My experience with Street Imports...

[SmokyMcGee]

Either I have bad luck or they have some idiots working at Street Imports. I purchased my KL-ZE from them about 2 weeks ago... it arrived here 2 days ago... I requested a KL-ZE with a MS8 intake manifold..they guy said no problem.. The engine gets to the shop where my friend is going to install it. My friend calls me up..and says...the intake manifold is cracked..its no good.. OK.. I'll use my 1.8 manifold. My friend calls Street Imports...they said that the shippers must of done that because it would not have been sent out like that and it was tested before hand... The intake manifold is not warrentied...so I said..fine the hell with it... THEN...I get another call today...when my valve gaskets were getting done..my friend tells me that there are pieces of an OIL CAP in the cams and in the oil pan... but....BUT...I still happen to have a complete oil cap with no chips or breaks.. WHICH MEANS... that someone at street imports ...broke the cap...didnt bother to inspect where the shards went....threw on another cap and said..oh well..not my engine... why should I care.. So now.. Im stuck with an engine which may seize up...So my friend says he will flush the engine out and take out as many pieces as possible.. The engine was not run with the pieces in there.... THANK GOD... so they are just sitting in there.. Now what makes me so f**king mad at street imports is that it will cost me 275 shipping to send it back.... and probably another 275 shipping to send another one but I have to wait till next month to get it put in... or I can risk putting it in there and it may work fine...but if it doesn't it will cost me around 2000.00 dollars..to take the engine out again...switch the parts back to my 1.8 and install my 1.8 and send the other engine back and have another sent to me... Being a member of probetalk.com gives you a discount on the KL-ZE, i happen to be a member of probtalk.com.. I guess i shouldn't have told them that...because they may have been like..."hes not paying full price...lets give him a NOT so good engine".. The guy lied to my friend on the phone... no excuse..he lied... They dropped something on the engine...causing the intake to crack and the oil cap to shatter...and they tried to blame it on the shippers.. if things get really bad..I think im gonna take legal action... I went to street imports first cuz i heard good things bout them.... I got the short end of the stick on this one. Be very careful when ordering..ask ALOT OF QUESTIONS... I'll find out what happens tomorrow when the engine goes in

[David Coleman]

Sounds like somebody who shipped it banged it up, then replaced the oil cap when they busted it, but didn't see that they had cracked the manifold. Street imports is not a shipping company. You should really talk to the shipping company, because Street Imports would profit nothing from selling you a bad engine. You really should have inspected the motor more carefully before you took delivery, as it is now your problem instead of theirs. Many MX-3 owners have had problems with shipping companies for engines from dozens of different sources [Soko, japan direct, midwest engines, and now streetimports.com as well], and it seems the best solution to the problem is to inspect it very carefully before you sign the papers and they leave, or you're screwed. Which you are, because of something the shipping company has done. <P>I hope other people can learn from this situation, and I hope in the future you will check the quality and contents of <B>all</B> your packages before you take delivery of them.