If you have a copy of your agreeing to that quote, all's formal. There's just the standard formal noose, "-this quote is valid 10 days from 14/4/2013"

In your shoes, I imagine I'd be throwing things. I would call him Monday morning, and if he gives you another run around, tell him you'll be in to pick up the incomplete job. And no, why should you pay him for his time?

 

i left the engine with him on the 13th of april and and he said that he had two motors to build first but he would be finished by the middle of june. since then its just been promises and letdowns. if he had just said to me that it would be ready in september, then i wouldn't have left it with him in the first place.

 

What, if any, leverage do you feel you have?

Now would be the time to apply it.

 

 

i have learnt my lesson this time samjaza 78. im going to make sure i have guarantees that work gets done on time, for example, every month extra i have to wait, i will deduct x amount of money fom my payment. a company that intends to give me my **** on time woudnt have a problem with this or at least would give me a realistic completion date instead of stringing me along..

@clokker hahahah where did you find that? definately done by a swede

my only leverage at the moment has been to fervently call and text him often in an attempt to counteract the whole "out of sight, out of mind" treatment i seem to be getting. one of the problems i see with this is that i only have asked him to do one job. im obviously being prioritised after people that contract work from him regularly because if hes late with their stuff then they would probably find someone else.

he actually called me back yesterday and said that he has built it again and there were some small bits left to do. i have been told that i will be able to go down and pick it up on sunday.

one thing that gives me a glimmer of hope is that he asked me if i could take some parts from another dude living here in stockholm with me so hopefully this is the one. well it had better be. its already starting to get proper cold here now. another problem is that the clocks go forward on the 26th oct and the days become noticeably shorter (at its worst it gets dark around 3pm!) so i cant help but feel pressed fo time if im going to get the engine in and break it in before the snow comes. then i can get her sitting pretty.

lets hope that the guy whom is ill be asking to widen my wheels is not like this.

 

Marry that girl!!!

 

Had a similar experience getting my head replaced on my old Honda. Opted for the cheaper of 3 mechanics. Turns out the one I chose had blown up the transmission in his race car shortly before me needing my car rebuilt. He put priority of his car over that of the paying customer, thus my car (which was my only car at the time) spent a whole summer in his shop.

Hope you get your engine back soon. Sucks to go through crap like this.

 

were probably gna tie the knot next year. (gotta finish my 7 first hehe)

yeah man its proper frustrating. i really hope this is the last time i have to go through this.

i received a call from him yesterday, and after we had exchanged the usual pleasantries, i waited with bated breath for the latest update..

.....and...... bugger me sideways and call me susan, he was finished!

surprisingly enough, despite my '5 yr old on xmas eve' excitement i was able to sleep. i got up at the crack of dawn and got my trusty nissan micra out on the motorway westwards.

700 kilometers later...

 

I thought you were getting a rebuilt, reliable engine.

That appears to be a rotary.

 

Nice, that motor is shiny!

 

About damn time! I hope he gave you some free **** along with that.

 

Now, having established that this guy is a jackass, I would do a compression check on it the second you have it installed.

And then tell him your compression on the rear rotor is low.

Just to be a jackass.

Now clean thy engine bay! (Really, if mine's cleaner than yours, with ridiculous piles of rotted pine needles and hornet nests, you don't deserve that engine.)

 

I'm sure he will as soon as Sweden thaws out.
Next August.

 

hehe tempting but not my style. the comp test isn't a bad idea though, i have developed trust issues when it comes to what engine builders say which is sad
really. engine bay is as clean as i could get it without repainting it, though im sure its a bit dusty now. nothing a little wipe off wont fix

my skylines engine bay however, is well worthy of that description. jeez im not looking forward to sorting that out. usch..

thats not even far off.. im looking forward to this global warming everyones been raving about. hasnt reached here yet thats for sure..

too right mate! he never offered and i never asked. i was just glad to be on my way home with my engine.

i just woke up 20 minuites ago at 5am... again. i passed out at about 8.30 yesterday all that driving must have taken its toll cos i couldnt keep my eyes open for love nor money..

hoping i can get my buddy to swing by the garage this morning to help lift it out of my car and in to the garage. otherwise i geuss ill have to lump it myself.

ill be there all day today and see what i can get done!. one problem i noticed straight away is that he gold chromed (?) all my bolts that i had left with him that were all separate in there bags with descriptions of what they were for written on them. now i just got a bag back with nice shiny bolts but no clue where they go. this may complicate things a bit for me. i have no idea how im gna figure this out. does it even say in the manual which bolts are used?

i also heard a rumour that you can use an volvo (940 850) airpump to actuate the auxiliary ports. is there any truth to this? i read abit about it but only saw it being applied to fd's.

right. shower ,**** and a shave (ok no shave its getting cold here) and im off to the garage! fuurk yeah =)

 

time to get cracking. my updates will be alot more frequent i can imagine.





as you can see in the picture, the butterflies are in place but the builder said that i can now use the sleeves. i cant use both and if the butterflies are what worked before i would prefer to use them. just checking to make sure i have'nt missed something...

 

No pics today but after 14 and a half hours at the garage im well and truly shattered but pleased. Joel came after work and the pace and my odds of success improved dramatically. Changed the oil Lines, replaced some of the vacuum lines and cleaned the rest of the parts and painted some after Joel kindly pointed out that they looked like, and I quote.. 'a bag of ****'. Not entirely finished but theyll be done tmrw.

Alot of the aforementioned nuts, bolts and studs have found a home and its all starting to come together nicely.
I dont dare give any forecasts for what tomorrow will bring but I will be there all day and will give an update on our progress in the evening. (with some nice piccys)

Thinking back to when I found out that I would have to get the engine rebuilt and this excruciatingly long wait for it, it feels like things (knock on wood) are looking up!

I am a very happy bunny.

 

Happy bunnies make good stew.

So I've heard.

 

 

You gotta be careful when eating rx7 owning bunnys though, they are known to carry a disease called 'mixupmyrotors'
Budum tssssss =)

 

Be that as it may, rotary bunnies are still the easiest pickins.

Half can't run at all and the others run out of gas so quickly you needn't chase them far.

 

and it looks mine is already on its way to joining those that cant run at all.

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whatever it is that connects to this is gone. i have spent the last two hours looking for it and am stumped. this is bad and im wondering if it is among the parts i had thrown away. (why was i that cocky?)

i dont know what it is, what it does, or how it looks.

any clue guys?

 

i also checked through the pictures i have taken since i started removing the motor and in the picture where i have the engine suspended over the engine bay i can see that the part has already been removed which means that it should still be in the engine bay somewhere but it isnt. i have been very careful to make sure that i had everything either in or on the car so i dont get how it could have dissapeared. another theory can be that it has managed to find its way into the pile of parts that i through away when deleted the emissions but when i looked at the picture of the pile of parts that i took off (which is in this thread also) i dont seem to see anything either. im stumped. and beginning to worry..

 

i think i have worked it out. (famous last words..again..)

am i right in assuming that this is where the EGR valve sat? in which case it would make sense that i dont remember removing it during the engine removal because i did it when i removed the original exhaust system and replaced it with the racing beat one last summer. i can just block it off and im done right? the interesting thing is that it means that i have been driving with it open all this time.

also.. on the top of the middle housing there was a hole for something which wasnt on the old one. i read that this was for the egr valve for a turbo model? which means ill need two different egr block off plates for the same motor.

by the way, i spent the day sorting out a block off plate for the acv and a pipe that originally sat in the housing to the cooling system that was corroded. all of this was sorted out by my mate robert that is very nifty with a lathe. without him i probably would have wasted loads of time trying to source these bits.

i also ordered new spark plugs (two bur7eq and two bur9eq ngks), fuel filter and oil filter which will come tomorrow afternoon and we did a bit more cleaning and painting of parts. joel is the painting expert so he took care of that and i put my turd polishing skills to use.

man..that shiny new motor has a downside. it makes everything else look proper cruddy.

please tell me im right about the egr valve thing.

i sleep now. update tomorrow

 

I thought "EGR valve" myself when I saw the pic but wasn't confident enough to say so.

Too many weird European differences I'm unfamiliar with.
I briefly considered that you might stuff herrings in there, use the fish oil as seal lube instead of the OMP.

Admit it, you guys have done stranger things.

 

Yeah man even the haynes manual wasnt much help either. I really had to root around but i worked it out in the End. I really thought i had misplaced a part or something.. Scary. im sure somebody up North has tried the fish oil thing hehe it wouldnt surprise me at all