Im having a real nightmare trying to find someone local to me to install my darton sleeves. Anyone has any conacts for any workshops that might under take this job?

I'm going to have to ship ot out to them which will cost me a lot and also pay for shipping back as well as for the work it self but looks like this is the only solutiion I have got.

Any contact details, websites etc would be very much appricated guys ...

 

WHERE ARE YOU LOCATED?

 

UK, England ..

 

hmm... might be better off selling the sleeves and send the block to golden eagle in the states.

 

http://www.rsmachines.net/contact.html give these guys a call they install darton sleeves, so maybe they can help. i bought a sleeved block from them and i havent had any problems in the 200 miles i put on the car.

 

Contact Darton for authorized sleeve installers. ERL is one of them. For UK, check with Darton.

 

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Dont you dare sell your dartons and get golden eagles. contact darton and they will do whatever it takes to find you a shop who can do so.

 

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Will is right. Listen to his advise for he knows what to do considering thats what he specializes in.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by dbiker207 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">http://www.rsmachines.net/contact.html give these guys a call they install darton sleeves, so maybe they can help. i bought a sleeved block from them and i havent had any problems in the 200 miles i put on the car.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I would not recommend rsmachines, they sleeved my last motor and the sleeves sank...

 

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Dont you dare sell your dartons and get golden eagles. contact darton and they will do whatever it takes to find you a shop who can do so.
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Why the hate? this sounds personal!!

 

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Why the hate? this sounds personal!! </TD></TR></TABLE>

Why down grade? Suprised Golden Eagle hasn't posted yet?

 

don't ship your block overseas, just buy one sleeved with darton sleeves from reputable shop in US, will probably save time and money. shipping bare block would probably cost as much as that shop buying one for you in US if not more.

 

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Why down grade? Suprised Golden Eagle hasn't posted yet?</TD></TR></TABLE>

wtf are you talking about? You sound like an idiot.

 

Golden Eagle has actually messaged me if I'm right and they can either sleeve my own block or sell me a sleeved block but they only use their own sleeves and don't do darton.

I will probably decide on this during the week once I contacted few places and get some qoutes as well as check with the shipping company to see how much will it cost me to send the block and sleeves to the US.

 

Did you ask Darton if they have an authorized installer in the UK? It's crazy nuts to ship the block over here.

 

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I will probably decide on this during the week once I contacted few places and get some qoutes as well as check with the shipping company to see how much will it cost me to send the block and sleeves to the US.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Those golden eagle guys are so desperate. Its your money do what you want with it but I don't understand why you would get GE when you have Dartons. Find someone to do it for you man. Ship your sleeves to a shop that already has a core and then they will ship it back to you. That way you don't have to spend the money shipping the entire block. I am sure exospeed or darton would be happy to get you a core and all you would have to do is spend the money to ship your sleeves to them. Otherwise you would spend alot shipping that block back and forth.

 

Shipping the sleeves and getting the workshop to get a block actually is a good idea which I haven't thought off. As this problem risen on Friday and then faced with the weekend there is no much I can do since almost every place is closed.

I will be early thing on the phone on Monday morning to few more workshops, if none can do it then I will get in touch with Darton 1st to see if they know someone, else I will see if anyone from the US can supply the core and I will ship the sleeves over to them.

 

keep in mind alot of auto industry people will be out next week for the Annual SEMA convention.

 

Yakuza speak to performancetek, he is based in glasgow iirc and has a good reputation with his sleeving

Also I think performance autoworks can get it done for you, they are a little closer as well

 

I'm not in a rush, if takes a month or two then let it be as I don't expect to complete the car until Feb or Marsh 2008 on the nearest.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by eg9 adz &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Yakuza speak to performancetek, he is based in glasgow iirc and has a good reputation with his sleeving

Also I think performance autoworks can get it done for you, they are a little closer as well</TD></TR></TABLE>

Do you know if they actually done engine sleeving before?

 

darton sleeves are a waste... cause its gonna cost you ALOT to get them installed... your average shop wont be able to do it...

sell them and go with benson or GE

 

There is nothing wrong with GE sleeves. I love them. Zero problems and im making over 800hp.

 

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Do you know if they actually done engine sleeving before?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Performancetek has on his own and customers cars, Performance autoworks would sub contract it out to a local engineering place that would have done it before

 

One question though, has anyone weight their block or know what a B16 block weight?