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So to sum up the last 7 months of my life i had a another kid,sold every thing i could to pay the bills i.e car, guns, stereo,anything worth selling .Got a new job and have bummed rides since then. with my tax return i got a 85 rx7 with a 302 swaphttp://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/Paynechris87/rx7/P1030566.jpghttp://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/Paynechris87/rx7/P1030567.jpghttp://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/Paynechris87/rx7/P1030568.jpghttp://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/Paynechris87/rx7/P1030571.jpghttp://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/Paynechris87/rx7/P1030572.jpghttp://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/Paynechris87/rx7/P1030573.jpghttp://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/Paynechris87/rx7/P1030576.jpghttp://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/Paynechris87/rx7/P1030574.jpg

when i was leaving from were i got it.it was making a very quiet clunking noise at low speed so i stopped to look under it and seen the exhaust is pretty low and and could be hitting the ground/ drive shaft. when i got on 71 and up to high way speeds it was much worse. the farther i went the worse it got so anyway as i pull in to my works parking lot the rear end locked up and this is what i found

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just stating facts here

1. car is built

2. goes to track

3. trans mount bolts back off make drive shaft hit ebrake section of trans tunnel.

4. fix it, make some more passes

5. Matt's last pass, he stops at the end and says somethings not right

6. trailer up, come home

7. matt pulls driveshaft and tells me the one side wouldnt move, i goto the shop and look at it. a spring came off the brake hardware and the brakes stuck on the driver side rear

8. fix said spring, car goes out and does multiple pulls/ burnouts just fine.

9. car sits until a couple weeks ago, because he's broke and trying to find a career-based job right out of college, matt drops it off jack stands, goes drives around and everything is fine

10. Matt tells me you drove the car and were happy with it, other than the exhaust(which we knew hung low)

11. you get to work and rear end explodes

12. shitty. yes.

13. did matt offer to give you $100 back towards the new rear end? yes.

 

 

Matt's in Pennsylvania right now or he'd be typing this.

 

Eric I do plenty of business with you and would let Matt sell you(your brother) something that I know was busted, trust me. You guys both saw the car, looked under it, there were no fluid leaks at the rear end.

I built 95% of that car and know it inside and out.

once again if you need help on anything PLEASE let me know, i'm a phone call/text away.

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just stating facts here

Eric I do plenty of business with you and would let Matt sell you(your brother) something that I know was busted, trust me. You guys both saw the car, looked under it, there were no fluid leaks at the rear end.

I built 95% of that car and know it inside and out.

once again if you need help on anything PLEASE let me know, i'm a phone call/text away.

 

And I appreciate what we do together. However the issue is known about the rear end. I'm not going to hold you responsible for it. It's not your sell. And it sucks that this happened, but fact remains he spent a good chunk of dough on it irregardless of where how he got the money he spent it on what he wanted.

 

Unfortunately the car was never test driven before it was paid for. And I've never driven it. We've already talked about the rest.

 

 

I think there is plenty of room to be butt-hurt about this.

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I know you're trying to be a nice guy and mediate, but this was funny you gotta admit -

 

"Eric I do plenty of business with you and would let Matt sell you(your brother) something that I know was busted, trust me."

 

i could be wrong, but im sure he meant to write "wouldn't"...who knows though.

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I know you're trying to be a nice guy and mediate, but this was funny you gotta admit -

 

"Eric I do plenty of business with you and would let Matt sell you(your brother) something that I know was busted, trust me."

 

Yep, I fale att teh tieping

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Maybe i'm an optimist...but is that the stock rear end? If so you can get one for less than $100 and swap it? Maybe i'm not seeing how this is a big deal.

 

I am not trying to lecture you by any means. But if you were in debt, and sold a bunch of stuff to pay off bills. As soon as that happened you went out and bought what is essentially a custom built car instead of buying a reliable form of transportation? I love my swapped RX-7 and its 200% more reliable than it was with the rotary (actually never left me stranded, knock on wood). I would still not want to purchase one if I was tight on money. Its a project, things happen.

 

First and foremost you have to take care of your method to get to work. Will it suck to have a slow beater? Yes but as I have learned there is always a right and wrong time to make project purchases. If the rear end is all thats broken and he offered you $100, you should be good to go after a few hours worth of work.

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Maybe i'm an optimist...but is that the stock rear end? If so you can get one for less than $100 and swap it? Maybe i'm not seeing how this is a big deal.

 

I am not trying to lecture you by any means. But if you were in debt, and sold a bunch of stuff to pay off bills. As soon as that happened you went out and bought what is essentially a custom built car instead of buying a reliable form of transportation? I love my swapped RX-7 and its 200% more reliable than it was with the rotary (actually never left me stranded, knock on wood). I would still not want to purchase one if I was tight on money. Its a project, things happen.

 

First and foremost you have to take care of your method to get to work. Will it suck to have a slow beater? Yes but as I have learned there is always a right and wrong time to make project purchases. If the rear end is all thats broken and he offered you $100, you should be good to go after a few hours worth of work.

 

The problem is not that i bought the car or that he is giving me $100. The problem is that i was told it was a good rear end for the time being. i knew it would have to be changed before the end of summer.i was told it was good and nothing was wrong as i said. Before i left the parking lot were the car was it was making noise and was chalked up to the muffler hitting some ware or something before i could get it some ware to look at it. It locked up and no there was no hard driving only to find out there was history of the rear end being broke.

 

Also the rear is more like $250 and i cant even find a 84-85 only 82-83 if you know were i can get it cheaper please let me know.

 

moving forward i only want to talk about forward progress of the car

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Maybe i'm an optimist...but is that the stock rear end? If so you can get one for less than $100 and swap it? Maybe i'm not seeing how this is a big deal.

 

I am not trying to lecture you by any means. But if you were in debt, and sold a bunch of stuff to pay off bills. As soon as that happened you went out and bought what is essentially a custom built car instead of buying a reliable form of transportation? I love my swapped RX-7 and its 200% more reliable than it was with the rotary (actually never left me stranded, knock on wood). I would still not want to purchase one if I was tight on money. Its a project, things happen.

 

First and foremost you have to take care of your method to get to work. Will it suck to have a slow beater? Yes but as I have learned there is always a right and wrong time to make project purchases. If the rear end is all thats broken and he offered you $100, you should be good to go after a few hours worth of work.

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