Help Needed On Engine Rebuild (Companies)

[Lwilliams]

I have read a few people having work done to the block, head etc..

Any reviews on companies that have carried out work?

Any information welcomed!!

[jammapic]

Don't use Hiflowheads basically. Stole £2711.17 of my money and gave me nothing.

[Paul_13]

I've more horror stories on hi flow
Don't use them!

[darrenjlobb]

Dont touch hi flow from me either, did a head for me and TOTALLY screwed me over. Never had a penny back from them.

[zx_volcane]

I went out of the country to get my head and cam work done, couldn't find anyone in the UK I'd be happy to put my trust in :/

Most places over here take a huge chunk of your money and fanny a dremel about inside your ports, with no proper flow bench testing, or attention to port shaping and requirements for diesel heads.

That being said, any reputable engine recon place should be able to put a bottom end together / and sort a skim, valve re-shim ..etc on the head, and lighten a flywheel.

And as has been said already, but is worth repeating, avoid HiFlow like the plague

[Tom]

This hiflow must be dreadful!

[Ben]

I went for a local place when I rebuilt my engine. Self employed bloke who worked by himself. I'd recommend somewhere like that because they take more pride in their work because they get their business from customers spreading the word.

[Jonny b]

Shame your so far away bud a mate of mine has his own engineering shop, been building race engines ɑnd all sorts of fab work for over 25 years!

[londondan86]

So that's why to avoid hiflow! Lol

I'm going to be speaking to my local place when I get mine done, as Ben said, it's a small place where customers come first

[Lwilliams]

Thanks for the reply's

So the main message is avoid Highflowheads

And yes it is a shame to be honest Jonny. I like to think that pride would be taken when preparing a engine.

I will try a local companies.... but as Volcane said I would like somewhere that would run flow bench testing, pay attention to port shaping and the different specifications of diesels.

I have searched online for specialist diesel builders I cannot seem to find much, but there's a fair few in America. Shame it would cost a bomb to send anything there

That being said though this company does look very well set up... http://www.hurleyengines.co.uk/engine-machine-shop.html

[anto]

How are HiFlow heads still in business.
One tiny forum and at least 4 or 5 people have been screwed over by them?!?!?

[Ruan]

Thing is, people can know about cylinder heads, understand port shaping etc...

But haven't the first clue when it comes to diesels... They're there trying to induce swirl on an indirect injection diesel and trying to piss about with shaping... Then going to a DI diesel and trying to get as much flow whilst paying no attention to the fact that the swirl needs to be optimised for an engine spinning to a max of ~5500-6000rpm! It's painful to see..

Great example is HiFlow heads - they have a PDF about XUDs and what they can do and it's under the name of "Peugeot TDi" - I rest my case.

Never take a *DIESEL* cylinder head anywhere unless they seriously know what they're doing... 99.9999% of places don't - they couldn't be more different from petrol heads a lot of the time.

[Lwilliams]

Thanks Ruan you've just put even more doubt into me now

That's somthing along the lines of what I was worried about

I guess best bet is going to see someone in person and gauge off of them...