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Originally posted by ballisticxlr:
Well, it's finally done and road trip tested. It was not done by TPS Motorsports. Instead of getting my car in when promised Mike Mak continually pushed the date out until November 4 at which point I went and got my keys from them and had it towed to another shop in Campbell which did all the work for me in 2 days. The bad throwout bearing ended up being not the end of things, it was so bad that it wrecked the clutch fork which also wrecked the pivot ball and scored the input shaft. Because it sat so long waiting for TPS to unscrew themselves there ended up being a number of other things that needed changed because they don't like sitting unused for too long on an already 21 year old car including a weeping water pump, a rear main seal and the battery. We were able to get a factory clutch disk and pressure plate set along with a new clutch fork, pivot ball, pilot bearing & TOB. The stock flywheel was in salvageable condition so we surfaced it and reused it. We also put in a new clutch cable as the prior one had stretched. While it was in the air the new Magnaflow CARB legal catted mid-pipe and street cat-back were installed. It runs really great now and sounds really good. Just loud enough to not get a ticket.

Let me say one thing about the whole experience: F*ck TPS motorsports! I know one of their mechanics, Ed, who's a really solid guy whom I've known for almost 25 years. He's a great tech and a good person but Mike, on the other hand,is a serious piece of work. I pre-paid for all the work I wanted them to do back in February and now Mike's holding back refunding my money because he says he bought parts and wants to sell them first. First off, not my damned problem. Second, I'm not having it and since he's had a month now to do the refund I'm going to do a charge back on him today. If you value your time, money, sanity, etc... avoid TPS Motorsports.

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