Major Problems.. Help plz.

[robertsmb]

Ok, finished all my swaps yesterday. Woke up this morning and almost burned my car to the ground. Im going to type in everythign I can think of so if you would please just read thru it and give me idea's.
Work that I personally did:
I swapped out the stock turbo for the CT27, the stock intercooler for the greddy i/c w/fan, stock cat and exhaust for a ko racing downpipe and exhaust, and stock air box for the k&n intake adapter kit. I have also ran a steel braded 6an line from my hood to the engine bay for a CO2 cooling system that hooks to the intercooler, that isnt currently fully installed... jsut the lines are run. I also installed the HKS Fuel Cut Defencer. These are all of the mods that I have done myself.
Now,... problems that I know of, but dont know how to fix.
I am leaking tons of transmission gear grease from the output shaft seal. I have the seal on order, but I dont know if thats all I need. The shop that installed my transmission is probably the reason it is leaking because everything else they have touched on my car doesnt work but there is no way Im going back there...
The same shop also installed a 255lph fuel pump for me. Now, they didnt do the install right, and I dont know what the fuck they did. When I got all my swaps done yesterday I tried to start my car and fuel was pouring out of the bottom of the engine by the downpipe. I had a mechanic at the auto skills center (im a marine and i was on base, its one of the perks we have) help me fix that. Ok so the car finally started and I drove home, then I came into my other problems.
My car when I first took off from the auto skills center went up to roughly 19psi before I got scared and let off the gas. I didnt know why it was boosting that high. I have the HKS Fuel Cut defense set on channel 7, which should stop boost at 17psi. Maybe I dont have the line from the wastegate actuator to the TVSV hooked up, or maybe its something else. I have a manual boost controller sitting on my computer desk beside me right now. Maybe if I installed that I could keep the boost under control, but once again, I dont know why its out of control in the first place.
After that 19psi run, my car started running like shit. It wont rev over 3200-3400 rpms.. ever. It feels like im hitting a rev limiter somewhere,.. like a brick wall. It Will not accelerate. If I stay under 3000 rpms I can drive it... shift from gear to gear and its ok... or so it seems, but I shut it off because I dont like driving it when its like that. I parked and opened up the lid to the engine bay. This is where the serious problems come in.
I think Im grounding out somewhere that I shouldnt be and the car wont start. My car started smoking and clicking "AFTER" I shut it off. I immediatly disconnected the battery terminals so I didnt burn my motor to the ground and looked in the engine bay. The steel braded line I ran was touching the valve cover and burning itself up.(i think it grounded out,.. how else would it get current??) The Burns put a good size hole in the line, turned it nice pretty purple and blue and yellow burn colors, as well as the throttle cable. I started looking around and a couple of my engines grounds that I did not take off, where off and hanging,.. just dangling... (probably from the shop that fucked everythign else up) so I guess the engine was looking for another ground. I hooked them back up and looked for other grounds out of place, but I couldnt find any. I connected the battery and tried to start it again, and it didnt start. It started to crank, and then stopped, and started the whole clicking/smoking/ground out thing again. I disconnected the battery cable again, and then it started to rain... so I cant work on it in the rain.
I also noticed that I had fuel dripping out of my intake filter. I dont know how fuel was getting pushed thru my turbo and back out of my intake filter. Thats got to be a problem with that fuel pump instal that they screwed up...
Now Im lost, and I just want my damn car to work. Its 3 days before payday, and I dont have $60.00 dollars to pay for a tow to the base auto center where I can get help. I need idea's to get my car to work approximatly 2-3 miles so I can drive it to them without frying everything. Please keep in mind that this is my only car, and Im broke, so I cannot let this car go up in flames. Im very scared to drive it or even start it because I know its not going to just smoke over and over without breaking shit.
If there is a way I can fix this here, please by all means tell me the corrective action. I have basic tools and jack stands and I can get to about any angle of the car I need to from here... not as easy as a lift, but I can make it work if I can be pointed in the right direction.
On a side note, one of my good friends called his father and told him about all this. His father is regarded by all as the "Car Guy" that can fix most things over the phone by telling you whats up. He told us that if the ECU wasnt grounded correctly then it wouldnt work right... meaning the rev limiter might kick in at the wrong point, and I wouldnt be putting the right ammounts of fuel everywhere and all this other stuff that could go wrong. He thinks my main problem are the grounds that arent done correctly, and after thats fixed it should solve my smoking and all this other shit. I dont have a clue what hes talking about but I need every expert that konws everythign about my car to help on this one.
Thanks in advance guys,.. Im really hurting here.

[CompanyFlow]

If I were you, I would take the car back to the shop that did the work, and demand that they fix it correctly for free, or demand your money back. If they dont budge to either option, then you might want to look into getting a lawyer, because your money was wasted and theyre still ripping people off.

[Strat42586]

I have to agree with the above comments. I took my car back to a mechanic I had do work 4 times until I was satisfied with the work done. It doesn't matter what the shop says, if it's not working, take it back until it does. And if worst comes to worst, small claims court is always an option.

[Gairloch]

You prolly don't need to pay for a tow if you have access to a truck with a class three hitch. Just find a rental shop nearby that has a two wheel dolly and tow your own car in. Shouldn't cost you more than $20 for the dolly.

What exactly did you have this tranny shop do for you? The main grounds would have to be removed if they swapped a tranny for you but that doesn't explain why it's still grounding out after you've put them back. If they did that bad of a job I might talk to the manager to see what can be worked out but if they're screwing up so badly as to fail to replace the main ground I don't know if I'd trust 'em to work on my car again ever.

When you say that you've got fuel dripping from your intake filter, do you mean your fuel filter or your air filter?

Can you give us a list of the issues you're currently facing? I'm a little confused about where things stand ...

[robertsmb]

Ok I think I found some of the problems... besides the shop screwing things up.

The engine was not grounded. In fact, I could not find the ground wire what so ever. No part of the engine was grounded to the chasis anywhere. I dont know why the shop would have to remove the grounds to the engine, but I could not find them. So, what I did was look at a few pictures of the stock engine bay , and I made my own grounds... the sensors that I could see got grounds, and I put 1 big 4 gauge wire from the motor to the chasis.

This solved my clicking/smoking/starting problem.

The 2nd thing I noticed was that my engine was vapor locked... bad. In fact, I might have had gas in there long enough to eat the piston rings.... lets hope not. I took the spark plugs out and turned the crank manually with a wrench. The first time I spun it, about 24 ounces of gas and oil shot out in a stream about 2 inches in diameter and blasted my friend chris in the face,.. who was standing behind the car. =) Yes, I laughed. I did this 3 more times, once for each cylinder, all yeilding the same results... there was literally a gallon of gas that came out of the cylinders. Next I drained the oil pan,.... that took about 15 minutes.... The oil was so diluted with gas that you could see thru it... keep in mind this is oil that was changed about 50 miles ago... brand new.

I ran out of time with this last night, but I will pick it up today... that gives me all day today to think of what caused this and how to keep it form happening again. Here are my thoughts... please tell me if I am on to something, or completely missing the mark.

Ok, I had a shop install a 255lph fuel pump.. meaning it was pumping out some serious gas. Since the engine or the sensors or ECU werent grounded, Im guessnig the computer didnt have a clue how much fuel it was pushing into my engine,.. and since the pump was bigger,... it was a lot more fuel than I needed. Im thinking that a Adjustable Fuel Pressure regulator should help me manually tone down the gas coming into the engine, and help keep me from having this problem again?? What do you guys think? The other problem with the grounding, I think I have solved.

Keep in mind that I only need the car to be drivable. Im going to take it to MR2Guru as soon as I can get it running and have him fix absolutly everything wrong with my car. If you have any more idea's please say so....