Aarons Autos carry out work on a variety of vehicles from Race Cars to Transit Vans but the same attention to detail is used whatever the model, this has put us in good stead with our regular customers and helps us to grow our name.

The owner of this Mustang got to know Dave through the Cobra owners club and after looking at our website, seeing the kind of work we do and the great reviews we get from our customers any concerns he may of had about leaving his car with a garage he had never used before were gone and he was more than happy to let us work on his pride and joy, a Shelby GT500 Mustang Super Snake.

The Mustang was booked in for an upgraded SPEC clutch and flywheel kit to help the 660+ BHP super charged engine get its power to the tarmac. The SPEC kit is a heavy duty twin plate paddle clutch nearly twice the size of the genuine Ford unit fitted as standard and as well as being able to take the torque it looks good too.

Replacing the clutch and flywheel kit was reasonably straight forward, after removing the exhaust system and prop shaft it was a simple matter of a few ancillaries and then the bell housing bolts and the box was out revealing the old clutch unit. Once the new SPEC kit was fitted and aligned correctly it was time for the rebuild which again was pretty straight forward.

Whilst the Shelby was on the 2 post ramp we had to fit a set of rear brake pads before moving it over to the big 4 post ramp for a 4 wheel alignment.

After all of the work was completed Dave took the car for a road test to make sure everything worked as it should and then delivered the car back to one very happy customer.

Thanks Dave, Aaron for sorting my Shelby Mustang. I don’t recommend anyone lightly as it always seems to come back to me if things go wrong. I was well impressed with the work, price, timing and attention to detail, bringing my attention to other works (genuine!) needing doing and finally great communication.

I like to do what I can where I can on my cars and tend to flap a bit when someone else is hitting my pride and joy with a big hammer instead of me, but I felt very comfortable and confident.

Would definitely recommend and use you again 100% without doubt!

Regards Ronan

Aarons Autos are proud to sponsor Paul Ivens and his Alien green Scirocco in the VAG Trophy and VW Cup.

As some of you may know Paul started his racing with us a couple of years ago in the MSVR Track Day Trophy and then moved up to the MSVR Team Trophy with his team mate Adam Langeveld who due to work commitments cannot race this year. Paul had an opportunity to

race in the VAG Trophy and a couple of rounds in the VW Cup this year which he couldn’t resist.

After the first three races at Snetterton Paul is 2nd place in the championship taking a podium in his first race.

Hopefully next year Paul will be joining us in the 750 Motor Clubs Roadsports Series in his Clio Cup Race Car built by Aarons Autos, but for this year we would like to wish him luck for the rest of the season.

Upon arriving at Silverstone on Friday evening we managed to secure a garage with the guys from Podium Prep, so we unloaded the car locked up the trailer and headed over to our hotel for the night.

On the morning of the race we had a leisurely walk down to breakfast and a slow drive back to the track as we had already signed on and scutineered the car on Friday evening, a quick look around the car and a cheeky look at the weather forecast (praying for rain) and before we knew it was time for qualifying.

I (Aaron) went out first to qualify and managed to get a fairly respectable 1.10.9 but with 42 cars on such a short track there was a lot of traffic, driver change and time to see what Dave can do he was averaging 1.11’s and then put in a 1.10.8 which gave us a P21 out of 42! not bad but we reckon with better tyres we would have been in the 1.09’s but hey its budget racing 🙂

After a very in depth ‘Team Meeting’ we decided that Dave would start as he is known for his epic starts and I would go second as I am better at chasing places down later on in the race.

Race time, after a quick green flag lap it was time for lights out and the race was on, Dave made an awesome start taking about 10 place by the 3rd corner but unfortunately an MR2 had a spin straight in front of Dave causing him to run wide and give back several places but still running in 13th place from 21st on the 1st lap he had a great battle with Steve Hewson in his supercharged Peugeot 106 but couldn’t hold back the slightly faster french car, after a few more laps Dave stuck the clio up

the inside of a Capri (back marker i think) but the Capri decided not to leave enough racing room which ended in a a bit of wheel to door contact but nothing to drastic.

Pit stop time, and time to hand over to me, Dave told me the car felt great and to overtake anything in front of me, so out I went on the hunt it was very hard to tell which cars were back markers and which cars I was chasing (as the two way radio in my helmet was dead) so i tried to overtake everything in front of me and only letting past the front runners. On the last couple of laps i was batting with the Royal Air Force Mini and accidentally let the MR2 past which dropped us from 10th to 11th!

So we qualified 21st out of 42 and finished 11th which we were quite happy with as most of the top cars were much faster than ours.

Next round at Cadwell park so fingers crossed for a better result.

This Vauxhall Vivaro was recovered into us as a non starter, a quick plug-in with our diagnostic computer showed a timing issue. After a bit more diagnosis we discovered that the timing chain had snapped causing complete engine failure!

As this van had covered nearly 160,000 miles we decided it would be better to get a new low mileage engine rather than try and repair the old high mileage unit.

Removing the engine on these vans is quite a large job as you have to remove the complete front end and remove the engine and gearbox complete, once the engine was out it was time to inspect all of the ancillaries to make sure they would be ok for the new engine.

Once the new engine was fitted and all the necessary filters and fluids had been changed it was time for a long road test, once we were happy with the vans driving ability it was time for one final checkover on the ramp and then hand it back to the customer.

The owner of this Fisher Fury Kit Car found us through the internet after seeing that we build and maintain Race and Track Day cars and after a quick chat with us on the phone he was happy that we new our stuff and booked the car in. He had only recently purchased the car and wanted the suspension and geometry setting up correctly.

This car is quite a good example of how kit cars should be, with a bored out 2.1 Ford Pinto engine, throttle bodies with a bespoke carbon fibre intake and what looks like a full titanium exhaust system it makes to be a quick little weapon.

Once we had taken all the geometry measurements it was time to adjust the Camber which meant stripping the front and rear suspension several times to make the relevant adjustments to get it perfect, once the Camber was set we could then look at the Toe which was a simple job on the front but the rear required the lower suspension arms to be removed, adjusted and then refitted to be able to check again.

With the Geometry being completed it was time to carry out an MOT on the Fury, the only issues we could find on the MOT was a slight imbalance on the rear brakes and a blocked washer jet, so with a few brake adjustments and a clean out of the washer jets this Fisher Fury now has a fresh 12 Month MOT ready for some fun in the sun.

For more information on the Fisher Fury Kit Car you can visit their page at Fury Sports Cars Ltd

This week we had a Peugeot RCZ in with a terrible rattle coming from the timing chain area, after some diagnosis we confirmed it was the timing chain that was at fault (common problem).

The RCZ was a 2010 model with a good service history so the customer decided to get a second opinion from the local Peugeot Dealer as they thought a five year old car that had been looked after shouldn’t have this kind of problem!

The Peugeot Dealer carried out a diagnostic on the car and confirmed it was indeed the timing chain that was at fault and proceeded to give our customer a quote for the work to be carried out.

When they returned to the garage with the Dealers quote we put our own quote together and it was considerably cheaper than the Peugeot Dealers price. The RCZ was left with us to carry out the repair.

 After stripping all the covers off of the engine to be able to see the timing chain and fit the timing chain locking tools, to our surprise the chain must have stretched quite significantly as the camshaft locking tool wouldn’t fit correctly until we slackened the pulley bolts!

Once the new timing chain kit was fitted and the engine was rebuilt it was time for a quick oil and filter change.

Now it was time to start the engine and see what difference the replacement parts had made, The engine sounded a lot quieter and seemed to run very smooth indeed.

Clio 172 Turbo! thats not something you see every day, this one came in to us for an MOT, Track tyres and rectify a fault with the rear brakes to get it ready for a trackday at Bedford.

This customer wanted us to supply and fit one of our Pure Motorsport Gear Selector kits to his Clio 182.

These kits are a lovely mod for your trackday / race car, they give you a crisp definite gear change and because the actual gear stick is higher and slightly set back it has that race car feel about it.

Aarons Autos are a supplier of Pure Motorsport Products so check out our Pure Motorsport page for our products and prices.

A beautiful classic, the Sierra RS Cosworth, this one had the 24v conversion which has become a common mod for the old Ford.

It came to us with a severe oil leak from the rocker cover gaskets (common problem) the customer had supplied us with some upgraded gaskets to fit.

To get to the rocker cover gaskets on the Cosworth 24v engine you first have to remove the inlet manifold and a few ancillaries, once they are removed its just a matter of removing the rocker covers and old gaskets.

We cleaned the rocker covers and fitted the new gaskets following the specific instructions supplied with the upgraded gaskets, we had to slightly modify the old bolts and sleeves to help compress the new gaskets.

Refit the inlet manifold and ancillaries clean off all the excess oil that had been leaking previously then run the engine up and get the oil up to temperature and check for leaks.

No leaks, Awesome.

This little Yaris came into Aarons Autos with a nasty rattle coming from the engine and the customerwas almost ready to scrap the car after some of the quotes she had received to replace the stretched timing chain!

We gave the lady a quote she was happy with and placed the car on the ramp ready for strip down, once the timing chain cover was removed it was clear that the problem was indeed a stretched timing chain causing the rattle.

We checked the Vanos unit (Valve Timing Pulley) which was fine. Next we fitted the new timing chain kit, rebuilt the engine using all new gaskets and replaced the oil and filter, it was now time to start the engine and see how quiet it was in comparison to when it came in!

It purred like a kitten, and to say the customer was happy is an under statement.