Progress!

I called IA today to see if they could pry an update out of Aristocrat and they promised to call me back after doing so. 5 minutes later I got the best news I've had on this project for quite awhile... The cam timing issue has been fixed and the car is ready to go back to IA!

Reportedly they were able to retime the cams without having to drop the motor out so there shouldn't be any re-installation issues due to the custom nature of my beast.

On a side note I also had IA send my Pioneer Avic Z2 headunit back to Pioneer for repair/upgrade under warranty due to a known issue with overheating, lock ups at boot, and hard drive failure, BUT UPS apparently decided to use the package as a soccer ball and destroyed the screen in transit. IA dealt with UPS and Pioneer and the unit should be fully repaired and on its way back to IA in time to be reinstalled before I actually pick the car up at the end of next week.

Stephen and Karl are both still out of town but should be back to work next thursday morning and hopefully I can pick my car up on friday at COB... HOPEFULLY... Stephen still needs to fully reinspect things to include dynoing it to verify its performing right and the A/F ratio's etc are all to his liking. Once he ok's it I'm picking it up and taking it straight to Patrick in GA to start the body conversion. Woot!