Who do you buy engines from?

[hokiruu]

got mine from Cartune/ Neishlin

[Altiman94]

If I were to buy a motor, I would go through Enjuku. I don't trust afterdark. I can't even get a hold of him to tell him I want him to get me a motor, so why would I deal with that, and I only like 45 minutes away

[Scorpion2007]

Hey Cattalbus im here in San Antonio and if I could buy my motor again I would buy from HT Do NOT buy from some place called Scorpion Auto Designs in Kirby!!!(where I got mine and the motor sucked and had 13 day warranty!? WTF?!!!!!P.S. I swapped my own motor and had HT do the harness

This is very old but still comes up in search engines. And one of my customers brought it up to me on 09/01/09.

In Scorpion Auto Designs's defense---- we sold this motor to our customer many years ago at our Kirby Location (at which point is now closed since we have moved to Converse) and this motor was in excellent condition for being a used JDM motor. It came to us very clean with no broken sensors or damaged parts. It is true that alot of JDM engine suppliers only give you 2 weeks to install and run the engine to find out if its bad or not. Reason being these are used motors and they don't want some punk kid out there ragging out engines and crying about them being bad after a month. These are still stock motors and if you want to rag them out and drive them hard, then you need to build your engine for that.

In the case stated above I checked our invoices on this customer and the notes clearly state that the reason this customer is complaining is not because of bad customer service or a faulty motor, but because of lack of money for us to do a professional installation. This customer had his motor sitting at our shop for 2 weeks before he decided to come in and finish paying us. At this point he told us that he did not have the funds for us to install it and he wanted to pick up the motor and take it with him. We helped him load the motor into his truck and he left. (Good Customer Service) About 2 months went buy before we heard from him again, and when we answered the phone the first thing he said was "What is my warranty on this motor?" We asked what happened and he explained that he took it to another shop and they attempted to install it, somewhere along the way they screwed up the motor. He tried stating that the motor was locked up upon recieving it.(He Spun the Crank multiple times before taking the motor home with him) But in reality the other shop told us they messed with timing and after that it locked up, (so timing was off and when they cranked it, poof its locked up.) Of course when we told our customer that we could not help him, to take it up with the people that broke it. We got the short end of the stick and an EX-Customer crying on this forum.

If anyone is serious about doing a swap give us a call and try us out for you own opinions. We have been open for 10 years now and we have made alot of people happy. But it's like they say you cannot please them all, but we try anyways.

Since we are not sponsors of this site, and in order to show respect to them, all we can say is look us up on google.

JeremyScorpion Auto Designs

[Wretched]

Locked it up due to timing? I've done a swap where someone just threw a cas in it for the customer, paying no attention to how it's actually supposed to be installed. Well, it locked the motor right up...but all I had to do was reinstall the cas properly and it fired right up. Never actually seen timing lock a motor down for good.

[shift_SRDETuser]

that is why when I installed my motor I ran it stock for like 4 months before I ever started modding it. Bigger turbo, injectors, cams all that came later. I have had 0 trouble out of my swap but it came from totaljam in canada and set in customs for 2 months until they finally shipped it. Jdm of Miami is good as well. If you find a shop that gets clips and then breaks those down that it the best way to do it.....

[Scorpion2007]

Locked it up due to timing? I've done a swap where someone just threw a cas in it for the customer, paying no attention to how it's actually supposed to be installed. Well, it locked the motor right up...but all I had to do was reinstall the cas properly and it fired right up. Never actually seen timing lock a motor down for good.

Yeah We had to fix problems like you described before, but in those situations the owners of those motors are lucky, but in most cases depending on how far off the timing is, it can and will cause internal engine damage. I do not know exactly what happened to the engine above that my ex-customer of a few years ago is talking about, other than the fact that we did not install it and another shop did and after a few months we received the complaints and blame for this so called bad locked up engine. Like I stated previously we turned the crank and checked compression in front of the customer before we helped him load it into his truck. So he knows the truth about what really happened with his motor while it was out of our hands. My question is that, If this was a so called bad engine why did another shop attempt to put it in? And why did they wait a couple of months after the warranty expired to call us about it and expect for us to do something then?

Of course at that point we could not assist him because we had no idea who was attempting this install and it was even already to late for us to send it back to our JDM Engine Supplier.

2 Week Start Up warranty is there for a reason folks, so don't wait months trying to get them into your cars.

In defense of all other shops out there --- We order the motors for our customers from our JDM Suppliers (These are the same websites you may find),but what you are going through us for and paying us for is because we have experience in ordering JDM motors for customers,(shops order more than just 1 a year) so we know how to take care of all the extra B.S. for you. So you don't have to worry about shipping problems and arrival dates and import taxes and stuff like that. This is a service your local shops provide for you and they do charge you for that, like any other service. So this is how it goes, the shop orders the motor from the supplier they like best with hopes of getting you a perfect engine. Which in all our years we never had to send one back yet, They are checked pretty damn well making sure everything is good before shipped because shipping engines is not cheap and no one wants to lose profit due to sending a motor back and forth. So what I'm saying is you can't blame local shops for any damaged used JDM parts or Engines. It's not like they jumped in their car and picked up the parts from Japan while you were sleeping that night. They order what you want and take chances like you, besides if you blame them for engines coming in damaged or something, how and really do you expect them to help you? I know from my own experiences once a customer comes in and orders an engine we collect payment up front, then we call and order the engine, and they collect payment right away from us before they even ship the motor. So what I'm saying is most local shops are the middle man in the JDM Motor world so they are not directly to blame when problems like this occur. We are just like you guys only better and cooler. j/k

JeremyScorpion Auto Designs

[Artigo]

JDM hookup here in StL