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.

 

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 ) 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