A10SAP

What do you guys think about these?

i need to get the car rolling road'd with a bloody good tune up and was thinking about taking the car back up to them as theres no where i think as decent down here in plymouth...

Micky

I'd use them if I was'nt a NMS customer.Jamsport have one of the quickest trackday RST's in the country.And Jamie's a very nice bloke.Regards,Micky

marky_g

only herd good things, to far for me tho

A10SAP

where abouts are they? ive emailed them a few times trying to get some infomation about my car as it has there sticker under the laqure on the boot, but they not got back to me for weeks now...

Micky

Google is youre friend!!!Regards,Micky

jonny s2

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there in northampton mate,id defo use em only heard good things about them,jamie is a very helpfull chap

A10SAP

such a helpfull site this to newbies ay


and thanks jonny mate

jaysrs-s1

always use jamie and no1 else..im dropping my mk1 off to him soon and i live in exeter..im 200 miles away from him now,but will trust no1 else..will defend him to the hill...big up jamie..

Micky

And dont you forget it,without us you newbies would still be using youre useless local MOT garage. Regards,Micky

ianflynn

theres some big powered fiesta st's comin out of there with some blowers attached.
general concensus on the owners club is that theyre very good at what they do!!

scoobypete

hes just up the road from me and i helped him a few years back and saw some amasing cars come out, real nice guy and knows what hes on about

matt p

Been working on my cars for years, i dont trust anyone else like many others that have used jamsport.

Cant reccomend them enough, take a look at stu collins's S2 for an idea to!.

Regards

Matt

nickrsturbo1990

i took my car then on the weekend and it was running like a bag of shit, i run gotech mfi and with jamies mapping it is now running perfect

turboRS

id go to PJ Motorsport personally, being as they use a hub dyno, which is way more accurate than rollers, and the guys are very helpful. no offence to jamie..

ram

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I wouldn't touch them with a fucking barge-pole. i got nothing good from taking my car to them. but it looks like just me that got burnt big time

turboRS

i take it you mean jamsport?

ram

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yes mate

jonny s2

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ram....wot happened bud?

turboRS

i agree with you mate, despite the fact that jamie is a nice chap.
a friend of mine had a mk5 escort rs2000 turbo converted by them, which set him back a good few grand! and from what i could gather, all that money spent basically paid to have an escort turbo exhaust manifold welded onto the rs2000 manifold flange!
the car ran awful and sounded like a piece of shit despite having a dump valve! i could have done a better job myself if only i had the time and a welder....

G2RSR

A mate took his car for a setup there jamie just advanced the timing checked the fuelling and charged him Ł150 and the car was running worse than before on the way back, fuck it would not even start in the mornings after

makaveli96

I think more or less every garage is like that even the dealerships you can never 100% trust any one weather they are telling the truth or not about any thing as it’s all about making money these days.

Bryan_RST

i had my gotech fitted at jamsport and they done a great job and when my fuel pressure reg massed up took it back down to jamsport and they got it running better than ever

NEWTON

i had my gotech fitted there and the wiring was appauling,they wired the fuel pump straight to the ignition,i did expect a relay to be fitted,and when it came to map the car,apparently the actuator and fuel pump was fucked,but i couldnt work that out cos they were brand new???

ram

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bit long but..

my car was breathing quite heavily through the oil filler cap (popping it off) and the water would rise in the header tank if you held the revs up. so i changed the head gasket, new thermostat, new oil and coolant, new breather, cleared all pipes/rad etc. and still had the problem.
told them the issue and took it down. i told them i thought its the piston rings, and if needs must, id get them to fit a new cvh bottom end.

a week and a half went by then i got a call..

jamie fobbed me off with trying to tell me that i had only done my head bolts up finger tight and thats why there was the breathing issue.. the issue was there before i changed gasket, and i torqued the bolts up to the correct amount with a brand new torque wrench anyway. he then told me that i shouldnt trust a halfords torque wrench and thats where i went wrong! so i thought fuck it as long as its running fine i dont care.

when i collected i was charged Ł550 for 3 hours diagnostic time, new oil, new coolant (coolant was brown same as when i dropped it off), new thermostat (i rounded off one of the bolts on the thermo housing the week before and would have needed drilling out but that bolt was still there untouched), they said my fuel pump wiring was shot, so they replaced it with a second hand plug and wire that had exposed wires on! i told them clearly when dropping the car off that i had already done these bits the week before so wont need doing again.

i went to get in my car and my flocked door pockets were covered in deep scratches and mud from them getting in and out, my gear knob insert was cracked and on the floor. carpet covered in mud.
then i checked the engine, still breathing heavy and water rising, so went and got jamie over to ask him why.. to which he replied, all fiesta cvh's breath heavy like that and rise water in header thank, dont worry bout it. main thing is we changed your head gasket!

was bout 4 years ago so was 20 at the time and my last rst was mfi and i didnt know much bout efi back then, so like a trustworthy mug i kinda bought what he said and dying to drive my fezzy i fucked off. then 3 weeks later my oil rings let go

might not sound like a major pants pulling down.. but end of the day all they did was what i did already the week before, fob me off with some shit, then take my Ł550.

G2RSR

spot on i think also he just don't seem to have the enthusiasm he used to have always fooking about with his phone rather than his mind on doing the job

sounds like he tells the same bullshite to everyone but some know more than others

ST_Mike

They built my 384bhp Fiesta ST, don't have any complaints

mercury grey minter

I had a problem with my ESCORT RS (wouldn,t start).I pm,d jamsport and spoke to jamie on the phone,he gave me a fews pointers of what to try.I still couldn,t get it started so rang him back."Get it to me and i,ll get it started for ya" he said.So i borrowed a truck and got it to him.He changed the plugs fiddled with it for about 15 minutes and got it started for me then tuned + timed it up so it started first time ,everytime.How much do you thing jamie charged me for his time,expertease and parts??????????

Absolutly f**k all,for someone that he only met 15 minutes earlier say alot about the type of bloke jamie is.I took it back again 6 months later for rollingroad and he transformed the car.
JAMSPORT gets my vote.

coswurv

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What you've said here is pretty much what happened when i took an rst down to him that i built a zvh for, it got strapped to the rollers then he was just wondering about like he was just trying to kill time, basically adjusted the actuator pre load and then advanced the dizzy, i could of done this on the road but i was just worried about fueling, so yeah i see where your coming from. In the future if i do anymore i shall set them up on the road and just book them in for a quick dyno run for Ł30 or whatever it is now just to check fueling rather than a Ł150 hours run.

rsdan

i also live in plymouth mate and i got fed up takin my s2 to alan jefferys so i took a drive up to jam sport and it was well worth it, they set up my car really well and it ran the best it ever had.

A10SAP

get on dan, how long did it take u to get there matey?

Cozzy111

Jamie built an Rs turbo that i had about 6 years ago, 2.1 ZVH, cossy management, ect ect... running about 280BHP running lowish boost, and made a nice job of it, so i would say he's decent at what he does, although a lot of people i know have used Karl Norris (NMS) and although i have not used him YET everyone i know would recomend Karl!

gus

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given the choice of the 2


it would be nms everytime for me, they seem to know what they are doing with an rs turbo

just look at tim's and ollie's

rsdan

fucking hours mate, a good 5 i think.

where bout in plymouth u to

Cozzy111

I know i don't think many people have made 380BHP out of 1.6 cvh, if it was me then i would be going to karl!

T28 RST

Your always going to get good or bad stories about tuners

ram

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As much as I hate Jam Sport, I'll agree with that. Im sure this post could be about any company and still have a mixed response.

saying that though i now take my car to brody britain racing (morego bbr) and i dont think theres many companies that have been doing fast fords as long as they have with such good feedback

marky_g

i found them to be very helpful via email i was interested in using gotec efi but fitting it myself very helpful