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Old 12-06-2008, 07:07 PM
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Got a guy on another forum looking at getting them to do a rebuild for him on a Civic. I know the company was formed from a couple of people that left PTS and they ring alarm bells like no tomorrow. Not into my Jap stuff so don't know who to suggest. He's Milton Keynes Way
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Heard they used to be good, then a few of them left and its a 1 man band who does shite work and charges you for it.

So pretty much like most Jap tuners
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Any suggestions as to who might be good? Apparently it's a DC15 engine with a turbo. (which means fuck all to me lol)
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Alright guys, my turbo has been with Frankenstein for over 2 months and after the head went and since then i have bought a new engine for it and everything that it needs to be sorted out. A guy called Kev at Frankenstein was supposed to do it before Steve and Claire went on holiday. After they came back from holiday, the car has still not been started on because somehow there is a 3 months waiting list. To me it seems like they are just fucking me about. Anyone know someone who can just take my D15 engine out and put a new one back in. Frankenstein were charging me £250 to do this so anyone know a DECENT and RELIABLE garage that can do this for me.



quoted from another forum, pretty irelevant though

i live just down the road from them, all i ever hear is bad things about them

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That looks like the post from the forum I was actually asking about
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Ive heard of at least 2 people taking them to court at mo for their shit work, one on a 200SX and one on a Punto GT.
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Originally Posted by Oranoco
That looks like the post from the forum I was actually asking about

is it a bloke known as fraz?
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CH??
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Originally Posted by Stavros
Ive heard of at least 2 people taking them to court at mo for their shit work, one on a 200SX and one on a Punto GT.
Don't sound good at all
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Originally Posted by Stavros
Ive heard of at least 2 people taking them to court at mo for their shit work, one on a 200SX and one on a Punto GT.

Well, the Punto could just be shit............

But the 200 SX is fair enough.
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Yes mate, registered after one of my YouTube clips was posted on there
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i've not had any work done by them as such, but took my cossie to them with that irrating nose that i had (posted on here etc, and spent over 500quid trying to sort it ) and the guy diagnosed it and told me how to fix properly and all fro free, and seemed like a nice chap and gave me some pointers on things to do etc, all in all i was well impressed to be fair, couldnt really ask for any more
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I've also hear quite good things about them tbh. Again not used them myself, but I am quite local to them
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