Eagle Japan Motor...no good

Yea so, I’m posting this just to warn people about this importer.

I purchased a SR20DET motorset from them on April 15th. The first issue was that I had to convince the owner to give me a warranty. He agreed to a 1 week warranty. When I got home, I checked their website and apparently all motors come with a 1 month warranty. WTF?

Anyways, we installed the motor and the head gasket was blown. There was no compression on cylinder 1. I call Eagle and spend 30 minutes trying to convince them the motor is blown. The douche on the phone was trying to say that the shop did something wrong installing it.

After finally convincing him, he drops off another motorset and takes the old one. He made a big deal about swapping the upper harness from the motors since we did all the mods to the original motor’s harness. He finally left after bitching about the harness issue.

We throw the new motor in right away, start up the car, and blue smoke is coming out the back. We were hoping this was just from the motor sitting. After letting the car idle for over an hour, there is still massive amounts of blue smoke at idle. We bust out the compression tester, and cylinder 4 is done.

The next day, I go back to Eagle and tell the owner. He doesn’t believe me again. He says low compression on the last cylinder is normal and the motor is fine. At this point, I’m getting angry and we get into a yelling match. This ends with him telling me to call him back in an hour cause hes gonna check to see if he can source another motor from another importer (he doesn’t have anymore in stock). I call back in an hour, he says he can’t find a motor.

I ask what hes going to do. He says “fuck this business” and hangs up. I go back the importer and another argument ensues. He finally decides to refund my cash if I bring the motor back but he won’t come pick the motor up. Since I don’t have a truck, I have to call a friend and ask for a favour.

We bring everything back and he won’t give back the money because we removed the slave cylinder because it was seized. He makes us go all the way back to our shop, get the busted slave and finally gives me the cash.

Just warning people that they have two shit motors now that they are probably gonna try and resell. Do not buy anything from them. They have horrible customer service and do not know what they are selling.

Well I defiantly won’t be shopping there, I hate business like that! They should somehow pay you for wasting your time.

Wow sketchy places these days…atleast you got your money back though, but usually if they dont want to give you a warranty or you gotta argue for one that place aint any good.

wow thats super shit…

Yup, pretty shitty. Here is one of the blown motors:

You can tell it apart from the fake braided lines and AN fittings that were used for fuel lines.

I don’t have pics of the other motor but it looked like a stock SR. Just kinda dirty.

Mmhmm.

I just had an experience with them as well.

Regarding my tranny for my RB20.

They said they had one for 400. I said okay fine. If there is atleast 30 day warranty. He agreed and sent it down.

It gets here. It’s a mother fucking SR tranny. I tell him it’s wrong. He freaked. Said NO WAY. It is off a turbo 2.0l. I said YES, it is. An SR-20. NOT an RB-20.

Blah blah blah.

Just bullshit. Fucking people are fucked. Fuck everyone.

And I STILL need a god damn tranny. Sick of people telling me I can get one for 100. Then when I call, it’s fucking 700.

Sorry for your loss.

Fuck eagle and fuck tiger. FUCK EM! Go see Riyad at Riwox. Tell him Chris with the RB sent you there.

there should be a section on this site, warning people about shady importers and bastard shops in and around ontario. i guess now ur out all that money eh chris?

Wow that’s fucking brutal…that’s why you either go to Varun or go to Japan Direct and buy a front clip. Front clips are usually a lot less sketchy and you can start the clip up too to test it before swapping it into your car.

Hey Chris…Riyad…does he drive a purple civic coupe?

yes he does

Wow small world… I know that guy from Dunnville. Pretty good driver and fast civic…cool guy too.

he dyno’d it at about 170 or 180 it not much to look at but the thing moves

i also bought my rb20 swap there and he aslo installed it

Riyad is the shit man!

Awesome guy. Smart enough to not bother on forums too.

When my tranny blew, I let him know. It was just over a month after I purchased the motor set. He STILL helped me out! Not going to say how. Because really, it is no ones business. And you can not expect that from him being a joe blow off the street. I run a shop with my dad. Riyad is really good guy. Protects his assets and burns NO bridges. He does really nice work. CLEAN shop.

Nice cars too. Won best in show JDM at Performance World!

riyad is the man to go to. Friend bought a car through him and i’ve heard nothing but good things ever.

his mark II is the shit

i think i was there that day u came in with the trans, did u show up with a mini van?

i came in to borrow a screw driver lol

no no no. I cam in with an orange juice bottle full of shavings and filings lol. No one was there.

I think you were there when we picked up the motor and trans.

You have a white sil40 with a cream front end. RB20.

If that is you, what size fan are you running? I’m kinda nervous about my 10"

yea single 10 electric fan…

i have had no over heating issues at all and ive driven the car upwards of 3 hours straight

that was me

no issues yet either. Just, we have not hit high temps with high humidity yet.

so that was you that day?

yea man

honestly that is shit, i have only ever had experience with japan direct, total jdm, tiger and varun. NONE of them have ever let me down and always stayed by their word.

sucks for eagle they are going to loose alot of business…even more from me cause i love getting jdm goodies.

we should sticky a thread based on shitty experiences with certain importers so we can weed em out.

I agree with Chris completely.

Not to put people out of business. Just to protect people in this community from fraudulent fucks.