Mazdas and More
07-09-2006, 12:03 PM
#13
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: seattle/spokane
Posts: 136
im telling you man, buy a used motor that runs and swap that in while YOU rebuid your motor. motor swap is a few hour job and i bet theres a lot of rotorheads that would be more than happy to help if you buy the beer/pizza/naked girs/whatever 
07-09-2006, 12:05 PM
#14
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Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 13
Only thing that sucks is i'm on a timeline. I need this bad boy up and running by friday...and I really don't have the workspace or skill to do this stuff. If this was a project car i'd be all gung-ho for this time to learn something new and rotarded.
07-09-2006, 12:22 PM
#15
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: central WA state
Posts: 446
Originally Posted by Ril_Silver' post='827535' date='Jul 9 2006, 09:32 AM
So I should still be pretty good with Mark as long as I specify the use of new parts? Now how to I ensure new parts are being used in this process?
i guess you could make prior arrangements with ken to sit down after the teardown and get an itemized estimate for rebuild. not everything needs to be new to fix a motor. rotary ressurection makes a business out of doing inexpensive rebuilds by using many parts that are still in spec. The main thing is that you and the shop have the same idea of what they are doing and why, and how much it is going to cost and what the results are expected to be. you might mention the bad pr they got on the transmission, and that you are concerned...
hell, be straight upfront with what you want, get in writing what the shop will do, and go from there. its the best that you are gonna get with anybody. if you have done your research on the forums, you should have a good idea what goes into the motor, and what bad deals go down in the nw.
decide what you want from the motor. do you want a total rebuild with everything replaced, or do you want to repair what is wrong with the rear rotor (excuse my memory, but the front rotor was ok compression wise,yes?) and just get new seals etc to tie it back together. both will work, but you should expect different outcomes and different prices....
if you are willing to spend 3K, you could get somebody to R&R it, send it to any number of shops for rebuild (which is kind of a misnomer as the motor that you get back might only have 50% of the same major parts that you sent). all that transport takes time and costs money, and if you have probs, the installer will tell you it is the rebuilder, and the rebuilder will tell you it is the installer....
In my experience, the premier builders (pineapple/import auto) will chew up a good chunk of $3K for a normal full rebuild, and if you need major pieces, it will run more + R&R. I believe that is why they have less problems, they run tighter tolerances and put in new parts if anything is suspect.
These are just the observations of an old fart who has learned a few things by making bad decisions in the past, and my rx7 experience is only a few years old. i could easily be fos!!!
Anyway, ya pays yer money, and ya takes yer chances.
07-09-2006, 04:17 PM
#17
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Kirkland WA 98034
Posts: 153
I dont know mark like that at all.. are we sure we are not talking about someone else? Im not going to read all that crap. all i know is mark rebuilt my engine block. and its running. and running good. no smoke no nothin. what else can i say. i only have 3k on it..
07-09-2006, 08:18 PM
#19
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 17
going back on the tranny issue, i have a turbo II tranny in my vert. But yeah when I went to mazdas and more i never saw or heard of anybody named mark. But my friend brought his 93 Nissan 300z na there for a tune up, oil change, fuel filter, plugs and wires. and when he got it back it wouldn't idle so he sat there for another 3 hours until they could fiqure it out...they said that they put the fuel filter upside down.
