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I took my 1996 NA Miata here because it needed a cam reseal, water pump, and had a leaky radiator. I was curious as to what went into the cam reseal and the owner Ian was patient and helpful as he answered my questions! Rat2 has experience mostly with MR2’s but my friend referred me here and I’m glad I went. I would call Rat2 and Ian for anything on a Miata. He even helped me get a replacement radiator from Mishimoto! Ian set expectations well, and delivered the car on time. I have read some of the nasty reviews left here, and wonder if the people who have written them have much experience owning an old car.. A good example of this is that Ian mentioned that he noticed my clutch slave cylinder showing signs of wear. I declined to have that done at the time because I tend to be a cheap skate.. 2,000 miles later, the slave cylinder went out. Just because I paid to have Rat2 fix one thing on my car does not mean that everything is magically fixed, or that it’s Ian’s fault that the slave cylinder went out. It’s an old car. Things break. If you want a perfect car for cheap, lease a Camry instead of Turbo V6 swapping a 25 year old sports car. Thank you Rat2! Will be going here again, and I am happy to recommend you guys to anyone!
Dont ever think of using these guy for any kind of work. The supercharged 2gr swap they did for me was a completed nightmare. Anything that they touched on my car ended up with issues. They pushed all the responsibility when ever they could. Took a year to get my car back. Work is below standard, and you will end up checking everything they did to make sure they i didnt break or miss putting something back. You will end up paying more to fix any work that they do for you. They only got one star because google would not let me give anything less. DO NOT Give these guys your business you will absolutely regret it!
DO NOT RECOMMEND!!! I recently had these guys perform a gen4 swap in my sw20 mr2 and I absolutely regret giving them my business. For starters they initially told me the turn around time would be about 3 weeks. 3 weeks turned into 2 months. That was an annoying inconvenience in which they compensated me for. Fine. But when I got my car back "finished" they had not reinstalled my AC system which I very specifically asked them to do. It was a high priority item for me and they told me it wouldn't be a problem. Then the narrative changed. I asked why they didn't install it like I had asked them to and the answer was 'well it wasn't on the bid and we didn't charge you for it'. But, but, but... I asked to include the AC and you told me you would, so what gives? How are you going to make this right? 'Well it wasn't on the bid and we didn't charge you for it'... Ok going nowhere with this one. We settled that matter with them sending me the AC belt and AC compressor mounting bracket (which I have to modify and install myself now). What else, let's see here... Oh! They also returned the car to me with part of the wiring harness in disarray so I had to do a little wire management for them. Anything else go wrong? Why yes, infact there are still a few more things I have not yet addressed. They left the idle air control valve inlet completely exposed so for about 250 miles or more I was sucking raw air and dust into my new motor. There should have been a vacuum line routed to the air intake or at the very least a breather filter attached to the inlet. I brought this to their attention and to be fair they did offer to send me breather filter but at this point I already had one on order. No offer for a partial refund, mind you. Anyway, glad I caught it before catastrophic failure occurred. Nice one, guys! Next, if you look at the nice pictures on their website of other gen4 swap examples, you'll see they used a nice quality intake with a good cone filter, proper fittings and an intake tube that has the necessary inlets for aforementioned vacuum lines. Instead I got a much cheaper and simpler intake with no inlets for vacuum lines and a subpar filter. Fantastic. So we're cutting corners now at my expense. Do you care about you cars paint? I do too. Rat2 doesn't. My trunk lid had all kinds of new surface scuffs and blemishes which tells me they were not careful and probably used the lid to set things on without properly protecting the paint first. My car is black and had been recently detailed. Alright one last thing and this one's a biggie. They asked me if wanted to use my old exhaust or go for an aftermarket exhaust. I opted for the stock exhaust mainly save money since this swap is not cheap! They said OK sounds good. That was the end of the exhaust conversation. Turns out in order for the stock exhaust to mate up with the gen4 downpipe it had to be modified. Modified to the tune of 4 hours labor @ $130/hr totalling $520!!!! That's the same cost as a brand new exhaust! A brand new high performance turbo exhaust with better sound and performance! AND THEY FAILED TO MENTION THIS TO ME! SERIOUSLY! What sucks is I paid the invoice without noticing they slipped this in and when I confronted them later about it the basically told me to go fly a kite. Said I paid the invoice therefore I agreed to it. I'm still fighting that one as I write this actually. So in a nut shell, do yourself a big ol headache and heartburn saving favor and DON'T USE THESE CLOWNS. I'm convinced these other reviews are friends and/or employees. Thanks for reading!
An update 6/12/2020: Within the first couple months of getting my car back I started getting heavy smoke from the exhaust. Turned out the turbo was absolutely shot. just had it rebuilt which wasn't cheap. Thanks again, Rat2...
And I may as well add the discovery a few missing parts in the process of working on the car. For example: a chassis brace, the turbo brace that bolts the turbo to the block, manifold heat shield, and couple other little things. Super unprofessional and an added expense for me.
