Without being rude mate you can think whatever you like as can I.

He may of never let you down but I can guarantee he has screwed a fair few over, in one case the £1000 ported head he fitted to my mates car which had mainly a brush over with some sandpaper instead of any actual porting, on top of that it was skimmed to death and had been dropped during assembly and they had crushed the swarf into the MLS gasket, all that on top of poorly bit engine was in my opinion a pisstake.

I have also seen a mk1 escort shell he did and it was a load of crap, the owner of it uses this forum as well and ended up having someone else finish it.

Personally my opinion is that in some cases he will turn out a good job and not mug you off, however if your like the guy wanting the fiesta done or like my mate who both are(were) new to the scene it's easy to bullshit them into either spending too much or sorting them out with not what they know is actually any good.

We all know A1 have built some good cars but knowing what I do if I had the choice it's not who I would spend my hard earned money with.