Does anyone know a good place where I can bring my 94' RX-7 to get it running? I put a new motor in and the vacuum and electrical is driving me nuts, I can't take it anymore, I just want to get it done. I am in the New York Metro area. My personal email is Elite540m3@aol.com, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all for your time and efforts.

 

call and speak to joe, he is one of the best mechanic in n.y. i have known him for over 10 + years. tell him faizal sent you and you might get a discount



J&R Performance
545 meecham Ave
Elmont NY
(516) 616-5812

 

there is only 2 i know of. t&r racing on merrick ave in qnz. (www.rx7s.com) be careful with these guys unless you know them personally!!!! and smoking joe racing in elmont (mechiem ave) i would choose smoking joe b/c iv know him for a while,he has a more prof. shop. and i trust him more. you can go to both and make your own opinion. but joe is very good.

 

I've been dealing with www.kdrotary.com for around 7 years and they are outstanding. Also, www.pfsupercars.com is really good. There is a reason I travel to those two shops when I live in NY, just be extremely careful when you pick a shop in NY.

 

(flamesuit on)
LOL- you should print that in all caps. As you prob know I used to tune/fix/build third gens on the side for fun...and $$. I have fixed many of NY 'rotary' shops horrors. Believe me, the stuff I have seen come out of those shops I couldn't have dreamed up with my wildest imagination...... ie- duct tape, tie wrapped racecars...LOL

If you are going to a rotary guy on LI---- BE CAREFUL, or just don't. It would be cheaper in the end to flatbed your car across country... I have seen quite a few of my customers losing thousands of dollars and having parts switched off of their cars.....LOL. What a joke, and we wonder why rotaries ave such horrible reputations.... It's a shame people don't have the ***** to share their experiences, although many rotary customers just don't know any better.
I look at it this way- the worse they do their work...the more lifelong customers for me.


I think the funniest stuff I read on this forum is the quote "Bring it to 'my boy's' shop and he'll fix you up...."


John

 

jodeny where in li are you?

 

in the middle....

 

Well I have delt with Smoking Joe racing personally and they were very helpful. Even gave me a discount on a part cause I helped when removing it from a junker. Don't know about T&R, but I know people who have gone there and have had good experiences.

 

I wouldn't trust either of these shops. They both know their **** real well, but they certainly werent straight with me.

 

Thank you guys very much, I have been to 3 shops with this car over the last 3 years and it still is NOT running, I don't know what to do anymore. I am seriously at the end of my rope and wallet with this thing. I may try out "smokin Joe", even though I spoke to T&R today. Any additional info will of course be greatly appreciated. Thanks again...

 

why be careful with t an r racing? i am just wondering because i was thinking about having my motor ported there.

thanks, jay

 

ttt

 

i'm one of the best mechanics in n.y.

check out my resume

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tie wraps and duct tape cost extra jodeny

 

PM me, I'll steer you in the right direction.

 

John has definitely been around for a long time and seen some really terrible work that some of these NY shops does to an RX-7.

There have been shops that purposely put sand in the gas tank. Hmm, I wonder why they would do such a thing??? Also, stolen stereo systems, which they didn't pay completely to have it replaced. Another event that occurred is when someone left their FD at the shop and received it back with a crashed front end.

I strongly recommend you do a search. Also, a lot of things are not posted about some of these shops, just be extremely careful. As someone mentioned you are better off having it towed to another shop.

 

Switched parts off of customers cars/stolen parts from customers cars/blown motors with the explanantion..."ooops, you know those rotares!," zip tied fuel lines, duct tape holding the radiator in... I cant believe some of the things I've seen. Single turbo installations for only 400 dollars labor and then the guy gets the car back and it has USED parts on it and either doesn't run or the heat just fries everything around it because they didn't use the corect parts. The car then overheats and blows the motor ...and now they have more business. The best is when I give the potential customer a list of things to "watch out" for and then they go get a cheaper price from another rotary shop....and they still get screwed. It's really humorous. Between the younger FD owners who don't own a screwdriver and CAN NOT afford the car and the so called rotary shops, who rip people off to keep their personal racing budgets in check it's no wonder more and more FD owners who can afford them are going to the c6.

I cringe when I see a thread titled- "new RX-7 owner." Poor bastards don't know what they are getting into.

It's amazing how people can read posts about negative experiences and then still consider going to a shop. Well, you can lead a horse to water.....


Believe me, after the wrecks I have fixed(with digital pics to prove it because no one would believe it) I can go on and on.....

94twin- good luck. Just dont assume once you get it running that it will stay that way. FD's need at least 1k to 2k dumped into them each year in order to fix them the correct way.

John

 

i think Acosta motorsports or whatever is in Jersey or NY. I dont know a whole lot about them or where they are located but i know they work on rotories. Some one mentioned PFS which is in Maryland and about 5 hours from you, they do great work though. Kdrotary is probably not your best bet, they are good guys just not so knowledgable, myself and a good deal of other people have had some problems with their work.
Good Luck,
Austin

 

KD is good with stock cars.... Aco$ta is way, way , way overpriced but they seem to do good work.
John

 

I'd be careful with both cause neither of the 2 are very trustworthy i have heard from former customers how when there motors have been re opened all the parts they brought in weren't put in & I have even met a guy personally that said Joe swapped motors on him so be very very careful if you cant be there to watch the job being done i wouldnt trust any of those guys, Shame the guy who use to be on Steamboat road Rotormotive closed a long time ago there arent that may people who you can trust in NYC. Im luck i have a friend from Puerto Rico who use to build race motors in PR does my work but Im not sure if he wants to take on the duties of having a rotary shop. If your in NYC you prob see them racing at what use to be know as the Tanks at GreenPoint Bklyn one has a teal green FB 7 the bro has a red FB with a black fender on the driverside. Says Totally Rotary auto club on the back glass. well they do good work, But again i dont think they plan on opening a shop though. I'll ask another friend about who can be trusted in NYC

 

go to mothers & real deal motorsports.
we do a great job,we got flow bench and dyno in tha house.everything about porting and tuning.
you can see our cars,the running good times and our costumers cars too.

 

I agree with Reckless, take your car somewhere else. IMO T&R and J&R both suck. Unless you know someone dont expect them to treat your car with respect. IM sure people have used them and have nothing bad to say but the majority of stuff is negative nowadays. I dunno why shops screw the rotary crowd over. We are a small community **** gets around fast.

I gave T and R a shot and i was not happy with the work done on my car and the condition my car came out of there. I also have bad experience with J&R when one of my boys totally got shitted on. So IMO the two shops in NY that i konw off suck. I have never personally used KDR or PFS but i never heard 1 negative feedback for those two shops. If i had more serious work to do on my car i would take it to KDR.

Jason NYC

 

HORROR STORY BEGINS NOW

I took my clean 87 GXL to T&R Racing to get a transmission swap from automatic to 5-Speed. I aslo brought my 89 GTU which was the donor for the swap. I brought him both cars at the same time. So everything was going fine. I couldnt stay and watch the progress becuase i had to work. SO every day i would pass by at 6:30pm to check the progress of my car. Everything looked fine. I drove my car out of there, and the transmission i brought was fucked up so he told me i need a new one. Everything looked fine.

I bought a second transmission and to avoid, paying more money since the swap labor cost me $600, not including all the new parts i purchased, clutch, slave and master cylinder etc.

I put in the second transmission i bought on my car. WHen i started taking apart the transmission from the car i noticed a lot of wrong ****. THey used different thread bolts on my slave cylinder and use mad washers to make it work. Upon going under my car the crossmember was welded so SHITTTY its not even funny, i never welded and i think i coulda done it myself. The crossmember had a 12mm bolt and no joke 30 washers. Now im not an expert but i dont think thats safe. As i was later to learn, none of the bolts were the ones needed. its like they looked in a bolt bin and picked up what they could and threw it on.

I asked if they changed the oil , they said yes we did all that and its all good. I changed the oil it was GUNKY, CHUNKY, Blacker than Black. The whole transmission was ghetto rigged. I then began to check to see if all the parts i gave them they put on. Luckily all the parts i brought them were installed on the car so that was good but the way they installed everything was not professional for a PROFESSIONAL rotary SHOP.

They scratched my doors, greased my nice clean velour seats, cracked my console, just a nightmare to see your baby come out with mad scratches and dings. Meanwhile i drive my car to school and park in the CITY and dont have as scratches.

I also requested for T&R to put my extra parts such as LSD differential , Axles, Counterbalance , etc in my black gtu so i can tow it from there back to my house. WHen i arrived he threw out my transmission which i requested for them to put in my car, they didnt have my misc parts in my black gtu as i requested they told me they threw it out. After a while looking for it they brung it out, and threw it in my red gxl. Upon closer look they didnt even give me my DIFF wtf. Also my 89 GTU interior parts were missing. They left my car outside with the keys inside and people just sat in my car and took off my vents and other misc interior peices.

**** Was just horrible. So some people have good experience others do not. It all depends on who you talk to. I heard good and bad but i decided that T&R would be better than J&R and in my opinion they area all in the same ranks.

I called TONY and i told him what happened, and he apologized that the service was not to my liking. This was my first time , taking my car to a shop and the last time i will take my car to a shop in NY.

IF i have any other real work to do i will do it bymyself or with the help of my fellow rotary freinds and if i cannot do it then i will take it to a shop

J&R: One of my boys took his car to SMOKEY joe for a rebuild, he got the car back, and teh motor in peices and was out i beleive over $2000.

Jason NYC



/END OF RANT!!!!!

 

Multiply Jason's story by about 20. I don't know how those guys stay in business, it AMAZES me. I can match your story and probably top it but I don't have the time (new baby daughter) to sit on the computer.
Most guys who claim they've had good experiences just don't know any better...

TO those who post about their experiences- good (not likely) and bad---> thanks.


John

 

Ihor (lives in clifton NJ) was a mechanic at my shop (Gotham Racing) for a few years and knows the FD very well, from vacuum diagrams to electrical to mechanical. I know he is in school part time but fixes FDs as well.

He's a good friend of mine and I can vouch for him. He is the only other person aside from myself that I trust to touch my FD on the east coast. His SN on this forum is rotary experiment seven.

I have also heard jodeny does good work as well. I think that you are best going with one of these 2 'privateers' than going to any established shop around here.

 

Recently took my recently acquired 84 gsl se to Tony at T&R. Tony was extremely helpful, performed complete inspection in front of me explaining why certain things had to be performed now, others near term (2-6 months) and others long term.

They really know what they are doing, gave all sorts of solid advice what I could do without him, fully explained in advance exactly what needed to done, why, and what it would cost, and most importantly, kept his word. And, the costs were lower than expected.

Based upon this experience, I feel fully comfortable going back to him, which I will do, and recommending him to others.