Well, I know someone out there will go to him, and please do. Tell him that Chino's rebuilt engine needs a rebuild. Since getting my car back from his shop, about 6 weeks ago, it ran for only 1 day. Then I had to leave to china for 5 weeks. I get back and the car was taken to mazdapros in Ft lauderdale b/c of the ruff idle it had after its arrival from fuegos to have Edgar tell me its shot. His shop telephone is down. He needs to call me to see what he will do for me since it is his fault.

 

thats messed up

 

Make sure he either "TRULY" rebuilds it OR at the VERY least gives you your money back. How someone can "charge" for that type of shitty work and still act as if he did nothing wrong is beyond me. Take his *** to the BBB or small claims court for your money and aggrivation...

L8R

 

no doubt. I will give him a few days to respond to me. If not, my cancelled checks say repair of rx7 on them, so its my back up. I called a lawyer friend and he told me to give him till monday, if he doesnt respond, he will make the claim for me here in Ft Lauderdale and at least get back some of the money.
But you are correct. Edgar at mazdapros told me it aint worth it to rebuild b/c it still running on a n/a computer. What makes me so disgusted is that the deal with Fuego was for a S4 turbo street port with tranny, and I get a S5 frankenstien with S4 parts and no tranny.

 

See my sig

Nuff said

 

edgar a mazdapros will treat you right. he is a stand up guy

 

The thing about this was. I was really good friends with his brother when I lived in Orlando a few years back, so I figured. Well his brother Jose "Fuego" should get the buisness, he had done things to my car before, minor things that to me were great and at a great price. So I thought.. Hummm $2,000 for a turbo engine with tranny b/c I was a friend was too good of a deal. Now I know better.
Un amigo es un peso en el bolsillo jajajaja.
"a friend is a dollar in your pocket"
On a diffrent note. I did get great news from Jorge "jm85" that he knows of someone that with get me a n/a running engine for a great price so I can drive again.

 

See here is the thing about Jose. I don't think he is a crook maliciously, he is just very unintelligent and doen't understand these cars. He has fixed some in the past through trial and error, so he thinks that means he is a mechanic. He has no problem diagnostic skills. He just replaces things and accidentally fixes them every now and then. But usually destroys more things in the process, since he doesn't know how they go back together. He uses almost all used parts, so they are destined for premature failure.

I can't stress to people on this forum enough "DO NOT TAKE YOU CAR TO FUEGO" no matter how cheap, and you are thinking how much worse can he be for that kind of discount? Seriously, the guy will destroy your car. And if you don't fully understand every component about your car, you may not even know how badly he destroyed it. Anyone satisfied with his work, doesn't know what is going on under the hood of their car and has no idea the things he has done to their car. If they fully understood their car, they would do the work themselves and not take it to him, so they are easily snowed into thinking he has done good work.

The only positive thing I can say about my experience, is that after I got my car back from him, and it was TOTALLY DESTROYED, I had to strip it and rebuild it from the ground up and now I know this car inside and out. I know how almost every system under the hood works, and I consider myself a hell of an RX7 mechanic now. So for that, thanks Jose. But I still want my money back.

 

you should have gone to kilo next time lol

 

kilo is the only rotary mechanic that I've ever taken my rx7s to.

 

I don't think I would ever go back to fuego. Kilo is the place to go. He does clean work.

 

a good friend of mine took his car over there a while ago and it took about two weeks for it to be done when he went back to pick it up he paid and went to start the car and it was still having the same problem..........when he turned around to talk to fuego, fuego was already gone with the money so my friend had to wait till the next day to see what was going on.............................i think that around were i live kilo is the best

 

either my guy can do it or ortiz speedshop
but my guy charges cheeper
his boy has the fastest 5speed 12a turbo on da track and he built he motor
650 bucks and we'll hook u up good

 

Lets give it up to Fuego for being an outstanding guy and mech.. NOT!!
Now I am going back to n/a since my engine is crapped, not to mention the money I spent on the full exhaust.
Kilo is the way to go. I had talked to Kilo once while living in Orlando a while back, but since my car was running fine, I never dealt with him, man I wish I could turn back time lol

 

Another XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX....Very common. Next time go to Kilo.

Good luck on getting your money back. I know how you feel. Been there too.

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If you are talking to me, I will give you some facts......

I know who kilo is, I have talked to him and even have pictures with him.

The person who started the thread is the accuser. I am speaking in general. There are a lot of puerto ricans out there who are always trying to get over on the system. I am a victim myself of a so called rotary god. That's how much you know.

And FYI, I am puerto rican too. I can speak personally, the majority are always trying to get over.

If this hurts you, then there is a saying out there. If the shoe fits, wear it.


I hope you understand what I wrote. I hope you can educate yourself. If that is the way you conduct yourself, I'd say you are an ignorant fool.

You must be another "internet" gangster, but that is OK, I will be coming to florida and can find you if desired.

But you are not worth it to me. Keep on cashing in your unemployment check.....

 

really? a self hating rican

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Keep good the good work.....
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......You are REALLY setting the example for all others to see.

 

Kaboooski, Rotaryhaven no dijo nada de Kilo. Look at what he said, El dijo, another rican pillo de mierda, and we know that pillos come in all shapes and sizes, pero los boricuas in particular... next time go to Kilo. Kilo is the way to go and he said it. El que jodio la cosa aqui fue y aun es Jose, lo llamo y aun no me devuelve la llamada. I am going to post pics of what he did to the engine pa que tu veas la poca verguenza que hizo.

 

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let me get this straight str8Down
fuego picks up your car in jax out of his pocket to please you
gives you a good engine by your own admision yet
your number#1 complaint was vacuume hoses and pollution eliminated
your car had previos overheating issues which I proved!
your turbos where fucked which I saw with my OWN eyes when Jose took them out.

You can say Jose did a sloppy job on your car ,takes for ever to finish your cars
BUT DO NOT CROSS THE ******* LINE and ACCUSE JOSE of being a Thief!
you are playing with fire if you start that ****...No BS...This is ******* serious

 

popcorn!!

 

and some SNOWCAPS....Large coke and extra napkins