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Originally posted by Sneeza

Macka - You say that I don't know much about parts etc - yes that may be true..... why do you think I put this post on here? I want to know where to get stuff for my car...and I know what stuff I want. I am new to the import industry... I imported my own car and learnt the hard way for everything to do with imports. I have sworn I will never import again. You make it sound bad cause I asked about pillar gauges ad BOV's.... but I was geniunley interested in these things! I was just trying to find out some places to go...that's all - places that cater for imports.

As for the other thread about bagging or laughing at V8's - I respect a hotted up ford or commo - its good to see people taking interest in their cars. My comment on v8's was more to say - that "some" people think V8's are the ONLY high performance cars. I too have been humbled by a HSV :-(

I dont think i said u didnt know anything about parts but if u say that u will come across that way to the salesman.....anyway its all good..

As for BOV.. why do u want one and what do u want it to do?

We can help...

Ohh......Havent been beaten by a Trev yet...Bar the Blue SLR5000 at the drags that came arrived by trailer and almost did a wheelstand when its auto took off :uh-huh: :burnout:

Chriss Mills, is another good place to go for good prices, its a V8 specialist too, but a phone call can secure what your after.

Killer T had his engine rebuilt by them, thousands cheaper than any other 'import' specialist mentioned for the same work, and I dare say the quality of the machine work is better.

The 'trev' shops, if you can put up with yobbo's, have very good pricing deals with the distributors and manufacturers.

Perth has a good import shop scene and you won't go to wrong with any of them as most work together.

Some of the V8 shops are changing over like Chris Mills as his

son Rhys is interested in imports, as are Regional Motor Sport.

Automotive tuning center do hard core stuff not trim type stuff

I do Performance parts not detail parts mostly EFI. C RED do quality go fast bits as do speedworks.Per4manz is the top Forced air guy.

Wheel spin ,X speed, and Works do the bits you want Plus more. All A grade shops.

In fact.... pretty much anyone who's still trading must be doing more decent work than crap... Perths a small market, and bad news travels pretty quickly... Blow up a few motors and you get a bad rep...(deserved or not, cos not all failures are tuning failures, and not all mechanical failures the fault of the last workshop involved, but thats who cops the blame)

One thing you'll find in most v8 shops as a learning point for others is trouble shooting, the amount of wierd issues the average trev repair shop would have sorted over its time and most of them have been around for a bloody long time could potentially fix that ailing bug you just can't sort out, and it will only take a few minutes of explaining the problem to them and they will generally be able to point you in the right direction, modern day car or not..

Originally posted by GTS-4OrCeD

Yeah PSI, they have a 4wd dyno, god bless 'em.

Greg.

Damn straight! I think PSI Dynoi is a pretty good benchmark industry standard... I'm not going into the whole dyno argument again but many workshops & show cars still use PSI for dyno ...

Use West Racing motor development myself. Get along pretty well with Tim unlike previous performance shops that shall remain nameless that ive had a couple bad experiences with. He does a good job and the most fussiest person i know takes his skyline to him. Anyway i think its just a matter of shopping around finding someone who has the same "vision" as you do and listens to what you want.

Might be just me but i wouldnt recommend C-red the job they did on my car was lets just say rushed - they did clean it tho haha

I prefer the Dynapack setup APA uses... runs 4wd cars as well as 2wd... and has none of the traction issues roller dyno's do, because the dyno bolts straight to the hubs... much safer too... unlike some places that don't even bother to tie down cars... (i don't think the place i'm thinking of here has ever been mentioned on this forum, so we'll leave it that way :-)

FIL, That hub dyno sounds good, that means no issues with loss of traction from the tyres, but it is more difficult for racing cars cause the hubs won't fit on some cars I heard.

If a dyno place didn't tie that car down then I would leave immediately.

See'ya:burnout:

Originally posted by GTS-t VSPEC

If a dyno place didn't tie that car down then I would leave immediately.

See'ya:burnout:

Hell no , as long as it's not mine , I would stay.

It's pretty funny when it hops off the rollers at the top end of third and smokes out the door.

Cheers

Ken

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