Aitkenvale Auto and Dyno

I have been going to Aitkenvale for over 12yrs now. I have never known a more honest and sincere mechanical team. They have always been able to accomodate any event that has ever happened to any of my veichles.

They have been able to see my cars urgently if required and I have always felt fully informed of any outcome and have always felt I had control over any decision making process.

Ian and the team make up an amazing professional, honest and reliable auto service. I have never had to consider anywhere else!

Aikenvale built and tuned motor. 4500km later after they purchase and installed new injectors for me and tuned it for high boost after run in tune (1200km). Motor ate it self. Went back to them 4 times before this happen (due to it not running right. (Cold start had to use accelerator pedal to stop it from stalling)). Got told it was fine every time (told it was not pinging or knocking on dyno cause the knock box told them it wasn't even after i complain about lean afr's and a weird metal on metal grinding noise. (60 deg intake temps)). Motor blew head gasket, melted big chunk out of head. Melted 2 pistons (cylinder 1 and 2) pit marks in both cylinder 1 and 2 ( knocking and pinging its head off literally) and melted a cast iron block. (Pic in comments) i drove the car to work and back (almost 60km aday there and back for 5 months before this happen only had a dozen or so full throttle runs before this happen) last run before this happen it was in there shop for around 2 weeks (i took it in on a trailer cause i was that scared of driving it) and got told that its fine to give it a boot. Few weeks later after they returned it i went out with mates for a run and had a race for 80km/h to around 180ish and it coughed twice and before i could back off/push clutch in it lossed all power and started to run like crap. Luckily i was only just down the road from a servo so i rolled into the servo and thought it was the spark plugs (that they replaced before tuning it) so i put new plugs in. Didnt make a difference. So got a mate to bring his car trailer out (230am) and tow mw home. Dont a comp test on cylinder 1 0psi. Cylinder 2 0 psi. Dont a leak down test on cylinder 2. All the air we put through cylinder 1 came out cylinder two spark plug hole. Assuming it was just a head gasket removed head and found it haf done alot more damage that me andmy mechanic mate's had thought. Tried to tell ian what had happen. He pretty much didnt want anything to do with me at all at that stag