ava bhp figues

[G.Mac]

I had had a little tipple that evening,

My experience of them was on the bike, ive never been there with the Scoob, they assured me that they had done many bikes and would be able to get mine set up. I didnt like their attitude towards the bike continuing with the run with steam coming out the expansion bottle (GPz's are known to overheat easily), there air supply was woefully inadequate and charged me for 2 hrs on the rollers when I was lucky to have had an hour on them. On one run he was commenting that it was running dangerously lean but continued anyway (with flames constantly licking out the exhaust and the mid section turning blue!!!

 I also know of a boy who they ripped off when he went in with his saxo vtr or vts who had a cracked block or something, AVA charged the boy a fortune to source and fit a new engine, a mate of mine bought said engine and had it repaired at West of Scotland Engineering for about 150 quid and to my knowledge its still running in the track car they fitted it to

I would need to talk to my brother but I think hes got some interesting stories about them also which came to light only after i had been there (when he had his Sierra xr 4x4 with turbo technics conversion)

 

Graeme
 

[johnnyr6]

You will hear good and bad stories aboout any garage. For my tuppence worth, I've used ava a few times with my old rst, a few mates have had their cossies built there and all ran well. Their rollers seem to read lower than some others with slightly more transmission losses (alan quoted roughly 20% for my rst) . One thing i did notice is they like to sell you what they have ( understandable i s'pose and don't really recommend other products).

When i took my scoob there alan (guy who runs it) admitted to me that they didn't really know much about scoobs and they struggled to change my timing belt although to be fair this was a few years ago so might have gained more experience now. Shouldn't affect a diagnostic run though.

Another thing is if your car feels quick don't worry, there can be a huge difference in power readings from one dyno to the next, even the same dyno can vary a fair bit on different days due to climate, temps etc.

 

 As long as it's running sweet all's good!!

 

Johnny