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Old 08-02-2003, 05:14 PM
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Modified Lt1 Intakes Conversions by John Millican

I bought an Lt1 intake off Lt1intake.com on May 19 about 2 months ago or so and im completely and utterly disappointed and extremely aggravated with John Millican's products he sells. I have a whole list of problems I could go on for hours explaining every detail of every problem I have had. Let me start with the basics, for one I paid a total of $610 for the entire conversion not including the programmed chip which I don’t even know if it even works right. But I think all of you out there would figure that if you pay that much for an intake you all would expect it to be done right the first time. But no John Millican from my point of view def doesn’t come close to even giving you your moneys worth.

Let me go on with all the problems I have had with John Millican's lt1 intakes 1) bolt holes aren’t modified right, not even close to lining up with the holes on the heads additional modifying will have to be done yourself 2) leaks coolant and oil like crazy 3) Lt1 intakes done have distributor holes so John Millican drills a hole in the back of the intake and screws a angled piece of metal on the back of the intake to acquire the correct angle for the distributor. the problem I had with this is that piece of metal he made was to thick 3/16 does make a dif people, and when it comes measurements on engines and parts there is def no room for error. well because of this error my oil pump shaft had slack in it there for it ground down the inside of the shaft causing the oil pump not to work unfortunately I did not notice this for a few min so my brand new engine was running with no oil for *** knows how long im glad it didn’t do any harm.

Now I emailed John Millican and he says it’s not his problem he won’t give me my money back because I already installed the intake. How was I supposed to know all this would happen with out installing the intake. now my every day driver my 1988 iroc-z Convt. is a hunk of junk sitting in my garage. To top it off I had to buy some hunk of junk to drive around. Any one else have theis problems.... ill post more about this later when I fig out what the hell im going to do with this situation..


I have agreed to give john abother try to see if he can get the job done the right time the second time since he wont give me my money back. we will se how it goes.

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Old 08-02-2003, 06:56 PM
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That really sucks, sorry to hear that!!!

If you want better exposure to people that may have used the intakes repost this in the Vendor board.
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man i wanted to do that mod too
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I should move this but... not going to.

Copy on the other board.
https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=194501

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This seems odd as I have seen lots of posts from satisfied customers of John's. I would like to hear his side of this story as well.
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Even with used parts, when they are purchased from someone who is in the related business, the customer expects, and rightfully so, the product to be better than buying from a individual, and the courts will side with the customer.

NEVER EVER modify anything you might need to return to the seller without first getting his permission.

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Funny John.

1 warning. 2 doesnt come.

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