Just bought a Mazdaspeed front cover gasket to fix my leak, custom Fluidyne radiator so the car won't over heat anymore, Greddy auto-timer, and Pettit intakes. They'll all be installed by Tuesday.



Woot! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/bigok.gif

i agree money well spent! what fans are you running?

Installed by? DMS? or Pettit?

DMS. They give me a deal on prices.

whatever happened to the satisfaction of doing work youself. Atleast then you know 100% just it is done right and it was made/fixed with the best possible material/part/system possible

I can tear apart a piston motor blind folded...



But I don't know rotaries well enough to do it myself. I'd rather have someone who was on team RX7 do it for me. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...R#>/tongue.png

HA! that's a very good point. but you have to realize.... we are dealing with rich fd guys... https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

Unfortunatly for me I do not have the time to do all I want to do. Benefit of having a place like Pettit do it? He will look over your car and fix all kinds of things he sees as potential problems mostly for free. Things you and I would overlook but he has seen time and again go bad.



My mechanic? Road racer,.... I have learned so much from him its not funny. If I was doing it all myself I would not learn nearly as much.



Plus, this might be hard for you to understand, I consider myself more of a driver than a mechanic. I know all the workings of my car I can also roll up my sleeves and do it myself. I am invaluble to my mechanic becasue I can give him input as to exactly what I want my car to do and how I think I can get it to do that.



I prefer to drive it and break it. Not fix it all the time.



Now my new hood is here and my bumper will be here tomarrow. According to you guys I should paint it myself. Nah, I'll have a pro do it.

yeah i'm a driver too..... !

I save up for years to find a good deal and buy an FD, so that apparently means I'm rich... Thanks, I appreciate you placing me in the "rich guy who doesn't know anything about cars" category. Just because I'd MUCH rather keep my car running then try to take it apart myself with the limited knowledge I have, and potentially break it, doesn't mean I'm an idiot. I just got stereotyped by a moderator because I drive an FD. I guess I should get used to it... But when I get it from a fellow rotary driver... Something's not quite right.

shouldn't you be building an SAE car, not chatting online?

I wish I had the money to have someone fix my car, I would have been driving it a LONG time ago.

I dont replace trannies or rebuild motors, but id like to start! I look at it this way:



I dont exactly know what im doing, and i dont have the money to re-replace the new tranny i just fucked up trying to install it in the car...or the fender or the exhaust.

I have installed my entire suspension and diled it in myself. After of couse some direction from my mechanic.



I have installed a lot of things in my car over the years. As time has passed I have has less time to "play car" in my garage. So the decision had to be made, work on car or race car one or the other.



Guess which I choosed.

I also don't have a garage. Or tools!

Sounds like somebody's a little touchy on this subject?



I would do all my own work on every car I have if I had a choice. I have seen way too much expensive, incompetent work by shops of every description, from corner gas stations, to specialty shops, to dealers. Nobody else has an interest in doing the work carefully and correctly. They just want your money.



Unfortunately, the maintenance on five vehicles, four of which are well over ten years old, forces me to consider paying someone else to do the work. I just don't have the time. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...>/rolleyes.gif

A shop like Pettit Racing did not get the excellent reputation it has doing shoddy work.



You get what you pay for in my book. There are only 2 shops I will trust my car with Pettit and a local mechanic that treats my car like it is his own. BTW- He has been working on Rotaries since the RX-3 RX-4 days.



Yes there is great joy in doing a job yourself. I love working on my own car. Unfortunatly I dont have the time. So I have to find shops that I can trust to do a better job than I.

I agree with you 100%, and its great to have a good shop within driving distance. But the logistics of getting a car to and from a shop 100 or 1000 miles away pretty much rules it out for me.

You'd think that'd be the case everywhere, but when I got my turbo upgraded, I went to a well known RX-7 shop with a good reputation (if you didn't need a Haltech tuned https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR) and got shitty service. Then I drove back there to get it fixed, and got the same shitty service again. Don't get me wrong, for other people, they've been a good shop (which is why I don't generally put them down by name), but from then on I've pretty much done all of my own work. The only other people who got to work on my car were Rotarydragon and my friend/mechanic Mark who also has an '87 TII.

when i start driving the fd im gunna do some mechanical stuff..but i will prabably ask my brother...he's a mechanic and knows his stuff...if he can't do it i'll bring it to judge ito...only about 10min from me https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

hah, the smiley meant i was messin with ya. i'm actually very jealous of ya. sorry if i got on your nerves https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/blush.png

Yea it's ok... I just get a little edgey when I hear that because I hear it so much. So many people say that it gets tiring to listen to. Sorry to have gotten on your case like that.



The ONLY places I take the RX7 to if I can't do the job myself are Pettit, and Dragon Motor Sports. I take the car to Dragon most of the time because the guy I bought it from has always been getting his work done there. Louis and Ozzie know my car like it's one of their own. Louis has been working on RX7's for nearly 13 years, and has specialized in 3rd gen's since their debut. Not to mention he's made an 11.4 sec daily driver FD that has been running for nearly 2 years on 18 psi. Same thing with Cameron. They both know their stuff. And about money... Dragon actually gives me discounts or near vendor cost on almost everything they sell me because they know I want an impressively fast FD, and when I do good, they look good.



I would much rather take it somewhere for a difficult job and make sure it's done right, then try to do it myself and potentially ruin/break my motor.



Not to mention, to replace my front cover gasket, I'd have to remove the motor from the bay and I don't have a lift. Hence the high install prices on the gasket.

your going to need it after I get my car tuned!!!! haha:ok:

Yea... https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683894.gif

I wouldnt say that too loud.. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png