Services i can offer.

First off, id like to say a big "Thank you" for Dan for his help with my questions and for ;pointing me in the right direction, much appreciated sir!


Ok, my names Tony, (member "4v6" on other forums) Ive been a mechanic since 1994 and have worked on most all makes at one time or another at various establishments.
I did a stint at a local motorsport firm working on the rolling road, doing tune ups, power runs, fitting performance parts and doing fault diagnosis work.
Prior to working in the motor trade i was a welder, and ive got experience of mig, arc and tig methods.
Ive always been into cars in a pretty big way and right from the off i starting modifying them and hopefully improving them along the way, so ive developed some pretty handy skills which i can offer to members here.
For the past couple of years ive been doing work ad-hoc out of the garage from home as its fairly large and lends itself to such usage, although space is tighter than usual as I have an ongoing restoration on an Ur Quattro taking up the majority of the room.
Ive designed and fabricated probably around 100 or more engine mounts for enthusiasts of the toyota Mr2 as ive been a member of a forum doing stuff for them, and have shipped these items worldwide- as far as Nz, Australia, US, Canada, theres even one of my mounts on a car in Guam iirc.
Photo of just some of the hundred or so mounts I fabricated.



A few years ago i owned a celica gt4 (i had this for about 7 years) which my brother now has.
These are 4wd and turbocharged as standard, but i thought the car had little soul so i set upon transplanting a V6 3.0 litre into it to at least make it sound the part.
However, this had never been done although many had attempted it in the US, most all the attempts failed due to an impossibly tight interference between the gearbox and the block.
After some months of effort i came up with a solution and the car was completed.
That vehicle was actually featured in  Mr2 "only" Magazine as they deemed it of interest.







Ive also completely rebuilt a 1979 vw golf, its the car in my profile pic.
As with most of the cars ive ever owned, this ones also been heavily modified.
The car was gutted entirely and the shell de-rusted and panels welded in as and where needed.
The original engine was a 1.1 litre that had seized pistons and no interior apart from a steering wheel and a dash.
The engine has been replaced with a 1.8 "gti" variant from a passat that shared the same engine as the GTi models, and has been comprehensively altered by me.
Lower compression pistons from an MB code quattro, steel head gasket and so on. Its also now got a turbo charger sourced from turbo technics and huge self designed intercooler that i had made as i didnt have a tig set at that time.
This cars *almost* finished and just requires some wiring to finish and a few other odds and sods. Maybe itll turn up at a club meet eventually.

So what can i offer to you all here?

Well for starters, Mig and Tig welding on stainless, mild steel, and aluminium materials.
If you have a stainless aftermarket exhaust with a split in it, it can be repaired , same goes for alloy parts. maybe you have a cylinder head or an alloy bracket with a broken off mounting lug, holes in it caused by oxidation? Can likely be repaired.

I got tired of having brake pipes made up at the local factors only for them to charge silly money for putting on the compression fittings, so i bought an entire Sykes Pickavant flaring kit to do them myself.
It can even do the double lap flares found on the K-jet fuel system, so if your fuel lines are corroded, its easy to replace them with cupro-nickel and flare the ends retaining the original fittings if needed.

My focus shifted somewhat as i discovered i had a liking for doing cylinder head work too.
In the past ive done the same stuff, porting etc, but its never been with an ability to measure the results, so i sent off to the states and bought some rather nifty airflow measuring equipment which i incorporated into a home made airflow bench.
Its proven to be absolutely indispensible as it clearly shows improvements made and allows before and after figures in the form of graphs and tabulated data to be collated.

I recently added some more cylinder head equipment to my growing collection of tooling.
Its a top quality Mira cylinderhead boring tool that allows valve seats to be reworked to a high degree of accuracy, ive used this several times on the heads ive done for others and it makes a fantastic job as the seats are identical each time, its got the facility to have custom cutters ( formtools) made for it to almost any specification you could want.





I can also do complete engine rebuilds and I have done several in depth builds, one for a 1968 Audi 80 variant (one of only 3 left in existence).
That car was eventually entered at the "Dub Freeze" event at Bingley Hall in Stafford last February (2009) where it took the award for best pre 2001 watercooled car, heck I even got a mention in July 2009 edition of Audi Driver mag regarding that car, which is always nice!

The engine as it came to me.

And after id worked on it.









The car itself.




Recent builds are a 1978 Audi 100 "WA" engine (same as found in porsche 924 and LT vans!) For a friend who is doing a complete restoration on that car, it will be an absolute peach when its finished.

Midway thru reassembly.


Finished engine.






Ive also done a complete rebuild of an Ur Quattro turbo engine that had been pretty much  destroyed by a villan, replacing the crankshaft and most all other parts and doing the flowbench and cylinderhead prep and modification work to bring it back to life.




Ive now done multiple heads for Audis 5 cylinder series, 20 valve heads also, including one for a friend who's built a replica of David Llewellyns Coupe quattro campaigned in the 80's.
Other work for other marques included two 16 valve heads for mazda 323 4wd cars, one of them being a genuine ex belgian group n  vehicle and multiple heads for owners of the V6 Mr2.









One of several 20valve heads ive done- these are identical to the four cylinder version minus a pot of course.



Mazda heads.


This head was taken to Osselli engineering for a skim after id done all the portwork, the owner later commented that they were impressed with the quality of the portwork I did to it.



Pair of V6 toyota heads ( ive done a fair few of these now).

Exhaust port.



Intake port.






Most recently ive got involved with an ongoing restoration project on an Audi 200 rally car and did a 24 hour "stripathon", yep I took all my clothes off….well not really, I stayed up all night pulling off underseal, repairing the floor pan and helping to get it painted ready for rebuild just for fun, along with a couple of other equally mad folk.

Obviously having my own welding gear means i can fabricate parts up, some of the hardest to do have been the exhaust manifolds shown, but as previously stated I can handle most welding tasks apart from full cars as I simply dont have the room.

Fabricated turbo flanges with "V" band fitments, I fabricated these up from basically a sketch I was given by the owner, currently theyre fitted to a twin turbo mk1 Mr2.



Celica turbo stainless 316L manifold I fabbed up.


V6 exhaust manifolds in 316 L stainless I fabbed up for the gt4.





Finally, a pic of my own little Mk1 8v-turbo.


If you think I can help with some aspect of your project then please feel free to contact me.
Pm or email is always available.

SKILLS!!!!!!!

foxy

foxymk1 said

SKILLS!!!!!!!

foxy

I try!

Blimey I'm impressed. I know what you mean about the Gt4, I have had two an st165 and st205 but they did lack soul. very impresed with your head work, almost seems a shame to bolt it back together and thats praise from Oselli I had one of there heads on my Midget.

Thanks Lodgey, much appreciated indeed!

Hardest part to doing the heads is getting everything just right, because ive found that sometimes it only takes a minor tweak to change flows radically and then if you dont have the ability to measure them they can be just about anywhere, its quite in depth stuff to do and get it right for sure.

The celica was a cracking car out the box, but id owned an Audi coupe GT with a modified 2.3 5cylinder for around 13 years and that sound was distinctly lacking in the celica, hence my efforts to give it some heart.
Gotta admit, it sounds quite raucous at full chat now, still itll never replace the 5 cylinder howl of the 20vt ive got sitting in the quattro's engine bay!

Now producing these for the Ur Quattro.

Might be possible to recreate similar items on the Mk1.

What are they?
Brake shields that fit behind the discs, stone, dust and heat shields.
Made by hand from 304 stainless steel so theyll never rust again.

Just picked up on this Overboost!!!!  :redfaced: Hadnt seen it before with all the other stuff I've got going on.

Thought you were going to cut the presentation down!!!!  :mrgreen: OOOOrrrrr, is that the cut down version!!!

Good to see you making a start, good luck.

Dan

Thanks Dan, yeah this is the "mini" version…lol

Cheers, Tony.