I just wanted to say thank you for all the advice you gave me on my build project. As a project manager for my car you went above and beyond in both customer service and product knowledge.

I know I speak for many people when I say you will be missed big time. Not only has this taken the wind out of my personal project, I know from speaking with others they feel the same.

You were the bridge between the tunning/modifcation crew and the customer. To help both sides understand what a customer wanted from his car. This was an invaluable service imo and is what every other tuning shop I have dealt with was lacking. It was the one main gripe I had when I went to Gruppe-S 2 years ago to be tuned. But it was your reassurance that brought me back and kept me as a customer.

I don't know any of the details that led to this and I do not want to speculate as it is none of my business. What I want to make clear is you are a huge value to the Subaru community and you were the reason why I chose to do business where I did and the reason I bought a Suby in the first place.

I know you moved your whole life to move to the bay area to give this a go and worked 7 days a week supporting and promoting the company, leaving a lucrative, secure I.T. job to pursue your dream. Even when I didn't want to you were able with your gift of gab to talk me into coming into the shop to spend more dough. I give you so much props for trying to follow your dream D!

Every person that made the trip to Hayward from Humboldt was because of you and you alone. I just can't believe it and seriously I am upset.

I wish the best to everyone involved but I think the BAIC community needs to know what happened.

 

Derek ftw!!

im sorry my car put you over the top


hope everything works out !

 

Later Derek

 

there might be some truth in that

 

wouldnt be surprised... i know the thing drives me crazy

 

Where is Derek headed too?

 

I was there the day they were installing, drove everyone there crazy too.

 

LOL which part of the install?? Did you get to see my old amazing downpipe?

 

If Derek wants to share personal details that is up to him. I just wanted to thank him for all his help and tell him he will be missed immensely! I knew others that he helped would like that same opportunity.

 

yup yup he helped me get my car all squared away. GST's current pace is about 90x faster then i've seen any shop do work

 

Yeah I saw it. Waste Gate was a bugger.

 

i liked how the downpipe pancaked to 1 inch, I am going to trade mark that design. I call it the velocity stack downpipe. I'll become rich!!! LOL what was wrong with the wastegate? it fell off once when I was driving down the street(one of the bolts backed itself out)... The thing just loves to cause problems

 

Derek FTW! He was a cool guy that would help me regardless of any stupid question I had and was a great guy in general

 

Thank you guys for your stories. If you delt with Derek and he helped you out can you please let him know in this thread. I know if it were me this would be a hard time and hearing how you helped people might ease it some.

 

Derek is awesome, he is the only shop guy I ever called that didn't make me feel like an idiot for asking noob questions. He spent more time than necessary helping me get a game plan for me car, even helping me find parts. +1 for Derek!