My Car

[snowman]

Maybe,hope so anyway,been riding a feckin pushbike for a year now lmao

[cliokongen]

WOW! - Great result Wobba.... :D
Must be a pleasure to drive!

@ sideways danny
Did you time the cams using the std. figures supplied by Cat Cams?


Michael

[northy]

glad to see a figure representative of your wallet mate.

Have you beaten cliogirls record for the fastest / most expensive engine ???

[diditno]

mines cost me around six an half grand. two full rebuilds in under 4k. including 2 sets of pistons, 2 turbo rebuilds and every thing else. engines are fun.

[snowman]

Shame the garage is still fubar as you cant alter the spec

[northy]

How you getting on with the car then wobba - been plenty of time for a bit of a update - any comparisons yet ?

[northy]

Time for a update having read FB :(

[Evogone]

Time for a update having read FB :(

FB???

[2 live]

facebook...........h/g gone??

[Wobba]

Might have headgasket failure. I think that's what it is, or cracked head.

Symptoms are over pressurising coolant system, causing coolant to spurt out of the cap a lot, also plumes of white smoke under hard load from exhaust.

It was getting quite hot, and at quite random times as well.

Popped a low temp thermo and rad fan switch, and flushed coolant as well, and put water wetter in. It's probably not getting hot enough now so this is not the solution long term.

Found a few minor coolant leaks, and a major one from front engine pipe couple of days ago. It's much better since I fixed that and tbh I've not driven it that much since as I did my back in sorting out the gears.

On the aforementioned test drive I lost 5th gear and reverse. Spent HOURS in middle of night, two nights in a row, fixing it. Got that spot on now though, better than ever before in fact. Also sorted blowing exhaust.

Still got a few smaller issues to sort out.

Had some welding done the other day, Leighanne took it from me to get it done as I cant do anything due to work. Was an MOT fail the way it was.

If it is the HG it must have taken a hammering during mapping and on the base map as it was detonating during this short time, and I was driving very carefully to get to Emerald. Had bad det before on my R5 GTT like that, so I knew what it was, it had HG failure not long after too.

Car still drives ok, it's just under heavy load it shows the symptoms of a bad HG or cracked head.

Car looks great right now though. About the only thing stopping me from petrol bombing it.

Tomorrow is MOT. If it fails hard (it shouldn't) I may just leave it somewhere off the road for a few months and cycle to work!