Would just like to say a BIG thank you to the guys, Dean & Karl, at Dirty Torque Developments.

A small company who have bags of passion, knowledge and willing to go the extra mile to keep their customers happy.

Spent the day down at DTD to get a clutch and flywheel fitted and they couldn't have been more helpful or accommodating. Before I had even got into the workshop I had been offered a cuppa and biscuit (chocolate hobnob )

The standard of work by these two was very high and the work area kept clean and tidy, any questions were answered, with more detail than I could ever had of needed, and was kept involved / updated at every stage.

Great banter through-out the day and was kept entertained by the lads stories, Karl even gave me a lift into the local town centre, which is a nice place to spend an hour or two, breaking up the day for me. Got back from my trip into town to find yet another fabia had turned up, a fellow briskodian. Was nice meeting you btw

To finish the day I jokingly asked about a sticker, was more than happy to wear it

So yeah, thanks again guys. I will be back as the local garages really cant compete with the prices you charge, plus I actually learned something about my motor

Edited 9 September, 201213 yr by joelk2010

Did you just put standard clutch and DMF or updated one? How much they charge for changing them if you don't mind me asking

No problem at all buddy was a pleasure to work on :-) Hopfully you will see some big power soon to test it out.

Pop in anytime Even if your just passing.

Dean

Did you just put standard clutch and DMF or updated one? How much they charge for changing them if you don't mind me asking

Your probably best to contact Dean yourself and ask for a price mate. Unless you have got a friend in the trade i doubt you will be able to beat the price you get

Bought as uprated from Jabba but need this confirming as I got the second hand but very little use.

Dean - Next on the list will more than likely be the bushes while I save up for the "upgrade" lol.

For anyone interested, I took this picture as I left, his current "projects"

Edited 16 October, 201213 yr by joelk2010

Wish they were closer :(

Hmmm I live like 1 mile from these guys! Time to check them out.

We have held off from doing this for a while now after stumbling across the Dirty Torque website, but since Dean and Karl are now getting customers to plug them on the forums and also dropping hints about their turbo kits when people ask about our kits, I think it is time we tell the truth on how Dirty Torque Developments came about.

I own Darkside Developments with my bro Ryan.

Dean from DTD bought an old turbo setup from Ryan around April last year. From there he sent over 200 emails asking about everything you can imagine to do with diesel tuning. When he was down on cash we helped him out by buying some parts from him for much more than we usually would. We even sold him Powergate Tool so he could tune the ECUs as he wanted to be a 'dealer' for our products and needed us to help him set up a website to advertise the products on. He would be our ‘fitting centre’ down South.

Dean knew who we used for some of our fabrication work, and must have decided to cut us out of the picture. We later found out that Dean drove from getting a load of money from us, straight to the fabricator to discuss their new business venture!

We used this particular fabricator for 1 Manifold and some flanges. All the flanges were all bent and the manifold had very poor welding, so we decided not to use him again. Since then we have heard some horror stories of the manifolds he makes breaking and poor customer service etc.

We paid for the jig for the manifold and the CAD for the flanges so it is yet another stepping stone we created for DTD.

Since we declined to help Dean with the website (why should we help someone set up a business?), he seems to have took it upon himself to use all of our information as his own.

Take a look at their Turbo Kit listing:

http://www.dirty-tor...ts/show/3059915

Look familiar?

http://www.darksided...di-engines.html

It’s a pretty much copy and paste affair of ours in most part.

Also, did they show you their ‘Demo Car’?

‘We currently run this turbo kit on our own Skoda Fabia Vrs TDI PD130 Demo Car which achieves 235bhp /360lbsft’

Have you seen this before? Yep you sure have:

We fitted that kit with our own bare hands as well as doing all the tuning, it was one of the first we did. Karl, Dean’s brother bought it from the customer we did all the work for (Luke) and now they are passing it off as their work!

If price is all someone is bothered about, I am sure they will go with the DirtyTorque Kit, but we have sold 70 Turbo Kits in just over 18 months, so that shows you something. We used Brand New Genuine Garrett Turbochargers with a 1 Year Warranty, and our Manifolds and Downpipes have a lifetime warranty against cracking. You need to compare apples with apples. Their kits are a little cheaper than ours, but we don’t make a crazy amount on them, so something has got to give. You squeeze on price, you have the squeeze on quality somewhere.

I am sure Dean will come up with some crazy story about how we are lying and that everything was their own idea, but he thinks we are stupid, getting his brother and friends to email us and ring us to ask advice on what to fit etc. Its not clever, it just makes them look like novices.

They are also claiming 328bhp at the flywheel with a set of Firad 80% Injectors. I have no doubt the Injectors will do that power, but there is no way the stock head and camshaft will flow that amount of power, no matter how much fuel, NOS, Water/Meth or fairy dust you pile in there.

You can buy the fake Adidas, or buy the real deal. Its your choice.

Thanks

Scott

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Edited 16 October, 201213 yr by George Agdgdgwn