i got my rb20det from venus today!

[DriftNsmokn]

I DEFINATELY AGREE!

[DriftNsmokn]

Okay...last note..before lights go outTHIS MESSAGE IS SPECIFICALLY FOR CAMERON-When you used to do business with Venus, there was one specific individual that you dealt with. You and I know who he is. HE NO LONGER WORKS AT VENUS AND HAS NO RELATION WITH VENUS BECAUSE OF HIS ACTIONS AND SERVICE. Venus has changed since he was employed there. Okay..that is it..Good Night everyone, and Good Luck with your swaps.

[rbsileighty]

Nice to hear from you Sam. I'd say you are providing a great service. As far as things to improve on, I could easily live with the way the site is currently. If you would provide a pic of each clip that is currently for sale w/ a cluster pic (for mileage) on the cut and compression statement, I wouldn't hesitate in ordering a clip from you again. The blown trans was kind of scary to receive on my last RB, but you fixed that issue without much hesitation. This was almost two years ago, and it sounds like people have been happy with what they have received recently. Good work.

[Nameless EJ6]

Hi Sam and everyone. I just got my RB26 motor set from you guys yesterday.

Everything looks good. I think you guys have a good service also. The only things I think you can approve on are the website and when you do compression checks, it's good to know what results you get. If you could write them on the valve cover or something that would ne nice.

Only things I'm missing is the coil pack harness. The engine needs a new crank pulley also because it was smashed against the timing cover. It's cracked all the way through and rubs on the timing cover.

Hopefully you can replace those parts. I thank you for the RB25 parts also, that makes it easier to convert to RWD. I'll post pics of the motor set soon..

[crxcess]

Great post driftnsmokin! Way to stand up for your company!! I will say it again I am very happy with my clip! I work on it everytime I get a chance and im up at night thinking about it! The gauge cluster says 26000 kilometers! Thats saying that its got 16155 miles on the motor!!! It was an awesone deal and I have already refered your company to a lot of people in my school ( universal technical instiute Or hot rod university). I hope to send alot of business your way, maybe drive the prices even lower????All you REALLY need is a secretary with a price list on the phone.

[DriftNsmokn]

Hahha...great to hear guys. I will definately keep all your suggestions in mind. we're working on the website thing, hopefully that'll be taken care of soon..only problem with that is the fact that the website gets established overseas, the employees at Venus dont' even know how all the clips look like till they actually arrive. We normally do have a set price list, but since we have specials going on, we're trying to update the price list so when you guys call, it'll be more accurate. Nameless EJ6 Great to hear that your RB26 arrived. In terms of the broken pieces, can you please send me an email at the office, [email protected], and in the subject Place Attn: Vickie or Sam,Let me know exactly what the problems are and if possible, if you have acess to a digi, take photos so we can take care of the situation as soon as possible. Thanks Again to all those who are interested in Venus and all those who have faithfully followed, even when things weren't that great. Vickie and I will try to keep our customer service at the highest and I believe that Vickie will be starting a "feedback/suggestion/comment" thread for all those with any feedback, both positive and negative, so we can make things better.Okay...Gotta get back to work, I think Vickie will be surfing the different forums to keep up with everything from now on.GOOD LUCK EVERYONE WITH THEIR RECENT PURCHASES AND SWAPS. Please send me photos when everything is set, so we can see how it turned out. Also possible thinking of setting up a webpage with our customer's rides, if you would be interested in having your car posted up onto the internet, Let me know, I'll have an email address for you to send those photos intoThanks!

[Project240]

Hey Sam, cool to see you posting on these forums. I bought an RB20 clip from you guys about 1-2 months ago. I was very pleased, had ~85K on the clock, engine bay was very clean, had everything I need. Haven't gotten it into my car or checked the compression yet (or the oil pan for that matter), but so far everything looks great. The gauge cluster is a little rough, and getting the clip off the truck was a bit unpleasant , but otherwise all is well. Keep up the good work, you guys are awesome!

-Justin

[gabossie]

Sam, I don't have a problem with you guys, I have considered doing business with you a few times but I'm not sure why you just got so upset with Cameron. The posts he made were informative, not bashing you, and it's been a couple months since I've seen him bash you at all. The days of him talking crap about all other business to make himself look better seem to be over, he's decided that it's alot better to make an honest reputation for himself instead (thank god). Oh, and when he called you about RB's a couple months ago, it was because he was trying to find a way to get some engines to fix his situation at hand. If he's incorrect about the way your business works, why don't you correct it and explain to us how it does because I was always under the impression that you were an extension of a Japanese junkyard that brought clips over just like Cameron said.

[spec-v5150]

Indirectly he bashed them on this thread....well not necessarily bashed but made a sly, negative comment. The comment...."That looks empty" is clearly an indirect bash from an outside point of view. I dont come back to the RB forum to often but man it is getting crazy in here. Lets get back to swaps and tech talk...not I only ran a 15 in an SR20???

[DriftNsmokn]

I think it's great that Cameron is doing business and trying to right whatever wrongs that have occured. However what also must be understood is that Cameron was once a customer of ours, as well as some type of customer and aquanintance to other companies as well. I know he hasn't directly bashed our company recently, at least not that I know of. However I noticed that he does have a sly comment to everything and everyone that has something to do with Venus. The basic idea is not to burn your bridges. Venus has had both good and bad experiences, with the bad ones, we try to learn from those experiences and make things better. I would like to think that overall Venus has gotten better. I've seen the previous posts that he has put up, not only on this forum but others. I've seen him negatively put down other companies, even those that he got his information as well as his engines from. That is not a good way to do business. I understand the idea of helping other Nissan Enthusiasts in helping them make desicions with a person's own experience as well as recommendations. However Cameron took it beyond that. Venus chose to ignore the bashing by Cameron simply because it wasn't worth it. I know about the problems that he was having with the clips and not being able to provide them. And despite everything that he has said and done, Venus still didn't deny him when he was looking for the clips for his situation. All the things that I stated, wasn't a direct comment from Venus, well at least some of it anyway, I work there and so what he says, even after everything that he has been through, affects me. It's gets really old listen and reading to all of his comments either old or new. We used to go through the forums and just read them but we stopped for a while, simply because we got tired of reading what Cameron had to say, not nessarily about Venus, but about other companies, knowing perfectly well that the things he says about other companies get to them regardless. If he really was a "changed" business man, then he wouldn't have to add his sly comments and act like he knows what goes on within different companies, when he really doesn't. If Cameron's problems have been "fixed" then that's great, if he's a "changed" business man, that's even better, however his sly comments seem to show me otherwise. In terms of Venus's process. It's really simple, we are an importer, it's actually more of a "family business." We have our yards in Japan where we take the cars that we purchase from SUPPLIERS. Venus pays all taxes, fees, and whatnot. Then we fill the containers, and we pay customs fees, frieght charges, ocean charges and any other charges associated with bringing in the frieght into docks. Once it arrives at the Long Beach Dock, it's then sent to Oakland, then from Oakland it arrives to Sacramento, we unload the container into our warehouse and as customer's place orders, we ship them out to them. That's the basic process. We pay for our clips just as other importers do. Contrary to what Cameron said about it costing nearly 0 dollars for the clips, if that was true, then well, our boss would be a muliti millionare..which I know he isn't. I hope this helps a little for you guys to get some type of idea of how Venus works. Thanks for your time,

[DriftNsmokn]

crxcess

Okay now that we have that out of the way, I would like to go back to talking about swaps, How is your swap coming? Do anything else yet?Oh, could you please send us photos when ur done?Thanks

[kevy8up]

what the crap is a S 32 dett....lol thats what i wanna know.....hybird...what head and what block...hmmm

[dareo]

I'l betcha his S-32 DETT is an S13 or S14 with an RB26DETT in it. Cameron likes to belittle the competition whenever he gets the chance. Even with his SR20 post, he likes to sell RB engines so lets go off about the SR20 running a 15 with a 240sx exhaust on it.

[gabossie]

Sorry, didn't mean to raise hairs, I was having a bad morning. Thanks for explaining a little more about how Venus works though. So it seems you manage to pay slightly less for your stuff, but not as much as may have been believed before? And one last word on Cameron (sorry, I have to), I think that because of his past belittling of his competition and outright animocity(sp?), everyone takes things he says now as being meant in the same manner. I understand this of course, but I think that you jump to conclusions, I mean, afterall, the clip did look empty, and he's not the only one who said it. Was everyone else secretly trying to bash Venus too?Oh, and the SR story is totally true though, I installed the engine with him and now my buddy here in California owns the car. It does on the other hand feel quite a bit quicker after Cam finished up all the little stuff and worked on it some more after I left AZ. I think we may have had a little boost leak or something, but still, plenty of other people aggreed that was an average time for a COMPLETELY stock SR and no LSD and street tires, etc. In fact, the car has Blizzaks on it since it's from Washington originally. Snow tires aren't exactly the ideal drag tires :pface

[spec-v5150]

The clip looked empty and........the point of buying a clip is to get that engine, transmission, misc bolts, crossmember, etc to swap it into your 240sx. Anything else is nice thanks for the other stuff. I would hope his clips provide more when they are 1K more. Imean for that much peopel shopuld be gettign body panels, suspension, LSD, or whatever. Nismo241 got a loaded lip, I didnt and the other guy didnt....so I mean as long as the essentials are there, that is what matters right??? I can understand you sticking up for your friend, but to most people those remarks sound derogatory

[BoostFab]

i'm happy that sam can be here and show some representation for venus; and disproves or clear-up certain issues. keep up the great deal and keep those clips coming at venus.

[crxcess]

Well I bought a complete clip vice a motor set because I wanted an uncut harness, every sensor and a safe shell for it to be transferred to my house in. only thing my clip was missing was bumper, hood, dash, center console, lights, and running gear. The fenders where mangled but the wiring harness behind them was safe! Also venus included 2 radiators, another smic, and a drive shaft, at no extra charge without asking twice. The ecu was even wrapped in bubble wrap for safe keeping. I advise anyone contemplating purchasing a rb20 to get one now while they are still on special! $1300 for a s13 $1200 for a clip $0 labor= less spent then most other cars in that hp range. Even cheaper then a mustang! Anyway im going to smog my car again tomarrow... I decarbonized the combustion chamber and cleaned out the intake. That should be it as far as things that cause high NOx. If it fails again I will be in the market for a SAFC. If it passes im gonna do the swap this weekend.

[BoostFab]

good luck crxcess; keep us updated with your project.

[mark]

w3rd

[AREITU]

It was an awesone deal and I have already refered your company to a lot of people in my school ( universal technical instiute Or hot rod university). I hope to send alot of business your way, maybe drive the prices even lower????All you REALLY need is a secretary with a price list on the phone.

If you send more business their way, they raise prices to meet the demand. I guess they don't have economics at Universal Technical Institute. Which campus do you attend, anyway? Rancho Cucomonga? I go to UC Riverside, but I almost went to UTI and a couple of my friends thought about going there.

[gabossie]

My best buddy goes to UTI Rancho Cuccomonga. I go to Cal Poly Pomona for Architecture. That's my entire life, architecture and my car.

[AREITU]

My best buddy goes to UTI Rancho Cuccomonga. I go to Cal Poly Pomona for Architecture. That's my entire life, architecture and my car.

This forum dosen't allow PMs, so I'm going to send this thread off topic (you guys call it "thread jacking" or something) as a sort of civil disobedience/protest.

One of my friend's dad was in training for becoming an architecture many many years ago. He awoke to the fact that he'd be slaving over something and get paid jack and get treated like trash...so he quit college and went off to sell stuff. Lumber and trusses, actually. It's kinda strange...anyway, he gets a lot of contracts with what he learned about architecture and wows potential customres by telling them how they can save money on their buildings...then they hire him for stuff. Like trusses and lumber...

Another one of my friends, who's turbo RX7 is slowly coming back to life, recently dropped out of Cal Poly (Architecture too) and he's going to pursue a biomedical degree at UC Riverside and go become a dentist. Where else can you make an average of $300,000/yr? Some bad breath, and some bad teeth aside...

As for me, I don't know what I'm going to do. Probably gonna open a small business with friends or something.

[93RPS13]

DDX's is more than nights read this copied from DDX:

"500 Dollar retainer is applied to total purchase price." so $1900 + $500=$2400 plus shipping

I would like to recorrect myself, i believe that the "$500 retainer" is like a deposit for the engine, i was confuse and now i get...

Also, the owner of DDX is going to revise that some other people wouldnt be confused, he contact me and straighten everything out in a professional manner, so i would like to apolize to other people that i may mislead

[crxcess]

I go to uti rancho cucamonga.... the school has good instructors and all but only thing that sucks is that a buncha little kids go there. They cause trouble and make a mess of the school. And make the school less professional, kinda like an extension of highschool. Bah!

[RB25DET]

Yeah i go to UTI in phoenix this june, so the shop teachers are pretty nice about letting you use the equipment for your own project, because i was planning on doing the same thing. S13 Coupe RB25DET.

[BoostFab]

Yeah i go to UTI in phoenix this june, so the shop teachers are pretty nice about letting you use the equipment for your own project, because i was planning on doing the same thing. S13 Coupe RB25DET.

automotive labs school have some awesome equipment. some even have a high-tech paint room---at your disposal.

[Joe]

Yeah i go to UTI in phoenix this june, so the shop teachers are pretty nice about letting you use the equipment for your own project, because i was planning on doing the same thing. S13 Coupe RB25DET.

wait, you GO to UTI or you are GOING to UTI in phoenix?

<- current phoenix campus student

they will let you use the equipment for your own work as long as its related to the phase you are in, i.e. right now im in a undercar phase, so im gonna be doing new tires and suspension in class.

[RB25DET]

No, I don't go there yet but i will in june. I know guys there though. Two of um are kind of dooshes, kevon with a black civic and chuck with a jetta vr6. Then Ryan who is hella tight, green/tourquiose GSR integra. All these kids are from my town in alaska. But thats cool, UTI will save me lots of money on my project. If we get to paint there, i'll get myself a kit. not my first priority but if its cheap why not you know.

[crxcess]

well I have done some things to my car since I have been there but not motor swaps or anything like that.. I installed a lsd brakes etc. No painting, unless you take autobody. Anyway, I think im done with this post. I will post again when im done with the swap or have a question. Also my car did fail smog again! I guess I have to trouble shoot the vacum source now. No swapping anytime soon. Thank you all for your input!

[DriftNsmokn]

S-32DETT = TOP SECRET

Mission still unfinished, I'll let everyone know once its done!