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Velocity Trends
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Velocity Trends
Most, if not all, of you know who Velocity Trends is, it's a local shop. I just saw today that they're a site sponsor ... I'm not going to comment, I just want to see how people feel about the shop. I will say that they have a really nice website.
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I am one who can say, The Cars they build for their ownselves are usually built with Quality. Their cvics are Fast, They build awesome N/A motors and can do major installs but I have seen too many Cars come from their that I laughed at.
Now I am not sure if the owner was cheap and bought cheap stuff for the car or treated them poorly but I do know that The Turbo'd 05' Rio S2K they built Blew up 2 weeks later and the owner was ashamed. The builder was scheduled to be on the cover of Honda tuning Magazine (not saying any names) and now the motor is gone.
Not to mention, they sell items that are worthless and provide people with crap like Low quality brand names, non performance parts when people think they are performance and etc.
Then again, The people are very nice, Steve and Tommy were the originals and I to this day enjoy conversations with them both.
Now I am not sure if the owner was cheap and bought cheap stuff for the car or treated them poorly but I do know that The Turbo'd 05' Rio S2K they built Blew up 2 weeks later and the owner was ashamed. The builder was scheduled to be on the cover of Honda tuning Magazine (not saying any names) and now the motor is gone.
Not to mention, they sell items that are worthless and provide people with crap like Low quality brand names, non performance parts when people think they are performance and etc.
Then again, The people are very nice, Steve and Tommy were the originals and I to this day enjoy conversations with them both.
I don't even know where their shop is.
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Originally Posted by billiardboy904,Oct 7 2008, 11:46 AM
I am one who can say, The Cars they build for their ownselves are usually built with Quality. Their cvics are Fast, They build awesome N/A motors and can do major installs but I have seen too many Cars come from their that I laughed at.
Now I am not sure if the owner was cheap and bought cheap stuff for the car or treated them poorly but I do know that The Turbo'd 05' Rio S2K they built Blew up 2 weeks later and the owner was ashamed. The builder was scheduled to be on the cover of Honda tuning Magazine (not saying any names) and now the motor is gone.
Not to mention, they sell items that are worthless and provide people with crap like Low quality brand names, non performance parts when people think they are performance and etc.
Then again, The people are very nice, Steve and Tommy were the originals and I to this day enjoy conversations with them both.
Now I am not sure if the owner was cheap and bought cheap stuff for the car or treated them poorly but I do know that The Turbo'd 05' Rio S2K they built Blew up 2 weeks later and the owner was ashamed. The builder was scheduled to be on the cover of Honda tuning Magazine (not saying any names) and now the motor is gone.
Not to mention, they sell items that are worthless and provide people with crap like Low quality brand names, non performance parts when people think they are performance and etc.
Then again, The people are very nice, Steve and Tommy were the originals and I to this day enjoy conversations with them both.
My thoughts exactly. Their cars are quality, that gray EG w/ the turbo'd K20 is sick. On the other hand, they turbo'd that '05 Rio and put an Apex'i V-AFC NEO (or maybe not even the NEO) on it to tune the car. I told them they would blow it up, but they kept arguing with me that as long as they kept it at low boost it would be totally safe. FAIL
They also cut the metal part off of one of my exhaust hangers when they were swapping exhausts b/c the mechanic "couldn't get it out" of the rubber hanger, and then left the parking brake engaged on my car when they dyno'd it, and I have a friend who had his Civic FALL OFF the dyno b/c they didn't tighten down the straps.
But yeah, their shop cars are nice. Also, the guy who seemed to be in charge there (I forget his name, it was a year ago) was cool and seemed to know what he was doing. As far as my experience, it was just that one guy who
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I bought my buddy club Exhaust from them i bought it for 650 and then they charged me 75 for shipping so 725 not good. Also the guy told me to run a 100 shot without any tuning and that it would hold. good thing i didnt.