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Originally Posted by RotaryResurrection
I dont understand you guys' line of thinking. These importers are not building engines. They never even see them run. So while it is partially their fault for feeding you the whole line "our engines are hand picked in japan by the best, are compression tested, pressure washed, come with XXX warranty, blah blah", they honestly have NO control of what the engine is like inside or out.
You guys are wanting to leave them feedback and credit one importer with better quality than another. All the while none of them have any direct control over what they sell...they are not building them after all. One importer may sell 4 good engines and one shitty one in a period of 3 months while another may sell 2 good ones and 3 bad, and another may sell 5 good, but over the course of a couple of years it will all average out to be about the same, because it is all luck of the draw.
They wait to see what shows up and then they sell it. Sometimes they think that XXX version of engine is going to come, and maybe they sell it between the time it gets shipped and the time it arrives on their dock, only to find out that some piece of it is damaged, or it is not the exact version that it was supposed to be (think s4 vs s5 turbo).
I think half of the responsibility falls to the buyers to recognize a few things about the jspec engine industry, and if they fail to take these things into account as a realistic possibility then any difficulties are half their own fault:
-there are versions of rotary that are similar but not the same (s5 vs s4, etc.) and it is a common issue to ask for one version but get a different one.
-the cardinal rule of rotary ownership is never to let the engine sit for more than a couple of months unstarted, or possibly suffer stuck seals and loss of compression. Jspec junkyard engines can sit months or years unturned by the time they hit north america, so don't get your feelings hurt if the seals are stuck or the coolant passages are full of rust due to sitting.
-the engines come from junkyards. They are in a junkyard for a reason. Often there is no documentation of mileage or running condition. Some of these are going to come off the boat already blown. Japanese people blow rotaries the same as we do, don't act surprised because you didn't get a perfect type R super rotary from JDM dorifto land.
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Lol, you said dorifto land.
I think you all are missing what I was really aiming for. Any engine I buy from an importer is going to be rebuilt, no questions asked. I was more after finding out how long turnaround time is, did you get all of your stuff, did they honor any warranties they sold with the motor etc. etc. I want to start weeding out the crappy fly by night operations and see who the good guys are and who I can reasonably trust.