Dead engine. What next?

[Denny]

So I enjoyed my ownership of an RX-7 for just two weeks and less than a thousand miles before it died.  I spent six hours sat at the side of the M25 yesterday before finally getting home on a flatbed.

Diagnosis: overheating, caused by pressure entering the cooling system causing it not to circulate and/or water leaving the cooling system.  In other words, it needs a rebuild.

Leaving aside for the moment how monumentally ****ed off I am about the guy who sold it to me (advertised on these forums, a non-member though), who must have known damn well it was on its last legs, my question is this: what do I do next?

I\'ve got a couple of rough quotes for getting it rebuilt - my nearest people are Rotechniks and Hayward, both of whom are saying between three and four grand for the standard rebuild (3500 and 3250 respectively, plus any unexpected extra costs I imagine, and I forgot to ask if that included VAT).  Then I can add on as little or as much as I like if I want to start doing some performance boosting work on it while I\'m paying out anyway.

That option will leave me having paid about 12 grand for the car in total, and also will leave me with no transport for the next month or so.

Some friends of mine seem to think they\'ve seen low-mileage and/or rebuilt rotary engines for sale for (a lot) less than this, even with fitting factored in.  Is this worth investigating, or are they talking out of their arses?

Do I have any other options?  I am considering just selling it to someone for whatever I can get, and buying something else instead with whatever money I can salvage from this mess...  I\'m not exactly over the moon with the world of rotary motoring just now.

Anyway, all advice gratefully received.
("If I was you, I wouldn\'t start from here")

Cheers...
A very depressed Denny

[Laeeq]

Danny!

So sorry to hear about all this mate...feel for ya:eek:

Why are all these Non Members  commin on here and advertising?isn\'t there anyway we can stop all this? :mad:

I have send you a pm mate.  Did you get it?

[Denny]

Well, it\'s not any fault of the club that the guy was a tosser.  He was selling an RX-7, which is what that bit of the forums is for...  can\'t expect MRC to inspect each car that\'s advertised there!  

Got your PM, replied, and got your reply - will give you a call this evening, thanks.

[rx7veilside]

i would look into the us market and getting a cost for shipping over a lot of guys over there are selling rebuilt tuned engines at very good prices..

[leggysrx7]

...sorry to here about your woes bud. That sucks big style.

I don\'t think that is completely fair about the non-members issue!I certainly dont think we should be tarred with the same brush!!!I use the forum for what it is for, picking the brains of folk who know there stuff, asking a variety of questions before I purchased my Fd.Would purchasing from a fully paid member ensured that the engine wouldn\'t die???i don\'t think so.

I am looking into getting a full membership , but find that you can only use paypal, and i refuse to get paypal as i\'d go completely daft and purchase a stack of new toys!!I have asked my brother about his paypal and we\'ll hopefully be a full member shortly.

Apologises for thread-jacking. I\'d stick with the FD if you can, the joys you will get once its running again will surpass anything you\'ve experienced!

Marc

[Denny]

Yeah... I doubt a member would sell such a dodgy car on here, but the fact that someone isn\'t a member certainly doesn\'t mean that the car they are selling is dodgy.  If that makes sense  

Although the expense of a rebuild is fairly horrendous, the bit I\'m most upset about is losing my transport for a month.  I\'ve only just got back on the road after being without transport for two years due to a motorbike accident, so it\'s really meant a lot to me to have my mobility back these last couple of weeks...  losing it again this soon is really depressing.

[leggysrx7]

..I know what you mean, apologise for the quick fire response. I can\'t imagine how your feeling. I worried for the 1st couple of months that i had bought a dodgy one, especially with the flickery boost gauge.....and that scared the life out of me!

Hope things work out for you.

Marc

[rx7veilside]

buy a 2nd bag of bolts for a runaround that u can use then throw away

[Denny]

Yeah, I was just thinking about that...  the only problem is that this rebuild is already going to cost me more money than I\'ve got, so any extra expense has to be considered quite carefully at this point  \

Still might be the best option though...  spending the whole of June/July stuck in south London feeling miserable really doesn\'t appeal to me either.

[Warthog]

Denny, you have my PM. Only the best is good enough.:wave

[Ada7]

Sorry to hear your bad news mate. I went though exacatly the same situation last year. Bought my car as a private sale early in january and after only 600 or so miles the engine went bye bye\'s. Like you, i was totally gutted! I couldnt afford to have to work done staight away (had only just got the car!!), so it was off the road for over 6 months while i worked my arse off to get the money together. I took it to Rotechniks to get the work done and they were great but it did cost me slightly over 4k in the end with all the extra bits that i needed. They aren\'t the cheapest out there but the work they did was great and so far i\'ve had no worried.

Hope you can get it sorted mate and dont have to sell it as it is now. I was thinking of doing that myself, but a year down the line now i\'m so glad i didnt.

Good luck
Adam

[RobbieRX-7]

rebuild it yourself! that way you save cash and get to know the car more..there are up&downs about this but im sure there are more up`s than paying someone £3.5K  you could prob do it yourself for £2k

money is precious..well to me anyway.

[Denny]

Nah.  I am The Anti-mechanic.  If I so much as go near it with a spanner, it\'ll never move again.  

[iaint]

Originally posted by leggysrx7
I am looking into getting a full membership , but find that you can only use paypal, and i refuse to get paypal as i\'d go completely daft and purchase a stack of new toys!!I have asked my brother about his paypal and we\'ll hopefully be a full member shortly.

[hijack]
MRC also accepts cheques mailed to the club address.  Download , print and fill in a membership form...
[/hijack]

[leggysrx7]

Cheers Iain,

Cheque in the post on Monday!

Marc