The S&J story...

S&J Automotive was opened in 1995 by Sean and Joanne Day (S&J, clever eh) who still operate the business today. Originally they offered general performance car maintenance and a strategic agency for the popular Top Gun Ignition Leads range.

A few years latter, S&J had evolved into a specialist Subaru WRX Performance and Servicing Centre. This evolution naturally led them to sourcing the best overall performance solutions for their customers and the MRT products filled many of their requirements. The close relationship that has developed between S&J and MRT returns great benefits to both S&J and their customers in the form of knowledge and experience.

Handbook Servicing of all performance Subaru's is a large part of S&J's success and is often the reason why customers contact S&J in the first place. "Exceptional customer service certainly breeds success" says Sean.

In 2004 Matt Lane joined the S&J team and made a great contribution to the talent on offer. Matt has always been involved in 4 cylinder turbo performance cars and has been an asset in many ways, fitting turbo’s, injectors, fuel rails & suspension components to Rexes & STI’s all come second nature to Matty. Following that Shane Sickerdick became an important part of the team with much enthusiasm in the gearbox area (with that attitude he will always be kept busy in a WRX workshop!), Shane is definitely an expert in that field and many more now. For the final team member Sean & Jo were lucky to stumble across Simon Collaton in December 05, Simon’s enthusiasm matches the other 4 team players, Simon and Shane ironically both come from Mitsubishi Dealers, so that experience is bound to pay off with the EVO tuning now performed by S&J. Sean says that the team is now complete and they are proud to have these 3 guy’s on board, because enthusiasm and talent together are very hard to find, just as importantly all three of them work very tidily and this is paramount in such a top end workshop!

Although a small workshop in some ways, S&J are proud to be able to do all repairs "in house", from monster tune packages to gearbox rebuilds and even body kit installs.

Both Sean and Joanne are very keen WRX motorsport participants. They competed for 5 seasons in the South Australian Rally Championship in a stunningly prepared, MRT sponsored Liberty RSR Turbo rally car. Joanne was the driver while Sean handled co-driving and car preparation. Joanne now drives an 06 STI with almost all of the MRT goodies on board, while Sean drives a 22B, and competes in their 2 door STi Type R Rally Car, which has seen some great results on track days and hill climb events. Sean’s Motorsport dates back to when he was 12, and his Dad helped him get involved in Mudsprint’s and Motorkhana’s with Southern Districts Car Club.

S&J's involvement in motorsport with their own cars certainly adds credibility to the advice they offer their customers.