Cleaning Out Engine Bay

[patmckinneyracing]

I have to agree with NAILS. Not only has this become an issue of "it looking like sh*t", but as I already said and others agree, this has become a matter of safety and putting someone else's life in the way of shitty workmanship. Its one thing to use different colored wires (which is stupid anyway) and do it the right way, but to do it with different colored wires and have them strewn together like that is BS.


If that mechanic is not the owner of the shop you took it to, I would be in the owner's office the second I saw that. You don't have to take that sh**, your a paying customer and that car is not reliable. If an inspector was looking at this car, he'd probably laugh and fail the car on the spot. I don't give a damn if it's a V6 or a V12, all motors follow the same principles and they can all catch fire the same way as all the others. I wish you were closer cause i would go with you to the shop and then help you clean up that rat's nest under your hood. If I were you, I would consider filing a suit against the shop.

 

[1984CuttySupreme]

My wife has been dying to curse out this guy for years, let alone this recent situation with the engine rebuild. lol I dropped off my car in January and I didn't get it back until April 16th. I never planned on making it a show car or anything, just a decent street car. But I figured the engine compartment should look a bit cleaner than what I got back. He didn't even put the air cleaner on there, I had to pick one up myself. The speedometer and AC weren't even hooked up, let alone the stalling and extremely rough idle and no acceleration when I first got it back. I had to return it a second time to get that right.

This car has been very discouraging, but I guess I had it in the wrong hands. I grew up with a step dad who is a mechanic. He had an '86 Grand National and the whole G Body thing wore off on me. I had only Caprices until I got this car back in 2005....I've kept this one the longest because I hoped I could make into something worthwhile... no such luck just yet. My mom and him divorced so I don't see him at all anymore or else I'd be having him work on my car lol.

 

[NAILS]

dude, are you heavily sedated? first go to your local walmart and pick up a 12 gauge and secondly walk into that c*ck suckers shop and tell him to look in the engine bay of your car. tell him if he doesn't fix it in less than a week- youll blow a ****ing hole in his face thatll resemble the slop under your hood.. end of story. its one thing if he was doing you a favor and he was your buddy- maybe you guys could work stuff out civil and what not. but if you paid this guy hard earned $$ for a some jerk job(s) i dont understand how you can treat that like water under the bridge. unless the money you gave him wasnt hard earned by you... in which case i would still be pissed off he took it and didnt do much of anything for you.

or you could do what pat suggested with filing a lawsuit.

idk... you must be medicated or something, id be making sure that mechanic of yours is sterile or dead, dont need people like that ever producing.

 

[dan2286]

It's probably a good connection but they could of at least made an effort to hide the connector. If you ohm one wire with a solder connection, and one with a butt (haha, again) connector, I doubt you will see a difference on the DVOM.

Those connectors suck! They have no way of keeping crap out of the connection. Yes, when you first install them they may be good as a solder joint, but check it in a couple years.

 

[patmckinneyracing]

They're good connections if you actually prep the wires right and wrap the connections in electric tape. Mine are still in really good shape after 4 years, only difference is I used the ones that are heat shrink where you can use a heat gun or a lighter and it shrinks the connection down to the size of the size of the wire to give it a good seal.

 

[79loserbluebu]

Right if you take the time to do it right and tape around them or use the heat shrink ones and then hide it under some loom it will be just fine like that.