My Head Gasket Blew on My 1.6 EFi Turbo And Now Is at FMS For the engine to be Stripped Then Put Back Together With a new " better " Gasket and some other bits.

The gasket that blew was Rated up to 300BHP but it just wasn't enough for the power and gave up.

Has anyone else had work done by them, i know they are very professional at their work and i have heard some great things about them, i recon i'm safe in thinking once they have the engine back together its going to be interesting lol.

As the engine is out of the car at the moment, the engine will also be Dyno'd which will also be interesting.

I'm looking forward to getting her back after being re assembled by " REAL " Competition Engine Technitions.

 

Field motorsport are a good bunch from what i read, did a lot of work on Mark Kinseys 300bhp cvh turbo that had loads of features in his mk2 fiesta,
standard ford headgasket should be up to the job, never failed on my zvh when i pumped 23psi through it.

 

Yah the head gasket is a bit of a dodgy one, it just blew under pressure, its fully mapped and doing 25PSI, but in this case the gasket couldn't handle it and now has done some damage to one of the bores etc......it looks as though i'm going to need some work done, like i said iv'e heard some great things about them so i'm happy about where the car is now as i don't think there is anywhere better lol.

Im having a better gasket fitted on when its ultimately re assembled, sounds to be a better overall gasket for the job at hand.

 

standard ford head gasket is best

 

im sure tommy use to get gaskets made for mine, tom scarlets and mk's cvh engines

done to his requirements

 

didn't you get banned a few weeks ago?

https://passionford.com/forum/ford-e...cort-xr3i.html

 

But your turbo and injectors you quoted in your spec are maxed out at 280bhp.............

I smell 5h1t3.....................

 

What gasket is it?

 

OT - Gus do you have a build thread on your car? Looks wicked in your sig!

 

beat me to it, deffo the same geezer.

 

Cheers dude. No i dont. Should of done one, was too far in to the build to start. Jimbo. Cant remember who he used to make em now. Yas a fair few years ago now

 

Sorry gus I meant op, what one did his blow at 300bhp

I've no intentions of building another lol!

 

Poor OP awaits his over inflated Bill off FMS!!!
For work not required or asked for

 

They are capable of doing some bloody awesome work but as with almost any tuner there are a few horror stories, That Audi springs to mind

 

The big powered Mk1 escort and the Bedford van that never seems to perform and blow up every time they been used in anger.
God knows how much the owners up my way spent on them and the rebuilds, saying that not seen them around for a while so god knows what state they in now.
As for that Audi!!!

 

This one?

https://passionford.com/forum/showthread.php?t=359168&page=9

Oh dear.

 

That audi is a lesson to anyone why they should be very carefull before going there.

 

if everything s how that audi chap described. Why he never go to court? Maybe there is more to it then he wrote.

 

if everything s how that audi chap described. Why he never go to court? Maybe there is more to it then he wrote.

 

like they say theres two sides to every stroy

 

2 sides to every story. In his defence I have been in a situation (not with cars) where I was looking at court to recover a sum of money. It's additional outlay that can get more costly and you have no guarantee of being awarded a sum that would cover legal costs never mind recover the money. Then even when a favourable judgement is gained actually getting the cash from the other party can still be difficult.

He may well have decided to limit damage to his finances by not potentially losing more. As his claim was over £5k it wouldn't have been small claims.

Like I said though, 2 sides to a story. I don't know them and wasn't there so can't say who's the agreved party. These stories are about and if I was parting with my money I would want to know about it

 

Must confess, always heard good things about them before the Audi incident other than being slow sometimes due to how busy they are. Which seeing as this is the only horror story to appear from them in 8 years that I know about em.

 

I gave them my cylinder head (yb) for a refresh , supplied all the parts except 16 valves which FMS supplied .
The head needed re skimming again after the works adding even more expense to an originaly competetive quote. Nobody is perfect but trying to resolve issues with them got me nowhere to be fair ,in the end i cut my losses and moved on .

 

Stuff like the Audi would put me off... even if 50% of the story was biased/bullshit, that's still not what I want to hear about a place I was considering leaving my pride and joy to be worked on.

Hope the OP (if he sees this before getting re-banned ) has a better experience and his car is tip top after the work though.


Cheers,
Grant

 

why did he get banned last time??

 

someone told him jesus is fake or something like that

 

not sure what he said but it was in this thread

https://passionford.com/forum/genera...christmas.html

 

I been there in the past, the guys are very professional, i even got a cup of tea lol, i went for mapping and afterwards it went like an air to air missile and i killed an M3 on the way home lol !!! no bad story for me