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Hey,

Just wondering for all those coastie skyliners...do you get your line serviced/tuned by anyone on the coast or do you take it to Syd or Newy?

I have had a couple of bad experiances with people on the coast who claim to be "Performace Specialists" so started takin my 33 to Unique... although pain in the ass when u gotta hang around the middle of no where for hours n hours.

anyone know of any good reliable places on the coast?

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Hey,

Just wondering for all those coastie skyliners...do you get your line serviced/tuned by anyone on the coast or do you take it to Syd or Newy?

I have had a couple of bad experiances with people on the coast who claim to be "Performace Specialists" so started takin my 33 to Unique... although pain in the ass when u gotta hang around the middle of no where for hours n hours.

anyone know of any good reliable places on the coast?

Hi,

You should pop into the Central Coast Thread I believe there was a small discussion on this a page or two back.

Drew.

Hey,

Just wondering for all those coastie skyliners...do you get your line serviced/tuned by anyone on the coast or do you take it to Syd or Newy?

I have had a couple of bad experiances with people on the coast who claim to be "Performace Specialists" so started takin my 33 to Unique... although pain in the ass when u gotta hang around the middle of no where for hours n hours.

anyone know of any good reliable places on the coast?

Adam at TM autosport - great guy! Definately recommend him. Haven't heard of the guy at Mt White so can't comment.

there's an excellent skyline mechanic at mount white of all places....not really the coast but a lot closer than sydney

My mate owns the garage at Mt White, the old NRMA one, which i think he must lease off them, becuase my mate recently saw my car for teh first time and said apparently some guy who works on/owns skylines is using dads garage.

I assume this is the guy your talking about?

Edited by Michael_1882

BTW- I've herd bad things about TM......... =/ for numerous different sources, never delt with them so jsut be weary.

There used to bea great Mechanic at Kariong Automotives (he's left now as far as i know) he used to work at just jap, or so he told me (and his jumper said) but his wife was Jappanese and used to work in Japan for a few years turning spanners. Might be worth giving them a ring, and see if he's come back, his names "Alan" i'mpretty sure.

Do you have the details and address for the new shop?

Plenty of people on SAU have happily used Nathan's shop in Annandale but he is new to Mt White

Can i have the details of this guy too please?

My dad is slowly getting sick of working on my cars and I am thinking I might have to start paying for it one of these days :(

Nathan is the best.

Wouldn't trust my car to anyone else.He's done all the servicing etc on my skylines for the last few years. Give him a call. I think he's only working out of Mt. White a few days a week at this stage.

Thanks

Adam

There used to bea great Mechanic at Kariong Automotives (he's left now as far as i know) he used to work at just jap, or so he told me (and his jumper said) but his wife was Jappanese and used to work in Japan for a few years turning spanners. Might be worth giving them a ring, and see if he's come back, his names "Alan" i'mpretty sure.

Can't really recommend anyone else because I haven't been there to experience their work for myself, but I bought my car from Alan and can vouch for his honesty. The car I bought off him is a Stagea, and he did the manual conversion on it himself. He did an excellent job with the conversion, and when I went to look at the car he went over it with a fine-toothed comb for me and had nothing to hide.

He did indeed live in Japan for a while, and did a few similar Stagea auto-to-manual conversions while he was living there, one with an RB26 too...

Nice guy, I'd recommend him, assuming he's still there.

has anyone been to scott at gosford performace exhaust & intercooling? or vince at allpro?

if so what are your experiances?

Haven't been to either of those, but I have been to Central Coast Turbos - located opposite Nissan in Gosford. Really honest and straight forward guys. Number is 4324 4033.

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