R&D factory

[sijia10358]

i got my engine swaped at R&D and they fixed my suspension after i crashed it! and whenever my engine went wrong R&D fixed it happly! R&D IS THE BEST! haha LATER YO!

~KEEP IT SIDEWAYZ!

[kdashy]

I had my 5 speed swap done by Ken, i also bought some various items from them, ed and Hsu are great to deal wtih.

[McRussellPants]

My motor just arrived today, it was more or less ontime from holiday breaks and me not knowing I had to setup an appointment.

Besides being covered in some of the finest sea salt the orient has to offer its a nice motorset.

So far all I've done is pop off the oil cap and turbo inlet and peek inside and looks perfect and turbo spins free with mininal side play, later today the valve cover and oil pan are prolly gonna come off for me to take a look.

review remains A+ from me

[Dr. Moreau]

i give them a B+ there were a few problems when i got my motorset last year, but ed went out of his way and even gave me his personal cell # so i can contact him while working on my swap a few thousand miles away in loserana. for those interested, they simply got the wiring harness mixed up, it was a late model s13 kouki harness they sent me instead of a redtop, but ed fixed it right by exchanging the harness free of charge. since then i've been to numberous drift events and beat the SHIT out of this motor. i recently did a comp. test on it while troubleshooting a fuel issue (turned out one of my injector o-rings broke), and the compression was excellent across the board. Ed was a great help with to get my motor running and even offered me some good deals on other parts.

Thanks Ed.

[qwikspool]

i got my clutch replaced by them today. a+ job.

[kove]

i got my red top from them A+++ as well great guys

[Red Square]

i bought my motor from edward in 2002, before r&d factory opened. still running strong.

[LB.Motoring]

I picked up a Rb25 series 1 Ignitor from them, good guys, have anything.


Thanks,

-R

[yusuke1923]

They gave great deals! And really take good care of customers!!

[StaticX27]

Ed gave me a pretty bad feeling when I met him at D1, and from my experience from them so far, I'm glad I didn't take my car for the swap to them. My friend recently took an S13 to have a modified red top put in there. The car ran just fine in Japan, it was driven by the S13's owner before he cut the clip and shipped it back to the states. First, R&D said the car wouldn't run with his parts, so they sold him stock parts and made it "work." They swear the car ran when it was in the shop, yet they pushed it on the back of the tow truck to get it back to my friend's shop. Whatever, right?

We get it back to my friend's place and try to start the car. It fires up after alot of cranks, and then just dies. So we start it up again and keep giving it gas, that's about all we can do to keep the car alive, once you stop giving it gas, it dies. So we call Ed, and he reccommends a few things that make absolutely no sense that he wants us to replace on our own dollar. Whatever, fine, right?

None of his "solutions" work and he still hasn't gone down to pick up the car in order to make it work. In generally, both my friend and I are quite unhappy that we paid him for a turn-key swap, and we get back a 3000lbs paperweight. We paid him all the money he asked for, and even hooked him up on the S15 front clip that someone mentioned in this thread previously, and probably a bunch of other parts I don't know about. This was right around the time I was about to get my swap done in my S14, and originally, we were going through him.

After that experience, I decided to take my car down to another shop that was reccommended to me in Gardena (Garage Boso). I called them up and said I wanted my car in asap, they called me back with a truck to go pick up the front clip, car was dropped off on a Thursday night, swap was finished Saturday. I have a number of unverified rumors about R&D, like how most of the cars they turn out are started and maintained with carb cleaner just to show it works when you drive it out of the shop.

But no, from various reputable sources, I've heard he's shady as hell, and from others that he's a downright crook. However, I won't deny that people have had good experiences with him, and those people are the only reason he's still open.

[S13 Charlie]

I just dropped my car off with R&D Factory today, and they were very courteous and friendly. They showed me my engine and let me look over whatever I wanted, with no dirty looks or any hard feelings. The engine looked good with a little bit of grime, but what used engine doesn't have that? The turbo had zero shaft play, and spun freely. On top of all that, they told me that it'll be ready on Thursday. I'll reply again, when I get my car back, but right now, I'm feeling pretty good about these guys.

[redsuns3838]

Hey if anyone knows eds handle on zilvia, can you please PM it to me. or Ed if your reading this, shoot me a PM please. thanks

[mr_240sx]

gotta give Jack A++ for great service and being able to do me a little favor with my 5 lug conversion! will definately buy from them again

[KodSil80]

Willing to do business with Jack again, great product and great service!

[ultms14]

Sorry to hear that some of you have problem with r&d and Ed. I got my swap done there in 2005 and the engine still runs fine and strong. I dealt with Ed a couple of times afterwards for adding new parts like suspension, LSD, brakes... and he was always polite and give me honest advice on how to get the "best ban for the buck" parts to save $$. Sometimes he does not even charge me for some minor installations or troubleshooting and they will get the job done as promised. I've been running an e-commerce business since 97 and all i can say is no shop/store can have a 100% customer satisfaction, not even if you go to nissan dealers. A shop you are satisfied with might have many unsatisfied customers who you dont know about. So, be fair. R&D treated me right, but sorry to heard if you had bad experience with them...

[McRussellPants]

I just put 3/4ths of a tank of gas through my motor drifting last weekend and its still going.


good enough for me.

[adrians_s13]

i got my swap along with other misc. jdm chuki parts from them... A++ for customer service. about a week after my swap, my turbo lines were leaking, i took it back, they repaired it, and i gave them an s15 exhahust gasket to install, they changed my lines and gasket free of charge. needless to say, i will go back to them. Ed and Jack are good guys as far as my opinion goes. ^_^

[I_DID_SILVIA]

did my swap there about a month ago and they did a good job and jack is a hella koo guy.....i even seen him at the 626 meet and talked to him again...jack is honest at r&d and am planing on going there again A+++

[S13Boosts]

ugh THESE GUYS... hahhha JK! there LEGIT+++ See ya guys soon BUY BUY From these guys...!

[thedecapitator]

Originally Posted by TheSquidd

R&D Factory, and Edward, FAIL. Lousy, lousy service that wasted a lot of my time and money.

My situation is as follows.

January, buy a "front clip" from them, they tell me they are dissasembling it and to pick it up right before they close. I go to their shop around 6, pay the money and they give me a motor, trans, an ecu and some pipes. I get it home, have a few friends look at it and tell me what I'm missing.

The list was nearly 2 pages long, including such necessary items as an intercooler, numerous pipes, an ignitor and the intake piping / box. This was obviously a "piece together" motor set as opposed to a clip like I was told I was buying. Maybe it's my own damn fault for trusting them, but I think that's just bad business.

They give me most of the parts, they refuse to give me a recirculatory valve, hot pipe or a gauge cluster. When asked why not the gauge cluster (even though they had them in stock), they say "that's where the money's at!" (money, which I paid them, thinking it was for a full clip.). Way to be greedy.

Fine, oh well, I screwed up I'll deal with it.

Install the motor, piece together parts that cost me hundreds, now this motorset has cost me over 500$ more than a full front clip. Once again, man up, deal with it. Turn the key, doesnt' fire. Through checks we find the ECU is dead. We install a friends ECU and it fires. He says he'll let me borrow it for a few weeks so I can get this ECU replaced by Ed.

I call Ed, he says he'll replace it next day, give ECU to a friend to return to Ed (I have a dayjob.). Friend comes back with an s14 Blacktop ECU Ed said I could "borrow" and that it'd bolt right up. HAH. Fat chance, doesn't work at all. (Where my confusion lies is that he said he had a Red Top ECU in stock I could have. Where'd that go?).

Ok fine, I'll keep using the red top ECU I'm borrowing (which is broken as well. But the car runs). Ed says he's got another Red Top ECU coming the following weekend, and to meet him at the JTuned meet (which I didn't want to goto.). I goto the meet, stand in the rain 6 hours waiting for him, and call him multiple times. He finally answers and tells me "Oh I'm under a car, I will give it to you tomorrow", one would think this means he actually has an ECU in his possession. Thanks for making me stand in the rain.

Next day, friend calls Ed, he says oh we don't have an ECU for you (What happend to that one you had yesterday??!?!?!). "We have a shipment coming in a week we'll let you know." This was 2 months ago. Numerous calls have been made, basically, just getting the run around. Now my friend's been very gracious in letting me borrow his ECU, but this is too long. Now the ECU is being returned and I have no ECU to run on, unless I want to spend another 200-300$.

It pisses me off to be treated like this, and the only thing I can do in return is pay up the ass for parts twice and write a silly little review on Zilvia that no one will read. It's highly possible they really had some sort of shipping problem, fine, but don't keep lying to me and make me jump through hoops trying to track down this mysterious red top ECU that keeps going in and out of your inventory.

Fail.

i actually read your whole thread and thanks for the heads up now i will look somewhere else for an engine swap .. that is just wrong
they sure do seem thoug like total for not even calling you while you wre in the rain for 6 fuken hours

[Drifter Z]

Good seller A++++

[downshift_sideways]

2 Thumbs down. I ordered a "working" HUD display cluster for $100.00 shipped.

The package was "sent" out, but never got to me. I paid for my item on DEC 21, 2007. I called the shop and spoke with Jessie. He said he would take care of it for me without any problems he mentioned that Ed was lagging on getting the item... That was about 2 weeks ago, Still no word. I would imagine, buying from a zilvia.net vendor that a simple transaction would go smooth. Will never send them a dollar again...bad business straight up.

Cliff notes.
*2Thumbs down
*Never received my package.
*Going on 2 months now.
*Will never buy from them again.business

[DreamN]

Ordered stance pro's from them. slow on shipping but they arrived.

Hoping they actually do trade my Q's bumper for one of their K's bumpers straight up when they have them in stock.

[SRdSil8T]

I heard they were good peeps

[EDacIouSX]

Originally Posted by downshift_sideways

2 Thumbs down. I ordered a "working" HUD display cluster for $100.00 shipped.

The package was "sent" out, but never got to me. I paid for my item on DEC 21, 2007. I called the shop and spoke with Jessie. He said he would take care of it for me without any problems he mentioned that Ed was lagging on getting the item... That was about 2 weeks ago, Still no word. I would imagine, buying from a zilvia.net vendor that a simple transaction would go smooth. Will never send them a dollar again...bad business straight up.

Cliff notes.
*2Thumbs down
*Never received my package.
*Going on 2 months now.
*Will never buy from them again.business

December 21, 2007 + 2 months = Feb 21, 2008. I think your math is slightly off....

[downshift_sideways]

What I meant to say. Is we were going on the 2nd month.
As in the first 30 days have passed...

Problem has been resolved...finally.

[Ichito240]

I had my S14 Sr20DET swap done by R&D in July of last year and it was a very fast install, car ran good and is still running strong. I go back to R&D to have various work done on my car and I actually need to setup an apointment t ohave them check out my car again. They are the only place I go to have work done on my SR20.

Thanks guys, expect a call from me later.

Here are a couple of pics of what they did to my car:

[cserrano86]

I just got my tranny swap done there today. Dropped my car off last night, picked it up today around 2. The work is great, they were really helpful in answering my questions, and the car is running smooth. The quote Edward gave me over the phone was the price I paid. No BS with these guys from my experience. I'd recommend them to anybody. Great job R&D. Thanks.

[Teddy]

Edward is the man! I've picked up quite a few things from his shop. Super nice guy, good prices as well.

I recommend him to anyone!

[boosted98gst]

Just wanted to let everyone know, that this is my 3rd motor from these guys and everything went smooth again, I called bucky this morning about picking up my clip, but their forklift was broken, he told me he was going to see what he could do, and I guess figured things out, he was able to do a leakdown test in front of my father who was picking the motor up for me, because he has his own semi, and was out in the area. I just wanted to let everyone know that these guys are legit and will do everything in there power to try to help you out, Thanks again bucky.