Cheers both, I'm already booked in with Pip but appreciate the help. It puts you off the car which is a shame!
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Cheers both, I'm already booked in with Pip but appreciate the help. It puts you off the car which is a shame!
initialDean
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Let me know how you get on with Pip as I'm also planning on speaking to them regarding my rebuild as soon as I have some monies
jdmr_neil
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What the actual fuck!!! Is that even genuine. A rotary bus engine!!!!
MightyCondor
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I also went WTF when I read that. Then I went to Google... https://jalopnik.com/your-reminder-that-mazda-once-built-an-awesome-rotary-p-1797052798
I dropped the car off to him on Saturday and all seems good, not the cheapest as others have said but I feel confident in him, he seems very knowledgeable and knows pretty much every garage/person in rx7s and mx5s (my background).
Turns out with my engine the front and rear castings are from a cosmo, the middle is from a 7 (but unsure if FD or FC until its clean) and it has 3 piece apex seals which apparently haven't been seen since the 90s. it did make good compression before it popped but he was surprised super7 hadn't spotted a cracked front or rear casting...
I now just need to wait to see if the rotors and housings are good for reuse once cleaned and if not it'll be a brand new core from mazda direct.
so no... not a bus engine at all...
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Old thread, but I have a mixed review about Super 7.
The good: I bought a 99 spec fiberglass rep bumper from Jason and also paid for him/guys at his shop to paint and install it. I’m no expert, but the bodywork looks really good and I can’t tell the difference between my rep bumper and an OEM bumper. So as far as bodywork goes, Id recomend them.
The bad...:
First off, they are hardly flexible with time. They won’t stay a minute pas 530 even if you’re traveling over 2 hours to leave your car with them and you’re running 10-15 min late. I left my car at the shop (they didn’t want to wait the 10 extra minutes after 530 so I parked my car at the shop and left my keys in the mailbox) to have my bumper installed and painted and then left. A few days later, I called Jason and asked if he could do a “health check” of my car, basically looking it over. He told me it would be 2 hours of labor equaling £140. A week went by and I confirmed with him that I owed him £540 (£400 for install and paint of the bumper plus the £140 health check) and then he hit me with a bill of almost £900 saying that “oh my guy spent 2 hours trying to de flood the car so that’s gonna be another £140 of labor for them deflooding it, and we replaced your undertray for £40...it’ll be around £900 if you pay with card but if you pay cash I’ll only charge £720, also you’ll need a rebuild and that’ll be around £3000.”
I had a water seal failure and I told him I’ll drive my car back and get a rebuild later but he told me he didn’t feel comfortable with my driving MY OWN car and I basically told him to fuck off and that I’m getting my car back. All in all, I’d stay away from this place if you want your car in good hands. I went to Era @oldones and never looked back
The good: I bought a 99 spec fiberglass rep bumper from Jason and also paid for him/guys at his shop to paint and install it. I’m no expert, but the bodywork looks really good and I can’t tell the difference between my rep bumper and an OEM bumper. So as far as bodywork goes, Id recomend them.
The bad...:
First off, they are hardly flexible with time. They won’t stay a minute pas 530 even if you’re traveling over 2 hours to leave your car with them and you’re running 10-15 min late. I left my car at the shop (they didn’t want to wait the 10 extra minutes after 530 so I parked my car at the shop and left my keys in the mailbox) to have my bumper installed and painted and then left. A few days later, I called Jason and asked if he could do a “health check” of my car, basically looking it over. He told me it would be 2 hours of labor equaling £140. A week went by and I confirmed with him that I owed him £540 (£400 for install and paint of the bumper plus the £140 health check) and then he hit me with a bill of almost £900 saying that “oh my guy spent 2 hours trying to de flood the car so that’s gonna be another £140 of labor for them deflooding it, and we replaced your undertray for £40...it’ll be around £900 if you pay with card but if you pay cash I’ll only charge £720, also you’ll need a rebuild and that’ll be around £3000.”
I had a water seal failure and I told him I’ll drive my car back and get a rebuild later but he told me he didn’t feel comfortable with my driving MY OWN car and I basically told him to fuck off and that I’m getting my car back. All in all, I’d stay away from this place if you want your car in good hands. I went to Era @oldones and never looked back
Efini_Dave
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Anyone bought the ad9 type bonnet he produces? It looks a good fit from pics I've seen.
Efini_Dave
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I'd be painting it myself but anyone else around that makes this bonnet in the UK?
Sturneyrx7
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I had some front wings off them and fitment was pretty good... if my 2p helps
