Troubles with Accelerator Cable and JDM Engine, I'm sooooooo furious right now... Options

[Coomer]

I just got off the phone with my mechanic, and after eleven or so weeks of waiting, he finally tells me that he cannot finish my car, because the accelerator cable won't line up since the new AE101 4A-GE engine is out of a RHD car. Also, he said that my A/C and power steering won't work because they don't mount up, so he says he can't do finish car and that it's impossible to do.

So I'm wondering what everyone with a JDM engine swap has done in order to get their accelerator cable to work. My mechanic said something about since the engine is from a right hand drive car, the accelerator cable is on the wrong side, or something like that. It's obvious now that he's incompetant, at least when it comes to working on Toyotas, and I'm furious. Over the weekend I'll probably get my car towed to a shop in Seattle to get the rest of the work done, because I've put up with enough crap with my mechanic.

[Inferno]

Coomer, you know you are so respected on these boards. I'm pretty sure that if we could, everyone on here would jump at the chance of kicking that guy's butt for you. .

The news about your swap is horrible. I'm sorry your mechanic is inable to work on your Celica. If he didn't know exactly how to do it, he should have never agreed to take the job!

Didn't you say something a bit back about how he said he was going to "do your swap for free" if he didn't finish within a week or so. Well, I think that this is his way of getting you out of his hair because he knows he won't get paid for any of it. With his logic being, "Why keep working when I won't get paid anyways." So if he tells you something is "impossible", he figures you'll leave and go to another place. I'd take him to court and sue him. Hit me up if you want to talk about it.

This post has been edited by Inferno: Nov 9, 2003 - 8:27 PM