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jwick · 05-17-2015, 08:17 AM

Looks like he's making profit off the purchase. Not unheard of since it requires time and effort on his part.

Why are you buying it thru the shop? You should be able to buy and have it shipped wherever you want. Only risk there is anything that's wrong is on you to correct but Tony should make that right if anything happens.

You are definitely going to need a clutch and I doubt its included in his quote since he's so detailed with listing everything else. At his numbers and markup that's probably another $2500 installed.

The factory cooler isn't that great. You are definitely going to want an aftermarket. Especially since you live in AZ.

The install labor is high but reasonable. $250/hr for tuning seems pretty high.

If it's a good shop and you feel comfortable consider buying everything and having it shipped to them, at least the major items from FI. That should save you what appears to be at least a grand. Has this shop built and tuned a boosted VQ37VHR? If not I highly recommend looking to somebody that has done a few successful boosted tunes on this platform. It has its quirks and you don't want to be their test dummy.

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jwick A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Houston Posts: 14,532 Drives: '10 G37 6MT Rep Power: 2465056	Ok..Here we go, FI or AAM? Looks like he's making profit off the purchase. Not unheard of since it requires time and effort on his part. Why are you buying it thru the shop? You should be able to buy and have it shipped wherever you want. Only risk there is anything that's wrong is on you to correct but Tony should make that right if anything happens. You are definitely going to need a clutch and I doubt its included in his quote since he's so detailed with listing everything else. At his numbers and markup that's probably another $2500 installed. The factory cooler isn't that great. You are definitely going to want an aftermarket. Especially since you live in AZ. The install labor is high but reasonable. $250/hr for tuning seems pretty high. If it's a good shop and you feel comfortable consider buying everything and having it shipped to them, at least the major items from FI. That should save you what appears to be at least a grand. Has this shop built and tuned a boosted VQ37VHR? If not I highly recommend looking to somebody that has done a few successful boosted tunes on this platform. It has its quirks and you don't want to be their test dummy. __________________ '10 G37T 6MT Graphite/Graphite - BP - G37T Build Last edited by jwick; 05-17-2015 at 08:20 AM.