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Originally Posted by danifilth
will you please share your story?
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Here is my experience with Night7Racing and the shops owner Cameron.
Before I go into a detailed account of what happened please let me stress that I have made every attempt to contact Cameron, via phone, email and personal messages to get this issue resolved. Every attempt during the last two weeks was either ignored or not answered.
Cameron was contacted regarding a swap that needed to be done on my 98 240sx. The car was just recently purchased form out of state and needed to be emission tested. The problem was that the car had a Black top sr20 installed in it, and would not pass Arizona emissions. I asked Cameron if his shop could source a 98 ka24de five speed and do the swap and accept the SR engine as payment. Cameron agreed and said this would not be problem. I stressed to him the importance of all the sensors being hooked up correctly and that the engine could not be throwing any codes. Cameron found a donor car and engine, and my car was dropped off on Wednesday 5/12. Cameron had told me the car would be ready that Saturday 5/15. At the time I dropped the car off I told both Cameron and Derek that I would like to keep the intercooler and the blow off valve from the swap, as I needed them to turbo the KA down the road. They both agreed and said that was not a problem.
In talking to Cameron on Friday 5/14 he again assured me the car would be ready on Saturday at around noon. So I go to the shop to pick up my car, only to find no one there, and my car sitting outside with the windows down and the car not even close to being completed. The cars had been blocking the neighboring shops doors so they already had Cameron on the phone when I pulled up. Cameron said someone was on the way to the shop, so my wife and I went to get some lunch. When we came back Derek was there, I spoke with him for a few minutes about the status of the swap and what was going on. I asked him if the car would be ready today. He replied he was not sure, and that he didn’t want to commit to something he wasn’t sure he could deliver on. Later that night I get a call form Derek and he tells me the swap is done, but the wrong drive shaft is in the car. Derek tells me there was an S13 drive shaft in the car and it was just barely holding in. So I wait until Monday and call Cameron to find out what is going on. He says that the car had an s14 auto transmission drive shaft in the car. I later find out that the car the KA was swapped out of had an auto trans. What I believe happened is the people doing the swap put my five speed drive shaft in the other car and used the auto drive shaft in my car leaving me the bill for a new drive shaft. I can not prove this but if there is a five speed car with an SR swap that ran perfect and an auto car that ran perfect this is the only logical explanation. Not knowing at the time this is more than likely what happened, I told Cameron to order a new drive shaft. Cameron offered to trade my intercooler for the cost of the new drive shaft. I agreed to this, however knowing that the guys at the shop probably switched drives shafts to get there car working this was a unfair trade, and one that I should have not had to of made.
So the car is finally ready on Wednesday of the following week. I go to pick it up. The first thing I notice is the Check engine light is on. The guys at the shop tells me there are codes in the ecu that need to be cleared and that is why the light is still on. They said everything was hooked up and functioning properly, and all I need to do is go to Autozone and have them reset the ecu. The second thing was my blow off valve. Apparently they installed this on the other guys car, which they said broke down on the freeway on the way to the shop. I told them I wanted the Bov back and that they needed to contact me and make arrangement to drop it off. To date this still has not happened.
So the next day I take the car to Autozone to have the ecu cleared only to find out that the car is still throwing two codes, a crank position sensor code and an auto transmission code. It was at this time that I found out that car they swapped from had and auto transmission. The shop had used a five speed transmission from an S13 and used the auto transmission ecu both resulting in these codes. After finding this out I tried calling Cameron, no answer, I also tried emailing him, and again no response. To get everything functioning properly I had to buy a 98 transmission that had the crank position sensor port and a 98 five speed ecu. After I got all of this resolved I emailed Cameron yet again and told him I wanted reimbursed for the added cost I had to spend, which should have been taken care of by the shop before the car was released. The costs were as follows $150 dollars for the transmission, $150 for the ecu, and $195 for the Bov that still has not been returned, and that I also wanted my intercooler back due to the fact they stole my five speed drive shaft. This email and Pm were still ignored by Cameron. Leavening me no choice but to come here to try and get some of my money/ parts back.
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