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Old Oct 11, 2012 | 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by FloydSummerOf68
For the life of me I can't get some shops in Houston to take my money. I get correspondence with them, agree on prices....then I ask to bring my car in (sometimes several times) and never get a response. I guess business is pretty good right now, lol.
It's probably because you're not trying to pay $10k+!
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Old Oct 11, 2012 | 08:11 PM
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Corvettes of Houston has always done me right. Matt is a solid guy who doesn't pressure you into anything.
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Old Oct 11, 2012 | 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Cor430vette
^^^^ I wonder why these guys dont deal with Superchargers ?

LMR 10k package deal for 600 HP for the LS3 is:
Cold Air Intake

American Racing or Kooks 1 7/8" Headers with High Flow Cats or Off Road Mid Pipe

MSD 8.5mm Wires

NGK Iridium Spark Plugs

160* Thermostat

LMR Custom Grind Camshaft

Complete CNC ported and polished cylinder heads

Professional Installation

Custom Dyno Tune


Hennesseys 12k package includes a supercharger, headers, tune etc.

I dont know but ...Cams and ported cylinder heads < supercharger....IMOP...

Anyone want to comment?

Of course we offer supercharger systems. Depending on what your needs/goals are you will be looking at anywhere between $6k-$10 for a system installed and tuned. Please feel free to give one of our sales staff a call to setup an appointment. All our work is completed in house including tuning. One stop shop.
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Old Oct 11, 2012 | 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by briancb1
LMR half-assed a tune on my friends GTO. Horrible street manners on a medium cam 6.0

I've only used powerfab since I've moved here last march.

Has anyone had experience from them as well as others for a comparison?
I am very sorry to hear that "your friend" was not satisfied with our work. Usually when someone is unhappy with work you would think they would give us a call to try and make it right instead of posting on a forum. If "your friend" is still un happy please have him shoot me an email or just give me a call at the shop. I do not like to hear any customer of mine is less than satisfied with his/her vehicle. I promise you we will make it right.

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Old Oct 11, 2012 | 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by nitrouscharlie
2nd that on England Green, Jason and Stephen are TOP notch. I wouldnt go anywhere else.

It wasnt too long ago when I would rep LMR. Yeah they make some nice HP cars, but unfortunately, Ive learned first hand that unless they do ALL of your work then you can count on half *** anything else. And if and when something blows, youll be stuck in the cold. Even if it was 100% their fault..
Wow charlie, after 3 years you still bring this up on a public forum. If you are going to do that you might as well tell the truth.

Charlie owns a C5 corvette that he built HIMSELF in HIS garage. LMR has NEVER worked on it or supplied any parts for it. One friday afternoon he calls the shop in a serious bind saying his car NEEDS to be tuned before the weekend because he has a race coming up. Well, me being a racer as well, I know that feeling and told him I would stay LATE on a Friday to try and get him in even though our tuning schedule was already booked. Anyway, from the time the car was started up and drove onto our dyno, the technician that pulled the car on advised me that he thought the engine already sounded hurt and has low oil pressure. I advised charlie of our concerns and he said that engine has been together forever and just to tune it please. I said no problem. Just like EVERY car we tune we make a baseline pull first. Without even hooking our HPTuners cable up just to show the customer where his car stood before we start tuning on it. Well ofcourse, after very first baseline pull, the engine sounds worse and I tell him sorry, I am not going to go any further because you will risk hurting more parts. Charlie seemed ok at the time and left the shop. Ever since that day I heard a couple rumors about how this guy was bad mouthing LMR for "his engine that he built" messing up when all we did was make 1 pull. I will let you forum readers be the judge.
There is a reason LMR has such a great reputation and why we build the baddest corvettes on the planet. We do not skimp on parts to make a buck, we only install the best of the best because I stand behind my work 100 percent.
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Old Oct 11, 2012 | 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Late Model Racecraft
Wow charlie, after 3 years you still bring this up on a public forum. If you are going to do that you might as well tell the truth.

Charlie owns a C5 corvette that he built HIMSELF in HIS garage. LMR has NEVER worked on it or supplied any parts for it. One friday afternoon he calls the shop in a serious bind saying his car NEEDS to be tuned before the weekend because he has a race coming up. Well, me being a racer as well, I know that feeling and told him I would stay LATE on a Friday to try and get him in even though our tuning schedule was already booked. Anyway, from the time the car was started up and drove onto our dyno, the technician that pulled the car on advised me that he thought the engine already sounded hurt and has low oil pressure. I advised charlie of our concerns and he said that engine has been together forever and just to tune it please. I said no problem. Just like EVERY car we tune we make a baseline pull first. Without even hooking our HPTuners cable up just to show the customer where his car stood before we start tuning on it. Well ofcourse, after very first baseline pull, the engine sounds worse and I tell him sorry, I am not going to go any further because you will risk hurting more parts. Charlie seemed ok at the time and left the shop. Ever since that day I heard a couple rumors about how this guy was bad mouthing LMR for "his engine that he built" messing up when all we did was make 1 pull. I will let you forum readers be the judge.
There is a reason LMR has such a great reputation and why we build the baddest corvettes on the planet. We do not skimp on parts to make a buck, we only install the best of the best because I stand behind my work 100 percent.
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Old Oct 12, 2012 | 12:19 AM
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Change of plans. I was going to go with COH. However I had put a call into England Green before ...and they got back to me and gave me a killer option and deal on a Vortech Supercharger. I ended up spending probably 6 hours doing research on the this and for the price and what it gives you without having to modify much the Vortech is for me. I have decided to go with a package they put together for me on this...approximately 600 to 625 Hp.

I also got a quote from Hennesey, COH, and LMR. But the price and product that England Green gave me along with their stellar track record on these forums won my business sorry guys. Everyone was really informative and competitive in pricing... I am sure all the packages would have been fantastic but for my situation and what I am looking for this worked best.

THANKS

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Originally Posted by Cor430vette
Change of plans. I was going to go with COH. However I had put a call into England Green before ...and they got back to me and gave me a killer option and deal on a Vortech Supercharger. I ended up spending probably 6 hours doing research on the this and for the price and what it gives you without having to modify much the Vortech is for me. I have decided to go with a package they put together for me on this...approximately 600 to 625 Hp.

I also got a quote from Hennesey, COH, and LMR. But the price and product that England Green gave me along with their stellar track record on these forums won my business sorry guys. Everyone was really informative and competitive in pricing... I am sure all the packages would have been fantastic but for my situation and what I am looking for this worked best.

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Thank you for your business!

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