Forza Automotive

This is a reply to the owner in addition to my first 1 star review since he wanted to wait 6 months to reply in hopes I would forget about it. "Following the initial repair, an unrelated failure occurred involving components not installed by our shop." Yes the parts WERE installed by your shop. The job was to redo the timing belt job, you took the front end of the motor apart and REMOVED the waterpump in order to gain access to the timing belt. You reinstalled both and 5 minutes down the road the car started to smoke and water pump ended up exploding. In addition to that, instead of using a drive to remove the busted screw that you guys broke in the radiator, you moved the radiator over to the side and zip tied it to hold. "Prior to pickup, the vehicle was thoroughly inspected, run, and test-driven, including an extended idle period, with no issues present." In your own words you did not test drive the car, you told me you let the car sit outside and idle and heard no issues aside from the ticking which was new to me. "After leaving our facility, the vehicle was driven approximately two hours home and later taken on an out-of-state trip. " It was indeed driven two hours home. The entire time ticking with what you called a "lifter tick" I will edit this review once I get the car repaired. It's at another shop preparing for a rebuild that will cost around $15,000+. The car WAS NOT driven out of state which I told you I didn't feel safe driving it out of state. I instead took my Silvia which I will include picture proof of. Stop lying to your potential customers. You were not contacted weeks later, if you want I can go through my call logs if they're still available and post proof. Who is "We"? No one else spoke to me. "We were later informed by the customer that the engine was revved to over 7000 RPM while attempting to circulate the additive. We did not advise or recommend operating the vehicle in that manner. It was at this time that the subsequent failure occurred, more than a month after the vehicle had left our shop." Yes after you told me to add "Liquid moly lifter additive" I decided on my own to rev the engine NOT to 7000 rpm but to around 5500 rpm. Yes I did contact you 2 WEEKS after leaving the shop because I was on vacation for about a week and didn't have time to check the car. Once I decided to check the car is when the water pump exploded for a SECOND time leaving your shop. "In the interest of fairness, we offered to have the vehicle inspected by an independent third-party specialist" You forgot to mention by a 3rd party specialist you had connections with who would most likely lie on your behalf. While I do appreciate you attempting to make things right by only charging me labor to do a job that should've been done right the first time, you completed it a second time in a bootleg matter just as bad as the first. DO NOT TAKE YOUR RB CAR HERE. Below is a picture of the Silvia with a Z that has a Maryland plate. Not much proof but I have plenty of personal pictures and videos from when I ended up taking the Silvia instead of the R34 to MD.

A WARNING TO ANYONE WITH AN RB/SKYLINE CHASIS DO NOT BRING YOUR CAR HERE: I contacted Forza Automotive in July of 2025 in regards to finishing up a botched timing job on my car. Before I note what Forza automotive attempted to do to my car here’s a few things that were attempted by a previous poor mechanic. Timing belt, water pump, thermostat, and a few other things but timing is what I’ll focus on in this review. PS before the car was touched by either forza or the other mechanic the car ran fine, redlined fine. I had brought my car to forza automotive after the other mechanic screwed up the CAS and I did not want to attempt to run the car more than once with the CAS out of alignment and the timing belt not tightened correctly. After I spent $600 on a tow truck to take my car to forza the car finally arrived before it ended up sitting there for about a month to or a slight bit more to finally get work done. I had already told them i needed the car done before august 10-15th and the car was dropped off around july 8th. They agreed they could do the job. Around the pickup date I went to pick up the car and One person who works there (he knows who he is and he’s a liar but I wont mention him by name.) told me they had to zip tie my fan shroud onto my radio because they had stripped a screw in my radiator. They told me they tested they car and let it idle for a bit and said everything was good. I took the car a few minutes down the street before i started to see smoke coming from my engine and i pulled over and found my water pump had been exploded, fan shroud completely destroyed, radiator destroyed belts damaged and pulleys damaged. Costing around $1600ish in parts. The guy from Forza told me that it was the previous mechanics fault and continued to blame the previous mechanic even though everything should've been checked thoroughly by their shop prior to letting me take the car. They used the excuse that I was rushing them even though before they took my car they told me they could do it within that stated time frame. This time they actually did rush. After talking with the guy at forza (wont name him) We agreed I would pay for the new parts and he would charge no labor to fix the car again. It cost me around another $1500-$1700 in parts. About a week later they had the car running again, this time my car had developed a lifter tick. Im not sure what happened and how the car suddenly developed a lifter tick but it has one. I drove the car about 100 miles back home to Cbus with a lifter tick. I was being pretty easy on the car since developing the tick. After I got home I had an anniversary to attend to with my gf, i had planned on taking the R34 with me up to MD with her but decided against it and I’m glad i did. We came back from Maryland a few days later and I didn’t touch my R34 for a total of 2ish weeks after forza automotive “fixed” it. I talked to The guy at forza and he told me to add some liquidmoly additive to help ease the ticking and possibly solve the issue. I added the liquid moly and did another oil change despite having recently done one and found metal shavings in my oil. After letting the car run for about 30 minutes I decided to start revving the car a little bit then finally gave it one rev to almost redline 6500rpms and Kaboom. My water pump explodes again. One thing I did notice is the water pump belt did seem extremely tight. Not sure if that was the cause. I talked to Forza Automotive, they denied me a refund and denied to fix the car. They also denied being responsible for anything that happened since they said the car was fine after it left despite me only driving it once since then but it was a 2 hour drive. They continue to blame it on the other mechanic and on everyone else saying they don’t know what was done to it in the past. Is that supposed to be an excuse? Every single skyline in this country has never been touched by a shop until it arrived to this country and their excuse is they dont know what was done to it? The guy at forza automotive is a liar. DO NOT TRUST HIM.

I found a vehicle from them on marketplace. They super responsive polite and honest. The vehicle turn out to be a get deal and they did everything they could to help seal the deal on it. Definitely would recommend to anyone looking. They were wonderful.

Excellent shop if you need any custom work done! Did a great job with my brakes and even bedded them in for me which felt above and beyond. These guys love what they do and it shows in the quality of their work. I will 100% be going back if I ever need an aftermarket installation or decide to start a project car!

They did a great job on my Mercedes Gl450 removed the entire engine replaced the valves in the head and all new timing components Most shops I reached out to declined to even do the job these guys are not scared to do anything 100% recommend these guys