Hmmmmmmmm
Alex you know Mark is a fireman not an engineer !
Dear Sam,
You are absolutely right! After spending nearly 17 years in the fire service working through the ranks, dealing with small and large fires, IRA bombs, more traffic accidents and fatal incidents, train crashes, suicides etc etc than I really want to recall, working as a team and later leading many teams and whole stations. You are right I was a firefighter and extremely proud of that.
After building and racing cars and bikes over the last 12 years and after no longer enjoying travelling on the underground through Kings Cross (my last job in London) I decided to follow my dream and start my own motorsport company.
I was actually encouraged to start by the managing director of the largest UK independant turbo importer and distributor to build the 1.8T turbo kit. I have been to motorsport college myself, but to be fair I use my
resources to the best I can. I run Backdraft Motorsport as a team and prefer to be part of that team. I take advice from qualified people and then test the theories in extreme conditions. I have a great crew to thank and support from some really great technical guys and girls.
So when you took our turbo kit, modified the downpipe with ceramic coating, had the kit fitted in a workshop where the person who took the kit off your car then left and someone else then fitted it incorrectly, then took the car to be mapped, with different injectors by a company we no longer use-
you were surprised when you bought the turbo to us bright orange inside where the turbo had overheated, the exhaust wheel was rubbing on the exhaust housing where the housing had distorted, dents in the compressor wheel where something had been sucked in. However
I wasnt surprised.
You then sold the kit onto another forum member who is now trying to sell it as a Backdraft Kit. I have offered to
help sort the kit out so that someone else isnt landed with your
problem in our name. But I have been hurled abuse by that forum member. So if anyone wants a turbo kit with bits of Backdraft, Sam and others designs I'm sure the advert is around somewhere.
I am a tough cookie and can take the abuse, but I am very passionate about these kits as we have sold 100+ 1.8T kits now and still a few people still seem intent on slating them.
The people on this forum are very wise so I dont think its really causing too much of a
problem for us, its just getting boring now.
If you really think spending 17 years in the fire service is a negative thing then you really are getting desperate.
On a forum note, lots of the posts about this on the TT Forum were deleted. But I would like to state that Backdraft Motorsport will stand up to these words where ever they end up going.
On another note to Bill. We have looked at ceramic coating and can see the benefits entirely. At this stage we have only gone on the recomendations from Garrett and it seems more critically the Catalytic convertor manufacturer. It seems that the risk is sending too much heat down to the cat and destroying it. With the race cars it hasnt been a
problem up until the introduction of the cats in race cars next year. I would like to try it on some development kits. Can you recomend anyone reliable? If we can make it work we may introduce it into our kits but only when we are fully satisfied. TBH with the problems Sam had with his turbo overheating I'm a bit concerned this contributed to his problems. What do you think. Feel free to PM or share I dont mind.
Best Regards
Mark
Backdraft Motorsport.
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