Celica Forums General Discussion Engine and Performance TPR to ship soon!

Mike give your PFC now!!

Actually, I need to get one now. A 16 year old girl, who drives a turbo charged civic hatch, challenged me to a race. I can't lose to a 16 year old GIRL in a CIVIC

nevermind

^What did it say?

Hi Guys...

I've made tha payment on the 5th of december for a GTS CAI and I've received nothing till now...
I've asked for a refund,and had nothing either...I'm tired waiting...

Am I the only one in this trouble?

dude have you talk (pm) to chris yet?

No Danny 7 youre not alone; I ordered mine in Nov 04 and I'm still waiting.

Unfortunely the first two shops that Chris had contracted to produce the intakes basically took the money and ran.

The good news is the new shop he has lined up is the same one that is producing the TPR exhaust and those are actually shipping, so this shop seems more competent and reputable.

for more current updates check out:

new celica dot org > Forum > Group Purchase > Group Purchases > TPR Intakes

and for TPR exhausts info > TPR exhausts

Those threads are updated almost daily, and there are pics of the exhaust and some pics of the first gen TPR intake.

Danny, I've spoken to you several times. I explained to you that I can't afford to issue out refunds right now. BECAUSE the shops took my money, I need all the cash I can get to get these intakes/exhausts out. Obviously I can't afford to personally dish out thousands of dollars to get everything taken care of within a week.

I applied for a business loan, I got denied. I am taking very serious legal action against the shop that took a majority of the money. Will I see the money soon? Probbly not. Will I continue to do my best to get products out as quickly as I can. Of course. However, to put myself in the position of poverty by owing thousands of dollars as a result of a few shops ripping me off is proposterous, especially when I personally am not legally bound to it.

Now before the customers start to panic thinking I'm stealing money and doing nothing with it. The bottom line is people WILL get their product. I'm doing all I physically can from a TPR standpoint to get it done and out there. I launched the cams earlier than scheduled because thats the best market to get into right now (since there is no market). Not only that, but the cam place I am using has amazing turn around time. They are ready for purchasing now, but people are waitin on the dynos.

Once things are running smoothly, a race header will be out...the design is already done!

So everyone hang in there, the products are coming!!!!

Yes many times...in fact my question was if I was alone in this situation...

Chris you know the story...on the 5th of dicember I made tha payment only because you said you were ready to ship...I'm very sorry that you had money problems with that shop,but I think you had to tell me you were NOT ready to ship so I'd not have made tha payment...I trusted you,made the payment and now on your last e-mail you told me you don't know if/when the Intake will be ready and when you can refund me the money...

This is what makes me angry...just the fact that you told me you the intake were ready,but they were NOT!!!

The point you're not getting is that I was told they were ready. I never relayed any information that I would have known to be false or speculated. Thus, this is a major basis for my lawsuit against that said shop. They call it de-frauding someone. I've lost 10's of thousands of dollars in business because they consistently lied to me and thus to you, the customer. Them stealing the money is only a secondary part of it.

For what it's worth you can read my comments in this thread on why I feel the TPR intake is something worth waiting for.

https://celicahobby.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/425765/flat-spots.html

I gotta hand it to Chris for being the only person I know to develop a 7th Gen Celica induction system that increases performance without compromising the overall reliability and integrity of the engine.

In my opinion Celica intakes that utilize pipe sizes larger than 2.5 with the stock ECU tend to run the engine lean throughout most of the power band, it is a small enough degree that the stock ECU is able to compensate for most of the time, but an extended lean condition non the less. This is not a good state to run in for long periods of time if you are at all concerned about engine longevity. Just my $0.02, others may disagree.

Chris the point is that I'm not angry with you I'm angry with this situation...What I feel is that I took $200 and thrown them in the rubbish bin...and this is not a good feeling.

I told you many times I'm sorry for what happened to you,but I'd really like to have my money back...and at this point I think this is not going to happen. Also beacause I sent you an e-mail a few days ago and you didn't answer...

I havent received any emails? People will get whats theirs eventually, I'm not going to dick anyone...

I can re-send it to you,but it doesn't matter anymore...
I Understood more here on EC than by e-mail...

What more can I say?I keep waiting...

^^ try sellin your spot to some one else man, there's people out there who are willing to wait.

I'd be very pleased with that...at this point I'm not confident I'll ever receive the TPR intake.
If somebody wants to,there is no problem,I use paypal for payment...

Sounds like Easy_C has a working prototype for the new TPR CAI.

He just needs someone who lives in the Fontana CA area to volunteer to test the fitment.

If you think you could help please PM Easy_C about it.