I have nothing to do with AM auto at all, not in the slightest. That workshop constantly and consistantly amazes its clients and customers with unique solutions and brilliant results. It's Jzk25's business to promote and defend. All you'll ever find anyone else doing is speaking out for the excellent work they've done, and occasionally drinking all his beer. The only link to AMauto I have ever had is as a paying customer and loyalist beer drinker and shit talker to go fishing for people when I'm bored
Smythie's opinions are his own and even idiots are welcome to think and use oxygen occasionally. But to say the work that comes out of Al's shop isnt directly proportional to the customers budget and requirements is a lie. If you want gold plated crap and titanium toilet lids I'm sure they could deliver. If you want a cost effective engine transplant for a great price from two very competent people, its your own business to do the research and ask the questions. But theres a few hundred people that would reccommend AM over anyone else. It's prudent to realise it is a small business, so one might better have some decent facts and at the very least a technical or mechanically aspirated mind to give reasoning for the opinion and do so on a specific basis.
I think the pictures he posted earlier are testament to the fact anyone can ring up, have a chat, and arrange for whatever they want in whatever timeframe they want and would be thoroughly satisfied. If the best wrx in the world (arguably) uses Al's work, one of the best 2.35 track EJ's uses his work, "one of the stupidest street cars around" *Al's work, and the majority of quality OEM quality subaru conversions in SE QLD use his work that's testament enough.
*fixed for accuracy and misleading statement. Lets keep this in the context of streetable stuff you can pick milk and eggs up in, and drop by a track for a 125+mph pass without a trailer.