Alright guys... there are only a couple parts of this I feel I need to touch on.

Lets start with the whole business license BS... EQ Tuning was originally registered in Davis, CA. Approximately 7 months ago I moved to the Bay Area. The Davis license has since expired and I have yet to receive my new business license here. I will admit that I should have re-registered sooner but I've been very busy with the move, a new place, a new fiance, etc and the business license was not my top priority at the time. Not a great excuse but it is what it is. The paperwork for the new license has been submitted and I should receive it in about a week. I hope you guys can sleep at night now

As far as screwing over shops and owing money... GT35 STI has brought this up in a previous thread but was never able to provide any details or facts. I will respond to this one more time with exactly the same response. If any shop owner feels I "screwed them over", they have never come to me personally to express this. If they had I would happily work out our differences in a civilized manner. As far as owing money, that's just a complete fallacy. I have had tabs with some shops in the past just like many others do but they have all been paid off in full. Again, if you or anyone else feels I owe them money, please contact me so we can work it out. As far as I'm aware I have no standing debts with any shop owners. And I have stated this before.

Now... GT35 STI keeps saying he's not questioning my tuning abilities but then irrational x keeps mentioning damage I've done to customer's cars. It seems the car he's referring to belongs to a former GST employee whose built motor recently blew during break-in. He happened to be near DB Tuned and dropped the car off there and that's likely how irrational x knows about it.

Since this incident seems to be so adamantly mentioned, I feel its only appropriate to clear up the details. The person came to me a couple months ago because his car was running poorly and wouldn't hold an idle. He'd talked to many different tuners and got a lot of different opinions before contacting me about it. I told him to bring the car in and I'll see if I can get it idling and running decently.

Note that this car had a built block, heavily ported heads, an intake manifold conversion, PE injectors and a blow-through MAF. Considering all this it was one of the most difficult cars to get idling I've ever seen. It took quite some time but after a lot of work I finally got a nice, very solid idle. We took the car for a quick spin to make sure it was running ok under low-moderate loads. This map was meant for the first part of the break-in on this brand new motor so we never tuned it for any significant boost, although I made sure it was at least safe in such an occasion. After driving the car around, the owner reported that it was driving a lot better than it had ever driven before and no longer stalled at stoplights. This was a bit of a surprise to me because according to my standards the drivability was still very sub-par and the engine was generally noisy and rough. I informed the owner of this several times and suggested that swapping injectors would likely cure or at least greatly improve the drivability. He drove it around like this for some time anyway because it was such a big improvement from how it ran previously. He then decided he wanted to raise the boost a bit now that it was partially broken in. I told him it was probably safe to run about 10-12psi on this map. While adjusting his boost controller, he hit about 1.4 bar momentarily and got off the throttle. That is probably why his gauge shows that peak. He then adjusted the EBC to run the appropriate boost and continued driving the car for another 100+ miles with absolutely no issues. Then while cruising on the freeway under low load (vacuum) and with no warning, he noticed that his EGT gauge shot up past 900C, then let off. The car was now misfiring and loosing power.

The fact that the EGT's shot up severely directly prior to the failure suggests a fuel system failure. The pump may have lost voltage, an injector may have gotten stuck, etc. Either way a failure like this during regular low load operation really doesn't point at the tune as the culprit.

Now that all the details are cleared up, I'll mention a couple other facts. First I never charged this person for any of the work I did. It was an interesting setup and I mainly did it as a favor and as a challenge to see if this car could actually run. I also noted to this person that I can't take any responsibility for this engine because it was generally noisy, ran very poorly before I worked on it, is very unique setup, and I generally didn't have confidence in the engine. This was all made clear before I touched the car and the owner agreed. Finally, I have been in contact with the owner since the engine failure and he places no blame on me or my tuning for the failure.

So there it is... this is just a lesson in why one should not jump to conclusions from hearing some random 3rd party's story or encounter. Irrational X never even spoke with the owner of the car, had no real facts about the situation, and yet chose to use it as arsenal to bash me and my tuning skills. Just remember there are usually two sides to the story... and sometimes a third .

I believe those are the main things that needed some clarification on details. Some of this information has been stated before and some I would have rather not stated to the public out of respect for others in my industry. Sadly when such accusations are made with such little actual data I have no choice but to fill in the gaps.

BTW, this is not an argument nor a discussion on my part. I have stated some facts that were omitted and I have nothing else to add to this thread.

Thanks