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Old Jun 14, 2008 | 11:02 PM
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I might be buying a car that Dr. Phil put a procharger in about 2500 miles ago, and tuned car. What do you guys hear about his installs and tunes? also no intercooler? i thought all good installers stress intercoolers be installed... anything to look for with prochargers? better then vortechs right? thanks guys...
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Old Jun 14, 2008 | 11:39 PM
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Phil does top notch work. He built my entire car (turbos, tune, etc).

I find it *VERY* hard to believe that Phil would recommend a ProCharger to anyone for any reason.

Link to the car?
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Old Jun 14, 2008 | 11:42 PM
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If Phil built a car, I would buy it sight unseen..
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Old Jun 14, 2008 | 11:50 PM
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Phil has the highest rep here on the forum.
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Old Jun 15, 2008 | 02:35 AM
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And if anyone has ever talked to him via email, he's got the shortest answers on the forum..

Yup, Nope, Dont Do that, I told you so, Yur an idiot, and Oh gawd you didnt do that did you.....

For some reason he uses ALL of those comments together in every one of my emails.
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Phil has the highest rep here on the forum.
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Old Jun 15, 2008 | 03:42 AM
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Originally Posted by American_HP@Total Perf
And if anyone has ever talked to him via email, he's got the shortest answers on the forum..

Yup, Nope, Dont Do that, I told you so, Yur an idiot, and Oh gawd you didnt do that did you.....

For some reason he uses ALL of those comments together in every one of my emails.
LMAO!! I see you have asked him a few questions...
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Old Jun 15, 2008 | 06:34 AM
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Old Jun 15, 2008 | 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by leon.zeus
I might be buying a car that Dr. Phil put a procharger in about 2500 miles ago, and tuned car. What do you guys hear about his installs and tunes? also no intercooler? i thought all good installers stress intercoolers be installed... anything to look for with prochargers? better then vortechs right? thanks guys...
Not sure whos car is for sale, but every S/C I have ever done has had an intercooler. Now, whether or not the customer knows it is a different story .

Phil
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Originally Posted by RoadRebel
Not sure whos car is for sale, but every S/C I have ever done has had an intercooler. Now, whether or not the customer knows it is a different story .

Phil
its my car....and it has one...I know its there...it's like Ohio State Football and victory...they both go together! I may have not told the guy but assumed everyone knew that....guess not.
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Originally Posted by American_HP@Total Perf
And if anyone has ever talked to him via email, he's got the shortest answers on the forum..

Yup, Nope, Dont Do that, I told you so, Yur an idiot, and Oh gawd you didnt do that did you.....

For some reason he uses ALL of those comments together in every one of my emails.


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You'll get nothing but top quality work from Phil, I've got a stock motor LS1 running in the 10s thanks to Phil. I can tell you from personal experience his support is second to none and takes no short cuts no matter what part of the vehicle he's working on.
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Originally Posted by American_HP@Total Perf
And if anyone has ever talked to him via email, he's got the shortest answers on the forum..

Yup, Nope, Dont Do that, I told you so, Yur an idiot, and Oh gawd you didnt do that did you.....

For some reason he uses ALL of those comments together in every one of my emails.
He's the ONLY vendor that I GLADLY take abuse from!
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Old Jun 15, 2008 | 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Ohiostatefan
its my car....and it has one...I know its there...it's like Ohio State Football and victory...they both go together! I may have not told the guy but assumed everyone knew that....guess not.

Victory until you play an SEC team!
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Originally Posted by RoadRebel
Not sure whos car is for sale, but every S/C I have ever done has had an intercooler. Now, whether or not the customer knows it is a different story .
Phil
That's a long post for Phil!
I don't think he's ever called me an idiot (except behind my back), but he said my posts have too many words.
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Old Jun 15, 2008 | 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Vince99FRC
LMAO!! I see you have asked him a few questions...
I'll let you guys in on a little Dr. Phil secret:

He actually says a lot...you just have to listen to what he says!!!!!! Something (listening 5X more than speaking) that a lot of Vette guys have a very difficult time with and have to/had to learn (myself included).


Another hint: Never say, well "my other tuner says...(fill in the blank)" or "I read on the forum..."

Here is too a guy that has never failed to deliver exactly what he says he will deliver (99% of the time more).
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Old Jun 15, 2008 | 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by gdphillipsvette
Phil has the highest rep here on the forum.
When he speaks, they listen. Thats for sure.

Originally Posted by American_HP@Total Perf
And if anyone has ever talked to him via email, he's got the shortest answers on the forum..

Yup, Nope, Dont Do that, I told you so, Yur an idiot, and Oh gawd you didnt do that did you.....

For some reason he uses ALL of those comments together in every one of my emails.
Oh man I got my fair share of those.

Originally Posted by Earl H
I'll let you guys in on a little Dr. Phil secret:

He actually says a lot...you just have to listen to what he says!!!!!! Something (listening 5X more than speaking) that a lot of Vette guys have a very difficult time with and have to/had to learn (myself included).


Another hint: Never say, well "my other tuner says...(fill in the blank)" or "I read on the forum..."

Here is too a guy that has never failed to deliver exactly what he says he will deliver (99% of the time more).
Agreed! He's super realistic. I don't know how many times I see shops on the forum promise something to their customer and fail to come through. Not the case with Phil.

All in all, it was a pleasure to work with Phil on my C6TTZ06. This was my first extreme built. He was patient with me though I probably nagged the sh*t out of him at first. I'm very glad he took my project and made it out to be what I wanted and If I had to do this all over again Phil would be the ONLY person I'd go to.

Thanks Phil.
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Old Jun 15, 2008 | 04:58 PM
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I'd be a Very Knowledgeable Car Nut if I knew what Dr. Phil forgot!

I've NEVER heard one bad thing about his work!
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Hah, last time I was out there to pick up my car, he was spraying weed killer on his lawn.
Is this a motor-head appropriate activity?

Never seen any rusty cars up on blocks in the yard, never seen any beer. No "wife beater" shirt. Makes me wonder if he could possibly know anything.

In contrast to his emails and posts, in person, he dumps so much information that you wish you had a couple of helpers taking notes.

Now why did he come at me threateningly with the weed killer? I couldn't possibly be his most challenging customer, could I?

Hey Phil, got my E-85 fuel system together yet?

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Old Jun 15, 2008 | 09:37 PM
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I hear phil only works on slow cars ?? any truth to that ?
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Old Jun 15, 2008 | 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Warp Factor
In contrast to his emails and posts, in person, he dumps so much information that you wish you had a couple of helpers taking notes.
He doesn't really do that with me. With me he just says something like 'this time make sure all of the gauges are at least 150 before standing on it' or stop f'ing with the boost controller.

He's great though - even when I had my ProCharger he would drive all the way across town just to help me with a belt swap.
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