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Old 06-15-09, 02:44 AM
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wow the great ben makes a rare appearance on the forums haha i know your busy
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Can someone list all the services that each of these shop can or cannot do? What about suspension installation/adjustment, performance parts installation/tune, tire installation balance...... It is hard to tell and it would be nice to have a list.
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any shop with a number listed you could always call
Old 06-30-09, 06:58 PM
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i just don't do counterweighting, everything else i do myself or things like tire balancing i send out to the tire shop down the street along with alignments. i don't know of many rotary shops that do absolutely everything in house.
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hey ben any chance of getting the address for your shop???
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Originally Posted by RicerJ
hey ben any chance of getting the address for your shop???
hey if you need help with your car i know a guy in lodi he is very cool about the prices... he is fixing my car and swapping his street ported motor into mine and he charges me 1200 for everything...
Old 07-04-09, 10:19 PM
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but how good is his rep? with ben its been nothing but good
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Originally Posted by bblee
hey if you need help with your car i know a guy in lodi he is very cool about the prices... he is fixing my car and swapping his street ported motor into mine and he charges me 1200 for everything...
A full rebuild kit is 1k....so 200 in labor for everything?
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Originally Posted by RicerJ
but how good is his rep? with ben its been nothing but good
o he is good... he has 10 years experience with rotary if you want more info pm me and ill give you his number you can call to talk to him about it... he is cool he will charge you basically half of what shops charge you... and he also does a good job too...
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i won't put him or his rep down but it a) wont last or b) if something goes wrong then good luck getting it fixed under any sort of a warranty. i have had to eat weeks worth of work doing repairs even though there was no way to verify if something was my fault or not.

i really have no clue how someone could do a job like that and maybe scrape by with $300 in profit, not knowing the condition of your core motor, etc. the guy is nuts or reusing every single part in the engine minus water seals, in which case i will laugh when a worn rotor slot and 3 piece apex seal fall out and get jammed due to excessive wear.
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Just wanted to give a shout out to Rotary Evolution (aka Karack) for the support he gave me this weekend in my time of need! I was stranded on the track with Karack to the rescue.

Thanks to him, I was able to take this shot:

Old 09-05-09, 03:14 AM
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Old 09-23-09, 06:24 PM
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anyone in san rafael, or mill valley area?
Old 09-25-09, 07:44 PM
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Old 09-28-09, 02:43 AM
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+1 for Rotorsport.

Paul would tell me how he's fixed stuff coming from other rotary shops... no names to be polite. I never thought much about it because it is common place to hear that kind of stuff from shop owners.

However this weekend going to 7stock, I met a couple guys that took stuff to other shops, and then ultimately took it to Paul to fix the other shops screw-ups. Guess Paul wasn't lying.
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Pro Inspections LLC

Pro Inspections for anyone who need a local San Francisco/San Mateo/Bay Area rotary shop or any car for that matter. Talk to Stanley who is an old school Rotahead.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/pro-inspecti...an-francisco-2
Old 10-24-09, 06:22 AM
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Supporter to PR motorsports and to International Motors in Fremont. Tino the owner in Fremont used to race FBs nice and awesome guy, knows his stuff.

Rick from PR is nice too, but he strongly suggested against me keeping my 7 the first week I got it.
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How or where do you find this guy , and how do you get a hold of him ??? I have a sick Fc In need someone to look at to help me dial it in
Old 11-21-09, 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by SmogSUX
Give him a call @ 530-701-8488 and see, he should be able to. He seems pretty knowledgeable about ems.
there is his number and you said you couldnt find it
Old 02-15-10, 07:03 PM
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901 Camden Avenue
Campbell, CA 95008-4144
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Rotor Sport - www.rotorsport2.com

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Old 03-04-10, 12:19 PM
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Hey guys, just wanted to post up the shop I am currently at in Sausalito, California.

Bridgeway Auto Repair
www.Bridgewayautorepair.com

Opens Daily 8am-5pm and Saturday 9am-2pm

1101 Bridgeway Blvd
Sausalito, CA 94965
(415)332-6622
contact@bridgewayautorepair.com

We specialize in bmw and rx7s (Mainly FCs and FDs) but we also service most imports, European and domestic.
However, we do not tune or rebuild engines yet. But we do anything from mount/balance tire, suspension, alignment, transmission services (not including rebuild), engine diagnostic, electrical, mostly anything you name it we can do it. If not, we will recommend another shop for whatever work we cannot handle.

Give us a call and visit us =). We are considering having mainly RX7 works for weekend (saturdays only) and might have a rotary meet once in a while =]

-AzEKnightz
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Originally Posted by AzEKnightz
Hey guys, just wanted to post up the shop I am currently at in Sausalito, California.

Bridgeway Auto Repair
www.Bridgewayautorepair.com

Opens Daily 8am-5pm and Saturday 9am-2pm

1101 Bridgeway Blvd
Sausalito, CA 94965
(415)332-6622
contact@bridgewayautorepair.com

We specialize in bmw and rx7s (Mainly FCs and FDs) but we also service most imports, European and domestic.
However, we do not tune or rebuild engines yet. But we do anything from mount/balance tire, suspension, alignment, transmission services (not including rebuild), engine diagnostic, electrical, mostly anything you name it we can do it. If not, we will recommend another shop for whatever work we cannot handle.

Give us a call and visit us =). We are considering having mainly RX7 works for weekend (saturdays only) and might have a rotary meet once in a while =]

-AzEKnightz
Sounds like my kind of place...when you start doing tuning, of course.
Old 03-04-10, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by JoeCrappa
Sounds like my kind of place...when you start doing tuning, of course.
I wont be tuning at least not soon. I am the technician here but I am learning to tune. I even have my car tune by Steve Kan. I dont think anyone I know can tune better he does =). So I leave that stuff to him for now.

However my future plan is to be able to tune the car myself, but we dont have a dyno here in the shop. We are in a small shop but very efficient =)

Come by anytime to enjoy the area and view!! It's gorgeous outside right now as i type!!

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Old 03-04-10, 08:03 PM
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host a meet... have everyone come out? post on forums... get noticed

Jaime you got a shop?!?!?
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Anybody interested in joining a meet here at Bridgeway Auto Repair(Sausalito, across the Golden Gate Bridge) on a Saturday? Let me know, we can arrange a BBQ or something, come out and meet forum members!!!! Maybe we can set up an interest list =]


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