turbo. ( found that out when my car broke down half way 2 days later) They accidentally broke my OEM BOV (joint) and said it's ok. ( I was still too dumb to understand anything about cars back then) They then proceeded to seal it off with a metal plate! The car lasted 2 days!! I've actually spent more than 10k to bust my own car up. Can you believe that?
And there's only ONE Dyno here (no 4WD) and it's a prehistoric type, Dynosaurus. Bro, you have to understand my situation over here. I understand you totally but not in KK bro, no one here has any knowledge about cars, minor installations, yes but not tuning. Another guy brought in his newly built Tomei Rb28 from Japan to install into his GTR. They (the locals) busted his racing clutch! (aftermarket ones-new) on the Dyno while 'tuning' his new RB28!
I don't have the liberty to tune my car over here... Called up KL a few times before I actually called in the Japs and the locals sorta like gave me the finger over the phone! (They sorta like told me, it's very expensive you know, can you afford the tickets, food and lodging, tuning and didn't bothered with any explanations at all?) Now, tell me if I should trust the locals with this kinda crappy attitude. In fact, a couple of more guys too had the same feedback when they called up KL. (I'm from KL btw and a west malaysian working in sabah)
Don't get me wrong again bro, This is the dilemma I'm facing right now.
A local mechanic (very well know in KK and all JDAM car owners go to this place) for tuning JDAM cars... (JDAMAGE) practically destroyed every car that went into his workshop and ppl are too oblivious to believe 'that workshop' can't tune a car (and do they have a choice? No.). And the owner doesn't know anything about cars. Now, do you really wanna send your GTR to them?? And there's are less than 4 in KK I know that can actually work on a car. (can't use the word tune as they have no knowledge of tuning at all)
And the best part, the latest software (there's only one place that have it) they had for OEM GTR is outdated!! I had to source out the problem myself and ask a local workshop to re wire the car and manually reset my car thru GOOGLE.
Yes, it is that bad over here. I'm not looking down on them... It's their "everything can go in without tuning, 80% plug and play" kinda attitude. I can go on and on... the list is just too long dude. Last week, my local mechanic told me to install a Cam with no tuning at all, "can jalan one." he said. (I remembered the Jap told me anything to do with engine has to be tuned).
No puns intended
