Southern Motor Works

[Owens]

I've been meaning to get a tuneup for the past couple months and today I've booked in at Southern Motor Works in Albion Park Rail.

I was initially going to go to Pulse Racing up at Menai as I've had very positive results with them in the past when they dyno'ed my turbo Prelude.

As Menai is a little out of the way, I thought I'd look around more locally this time. I found Southern Motor Works which has 4WD dyno.

I searched but couldn't come up with much on them. Have one thread with a guy vouching and the other telling to steer clear. So naturally I have little mixed feelings atm. When I went there this arvo it had a pretty good vibe. Had a R32 up on the lift and coincidently this R35 sitting there. Boss was currently dynoing a Impreza at the time so I didn't get to talk much. Was going to go over it with him on Friday morning before he tunes it. They said will cost $500+ which include new spark plugs and dyno, which is what I expected.

So ultimate question is, who has been there before and what have your experiences been like?

Edited November 9, 2010 by Owens

[MBS206]

Owen, you shouldn't have an issue with him at all.

I hear mainly good feedback.

[JAS-25T]

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[WLD•33R]

Hey dude

Did you end up going to southern for a tune

I'm was thinking about going there but there's no reviews for him

[Owens]

Wow a blast from the past.

Yeah I went there. They did a good tune.. a little on the exxy side.. around $800 from memory which also included spark plug change. One thing I will mention, don't assume they'll check every sensor, in particular the O2 and AFM's.

After I got my tune done I discovered (through self-diagnosing with a OBD2 cable to the ECU) the O2 sensors were f**ked. So have them check stuff like that while they're tuning.