Sorry, posted this in the wrong spot if you see this twice.

Hey everyone, I'm new here, and have I got a story for you, hopefully someone here can help me with a conclusion.
This may be a little long, but please bear with me.

Anyway, I purchased my 1993 Black touring about 2 months ago, and didn't have any problems with it. I took to it a "reputable" rx-7 specialty shop around here to have it looked over, and there was a small list of things to be fixed. rear axle fills, fuel filter replacement, Oil pan gasket, intake manifold gasket, and rear stationary O-Ring. The latter 2 being the important ones. Well, after shelling out 2 grand for that work, and being assured my RX was now 100% without flaw I happily drove it away... for about two days. Then driving along in second gear, I suddenly lose alot of power as smoke billows being me, and my car stalls. AAA tows it back to the shop for me, and I get a call 3 days later saying my Apex seals have probably been blown. They don't know for sure because they havent torn the entire engine down to find out, but they DO know I need a new engine. Supposedly this is due to no fault of theirs and not covered under their warranty, so they want me to shell out another 5 grand for a new motor. What I'm looking for is information, and what might have happened to cause this, could changing either that rear O-ring, or intake gasket have been the cause of blown seals if something wasn't done right? I want to argue the case with them, it's just too much of a coincidene that my now 100% rx-7 blows a motor 2 days after they work on it, but I have no information to back up my claims... can anyome help?

Thanks,

Richard

 

Well I see only 1 possibility of your problem in relation to them. They could have dropped something in the motor(screw,nut,ect.) when they had the intake manifold off.