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04-30-13, 01:09 AM
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Oh and Banzai I don't know why you so called banned me from your shop either since not once have I ever had an issue with you of any kind. Just becaue you have issues with other customers that I knew don't lump me into a cadagory with them with no just cause. Yes I do still assosicate with Sal but aside from him I haven't spoke to any of those other guys in damn near 10 years. Again I state I have never bashed you or your company so don't do the same to me. Also if you don't have anything that pertains the the topic at hand then please keep comments to yourself. This thread is for the two shops in question NOT banzai
04-30-13, 09:57 AM
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Ok Zavier that's your side of the story now let me tell mine. First off Trueimport is me and only me. I don't share my user log in with anyone. I have no idea who justanotherimport is, I've never even seen that name on here. Secondly this is how the story goes (as for me and my car. I speak for no one else's). I brought my car to you after a horibal horibal horibal experience with Davinci Motorworks. You DID some good things for my car and did get it back up and running after being in your shop for 11 months. Durring those 11 months my rims were stollen, side skirts broken off the car and the entire car riddled with hail damage. The day I picked my car up from you i was there with my wife and two other pissed off customers that had the same thing happen their cars while at your shop. I'm NOT a thief!!! I would have no reason to steal a freaking laptop! Plus how the hell could I have ever taken it, I was with you and or Jason the entire time either in the shop or up front in the office where you, me, Jason and my wife talked over what happend and how to square that up. My wife and I were never not with one of you. Meanwhile two other customers and one VERY pissed off one I might add where left alone in the shop 100% by themselves with no one watching them. So again I ask how the hell could I have taken it? If you have a way to prove it then by all means please do and Ill be more then happy to replace it. Just because we had some heated words over a bad situation doesn't mean I took your stuff. People argue all the time, and that's just it, and argument. I don't see you pointing the fingers at the other pissed customers! Let me also add that my engine has been puking coolant since the day I left your shop and not once did I ever call you out on it, not once did I ever bash you for it, and not once did I ever request you fix it. No what I did was end that bad relationship and move on. I tried for many many years to work out the cooling issues with this car but to no avail they keep coming back so that's why I've been looking into a rebuild.
Now why do you think I started this thread in the first place? It was to see if you or Shook had any good credibility to go based on and make a good educated decision. I have been tired of getting jerked around with this car and just wanted to get it built properly once and for all. You're right, I did ask Sal to see if you would build my engine again because let's be honest you do have solid building expreiances and do in fact have documented high hp cars on this forum so why wouldn't I want to see if you would build mine. Hell you said it yourself that his car was cracking off quick times and if you are the builder of his car then that's what I want too so again thats why I had him call you to see if you would do it. After pulling my motor this past weekend I was feeling confident that the motor was strong so I was going to leave it and just fix other small things here and there. Sal decided to have another shop do the rebuild instead of you for what ever his own reasons were. That shop offered to switch out my front cover for a very reasonable price. Sals motor was first to be broke down. After seeing what I saw come out of his engine made my stomach turn so I got cold feet about leaving mine as is since you build both our engines. He had quite a few more miles on his than mine even though mine was years prior. Mine has less than 2k on it since you built it. We opened mine to find out that it in fact does have a bad coolant seal as well as a collapsed corner seal and 17 thousandths gap of side seal corner seal clearance. So you answer me this, how if a customer pays for an engine to be fully rebuilt does the tolerances jump to 17 thousandths when Mazda states 2-7 is acceptable? Putting used part in an engine, that's how. And lets not mention the fully blocked coolant passages filled with silicone, the hacked oil pan, the steel braided oil cooler lines and fuel system lines held on with hose clams just to name a few. Your right Zavier you are a top notch guy with top notch perfect builds.
If anyone's looking for pic proof of anything please PM me directly and I'll be more then happy to show your Zaviers stellar craftsmen ship.
Now why do you think I started this thread in the first place? It was to see if you or Shook had any good credibility to go based on and make a good educated decision. I have been tired of getting jerked around with this car and just wanted to get it built properly once and for all. You're right, I did ask Sal to see if you would build my engine again because let's be honest you do have solid building expreiances and do in fact have documented high hp cars on this forum so why wouldn't I want to see if you would build mine. Hell you said it yourself that his car was cracking off quick times and if you are the builder of his car then that's what I want too so again thats why I had him call you to see if you would do it. After pulling my motor this past weekend I was feeling confident that the motor was strong so I was going to leave it and just fix other small things here and there. Sal decided to have another shop do the rebuild instead of you for what ever his own reasons were. That shop offered to switch out my front cover for a very reasonable price. Sals motor was first to be broke down. After seeing what I saw come out of his engine made my stomach turn so I got cold feet about leaving mine as is since you build both our engines. He had quite a few more miles on his than mine even though mine was years prior. Mine has less than 2k on it since you built it. We opened mine to find out that it in fact does have a bad coolant seal as well as a collapsed corner seal and 17 thousandths gap of side seal corner seal clearance. So you answer me this, how if a customer pays for an engine to be fully rebuilt does the tolerances jump to 17 thousandths when Mazda states 2-7 is acceptable? Putting used part in an engine, that's how. And lets not mention the fully blocked coolant passages filled with silicone, the hacked oil pan, the steel braided oil cooler lines and fuel system lines held on with hose clams just to name a few. Your right Zavier you are a top notch guy with top notch perfect builds.
If anyone's looking for pic proof of anything please PM me directly and I'll be more then happy to show your Zaviers stellar craftsmen ship.
You started this thread because Sal told you to do so, if I built you a bad motor why would you even consider bring me a motor to build, that just doesn't make since. Let's see you and Sal have been banned from Banzai, Aspec and many other shops in Chicago.
04-30-13, 10:08 AM
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04-30-13, 10:47 AM
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That is so far from the truth it's not even funny. The shop thatboriginallynbuilt the motor was rx7 specialties and they sent the motor to Davinci Motorworks. I never had the motor in my possession, not once. When I dropped the car off with you the engine was already installed from Davinci. You told me that you worked on trying to get it to run then on a whim you put a breaker bar on the crank pully to see if you could turn it over and that's when you realized it was seized. I had nothing to do with leaving the engine out side, that was entirely on Davinci. For that matter rx7 specialties I'm sure could pull my build records and prove that the motor was sent directly to Davinci, not me. So you didn't put it in the car then pull it out then out it back in. You broke the motor down and sent parts to rx7 specialties and they sent you parts back along with me sending you a set of rotors. If they meaning rx7 specialties were the ones that built the motor then why was there a hang up in the rebuild because you were waiting in the stud kit to be sent back to you? As for the stolen parts and hail damage you're right, we did settle up for a whopping 1400 bucks. Right because 1400 really covers fixing side skirts, hail damage to the entire car and replacing rims and tires. And again JUST because I asked you about the laptop to monitor my temps on the way home really deams me a thief. You JUST said it yourself, you realized the next morning that it was gone and let me remind you that I left your shop that day before the other two ticked off customers. And you tell me how in the world I could have taken it when my wife and I were with the two of you the entire time?
As for being banned from all these other so called shops I find that VERY funny. I have had one thing EVER done by Aspec which was modified downpipe and inter cooler pipe and I paid them for it. Oooohhhhh such a banned worthy thing. And as far as Banzai is concerned he's lumping me into a group of guys that he didn't like or associate with anymore, so how is that fair? He worked on a few of my 7s over the years a long time ago and there was never any disputes or complaints from me in perticular that I can recall. If there was it I don't remember but I've never said anything bad about Chris or Banzai. So if he wants to "banned" be by association, so be it.
And as far as I know I started this thread under my own free will. Just because Sal and I had agreed to it doesn't me he "told me to". Even if he did what would that matter?
The reason I wold have considered having you build me another motor was PRIOR to find out what the insides looked like. I never had any proof that I in fact had a bad seal until this past weekend. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt in hopes that you did build a solid engine and that the issue Ive been having since day one was a cooling system issue not a seal. That was not the case at all, it was a seal the entire time. Dude your build was such a hack job you couldn't even put the right thermostat in. It's the small things like that, that prove your incompetence. People trust you to build them a proper engine and pay you good money for it and this is the kind of halfass work you put out.
As for being banned from all these other so called shops I find that VERY funny. I have had one thing EVER done by Aspec which was modified downpipe and inter cooler pipe and I paid them for it. Oooohhhhh such a banned worthy thing. And as far as Banzai is concerned he's lumping me into a group of guys that he didn't like or associate with anymore, so how is that fair? He worked on a few of my 7s over the years a long time ago and there was never any disputes or complaints from me in perticular that I can recall. If there was it I don't remember but I've never said anything bad about Chris or Banzai. So if he wants to "banned" be by association, so be it.
And as far as I know I started this thread under my own free will. Just because Sal and I had agreed to it doesn't me he "told me to". Even if he did what would that matter?
The reason I wold have considered having you build me another motor was PRIOR to find out what the insides looked like. I never had any proof that I in fact had a bad seal until this past weekend. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt in hopes that you did build a solid engine and that the issue Ive been having since day one was a cooling system issue not a seal. That was not the case at all, it was a seal the entire time. Dude your build was such a hack job you couldn't even put the right thermostat in. It's the small things like that, that prove your incompetence. People trust you to build them a proper engine and pay you good money for it and this is the kind of halfass work you put out.
04-30-13, 01:59 PM
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That is so far from the truth it's not even funny. The shop thatboriginallynbuilt the motor was rx7 specialties and they sent the motor to Davinci Motorworks. I never had the motor in my possession, not once. When I dropped the car off with you the engine was already installed from Davinci. You told me that you worked on trying to get it to run then on a whim you put a breaker bar on the crank pully to see if you could turn it over and that's when you realized it was seized. I had nothing to do with leaving the engine out side, that was entirely on Davinci. For that matter rx7 specialties I'm sure could pull my build records and prove that the motor was sent directly to Davinci, not me. So you didn't put it in the car then pull it out then out it back in. You broke the motor down and sent parts to rx7 specialties and they sent you parts back along with me sending you a set of rotors. If they meaning rx7 specialties were the ones that built the motor then why was there a hang up in the rebuild because you were waiting in the stud kit to be sent back to you? As for the stolen parts and hail damage you're right, we did settle up for a whopping 1400 bucks. Right because 1400 really covers fixing side skirts, hail damage to the entire car and replacing rims and tires. And again JUST because I asked you about the laptop to monitor my temps on the way home really deams me a thief. You JUST said it yourself, you realized the next morning that it was gone and let me remind you that I left your shop that day before the other two ticked off customers. And you tell me how in the world I could have taken it when my wife and I were with the two of you the entire time?
As for being banned from all these other so called shops I find that VERY funny. I have had one thing EVER done by Aspec which was modified downpipe and inter cooler pipe and I paid them for it. Oooohhhhh such a banned worthy thing. And as far as Banzai is concerned he's lumping me into a group of guys that he didn't like or associate with anymore, so how is that fair? He worked on a few of my 7s over the years a long time ago and there was never any disputes or complaints from me in perticular that I can recall. If there was it I don't remember but I've never said anything bad about Chris or Banzai. So if he wants to "banned" be by association, so be it.
And as far as I know I started this thread under my own free will. Just because Sal and I had agreed to it doesn't me he "told me to". Even if he did what would that matter?
The reason I wold have considered having you build me another motor was PRIOR to find out what the insides looked like. I never had any proof that I in fact had a bad seal until this past weekend. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt in hopes that you did build a solid engine and that the issue Ive been having since day one was a cooling system issue not a seal. That was not the case at all, it was a seal the entire time. Dude your build was such a hack job you couldn't even put the right thermostat in. It's the small things like that, that prove your incompetence. People trust you to build them a proper engine and pay you good money for it and this is the kind of halfass work you put out.
As for being banned from all these other so called shops I find that VERY funny. I have had one thing EVER done by Aspec which was modified downpipe and inter cooler pipe and I paid them for it. Oooohhhhh such a banned worthy thing. And as far as Banzai is concerned he's lumping me into a group of guys that he didn't like or associate with anymore, so how is that fair? He worked on a few of my 7s over the years a long time ago and there was never any disputes or complaints from me in perticular that I can recall. If there was it I don't remember but I've never said anything bad about Chris or Banzai. So if he wants to "banned" be by association, so be it.
And as far as I know I started this thread under my own free will. Just because Sal and I had agreed to it doesn't me he "told me to". Even if he did what would that matter?
The reason I wold have considered having you build me another motor was PRIOR to find out what the insides looked like. I never had any proof that I in fact had a bad seal until this past weekend. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt in hopes that you did build a solid engine and that the issue Ive been having since day one was a cooling system issue not a seal. That was not the case at all, it was a seal the entire time. Dude your build was such a hack job you couldn't even put the right thermostat in. It's the small things like that, that prove your incompetence. People trust you to build them a proper engine and pay you good money for it and this is the kind of halfass work you put out.
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i'll get a few things out of the way before i get too deep into anything here. first off, i've been friends with trueimport for about six years. before that, he was my customer and a good one at that. i'm familiar to the point of intimacy you might say with the car and the engine as it came to me when it was initially built. by no means am I a heavyweight vendor here nor do I have any aspirations to be. I'm here as an enthusiast enjoying the cars like anyone else. I do have twelve years experience with Mazda so I'd like to think that means just a bit in terms of credibility. still, being that this is the internet, i expect anyone who reads what I say with a grain of salt, expectation of bias and to draw whatever conclusion there from they feel comfortable with. i have no ego to bruise and nothing to lose regardless.
that being said, I first saw trueimport's car years back, practically immediately after it was in his possession post build. it would be my professional opinion at that time that the car was simply not right. there was a great deal of what I would call questionable craftsmanship put into the whole car and it was evident once you really started going through it front to back that there were numerous pieces of puzzle that were not right. I'm not out to point fingers or start a flamewar here, so i'll temper this as diplomatically as I can. In my opinion, based on what was presented to me when the car was dropped off and based on a thorough once over, the car was unsatisfactory. The wiring was extremely poor. The engine management was setup such that it is a minor miracle the car was running. I recall many man hours spent redoing a great deal of what was supposedly already done. As a customer, I would have taken the same approach that trueimport has in being upset. As a businessman, I would have been ashamed had I or my staff allowed that level of work be performed on any customer's car - regardless of how abrasive or disagreeable I may have perceived them at any time.
The engine truly has not seen any real miles on it since it has been back in this car. At best, 2 to 3,000 miles. It has had overheating issues among other oddities the entire time I have personally known it. Without being a rebecca repeater here, I'll just say that I concur with what has already been said about it. Atop that, I'll say that no one did - nor would they ever need to - encourage trueimport to publicly blast some one or make this thread. If he ever feels wronged enough to make a statement, trust me when I say I know him to be a person who has no problem of his own volition making said remarks. He is a person of conviction and belief at the very minimum with strong - but well informed - opinion.
I have never done business with the companies in this thread. I cannot and would not say by any means that any of them are bad companies, bad businesses, unskilled or whatever. I have no personal stake to say so. As a businessman, I've come to accept there will always be good and bad experiences. I am not free from fault or mistake as a human being like the rest of us mouth breathers here. Things happen and deals go bad, I totally get that. What I will say is that based on what I saw then and now, based on my experience level with this particular build, based on what I know of the owner of this car, that the problems he is describing are not as a result of misuse or abuse or work done since he took the car back. I would vehemently deny that trueimport is any kind of scammer based on my own business dealings and only regret that this situation is as ugly as it is for all parties involved, with the hope that things can move on for everyone in a more positive and constructive manner.
Again, simply my observations and opinions at work here. Take that for what it is.
that being said, I first saw trueimport's car years back, practically immediately after it was in his possession post build. it would be my professional opinion at that time that the car was simply not right. there was a great deal of what I would call questionable craftsmanship put into the whole car and it was evident once you really started going through it front to back that there were numerous pieces of puzzle that were not right. I'm not out to point fingers or start a flamewar here, so i'll temper this as diplomatically as I can. In my opinion, based on what was presented to me when the car was dropped off and based on a thorough once over, the car was unsatisfactory. The wiring was extremely poor. The engine management was setup such that it is a minor miracle the car was running. I recall many man hours spent redoing a great deal of what was supposedly already done. As a customer, I would have taken the same approach that trueimport has in being upset. As a businessman, I would have been ashamed had I or my staff allowed that level of work be performed on any customer's car - regardless of how abrasive or disagreeable I may have perceived them at any time.
The engine truly has not seen any real miles on it since it has been back in this car. At best, 2 to 3,000 miles. It has had overheating issues among other oddities the entire time I have personally known it. Without being a rebecca repeater here, I'll just say that I concur with what has already been said about it. Atop that, I'll say that no one did - nor would they ever need to - encourage trueimport to publicly blast some one or make this thread. If he ever feels wronged enough to make a statement, trust me when I say I know him to be a person who has no problem of his own volition making said remarks. He is a person of conviction and belief at the very minimum with strong - but well informed - opinion.
I have never done business with the companies in this thread. I cannot and would not say by any means that any of them are bad companies, bad businesses, unskilled or whatever. I have no personal stake to say so. As a businessman, I've come to accept there will always be good and bad experiences. I am not free from fault or mistake as a human being like the rest of us mouth breathers here. Things happen and deals go bad, I totally get that. What I will say is that based on what I saw then and now, based on my experience level with this particular build, based on what I know of the owner of this car, that the problems he is describing are not as a result of misuse or abuse or work done since he took the car back. I would vehemently deny that trueimport is any kind of scammer based on my own business dealings and only regret that this situation is as ugly as it is for all parties involved, with the hope that things can move on for everyone in a more positive and constructive manner.
Again, simply my observations and opinions at work here. Take that for what it is.
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Yes that manifold is ugly, and yes your right the apex seals didn't break, and no my engine didn't blow up. but im glad your helping me post my pictures to show that you put in damaged rotors (junk) and damaged rotor housing(more junk) and built me an engine. Please keep going your just proving what i'm saying. Anybody that has ever blow a rotary engine knows what it looks like.
So if none of my Apex seals didn't Break and all the corners seals that were broken, and they where still stuck in there locations.
How you explain the low compression since day one?
How do you explain the damaged housing and rotors?
This is going to be great to hear
By all means please everybody stay tuned I have been working on everything to post and the write up is huge. Just taking longer to do because of work... Please reply zavier
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Still spreading lies and can't get your fact's straight, lets try this again. 10 years ago or maybe more you and Sal brought your cars to Jason shop to get them tuned and do some minor work done. I didn't owned a shop just worked there, so I don't know what you keep saying my shop. Sal car was tuned and everything went fine, you brought us your car and a block for us to install in the car and finished up the install. We install everything and when we try to started your car the block was seized up, we called you and you stated that you had a shop in Canada build the motor. The motor seized up because you left it outside not cover up, you contact the builder and had the builder contact us. With the conversation with the other shop, he asked us to open the motor up too see what was wrong and that's when we found rust and a seized up motor and also found out the builder had brazed one of the plates and some of it had broken off. Jason gave you a quote of what we would charge to fix the motor, but you wanted the builder to fix it, so we shipped your motor back to them and they built your motor not us. Your car set in the shop for so long is because we had to wait on the engine to get back for the builder and yes your wheels did get stolen, But Jason bought you a brand new wheels and he also paid you for the hail damage and for a new seat in your car. The reason why we believe you stole the lap top is the fact that your temp gauge didn't work and we were watching the temp with the laptop and my last conversation with you was that you did not want to drive all the way back home without being able to watch your temp and you asked me if you could take the laptop with you and send it back too us. Jason said no! so when we came in the next day to look for the laptop it was gone, so put two and two together you took it.
You started this thread because Sal told you to do so, if I built you a bad motor why would you even consider bring me a motor to build, that just doesn't make since. Let's see you and Sal have been banned from Banzai, Aspec and many other shops in Chicago.
You started this thread because Sal told you to do so, if I built you a bad motor why would you even consider bring me a motor to build, that just doesn't make since. Let's see you and Sal have been banned from Banzai, Aspec and many other shops in Chicago.
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CaptainKRM - thank you for shedding some additional light on this from another shops perspective as to the over all quality of the work performed on my car from the previous builder (Zavier).
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Dude I'm not even going to get into it with you, you are posting about something that happen 10 plus years ago, If you had something to say you should have said it along time ago. You expect me to believe that all of a sudden you decided to post who builds a better motor. The shop is in your town if they have been doing rotaries for years, then why have know one heard of them. Sal told you to start this tread and that is the only reason why you did. As for as you seeing the motor upon him tearing it down, what you saw is a motor that was damage due to something going thru it from Sal's manifold. Sal was there when we build the motor and knows damn well that motor was perfect when we put it together, their was know damage to the housings on his motor. If that motor was like that explain to me how it was able to run 10's pass, do 100 plus dyno pulls, start up everyday for 3 years. The problem is something happen and it had nothing to do with our work, i have pics of the ports and will post them soon. This is why i always take pic's of all my builts, because of the bullshit like this. let me ask you a question and I'm going to see if you will be honest about this, you and Sal raced your cars according to Sal's conversation to me. he stated that he blew your doors off, does that sound like a motor that was built shitty. When he beat you is that when you decided to think about having me build your motor, when you asked Sal to ask me to build your motor.
Now back to your other so called reason of the damage in my engine. So your claiming Something inside my ugly manifold broke loose like a weld. Now follow me on this zavier don't want to loose you through what your claiming.
Ok Weld breaks loose from inside my ugly manifold, goes thru my hot side of my turbo. Doesn't damage the hot side of GT4088R, Goes thru and out my exhaust. Goes over my car, as i'm driving from the back of my car to the front. now remind you i'm driving, Then makes its way under my hood. Thru my air filter then gets sucked up on the cold side of my turbo. Without damaging the compressor wheel, thru the intercooler piping then intercooler and then in my engine to damage it..
WOW i need to play the lottery, Keeping going with your reasons why its not your crappy engine build and hows its not because of all the used damaged parts you built my engine with or why it not your faith. i have been hearing these crazy bull crap excuses for years ever since you built the engine and installed it. You tried tuning my car, you gave it about 7-9 shots at tuning my car and about 100 plus dyno hours and failed. Thank god the dyno shop helped me out on the cost. because he felt bad for me and even pulled me outside, to tell me not to let you touch my car anymore.because you have any and no clue on how to tune, after all those hours of being there and some of those events were as long as 18 plus hours.
the truth is, any real tuner know it does not take that long to tune a car.. unless you suck at it, witch zavier deep down inside that hustling heart you know you do. Don't feel bad I know you suck at it too.. Now everyone else knows on the forum too, so i'm happy you came out of the closet as a bad tuner
And soon as a bad engine builder. Also the car never went over 410hp at 21+ psi on a GT4088r With a Half Bridge Port I have the dyno sheet to prove witch is coming in my write up. YEAH!!! you don't know how to build an engine or tune a car but you know how to hustle me out of thousands of dollars....great business plan.
04-30-13, 10:45 PM
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Zavier I just caught up on the reading and will take a little bit for me to post eveything that happen including pictures of you building my engine etc...Because some of us work and make an honest living.. The write the real facts not your lying version.
Yes that manifold is ugly, and yes your right the apex seals didn't break, and no my engine didn't blow up. but im glad your helping me post my pictures to show that you put in damaged rotors (junk) and damaged rotor housing(more junk) and built me an engine. Please keep going your just proving what i'm saying. Anybody that has ever blow a rotary engine knows what it looks like.
So if none of my Apex seals didn't Break and all the corners seals that were broken, and they where still stuck in there locations.
How you explain the low compression since day one?
How do you explain the damaged housing and rotors?
This is going to be great to hear
By all means please everybody stay tuned I have been working on everything to post and the write up is huge. Just taking longer to do because of work... Please reply zavier
Yes that manifold is ugly, and yes your right the apex seals didn't break, and no my engine didn't blow up. but im glad your helping me post my pictures to show that you put in damaged rotors (junk) and damaged rotor housing(more junk) and built me an engine. Please keep going your just proving what i'm saying. Anybody that has ever blow a rotary engine knows what it looks like.
So if none of my Apex seals didn't Break and all the corners seals that were broken, and they where still stuck in there locations.
How you explain the low compression since day one?
How do you explain the damaged housing and rotors?
This is going to be great to hear
By all means please everybody stay tuned I have been working on everything to post and the write up is huge. Just taking longer to do because of work... Please reply zavier
05-01-13, 02:09 AM
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At what point do you not understand that, if something goes thru your motor it will damage the motor. There is no way your car would have ran, if i put those parts like that in your motor. There is no way you would have made that much horsepower and do 100 dyno pulls. Also how did I put those in there when you where there the hole time, we built the motor looking over my shoulder. Did I use magic some how, there was 4 guy's there when the motor was put back together.
Plus dont you know If something god only knows what your implying went thru my engine it would have taken out my apex seals or better yet damaged my turbo nether one of those have any damage.
So what part of you and now me and the forum knowing you totally screwed me out of thousands of dollars. but the worst of it all is you built me an engine with damaged housing, rotors in the pictures you posted and thank you by the way. that is so far below par for a shop. Then acting like for the past 2 1/2 years from day one when i asked you why is my vacum so low? you answered with its because of the bridge port. Really that's your answer why it sits a maybe if i'm lucky 7in of vacum. Then i ask whys is it so hard to start meaning cranking longer and having to push the pedal about an inch or two than a normal car should start? your answer is its because of the bridge port.
So then i decided to call a few shops to ask them if i'm going crazy or this is normal. I called A-spec but their machine or voicemail was full, Then I call rx7.com talked to kris and explained whats going on with the car. Great guy to talk to and informed me either there's a broken corner seal or the bridge port was not done right and that i should do a compression test. I didn't think it was the port job because i remember you saying you used pineapples or atkins porting templates. So Then i placed a call to Steve Kan about the same things and he informed me that it can be the same things RX7.com said. So i confronted you about what i found out from the beginning you told me its a soild engine and i was tripping.
But i never wanted to tell you the shops i talked too. because you always act like all other shops are wrong, and you have this secret thing you do to your ports
, thats why your engines are so strong and last. NOPE you figured out that if you put in Super aviation seals.. that no matter how shitty of parts you use to build engines for people while making them feel like "oh i'll hook you up ""don't worry i'll build you an engine that will make 650hp." knowing dam well it won't pop those seals, smart hustle til now. You just got busted.that's why you offered to redo my engine twice already at no charge because you dam well knew, i was at my wits end with you and all your excuses. With how this car felt from day one. My wife told me after all the trips we made out to you for you to try and try and try to tune my car. she is the farthest thing from a car person but she called it and said it without Jason from the RX7 store "the Brains". you have no clue what your doing in the tuning world. She Told me flat out you been here so many times he is not the guy to work on your car.
So I took her advice and talked to a few people and was turned on to a shop that works on rotaries. So I called him about maybe tuning my car, told him what was going on with it from day one. he was so hesitate to want to touch the car for tuning unless he did a compression test first I was fine with That i told him i Understood. Drove out to his location nice clean shop Great guy did a compression test with a rotary compression tester. My Jaw dropped when he showed me those Numbers.
Cold Numbers
Rear(psi @rpm)
58 67 51 @226
56 64 50 @221
55 64 48 @223
Front
69 67 61 @234
67 65 58 @ 231
66 64 57 @231
So i called Zavier and chewed into him, after all this time and now i Have solid proof and theres no denying it. Right he starts the whole Its because you have Bridge ported engine your compression is going to be low thing. that if it makes me feel better he would open it in front of me and show me its solid. So i asked him did you use all new seal? He replys yes. Get off the phone with him fuming about what i just found out so so disappointed, this was one of those times i was hoping i was wrong. Me and my wife are driving back talking and she turns to me and says dont you think its weird that he offered to redo your engine, i said no. she looks me dead in the face and says he is hiding something. i dropped it and let it go, I decided to maybe get my engine redone by zavier so i spoke to him and he yes but i needed to drop it off then come back the next week to pick it up. I shut him down on that real quick i said no i come there with it you open it in front of me and build it with all new seals and gaskets. responds with that i need to pay for and bring him all new seals. I dont know about him but when you say i will redo your engine at no cost what part of no cost did i miss.
So i gave it thought and said if i buy them and watch him put them in, that will put my mind at ease about my thought he put used parts in my engine. So i agreed that once i pulled my engine to paint my engine bay. i would let him know so we can set it up, So i told the wife holy crap did she unload about after all the thousands of dollars and Dyno time and fuel we wasted on him and the car isnt any better than it was from day one. at that point i did send a message to zavier canceling it. and decided to sell the engine telling zavier it was going to be sold. right away he starts with the whole your crazy thats an awesome engine bring that engine here you have big ports thats why your compression is low blah blah. then I backed out at the last second just wasn't the right thing to do, but i told zvaier the guy low balled me because at that point I said screw it i'm guying to have this rotary guy take apart my engine in front of me and true import so thats 3 people seeing this engine come apart. that was the must gut wrench day of my life to see what i saw and know someone i have know for years just screwed like this. Built me an engine with used damaged parts and after all the money i spent to find out i should have stay with a j spec. one of they worst days of my life.
At this point i send zavier pictures of the apex seal all in one piece none are broken, then i send him pictures of the broken corner seals. finally of theses used beat up rotors and rotor housing with theses huge groves that looks like he had laying around. i figure i'm done with this guy i should have told him where to long time ago. I simple say after sending him those pictures "I'll make it simple you owe me two used good rotors and housing because you put in garbage parts and i trusted you with this. make it right before i go public"
I get a pretty reply of " SAL! I'm done you ******* no well i put new seals in and i don't care if you have pics.you were there when the engine was put together and didn't I don't owe you ****.
Zavier Keep up the great work you'll have repeat business
But I do remember you telling me about a customer that called you to do a refresh on his engine. That was originally built by you, but he also called Banzai about doing freshen up on his engine. the guy choose to go to Banzai instead (smart guy) you looked like you were about to cry. Going on how now banzai is going to have your port template and how he's now going to get full credit for that car now Blah Blah Blah... I really felt theres way more to that story that you didn't tell me. but i think we all can figure out really what happen.
Bottom line i wanted to warn everyone about Zavier from ZN performance and his Horrible build and not being able to tune for ****. JUst stay away from him and his shop he is NOT the real deal.
The only thing positive that came out of this is Super seals are bullet proof if they survived all those shitty parts Zavier built my engine with and didn't break those are my seals for life
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05-01-13, 08:32 AM
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I've known Zavier for a while now and I worked for him a few years back he would never put busted rotors or housings back in a coustomers car. Now not to take sides I rember you bringing your car in sal. We pulled the motor out rebuilt it in a matter of days and had it at the dyno. I do recall running into power issues which we later pinned down as being a chewed up turbo.
After which I recall Zavier telling you the turbo was faulty and suggested buying a new one. You then insisted that we put the faulty unit back on and you would take the car back to Chicago. After which the car came back to Columbus with a new turbo and tuning was attempted again with numbers less than expected now we all know that could be a number of things I do recall long nights figuring out some issues done by the previous owner
Once again I'm not trying to pick sides but rather state the facts, i do recall having a friendly conversation with you about rx-7s and cars in general which I enjoyed.
Now with that said I hope you can resolve this issue but if it were my shop I couldn't justify fixing a motor that was built over 2 years ago that's been used for racing and ran hard
After which I recall Zavier telling you the turbo was faulty and suggested buying a new one. You then insisted that we put the faulty unit back on and you would take the car back to Chicago. After which the car came back to Columbus with a new turbo and tuning was attempted again with numbers less than expected now we all know that could be a number of things I do recall long nights figuring out some issues done by the previous owner
Once again I'm not trying to pick sides but rather state the facts, i do recall having a friendly conversation with you about rx-7s and cars in general which I enjoyed.
Now with that said I hope you can resolve this issue but if it were my shop I couldn't justify fixing a motor that was built over 2 years ago that's been used for racing and ran hard
05-01-13, 08:55 AM
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I've known Zavier for a while now and I worked for him a few years back he would never put busted rotors or housings back in a coustomers car. Now not to take sides I rember you bringing your car in sal. We pulled the motor out rebuilt it in a matter of days and had it at the dyno. I do recall running into power issues which we later pinned down as being a chewed up turbo.
After which I recall Zavier telling you the turbo was faulty and suggested buying a new one. You then insisted that we put the faulty unit back on and you would take the car back to Chicago. After which the car came back to Columbus with a new turbo and tuning was attempted again with numbers less than expected now we all know that could be a number of things I do recall long nights figuring out some issues done by the previous owner
Once again I'm not trying to pick sides but rather state the facts, i do recall having a friendly conversation with you about rx-7s and cars in general which I enjoyed.
Now with that said I hope you can resolve this issue but if it were my shop I couldn't justify fixing a motor that was built over 2 years ago that's been used for racing and ran hard
After which I recall Zavier telling you the turbo was faulty and suggested buying a new one. You then insisted that we put the faulty unit back on and you would take the car back to Chicago. After which the car came back to Columbus with a new turbo and tuning was attempted again with numbers less than expected now we all know that could be a number of things I do recall long nights figuring out some issues done by the previous owner
Once again I'm not trying to pick sides but rather state the facts, i do recall having a friendly conversation with you about rx-7s and cars in general which I enjoyed.
Now with that said I hope you can resolve this issue but if it were my shop I couldn't justify fixing a motor that was built over 2 years ago that's been used for racing and ran hard
Nothing personal to you i know who you are we have talk a few times, in my multiply trips out there for zavier to try to tune my car. I do remember you and zaviers son pulling my engine out for him. But in no way shape or form where you there watching him put my engine together. (witch only took him two to three hours to do yeah thats within spec) Plus Me,you and his son where outside of the shop talking about 7s and your plans for your car. His son was talking about how his dad won't let him buy an RX7. So i understand you are very good friends with his son and thats why you decided to post i get it. but you dont know what has happen since day one of this engine build your only getting Zaviers fantasy version. No hard feelings but thanks for clearing uo another post Zavier Lied on!!! Take care
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Ok! here is the real story! Trueimport and Justanotherimport are so called best friends off and on, so this is why Jusanotherimport had him start this thread. They are back together and they where Banned from Banzai, I should have learn my lesson along time ago and Banned Sal who is true import too. Johnny was Banned from our shop about 5-7 years ago when a laptop went missing from the shop. Sal became a customer of ours years ago when he had a white fc and everything was good with that, but he sold it, in 2010 he contacted me about building his motor in a FD that he had pick up. After several phone conversation I gave him a hell of a deal $ on building a half bridge motor for his car. He drop the block off to me to build and came back to pick it up the following week, we made plans for him to bring it back down for tuning a couples of weeks later after the motor was broken in. So we take the car to the dyno and the car made 350 at around 20lbs-22lbs of boost, could get the horsepower to go any hire even when turning up the boost. Sal wanted 500 plus horsepower, so I explained to him I can't add anymore timing to the map A/R was 11.6-11.7 and I told him that something else is prevented his car from making more power. We did over 5-6 hours of tuning on the dyno with about 60-100 pulls on the motor so i called it a night at 4am in the morning. I told him it was maybe his turbo or something else choking the motor down, we pulled the turbo apart and found the exhaust blades where bad. Sal returned to Chicago, a week or two later he informed me he had purchased a new turbo and wanted to come back down and tune again, so we head back to the dyno and start tuning again. We made 430-475 rwhp on some pull, but we couldn't make anything over that even while turn the boost up. So we turn the boost up more and hit a lean spot 14 A/f and the motor started having problems, I took the motor out and open it up and discover a corner seal spring had collapsed, which mad the corner seal stick. Sal was with me the hole time during the breakdown of the motor along with one of his friends. Sal informed me since the motor was open again he wanted to do a full bridge to the motor so he can make more power, I informed him that with his set up he should be making a least 500-525 hp with no problems. He wanted the full bridge so I went ahead and did the bridge for him, keep in mind that I did not charge him anything on the pulled and rebuild of the motor. Now here is the funny part, he is claiming i put used damage housing in his motor, when he was right there with me when i put the motor back together. Sal inspected the ports and the exhaust ports I did to his motor before we put it back together. During all of this Sal and I had a pretty good customer relationship, I offer to drive to Chicago to finish retuning his car. I made the trip to Chicago twice, on one trip we couldn't tune the car, because the dyno he had set up was a dyno that had the car sitting up the rear wheels so high I told him i didn't fill comfortable with that much tilt on the oil-pan pickup tub so we stop tuning and I agreed to come back. I mad a second trip to Chicago and we tuned the car again with the same results in horsepower. This is when I asked him who made his manifold and he stated he bought it used and he had his employee do some work on it. I never saw the design of the manifold, when i pulled the motor. Sal had so much heat wrap on it, it was concealed, he in formed me that it was a t4 undivided manifold and he had his employee convert it over to a t4 divided manifold to match his turbo. So I started to look at maybe something else was wrong with the car and I couldn't figure it out. The motor was strong car started up good, so I left Chicago and I told him I would have to think some more on what could be holding it back. While this time Sal was out racing his car at the track and had some good 1/4 times in the 10's, he also told me he had been beating every car he raced and that the car doesn't feel like it only had 430hp. Sal would call me every now and then to talk about the car, one day it was the car is fast, I want to do a 20b and I'm going to sell my car. One day he text me pissed off stating that I screw him big time, he took the car to a shop I assume is Shook motors and had a compression test done and that the compression read out was low. He also stated that they told him I had his leading timing advance to 27 degree's on high boost. I told him his map was only set to see 13 degree's in high boost and that if he had 27 degree's of time at 22lbs that motor would not be running in his car. I asked him has he had any hot started in the car and he stated the car starts up good in cold and hot starts. I informed him to do a cold compression in the morning and to see what the numbers came too, he informed me the numbers were the same as hot. I told him that is impossible the numbers can't be the same if you had low compression.
Then he text me he found out the problem it was the port design, I told him I have been porting engines for over 15 plus years and have had many cars making well over 550 with the same ports. So after a couple more conversations he told me the car runs great and it beating cars, he was going to just leave it the way it was. A week ago Sal called me and stated he wants to freshing his motor up with new seals and also informed me he had a guy he was bring down to have me do a bridge-port on his motor and asked me to give him a good discount. I asked him who was the guy and it took a while for him to tell me and he stated it was Johnny, I told him hell no, I don't want that guy anywhere near my shop. Sal new the deal about the laptop being taking from the shop and I told him I don't trust him. Sal begged me and promise me he didn't steal from us, I finally gave in a gave Sal a price of what I would charge to do the motor. We set a date for first weekend in may, 3 days later he cancel.
I asked him to send me pics of his manifold, since he had pulled the motor out of the car, I was shocked of the pics that he sent me. After years of wonder why is car wouldn't make any power, this was the reason why, all those nasty text he sent me cursing me out demanding I make things right with him. I will let you be the judge with the pics I'm going to post. Sal blew his motor because of debris of metal going in the motor. He didn't break any apex seals in the motor. When I informed him what i thought he still would not take my side, he then tried to say i built his manifold not realizing that he had already stated in his previous text that he stated his employee did it. I told him he is a liar and that I was done talking to him. He informed me he was going to sue me and post stuff on all the car clubs and tell everyone i scam him out of money and built him a motor with bad housing.
Then he text me he found out the problem it was the port design, I told him I have been porting engines for over 15 plus years and have had many cars making well over 550 with the same ports. So after a couple more conversations he told me the car runs great and it beating cars, he was going to just leave it the way it was. A week ago Sal called me and stated he wants to freshing his motor up with new seals and also informed me he had a guy he was bring down to have me do a bridge-port on his motor and asked me to give him a good discount. I asked him who was the guy and it took a while for him to tell me and he stated it was Johnny, I told him hell no, I don't want that guy anywhere near my shop. Sal new the deal about the laptop being taking from the shop and I told him I don't trust him. Sal begged me and promise me he didn't steal from us, I finally gave in a gave Sal a price of what I would charge to do the motor. We set a date for first weekend in may, 3 days later he cancel.
I asked him to send me pics of his manifold, since he had pulled the motor out of the car, I was shocked of the pics that he sent me. After years of wonder why is car wouldn't make any power, this was the reason why, all those nasty text he sent me cursing me out demanding I make things right with him. I will let you be the judge with the pics I'm going to post. Sal blew his motor because of debris of metal going in the motor. He didn't break any apex seals in the motor. When I informed him what i thought he still would not take my side, he then tried to say i built his manifold not realizing that he had already stated in his previous text that he stated his employee did it. I told him he is a liar and that I was done talking to him. He informed me he was going to sue me and post stuff on all the car clubs and tell everyone i scam him out of money and built him a motor with bad housing.
I think we all know who's the liar here, you! BAD buisiness, BAD ethics, BAD builds and a bold face scammer
05-01-13, 09:17 AM
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Zav did you forget the first build you did with the huge street and during, god only knows witch number tune you were at and how ever many hours and hours you were trying to tune. then during your tune the corner seal broke or collapsed. when i told you what the hell just happened. You stated from all the heat it collapsed. then that night when we were driving back from the dyno shop to your shop you informed me that your going to do a full bridge port and you know that will give more than 500hp. Answer that with a simple Yes or No? so i know if i have to post those pictures and videos too
Plus dont you know If something god only knows what your implying went thru my engine it would have taken out my apex seals or better yet damaged my turbo nether one of those have any damage.
So what part of you and now me and the forum knowing you totally screwed me out of thousands of dollars. but the worst of it all is you built me an engine with damaged housing, rotors in the pictures you posted and thank you by the way. that is so far below par for a shop. Then acting like for the past 2 1/2 years from day one when i asked you why is my vacum so low? you answered with its because of the bridge port. Really that's your answer why it sits a maybe if i'm lucky 7in of vacum. Then i ask whys is it so hard to start meaning cranking longer and having to push the pedal about an inch or two than a normal car should start? your answer is its because of the bridge port.
So then i decided to call a few shops to ask them if i'm going crazy or this is normal. I called A-spec but their machine or voicemail was full, Then I call rx7.com talked to kris and explained whats going on with the car. Great guy to talk to and informed me either there's a broken corner seal or the bridge port was not done right and that i should do a compression test. I didn't think it was the port job because i remember you saying you used pineapples or atkins porting templates. So Then i placed a call to Steve Kan about the same things and he informed me that it can be the same things RX7.com said. So i confronted you about what i found out from the beginning you told me its a soild engine and i was tripping.
But i never wanted to tell you the shops i talked too. because you always act like all other shops are wrong, and you have this secret thing you do to your ports, thats why your engines are so strong and last. NOPE you figured out that if you put in Super aviation seals.. that no matter how shitty of parts you use to build engines for people while making them feel like "oh i'll hook you up ""don't worry i'll build you an engine that will make 650hp." knowing dam well it won't pop those seals, smart hustle til now. You just got busted.
that's why you offered to redo my engine twice already at no charge because you dam well knew, i was at my wits end with you and all your excuses. With how this car felt from day one. My wife told me after all the trips we made out to you for you to try and try and try to tune my car. she is the farthest thing from a car person but she called it and said it without Jason from the RX7 store "the Brains". you have no clue what your doing in the tuning world. She Told me flat out you been here so many times he is not the guy to work on your car.
So I took her advice and talked to a few people and was turned on to a shop that works on rotaries. So I called him about maybe tuning my car, told him what was going on with it from day one. he was so hesitate to want to touch the car for tuning unless he did a compression test first I was fine with That i told him i Understood. Drove out to his location nice clean shop Great guy did a compression test with a rotary compression tester. My Jaw dropped when he showed me those Numbers.
Cold Numbers
Rear(psi @rpm)
58 67 51 @226
56 64 50 @221
55 64 48 @223
Front
69 67 61 @234
67 65 58 @ 231
66 64 57 @231
So i called Zavier and chewed into him, after all this time and now i Have solid proof and theres no denying it. Right he starts the whole Its because you have Bridge ported engine your compression is going to be low thing. that if it makes me feel better he would open it in front of me and show me its solid. So i asked him did you use all new seal? He replys yes. Get off the phone with him fuming about what i just found out so so disappointed, this was one of those times i was hoping i was wrong. Me and my wife are driving back talking and she turns to me and says dont you think its weird that he offered to redo your engine, i said no. she looks me dead in the face and says he is hiding something. i dropped it and let it go, I decided to maybe get my engine redone by zavier so i spoke to him and he yes but i needed to drop it off then come back the next week to pick it up. I shut him down on that real quick i said no i come there with it you open it in front of me and build it with all new seals and gaskets. responds with that i need to pay for and bring him all new seals. I dont know about him but when you say i will redo your engine at no cost what part of no cost did i miss.
So i gave it thought and said if i buy them and watch him put them in, that will put my mind at ease about my thought he put used parts in my engine. So i agreed that once i pulled my engine to paint my engine bay. i would let him know so we can set it up, So i told the wife holy crap did she unload about after all the thousands of dollars and Dyno time and fuel we wasted on him and the car isnt any better than it was from day one. at that point i did send a message to zavier canceling it. and decided to sell the engine telling zavier it was going to be sold. right away he starts with the whole your crazy thats an awesome engine bring that engine here you have big ports thats why your compression is low blah blah. then I backed out at the last second just wasn't the right thing to do, but i told zvaier the guy low balled me because at that point I said screw it i'm guying to have this rotary guy take apart my engine in front of me and true import so thats 3 people seeing this engine come apart. that was the must gut wrench day of my life to see what i saw and know someone i have know for years just screwed like this. Built me an engine with used damaged parts and after all the money i spent to find out i should have stay with a j spec. one of they worst days of my life.
At this point i send zavier pictures of the apex seal all in one piece none are broken, then i send him pictures of the broken corner seals. finally of theses used beat up rotors and rotor housing with theses huge groves that looks like he had laying around. i figure i'm done with this guy i should have told him where to long time ago. I simple say after sending him those pictures "I'll make it simple you owe me two used good rotors and housing because you put in garbage parts and i trusted you with this. make it right before i go public"
I get a pretty reply of " SAL! I'm done you ******* no well i put new seals in and i don't care if you have pics.you were there when the engine was put together and didn't I don't owe you ****.
Zavier Keep up the great work you'll have repeat business
But I do remember you telling me about a customer that called you to do a refresh on his engine. That was originally built by you, but he also called Banzai about doing freshen up on his engine. the guy choose to go to Banzai instead (smart guy) you looked like you were about to cry. Going on how now banzai is going to have your port template and how he's now going to get full credit for that car now Blah Blah Blah... I really felt theres way more to that story that you didn't tell me. but i think we all can figure out really what happen.
Bottom line i wanted to warn everyone about Zavier from ZN performance and his Horrible build and not being able to tune for ****. JUst stay away from him and his shop he is NOT the real deal.
The only thing positive that came out of this is Super seals are bullet proof if they survived all those shitty parts Zavier built my engine with and didn't break those are my seals for life
Plus dont you know If something god only knows what your implying went thru my engine it would have taken out my apex seals or better yet damaged my turbo nether one of those have any damage.
So what part of you and now me and the forum knowing you totally screwed me out of thousands of dollars. but the worst of it all is you built me an engine with damaged housing, rotors in the pictures you posted and thank you by the way. that is so far below par for a shop. Then acting like for the past 2 1/2 years from day one when i asked you why is my vacum so low? you answered with its because of the bridge port. Really that's your answer why it sits a maybe if i'm lucky 7in of vacum. Then i ask whys is it so hard to start meaning cranking longer and having to push the pedal about an inch or two than a normal car should start? your answer is its because of the bridge port.
So then i decided to call a few shops to ask them if i'm going crazy or this is normal. I called A-spec but their machine or voicemail was full, Then I call rx7.com talked to kris and explained whats going on with the car. Great guy to talk to and informed me either there's a broken corner seal or the bridge port was not done right and that i should do a compression test. I didn't think it was the port job because i remember you saying you used pineapples or atkins porting templates. So Then i placed a call to Steve Kan about the same things and he informed me that it can be the same things RX7.com said. So i confronted you about what i found out from the beginning you told me its a soild engine and i was tripping.
But i never wanted to tell you the shops i talked too. because you always act like all other shops are wrong, and you have this secret thing you do to your ports
, thats why your engines are so strong and last. NOPE you figured out that if you put in Super aviation seals.. that no matter how shitty of parts you use to build engines for people while making them feel like "oh i'll hook you up ""don't worry i'll build you an engine that will make 650hp." knowing dam well it won't pop those seals, smart hustle til now. You just got busted.that's why you offered to redo my engine twice already at no charge because you dam well knew, i was at my wits end with you and all your excuses. With how this car felt from day one. My wife told me after all the trips we made out to you for you to try and try and try to tune my car. she is the farthest thing from a car person but she called it and said it without Jason from the RX7 store "the Brains". you have no clue what your doing in the tuning world. She Told me flat out you been here so many times he is not the guy to work on your car.
So I took her advice and talked to a few people and was turned on to a shop that works on rotaries. So I called him about maybe tuning my car, told him what was going on with it from day one. he was so hesitate to want to touch the car for tuning unless he did a compression test first I was fine with That i told him i Understood. Drove out to his location nice clean shop Great guy did a compression test with a rotary compression tester. My Jaw dropped when he showed me those Numbers.
Cold Numbers
Rear(psi @rpm)
58 67 51 @226
56 64 50 @221
55 64 48 @223
Front
69 67 61 @234
67 65 58 @ 231
66 64 57 @231
So i called Zavier and chewed into him, after all this time and now i Have solid proof and theres no denying it. Right he starts the whole Its because you have Bridge ported engine your compression is going to be low thing. that if it makes me feel better he would open it in front of me and show me its solid. So i asked him did you use all new seal? He replys yes. Get off the phone with him fuming about what i just found out so so disappointed, this was one of those times i was hoping i was wrong. Me and my wife are driving back talking and she turns to me and says dont you think its weird that he offered to redo your engine, i said no. she looks me dead in the face and says he is hiding something. i dropped it and let it go, I decided to maybe get my engine redone by zavier so i spoke to him and he yes but i needed to drop it off then come back the next week to pick it up. I shut him down on that real quick i said no i come there with it you open it in front of me and build it with all new seals and gaskets. responds with that i need to pay for and bring him all new seals. I dont know about him but when you say i will redo your engine at no cost what part of no cost did i miss.
So i gave it thought and said if i buy them and watch him put them in, that will put my mind at ease about my thought he put used parts in my engine. So i agreed that once i pulled my engine to paint my engine bay. i would let him know so we can set it up, So i told the wife holy crap did she unload about after all the thousands of dollars and Dyno time and fuel we wasted on him and the car isnt any better than it was from day one. at that point i did send a message to zavier canceling it. and decided to sell the engine telling zavier it was going to be sold. right away he starts with the whole your crazy thats an awesome engine bring that engine here you have big ports thats why your compression is low blah blah. then I backed out at the last second just wasn't the right thing to do, but i told zvaier the guy low balled me because at that point I said screw it i'm guying to have this rotary guy take apart my engine in front of me and true import so thats 3 people seeing this engine come apart. that was the must gut wrench day of my life to see what i saw and know someone i have know for years just screwed like this. Built me an engine with used damaged parts and after all the money i spent to find out i should have stay with a j spec. one of they worst days of my life.
At this point i send zavier pictures of the apex seal all in one piece none are broken, then i send him pictures of the broken corner seals. finally of theses used beat up rotors and rotor housing with theses huge groves that looks like he had laying around. i figure i'm done with this guy i should have told him where to long time ago. I simple say after sending him those pictures "I'll make it simple you owe me two used good rotors and housing because you put in garbage parts and i trusted you with this. make it right before i go public"
I get a pretty reply of " SAL! I'm done you ******* no well i put new seals in and i don't care if you have pics.you were there when the engine was put together and didn't I don't owe you ****.
Zavier Keep up the great work you'll have repeat business
But I do remember you telling me about a customer that called you to do a refresh on his engine. That was originally built by you, but he also called Banzai about doing freshen up on his engine. the guy choose to go to Banzai instead (smart guy) you looked like you were about to cry. Going on how now banzai is going to have your port template and how he's now going to get full credit for that car now Blah Blah Blah... I really felt theres way more to that story that you didn't tell me. but i think we all can figure out really what happen.
Bottom line i wanted to warn everyone about Zavier from ZN performance and his Horrible build and not being able to tune for ****. JUst stay away from him and his shop he is NOT the real deal.
The only thing positive that came out of this is Super seals are bullet proof if they survived all those shitty parts Zavier built my engine with and didn't break those are my seals for life
So what you are stating you had 9 bad corner seals put in your engine, one garbage gouge housing and one bad gouge up rotor and you where able to run a 10.7 pass at the track and make 470 hp on the dyno. Wake up, there is no way this could happen if I built you a engine like that.
What about the lie you told when you had sent me pic of your shitty manifold 2 weeks early, so when you sent me all those text about how I screwed you on the built, I decided to go back and look at your manifold, I pointed out that you have several missing metal in you manifold and it look like that's what cause the engine marks on your rotor and housing. You text me stating that I built your manifold, not realizing that I have some text of you stating that you had you employee build the manifold. You are just a liar, explain to me how you didn't see a damage housing and rotor when we put the motor together. You were right there with me when I did the bridge-port and assemble the motor back together, four people are not going to miss that.
Face the fact's your cheap way of turning a t4 undivided manifold into a divided manifold just by adding a piece of metal in between the manifold is what ruined your motor. An oh things can enter your motor without damaging an apex seal, that's why their's is a intake port and exhaust port
05-01-13, 09:53 AM
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Sir Braps A lot
I just wanted to post what I know regardless Zavier has built 2 engines for me and gone above and beyond to help with costs back when I was in high school and was high school budget. I will say this again I watched Zavier build countless motors while I worked their not once did he ever put out of spec or busted parts in an engine. If there ever was an issue with rotors housings or irons Zavier would contact the customer to help them. Yes I'm friends with his son this still doesn't change what I remember . And my personal knowledge if the pictures if in fact that was the manifold you had built for your car that can in fact cause compressor damage and result in parts being sucked into the motor. And resulting in housing and rotor damage. I'm not here to fight or argue but rather see both sides