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I was talking to Seb guys! Good news! I am going to take my car to Seb once I have enough saved up.

I had asked him if 3k was enough and he suggested to save up a little more than that, and then we can schedule something later down the road!

I'm super excited to be working with him for the first time! As it sounds like he will be able to resolve the rest of my issues all at once from the positive things the community has to say about him -- seems like I can't go wrong. Eugene could have done it himself, but he is a one-man person with a lot on his plate, and to be quite honest, he did a very fantastic job with what he did for the 2 weeks he had my car. He did me a favor bigger than you guys will probably ever know, and I appreciate that man so much. He also recommended I take my car to Seb to finish the job, so that is what I will do.

Seb wrote me today and told me to save up a bit more.
I wrote him back saying I could meet him sometime at the end of June, around June 27th - Thursday, so we'll see if he is okay with that appointment or not!
I can have $4500 - $4900 saved up for a budget assuming nothing crazy comes up between now and then that forces me to spend that budget! (Life events etc)


I am also confident the car is driveable now, and won't be needing a tow.

I took the car today to the exhaust shop in Sacramento (Muffler Tech) which is very reputable in what they do, very honest and well priced. They welded up the exhaust that fell out of place / was disconnected for only $45 and also did a smoke test to find out where the leak was coming from free of charge! Told me it was coming from somewhere in the exhaust manifold passenger side but cannot exactly pin point where, since they'd have to remove the heat shield to find out. But said they were 85% sure that the leak is coming from somewhere up top in the manifold or something.

The car drives very nice other than that issue. I am going to test it this weekend and drive it to work 1 hour 15 minutes away with windy roads going up a mountain ~1700 feet to where my work is.

And drive it around town the next few days before work to see how it feels and goes.

If I am confident (cause I have the highest level of paranoia right now), then I would say that's a good thing!

Otherwise, I won't chance it. And will use three AAA tows after driving out toward Chatsworth from my house about 60 - 70 miles then calling AAA three times to get it to Seb, haha.

Thanks guys for the recommendations, I love the community and will definitely be taking my car to Seb.

Those of you in So Cal, I will let you guys know when I will be down there probably about 3 - 4 months from now so if you wanted to check out my problematic car, you can, lol, at Sebs shop!

Where would I sleep while the car is being worked on? No idea. Maybe I can find a family member or friend who can house me for the days that he is working on my car. Not sure. Didn't figure that part out yet T_T

EDIT:

Nevermind. I think I will just take the train back and then fly back down when its' ready or something. Lol.

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