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Phoenix Automotive Services

Locality: Gold Coast, Queensland

Phone: +61 405 321 360

Address: 1/11-13 Ryecroft Street 4211 Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

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25.01.2022 Mitsubishi 380 Fitted a battery to this car recently, noticed a noise in the engine that I felt needed to be looked at - removed the top timing belt cover to find the timing belt loose as a goose! Belt was done fairly recently so I tightened up the tensioner and it will be good to go until it’s due for replacement...

24.01.2022 Matt’s 202 build Headwork - bigger valves, porting, manifold port matching, valve seal machining etc

24.01.2022 1KZ Toyota Hilux Cracked head

23.01.2022 Nissan TD42 oversize liner fitment

22.01.2022 Ron’s Kawasaki 900 bore and hone

22.01.2022 Wades Chrysler 318 - new Melling oil pump Smoothing passages for less flow disruption

22.01.2022 Dave’s 351 Cleveland Carrying on with the heads

21.01.2022 Starting to dismantle my HQ race engine as it’s due for a freshen up. Pleased to find all the lifters are in excellent condition. The factory machining marks can still be seen. This engine has done 9 race meetings, I reckon that’s over 2000 racing km’s - plus any practice days and dyno sessions I have done with it.

21.01.2022 EA falcon head I did last week to go onto an EF and the mods to suit

21.01.2022 Nissan TD42 Dez cooked the one in his Patrol, when the mechanics pulled the head off it wasn’t pretty. Once I removed the original sleeves it was even worse

20.01.2022 Did some work on an LS3 recently, one of the things I did was to check the cam timing and try to alter it to gain some bottom end. Found something very interesting after removing the oil pump...

19.01.2022 Poor quality decking job HQ racer 202

19.01.2022 VW beetle towed in last week. Wouldn’t run. At all. Must have been sitting at some stage, the carby had plenty of issues from being gummed up. Problems I found:... Firing order mixed up Timing incorrect Carby had many blockages, had to unblock the accelerator pump circuit, various jets and air bleeds Swapped out the fast idle cam, as the one on this carby was so worn that the idle screw kept slipping down, so the fast idle was basically not working at all Added a 12v power wire to activate the electric choke (choke was jammed on initially) Replaced the fouled spark plugs (fouled from the jammed choke) Set ignition timing Tuned the idle mixture and idle speed Road test - all good! See more

19.01.2022 Eric’s Chrysler Royal - 313 Poly

19.01.2022 We’re on the move to Carrara, we’ll share the address once we are up and running. See post below for progress on the fit out of the new workshop!

17.01.2022 253 heads - hard seats, Performance valve job, bowl porting, exhaust crossover blanking

17.01.2022 HQ race engine freshen up time

17.01.2022 Replacement block for 265 Hemi

17.01.2022 This is a Subaru block I bored a few weeks ago, good view to see the cutter through the access hole

16.01.2022 Marks Hemi 265 head Conversion valve guides for 11/32 big valves, seat machining and guide top mods for different springs and push on seals

16.01.2022 Subaru WRX EJ20 heads Ported, oversize valves,new guides etc etc

16.01.2022 Eric’s 313 Poly All machine work done Bored to 318 Heads reconditioned

14.01.2022 AU Saloon car T5 gearbox Replacing broken main casing after tailshaft failure

13.01.2022 RB30 head I did for Brandon Madden recently

13.01.2022 Dave’s Cleveland Checking manifold fitment after machining block and heads

12.01.2022 New head I have been doing for a baby 161 Holden 6 Marc has bought a nice old HT that has not long had a full rebuild on the original engine. This head should improve the performance, along with the new Clive cam that should give him the lumpy, cranky idle he wants.

10.01.2022 Buick straight eight head reco

09.01.2022 Nissan FD42 Jap import truck Overheated - needs new pistons and liners

09.01.2022 4G54 Mitsubishi Astron Headwork and cam install

08.01.2022 Been flat out lately!! Here is a job from last week, a big Volvo truck head in for a quick check over and service. The deck required 6 thou removed to clean it up and flatten it. These things are almost 13 litres in capacity and a touch over 1m long! And yes, it’s as heavy as it looks

06.01.2022 202 build for Matt’s EH wagon

05.01.2022 265 Hemi Simple reblock due to water leaking life is never that simple

05.01.2022 Hemi 6 after cam run in. Phone mic was playing up, not a good sound of the videos I took during the run in. This is it sniffing the last of the fuel in the bowl of my trusty 500 Holley

05.01.2022 Here is a V8 Trimatic bellhousing. I gave it a surface grind for my old friends at Kirra Automatics - the box they are building is for Adam, who owns the 253 currently in my shop, that I have showed some of the progress on earlier. Apparently the warping on the pump face is a big cause of the pressure bleed off issues and the resulting poor performance and driveability of these boxes.

05.01.2022 Caterpillar (Perkins) diesel Rebore/hone and deck

05.01.2022 Video of sleeve removal

03.01.2022 265 Hemi Reblock complete

01.01.2022 Dave’s 351 Cleveland New pistons - deburring sharp edges and beam polishing conrods