Tiger Japenese **MUST READ**
01-05-12, 08:37 AM
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That engine was a reman'ed engine bought from Mazda years ago, not a JDM block.
Kinda like saying, damn that Lexus LFA sure looked nice in FnF5, I think I'll go test drive the new 2012 Camry
Kinda like saying, damn that Lexus LFA sure looked nice in FnF5, I think I'll go test drive the new 2012 Camry
02-05-12, 05:11 PM
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just thought i would chime in on tiger direct. i live almost down the street from them and i have been there a few times to look at engines, and have never bought one.
one day i went in there just to see what they had in the way of turbos. i start talking to a guy and he tells me where they keep the seperate turbos and to just go take a look. i come back with 2 off of a skyline asking how much he wanted for them. one ill admit spun freely and had very little shaft play, while the other one was seized, and i could see the rust on the inside.
so i try to get a deal on the 2 of them using the seized one for spare parts. i tell the guy this one is seized and what is the best price you can give me? and he says $2000 for the SEIZED one and another $2000 for the other, he said it is not seized at all, you just pour some diesel gas in it and after a couple of days it will spin freely, thats what he did to the other one.
then he goes on to tell me what what he does for most of the 13bt's i was looking at............
after that day i will never buy anything off of them expecting to put it right in. if you buy anything expect a full rebuild, does not matter what you buy off of them.
and as someone said before, i saw it as well. they were power washing the engines then wrapping them up as they were still wet and sending them out.
one day i went in there just to see what they had in the way of turbos. i start talking to a guy and he tells me where they keep the seperate turbos and to just go take a look. i come back with 2 off of a skyline asking how much he wanted for them. one ill admit spun freely and had very little shaft play, while the other one was seized, and i could see the rust on the inside.
so i try to get a deal on the 2 of them using the seized one for spare parts. i tell the guy this one is seized and what is the best price you can give me? and he says $2000 for the SEIZED one and another $2000 for the other, he said it is not seized at all, you just pour some diesel gas in it and after a couple of days it will spin freely, thats what he did to the other one.
then he goes on to tell me what what he does for most of the 13bt's i was looking at............
after that day i will never buy anything off of them expecting to put it right in. if you buy anything expect a full rebuild, does not matter what you buy off of them.
and as someone said before, i saw it as well. they were power washing the engines then wrapping them up as they were still wet and sending them out.
02-06-12, 03:24 PM
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i actually recommend you locals who bought **** from them file suits against them. the place really should just be shut down.
i've gotten better deals on blown used turbo engines for $200 than the $1500 example i was shipped. bout the only thing that was worthwhile out of that engine was the rotor housings, the rotors took over a full day to scrub down and were still marginally usable with rust pitting. so out of a core engine he got 2 decent rotor housings, 2 rotors he had to pay additional to clean, junk irons that i had to replace, an unusable intercooler, junk power steering and smog pump, chopped wiring harness, stuck injectors that needed to be serviced, blown turbo, etc, etc, etc. a few hundred worth of used parts. only bonus he got was a rear auto counterweight and light steel flywheel that needed to be resurfaced.
aside from that it looked like the engine was drug around by a chain behind a car then soaked and wrapped wet and full of water for many months to rot away. these guys are complete idiots, i suppose that have no clue that water causes rust? bunch of dumbshits they are.
i've gotten better deals on blown used turbo engines for $200 than the $1500 example i was shipped. bout the only thing that was worthwhile out of that engine was the rotor housings, the rotors took over a full day to scrub down and were still marginally usable with rust pitting. so out of a core engine he got 2 decent rotor housings, 2 rotors he had to pay additional to clean, junk irons that i had to replace, an unusable intercooler, junk power steering and smog pump, chopped wiring harness, stuck injectors that needed to be serviced, blown turbo, etc, etc, etc. a few hundred worth of used parts. only bonus he got was a rear auto counterweight and light steel flywheel that needed to be resurfaced.
aside from that it looked like the engine was drug around by a chain behind a car then soaked and wrapped wet and full of water for many months to rot away. these guys are complete idiots, i suppose that have no clue that water causes rust? bunch of dumbshits they are.
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02-06-12, 05:51 PM
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just to throw in my experiences.
A customer bought a rhd fd from me that needed a motor. He insisted that he found a good deal on a motor. So he had the motor delivered to my place. The engine was a series 8 13b-rew from tiger japanese. It was very well wrapped and tied to the pallet. I tore the pallet down to inspect the motor he bought and everything looked great. Looked like it had low miles with no corosion of anything. The turbos seemed good but when i went to turn over the engine it was dead with no compression. I called my customer and told him that it had no compression and he called tiger and they told him to throw atf in and let it sit and it will build full compression and run fine. So not only did they send a shitty block but they made me look like I was a fool and told the customer that it was fine like I didnt know what I was talking about.
You would think that BBB claims would add up and **** the place down.
A customer bought a rhd fd from me that needed a motor. He insisted that he found a good deal on a motor. So he had the motor delivered to my place. The engine was a series 8 13b-rew from tiger japanese. It was very well wrapped and tied to the pallet. I tore the pallet down to inspect the motor he bought and everything looked great. Looked like it had low miles with no corosion of anything. The turbos seemed good but when i went to turn over the engine it was dead with no compression. I called my customer and told him that it had no compression and he called tiger and they told him to throw atf in and let it sit and it will build full compression and run fine. So not only did they send a shitty block but they made me look like I was a fool and told the customer that it was fine like I didnt know what I was talking about.
You would think that BBB claims would add up and **** the place down.
02-06-12, 11:51 PM
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i actually recommend you locals who bought **** from them file suits against them. the place really should just be shut down.
i've gotten better deals on blown used turbo engines for $200 than the $1500 example i was shipped. bout the only thing that was worthwhile out of that engine was the rotor housings, the rotors took over a full day to scrub down and were still marginally usable with rust pitting. so out of a core engine he got 2 decent rotor housings, 2 rotors he had to pay additional to clean, junk irons that i had to replace, an unusable intercooler, junk power steering and smog pump, chopped wiring harness, stuck injectors that needed to be serviced, blown turbo, etc, etc, etc. a few hundred worth of used parts. only bonus he got was a rear auto counterweight and light steel flywheel that needed to be resurfaced.
aside from that it looked like the engine was drug around by a chain behind a car then soaked and wrapped wet and full of water for many months to rot away. these guys are complete idiots, i suppose that have no clue that water causes rust? bunch of dumbshits they are.
i've gotten better deals on blown used turbo engines for $200 than the $1500 example i was shipped. bout the only thing that was worthwhile out of that engine was the rotor housings, the rotors took over a full day to scrub down and were still marginally usable with rust pitting. so out of a core engine he got 2 decent rotor housings, 2 rotors he had to pay additional to clean, junk irons that i had to replace, an unusable intercooler, junk power steering and smog pump, chopped wiring harness, stuck injectors that needed to be serviced, blown turbo, etc, etc, etc. a few hundred worth of used parts. only bonus he got was a rear auto counterweight and light steel flywheel that needed to be resurfaced.
aside from that it looked like the engine was drug around by a chain behind a car then soaked and wrapped wet and full of water for many months to rot away. these guys are complete idiots, i suppose that have no clue that water causes rust? bunch of dumbshits they are.
Seeing that I had warned him before clearly made no difference as some people feel like to take the chance, and that is why they are still in business to this very day. My friend has sued them, and got a few K's for re-compensation. Just like what a mod said above, GO IN PERSON. And yet after someone reads this, they would go and order a S5 block only to get a S4 or a seized block. The point is, if you have little or no experience at all whatsoever being from a swing n miss place, GET SOMEONE WHO CAN. Simple right
02-07-12, 10:19 AM
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i would personnaly not buy anything from them without going in person and looking at the item yourself. when i went there i saw a s4 turbo motor sitting on the ground, some how the flywheel nut was chipped so i asked if i could get a wrench to see it there was compression, the guy comes back with a wrench and OLD motor oil and says out this down the spark plug holes and it will work better. i told him i would try it without to see what happend and found both rotors had no compression.
so thinking i could use this to my advantage to get a better price i started talking to the guy and he still wants $1000 for it with no tranny or ecu or turbo. just the dead block.......
after i tell him i am not interested in it he tells me to go look "in that pile over there" to find one i like. and he was not kidding. all of the s4 and s5 motor are just what looks like thrown into a pile in a corner. they are not stacked like other places i have seen. it looks like the guy with the forklift just brought it over and just dumped it right there. and he still wanted $1500 for them.....
but i still cant get over the fact he was wrapping wet engines.
so thinking i could use this to my advantage to get a better price i started talking to the guy and he still wants $1000 for it with no tranny or ecu or turbo. just the dead block.......
after i tell him i am not interested in it he tells me to go look "in that pile over there" to find one i like. and he was not kidding. all of the s4 and s5 motor are just what looks like thrown into a pile in a corner. they are not stacked like other places i have seen. it looks like the guy with the forklift just brought it over and just dumped it right there. and he still wanted $1500 for them.....
but i still cant get over the fact he was wrapping wet engines.
02-22-12, 01:57 PM
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i actually recommend you locals who bought **** from them file suits against them. the place really should just be shut down.
i've gotten better deals on blown used turbo engines for $200 than the $1500 example i was shipped. bout the only thing that was worthwhile out of that engine was the rotor housings, the rotors took over a full day to scrub down and were still marginally usable with rust pitting. so out of a core engine he got 2 decent rotor housings, 2 rotors he had to pay additional to clean, junk irons that i had to replace, an unusable intercooler, junk power steering and smog pump, chopped wiring harness, stuck injectors that needed to be serviced, blown turbo, etc, etc, etc. a few hundred worth of used parts. only bonus he got was a rear auto counterweight and light steel flywheel that needed to be resurfaced.
aside from that it looked like the engine was drug around by a chain behind a car then soaked and wrapped wet and full of water for many months to rot away. these guys are complete idiots, i suppose that have no clue that water causes rust? bunch of dumbshits they are.
i've gotten better deals on blown used turbo engines for $200 than the $1500 example i was shipped. bout the only thing that was worthwhile out of that engine was the rotor housings, the rotors took over a full day to scrub down and were still marginally usable with rust pitting. so out of a core engine he got 2 decent rotor housings, 2 rotors he had to pay additional to clean, junk irons that i had to replace, an unusable intercooler, junk power steering and smog pump, chopped wiring harness, stuck injectors that needed to be serviced, blown turbo, etc, etc, etc. a few hundred worth of used parts. only bonus he got was a rear auto counterweight and light steel flywheel that needed to be resurfaced.
aside from that it looked like the engine was drug around by a chain behind a car then soaked and wrapped wet and full of water for many months to rot away. these guys are complete idiots, i suppose that have no clue that water causes rust? bunch of dumbshits they are.
bu it wont happen
coz its
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we jus bend over n take shyt
and dont say a word
but yeah u r rite we should do sumthing atleasssssttt
03-15-12, 01:30 PM
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Do not buy from them went there a couple years back to the acutal warehouse, you dont even wanna know how that place is set up or what they do to thier parts and motors. complete hacks ! ill try and dig up some pics i have. Another is JSA motors do not buy from them !
03-15-12, 02:51 PM
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sucks for anybody who get screw by them, but to be honest, you have to go in person and make a compression test on them, all the jdm shops in Canada are hit and miss. if you don't know someone who live there and can go for you, forget about it or go for a trip up north. if you buy it online they gonna ship the first one the shelf and most likely to be shitty and even if you get a good compression engine, i would do a rebuild before putting it on the road, those's engine sat for a minimum of 15 year in a junkyard/warehouse in Nippon land and all the crap it probably got in the ship. when i blew my 1st engine, the one who came with the jdm was because of stupidity and boost spike, but lots of people blew there coolant seal after a short period of time and when i open the engine they were hard and brittle and i was chipping it out insted of peeling it lol. anyway go in person dont by online
04-03-12, 11:37 PM
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I have had a bad experience with Tiger Japanese. I have been a returning customer of theirs for years. I have bought many engines and transmissions from them. But my last order I got on their web site on the rotary section and read that "all our engines are compression tested for quality", it made me feel like they were going to send me some good parts. I ordered 5 complete engines because of that. When I got the 5 engines, 3 of them were blown. 1 of them had all blown apex seals. So I disassembled all the engines and displayed pictures to their claims department. Called them, emailed them, no answer. So I called and got ahold of their manager. I told him that the site specifically said that all the engines were tested for compression before shipment. The next day, that statement was gone from the web site and he told me there was no warranty on rotary engines! Do not do business with this company. I paid hard earned money for all blown parts.
If they would have worked with me on some refund, I would have been a returning customer.
Bryan Nickell
BNR Supercars LLC
If they would have worked with me on some refund, I would have been a returning customer.
Bryan Nickell
BNR Supercars LLC
10-03-12, 05:23 PM
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Since we are all sharing stories might as well share mine. My 1992 FD was originally purchased from them..Windshield corners full of bondo, hatch as well motor blew after 8k if that wasnt bad enough the previous owner bought a used motor and transmission from them and it blew after 10 k he was probably one of the luckier ones. now i got it and gotta solve all the problems.
02-06-14, 12:05 AM
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I have friends that have all had great motors from them surprisingly. Whenever I bash Tiger they just show compression numbers and dyno sheets. I guess their selection for rotaries and the way they store them is just poor. As for the boingers.. not so bad I guess. Just figured I'd give my second hand experience. The motors referenced is a 2J that made 660 @ 23psi, a RB25 / 490 @ 22psi and another 25 that made 390 @ 15psi. Anyways, just figured I'd post this. Personally I'd never get a motor from there but if you're in the market for a cheap 2J..
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