https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...72#post1841272

Sorry guys, for the repost. Kevin's already put the warning out..but now you know it's MY car!

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damn dude... i feel for you..

that rotor is FUCKED...

 

thats kevins engine not mwpaynes. so well i dont feel your you payne. but say it were to happen to you.. well then i woudl feel for you :]

 

umm I dont think Kevin owns a -Se

sorry to hear that Mike, thats pretty fucked up

 

Yikes. Does Pineapple know about this? Are they even partly responcable?

 

Kevin rebuilt it, but it is my engine out of the 84 SE widebody that all of you helped me pick out (remember?)
Don't know about pineapple, I'd forward the link to them but they have no email I'm aware of. Guess I could/should call them & at least let them know. Since this is a self-install, they'll likely not assume any responsibility. I'm not the kind to spend $$ going after things like this, anyway. Kevin's gonna do me right in the rebuild, since I bought the sleeves and asked him to install them. I'm going to pay at least for the new apex seals. It's not my fault, certainly isn't Kevins fault, so we'll consider it a tragic lesson and move on.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MIKE-P-28
[B]umm I dont think Kevin owns a -Se

Oh, YES he does! He's trying his damndest not to, however:
https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...hreadid=192947

Thanks for the opening, MIKEP!!

 

Oh sure....... try to pin the blame on us! I accept NO responsibility. I told ya to get the black one.

 

Oh no, I give you guys the CREDIT. I really wanted the black, but the right decision was made with the beige bombshell. LUV that silly car, it'll be as good as new by the weekend!

Uh,,,,right, Kevin??

 

Just a quick update: Picked up the car this afternoon. Running as good as before. I asked Kevin what he did about the sleeves, did he just leave them out this time, keeping the port actuators 'au natural'?
Nope. He took the actuators, shaft, sleeves, everything completely out and sealed it up. Ports (5th and 6th) are WIDE open ALL the time. He said with the heavier rotors on our 1st gens, the low end would suffer very little, if at all. Indeed, I had been driving with them wired open before, low and top end felt great to me.
I'm going to shut up now before I open the 5th and 6th port can of worms again.
Thanks for the comments, and check out the pineapple racing website in a few days. They'll be updating sleeve installation instructions to include loctite!

 

As a side note, Rob is actually a registered member here and used to post a little...then sterling got him mad....j/k.....calm down...but he did used to post here....