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Tech Area => General Buick Tech => Topic started by: Recklessrob on February 11 2007, 12:09:08 PM

Title: GN stuff on ebay
Post by: Recklessrob on February 11 2007, 12:09:08 PM: I just ran across these:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Buick-Grand-National-FMIC-Intercooler-Kit-Super-Kit_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33742QQihZ020QQitemZ300078188232QQrdZ1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/GRAND-NATIONAL-BUICK-GN-3-8-TURBO-HEADER-86-87-T-TYPE_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33631QQihZ009QQitemZ190079855446QQrdZ1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/86-87-Buick-Grand-National-GN-Turbo-3-8-T-Type-Header_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33631QQihZ014QQitemZ330086135356QQrdZ1

I don't visit the other boards much, but I seem to remember that the headers were junk for some reason. I haven't heard anything about the FMICs yet ?
Title: Re: GN stuff on ebay
Post by: SuperSix on February 11 2007, 01:10:56 PM: Someone bought the headers and didn't like them -

Negative feedback rating
"The headers did not fit!! I spent an extra $300 to modify the headers"

http://feedback.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=drift-pros&iid=190079855446&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller&ssPageName=VIP:feedback:2:us
Title: Re: GN stuff on ebay
Post by: Recklessrob on February 11 2007, 04:17:15 PM: Wow ! there realy are some feedback responses.
The most common one left by the sellers is:
Quote
please contact our customer service to solve this problem

And most of the buyers complain that they don't respond until you report them. Hmmmm.
Seems like the seller is using the neg feedback to leverage the buyer
into mutually withdrawing their negfeed back.
Title: GN stuff on ebay
Post by: 87natty on February 11 2007, 07:11:49 PM: That's the damn intercooler I have! I thought it was a hot air conversion one. I just need to get pipes for it. But mine is rattle canned flat black, San Diego cops are dicks. I think I'll get some piping off these guys.
Title: GN stuff on ebay
Post by: Recklessrob on February 11 2007, 07:22:16 PM: Quote from: "87natty @ Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:11 pm"
That's the damn intercooler I have! I thought it was a hot air conversion one. I just need to get pipes for it. But mine is rattle canned flat black, San Diego cops are dicks. I think I'll get some piping off these guys.
OK, what do the San Diego cops have to do with this ? Do tell.
Title: GN stuff on ebay
Post by: 87natty on February 11 2007, 08:13:48 PM: Cops out here are trained to to spot out illegal (smog related) mods to cars and they then send you out to the state smog referee station. Any bling parts are a dead giveaway, so we Krylon everything. We're kind of forced to have sleepers. I think in LA they smash your car if you're caught street racing. This all comes from a year when there was 14 or so street racing related deaths in a year, one was killed by the son of a friend who t-boned a Firebird with his S-10. He's doing 25-life right now. So a lot of cities in So Cal adopted all these anti-racing laws. You get 3 days in jail for WATCHING a race in San Diego. I believe participating is a felony now. The funny thing is, San Diego has so many other little cities in it, that you can drive a couple miles and not get such a harsh sentence if you're caught. But within city limits you're screwed.
Title: Re: GN stuff on ebay
Post by: Recklessrob on February 11 2007, 11:08:30 PM: Cali is more F'up than I thought it was.

:weedman: "Dude, check out this new law I thought of. *cough, cough* pass."