Car losing power and feeling sluggish? We have the answer!!

We have just taken delivery of a fantastic new piece of kit for cleaning your fuel system! The kit comprises of two parts that we will utilise for your car. The system connects directly to the fuel rail and the car will run directly off of the cleaning agent. The process cleans your injectors removing the varnish build up and give a better spray pattern from your injectors. it will then remove carbon build up from around the valves allowing better valve seating, it helps remove carbon build up on the pistons and the exhaust valves. and also help with DPF valves and EGR valves as well as cleaning the catalytic converter meaning your emissions will be reduced meaning you get no worries come MOT time! system is also coupled with an in tank additive too and available for both petrol and diesels! We were sceptical when anyone comes to us trying to sell a new product but we have dyno tested this and it does give results, we have seen improvements in horsepower and torque throughout the rev range and has cleaned power curves on 1 car tested where it hit a boost spike that was unable to be rectified by any other means!, any more questions or information on this product please give us a call on 02920 861046

Pembrey drift day

Just a few quick photos of our very own Chris 'Rempy' Jones drifting his SWT Sponsored Nissan Skyline at Pembrey circuit on Sunday.....

Project Peanut (Very pic heavy!)

A little while ago my brother said to me he was after some retro japenese car preferably from the mid 70's, I searched around through all the usual places but could only find stuff from the early to mid eighties. We went to Leicester to have a look at an 1983 Toyota Cressida on a garage forecourt but after a test drive he decided that it didn't float his boat, even with my hard bargaining to put the obligatory 1JZ in it! After a little while longer I was scouring pistonheads and found in the lucky dip of all places a 1976 Toyota Corolla. Showing my brother the pictures of it on there he was not convinced by the little (36 year old!) Corolla. Now I could see the potential in peanut so after searching around a little bit I found some pictures of some modified ones around which once my brother saw what could be done he was sold in it. A trip to Loughborough later we were returning back to its new home in Bristol. 

 When the car left the factory way back in 1976 the 1166cc engine was making a staggering 53 brake horsepower and after 36 years and 42000 miles later we had to put the car on the dyno just for the giggle to see what it would actually make and low and behold a staggering 55 brake was made from the old girl! With some fresh fuel and tweaks with the mixture and some timing mods she made 60.3 brake!

 After a lot more reading up my brother decided what course he wanted to take with the car and managed to source a Toyota 4AGE 20 Valve black top engine from Nipparts in no time. Once he bought that he read up that the best gearbox for it would be a T50 from the AE86 Corolla. He searched for a day or so then rang me in a blind panic because these gearboxes fetch good money and are few and far between. So then I picked up the reigns and managed to source on from a chap in Manchester for quite a fair price. Unfortunately though this was a T50 but the bell housing was wrong for the 4AGE engine and again with a little bit of ringing a few people and bit of searching we sourced a T50 to 4AGE bellhousing from premier performance cars over in Ireland. The bellhousing was shipped super quick and these are top guys to deal with.

Now came time for the strip down, Kev has cracked on and been very sympathetic to the old girl taking his time and being extremely careful with all the original chrome, trims and other fixtures and fittings etc. Once most of the components were stripped we have been faced with what is actually quite a good shell to begin with, but, we shall have to see once she has been to the bead blasters to see what sins she is hiding. We know that the rear arches have been repaired with new panels but the front of the car is in quite good condition. We decided before the car goes off to be bead blasted we wanted to do the full mock up to see what problems we would come up against during the transplant.

When we got to this point Steve and I were stood in the workshop surmising about how we can bring Peanut in to the 21st century but keeping it sympathetic to its 1970's origins when Steve got a flash of inspiration! Within no time we were out and measuring up an S13 and well yeah, you can see whats coming......

Now Peanut was up in the air with the S13 on the ramp next to it we stripped the front subframes off of both cars to offer the S13 up to Peanut. Sure enough with some modification to the S13 subframe it slotted in to Peanut perfectly

After a phone call to Paul at Japspeed S13 adjustable arms were here next day and going on along with eibach top camber bolts

I got drenched doing this but it was needed! All the bay is now nice and clean so we can start with getting rid of any rot where we want to do some chassis work. Where the chassis rails meet the bulk head we have welded a panel in to add strength and will be seem welding along the legs and around the strut tops.

We know already that to get the black top to slot in we need to remove the distributor and will have to go stand alone on it so we stripped a few more items off the engine ready for a test fit in the bay

We have dry ran the engine and box in to see where the mounts line up and to see what else would need to be modified to get the 4AGE in the bay. We managed to get an OBX manifold as 20 valve manifolds seem to be few and far between!

More updates coming soon so watch this space!

Luke Ellards Mazda RX7

Luke had a bit of bad luck with his RX7, With Teeside BDC round 1 approaching the car was far from working correctly. On the Monday he was on his way to Milton Keynes to pick up a new engine, Tuesday was spent putting the engine in, Wednesday night was spent trying to get the map from his Power FC pro on to a normal Power FC and then the car was brought to us Thursday dinner time not running and needing some TLC by the bald man. with a fresh set of plugs and a lot of tinkering the car was running at least by late on the Thursday night for the guys from A40 Garage to drive the mamouth drive to Teeside. Unfortunately even with our hard work the car didn't get chance to compete at round 1 where the car has now been brought back down to us. First things to start off the car the car would not start, checking through everything on the car we found several breaks in the wiring loom and with what had gone on with it in the past it was the best option to replace the loom. The turbo had been oversped and scored the bearing so that was removed and sent of to Graham at Universal Turbos for a refresh before coming back here to be refitted. once all the loom was done and turbo back on it was time to fire it up. Before starting we connected a fuel pressure gauge up to find that fuel pressure was dropping off steadily as the car was cranked over. Fuel pump now removed and inspected to find it had indeed given up the ghost so with a new pump installed he car is now as I type being started up in the workshop before the pre dyno checks are being completed.

Once we got the car on the dyno giving it several runs we were getting detonation, even with a standard base map and 7psi of boost! One run it would be fine with no detonation then 2 more runs would have when nothing had been altered! So with the aid of Steve's very own RX7 parts were kindly loaned to Lukes including coil packs, HT leads and injectors to name but a few but with all that in place, the car ran like a dream and made 400bhp and with the weight of this car I can tell you its an absolute flying machine!

With that Luke was off to Norfolk for round 2 of the BDC

Photo courtesy of Craddy Media:

Noel Phipps's South Wales Tuning prepared Skyline on Speedhunters!

Chuffed to see a good advertisement for the hard work done by the team at South Wales Tuning, Noel's 1JZ Skyline used as the main cover photo by none other than Speedhunters!

http://www.speedhunters.com/2012/06/behind-the-scenes-at-bdc-norfolk/

Noel Phipps's R33 1JZ powered Skyline

Several weeks ago we had Noel ring us in desperate need of someone to sort his car out for him. Several different people had been involved in the build so far but it needed someone to bring all the parts together and make it all work!

Being loaded up for its trip from Noel's home down to us so we can work our magic!

This is how the car was brought down to us, it had been started up but there was a great deal of sins to be sorted out. When we tried to fire it up oil pressure was non existent so with a quick inspection the oil lines for the relocation kit and the cooler we found it was plumbed in wrong so that was corrected and we had oil pressure!, unfortunately the oil pressure shown that there was no front crankshaft oil seal in place so that was installed! Then it was time to fire the car up and we then found the manifold was blowing in several places so that came off and was skimmed flat, a new flange for the exhaust was made and delivered so we could rework the exhaust. Because of the 1JZ external wastegate routing being exactly where the steering rack sat the pipe was cut by a previous person and the welding wasn't too special so that came off and went away to be rewelded and sorted before that could be refitted.

along with a whole host of other issues that were corrected it was dyno time, all went relatively smoothly all bar the turbo to manifold gasket blowing a big hole on it and it made a very impressive 496bhp at 1.5bar!

Confusing a lot of people at Japfest!!

 The car was then given its first major shake down at Santa Pod drift what you brung day and as you can see from courtesy of Leigh Hopewell (www.lhdesigns.co.uk) The car did exactly what it was built for and that was making lots of smoke!

And a few others courtesy of Mattie Crowe!

Items Currently For Sale

HERE IS A SMALL SELECTION OF ITEMS CURRENTLY FOR SALE..

PLEASE CALL FOR PRICING & FURTHER DETAILS ON: 02920 861046


* NEW SARD 800CC SIDEFEED INJECTORS FULL SET OF 6 INJECTORS (1JZ / 2JZ)


* SET OF GENUINE OZ PRODRIVE BLACK WHEELS (FULLY REFURBISHED) 17X7J (5X100 PCD)


* IMPREZA V6 FRONT BUMPER COMPLETE WITH LIP SPOILER


* IMPREZA V6 FRONT GRILL WITH STI BADGE - TO MATCH ABOVE


* FULL BREMBO GOLD CALIPERS & DISKS FRONT & REAR (OFF 350Z GT)


* XS FRONT MOUNT INTERCOOLER


* XS POWER TURBOCHARGER


** VARIOUS SETS OF INJECTORS / TURBO KITS / ENGINE PARTS (BOTH OEM & AFTERMARKET)


PLEASE CALL US WITH YOUR REQUIREMENTS - 02920 861046

Jade track star

Here is something interesting for you guys, This is Graham Cole's Jade track star.Normally Graham maps the car on the race tracks of the UK but with a few inherant problems of doing that Graham aapproached us to see what we can do, as I type this we are currently fixing a few sins that we have found already before we even start on dynoing the car, Figures will be posted later!

Project Soarer

This is our very own project car, well, in fact it's my own project car. After my former HKS built Toyota Chaser was kindly destroyed by a *"%^ in an Audi I wanted to build something more track ready and drift capable. The original plan was to strip all the parts from the Chaser and fit it all to a Soarer that I had bought previously to use as a budget skid car anyway but as time progressed the option came up of a factory manual Soarer that had been sat on my friends driveway for little over 2 years and was looking very sorry for itself....£2,000 lighter the Soarer was libberated from its driveway outside Swindon and was destined for its new home in a lovely (cold!) workshop. I will now let you digest the photos of the build so far and give you a quick tech spec of the car after.

Engine spec is 1JZ-GTE standard bottom end, Polished and ported head, matched gaskets, Titan motorsport cams, JUN Pulleys, Greddy T78 turbo, 800cc SARD Injectors, ViPEC V88 ECU with flat shift, launch control and anti lag!

Underneath the car has been gone through completely, All bushes have been polybushed loads of Formula Ikeya arms, TRD 2 way diff and loads of other little touches to boot.