The truth about tuners.....

[marcusd666]

Had my FD to pip (WGT) now twice and there is nothing but great fast service he is always happy to answer any questions you have by email or phone keeps in contact with updates when your car is being worked on (not like some other rx garages). The last friday dropped my rex off with a boost problem on the second turbo not working turned out it was a broken wire in the loom the bloke is a god I would never have found that in a million years. I know he is not cheap but you are paying for the service I would not even think about going any where else now for the technical stuff very big thumbs up.

[captainlovepony]

WGT are fantastic. I could not recomend more highly.
 
Dragon, well as Martin said Ross is a nice person. Unfortunatly my car was away for 11 months and had to go to WGT just to get running. My experience is similar to Garys with his car. I am not going into to much detail as it is all going to court. Some people on here have seen my car and trust me they are horrified. I will wait untill the solicitors have finished with him before all the deatails are released.

hi, I have had problems also if you wish to chat about it, email me @ mwconcord@aol.com. Cheers

[BlitzBoy]

Alexc has not posted on here for 14 months plus his post you quoted is from 2004!!! I am sure he has sorted out his problem with Dragon ages ago lol

[leefitz]

Compbrake
 
they are real nice to deal with which was a good thing but after that is the problem.
  I bought a set of track rod ends off them for the car but they sent them with the wrong threads for the track rod. but cause i wasnt able to fit them i wasnt sure if they would fit as they looked to long. i sent the wrong ones back and they sent me out a replacement pair without any hassel. once they had arrived and i gave them a quick look and spotted that one of them looked as if they had had 2 seta of threads cut into them, looked like 1.5 then recut to 1.25. not exacly what i wanted to see. i tryed it on giving that one the benifit of the dout at this stage, and it sat loose. i then threaded both ends on fully and trial fitted them to the hub. first off at there shortest fitment on the rod they still left the wheels out by over 60mm. but even if they wernt to long, they were never rite as to fully tighten the rose joint to the hub i would of had to compress the suspension as there wasnt enough angle on them to fit. this was clear because as i started to tighten as a test it started to lift the hub up and would start to try and bend the arm and rack down. (hope you see what i mean) so i have now sent them back again with hope of a refund. this joint just isnt designed for the rx7 even though they say they are. maybe iv been unlucky but they really havent impressed over all

[clive]

Sorry to hear you have had problems,

Personally I have never heard of compbrake and lets hope you get your refund, however if I\'ve got it right about what I am reading you had rose joints that had been re-threaded to fit, then I would say your lucky as  this has stopped you using them, and potentially tearing off the track rods leaving you with no steering !

Not sure what your doing but if your RX-7 isn\'t a drift car using a bizarre geometry, or the rack has been moved, then stock track rod ends will be fine as there is no performance advantage to be had as new track rod ends will give steering thats just as precise as a rose joint conversion,

Hope this helps

[leefitz]

cheers, i let all know the outcome. the car is a drift car but nothing other than standard at the min, only ajustments i made to the steerin is to have the bumpstops lathed back on the outer edge to allow increased lock. cheap an easy way to get more angle. i was changing the standered ones as they have given up, the rubbers split and dryed up. steerin in a straight line is a bit dodge on the backroads round my house.

[pbailey]

I have used Carl @ Hayward Rotary for servicing and MOT and have found them good with no problems and always a cup of coffee or tea from a clean (reasonably) mug. In the 3 years I have used them only once was there a problem with the MOT at the garage next door when Hayward forgot to book the MOT as requested and had to come back a few days later. Prices seem OK and work is of good quality.
 
Peter B.

[fd3szhi]

i live in sheffield who would you guides recommend for me to go to.

[Mikey22]

Have to say living in scotland has its down points, not having any rotary specialists is the main one!

However i must say i\'ve used Andrew @ Jimmy\'s rx7 for parts and found him to be absolutely brilliant. Very helpful, although he does usually get back to you in the early hours of the morning! Not a bad point, i just feel sorry for him staying up that late to reply to emails.

I\'ve used dragon performance once and if i\'m honest i cant really comment. they were ok i guess.

Hoping to get to see Pip soon as i\'m off to devon soon for work so i\'m hoping to be cheeky and pop in on the way down south. I\'d like some work done on my rex so think he\'s my best option and closest.

[Mir]

With Pip, you wont be disappointed. He knows his stuff.

cheers
Mir

[Jon_P]

I am based in Poole and I have used Tim at RX Motors for a few parts and advice due to him being so close. I have heard mostly good reports on his work too. As for using a company to do the mechanical side on my \'99, I have been going to Hayward Rotary. I had to go there recently to have the turbo pack replaced and their work was exceptional. Clean, careful with the car, happy for me to stand with them and watch and learn, which for me is a great thing as I am trying to learn more and more about my car. The prices are very reasonable, and their knowledge and advice is endless. Carl is a brilliant guy, and all the guys there have been great too. They will be doing all the maintenance on my car for sure.

I have only been to one other specialist, and that was RE Worx in Portsmouth as I went there to have a compression test done as when I brought the car from Martin at Speedline Imports, it came with a compression test print out from RE Worx stating that the car had front compression of: 8.3 8.2 8.0 and rear compression of 8.0 8.1 7.9

As you can imagine, seeing that on headed paper from a specialist kind of made my already easy decision to buy the car, MUCH easier! So I did. However, when I got the car and took it to a specialist to have a general health check including a compression test, I received some not so favourable results. These results showed that my front compression was: 7.3 7.3 7.2 and my rear compression was: 5.8 6.1 5.9

As you can imagine, I was shocked by this and actually. I immediately spoke to Martin at Speedline and told him about the news and my concerns and he was incredibly helpful and arranged a date and time for myself and him to meet down at RE Worx to have another compression test done by them. He also arranged for an independent tester to leave his test equipment there to use too.

We met down there, and RE Worx did another compression test and the results were: front compression: 7.9 8.0 8.3 rear compression: 6.8 6.6 6.6 (quite different to RE Worx test equipment)

Note, that the independent test equipment was a Mazda calibrated and manufactured tester.

Now, obviously they aren\'t a mirror of what the other specialist got, however they are also nothing like (except the front) what they themselves recorded on their first test when the car was imported last year. The other compression test equipment showed results of - front compression: 7.3 7.3 7.3 and rear compression: 6.6 6.4 6.3

When I asked the question of why these were so different to the original results, I was told it was due to the temperature of the engine in which the original test was carried out. This was, according to RE Worx, "stone cold as the test was carried out the following morning after the car had been brought in and left overnight". They said that this was the correct way to carry out a compression test IE when the engine is stone cold. I wasn\'t satisfied, but at the same time, I didn\'t want to hand the car back to Martin as I knew I wouldn\'t easily find another \'99 spec so I left it as that.

I did however look into the "correct way" of carrying out a compression test, and found that a compression test, according to Mazda themselves, should be done 10-15 minutes after the car is turned off after being driven and operating temperature. This conflicts what RE Worx told me, and thus, I will never use them for any work.

On that note, if anyone else has knowledge that would contradict what I have found out about the correct way to carry out a compression test, please let me know.

[matt p]

Always had a comp test carried out hot dude.

Popped down to Jit\'s which is a good 25 mins drive from mine. Carried out the comp test and was happy with it considering it had a refurb.

[matt p]

Is there a way to get in touch Jon?.

[Brett]

Mazda guidelines (as per instructions on the unit) used to be to run the engine for ten minutes prior to testing. However, later generation testers may work differently.  I would speak to them again before it turns into an Internet lynch mob.

[Grant Monkhouse]

Although the results are different from what they were originally thought I wouldn\'t have said they were poor. From front to rear yes but from rotor face to rotor face they are prety close.

We know Carl will sort you out with advice as to when it needs rebuilding etc.

From my point of view I would install a WI system post IC, as this would clean up any carbon on the rotor for sure and possibly raise compression,

A friend of mine had compression of mid 6s on his first fd, installed WI, learned to map it himself on an apexi ecu and nailed the car hard every time he went out in it, the only reason he took the engine out was to Install a PP turbo motor! He says the engine held together so long and strong was because of the WI he added:)