Killed my car on Saturday. Just headed off to the village which is about 2.5 miles away. I floored it to pass a line of cars and crunch grined pissshh and loads of yuky noises clouds of steam. More like Thomas the tank than a Z.

 

i suppose I've done OK really as I've done over 90,000 miles in the last 3 years running at 1 bar and no mechanical problems. Just well pi55ed of and in ned of a new engine. :cry: :cry: :cry:

:( Ouch.... :(

 

Going to rebuild that one or drop a different lump in?

Sorry to hear that, I hope your sitting down when you find out the costs :(

Shit:( Hope you get it sorted Mark,My piston cracked last year and now my bill for my new engine and serious power mods has just hit 18.5k in one hit,and still rising FFS.

Shit:( Hope you get it sorted Mark,My piston cracked last year and now my bill for my new engine and serious power mods has just hit 18.5k in one hit,and still rising FFS.

 

Jessue 18.5K I aint in that league I was looking to spend 5-7K in the autume on the engine and engine bay as i've got some money coming in October. I'm also looking a modest gains around 400bh ATW and reliability. Shit always happens at the wrong time.

 

I will have to see wether the engine is cooked first before I deside wether or not to rebuild it or get a different lump and rebuild that. I'm not putting anything back in unless its bullet proof.

 

"Sh1t I knew I should have bought that Esprit" :cry:

esprit, thats not what you told me ;)

 

gutted for you about the engine though :(

Yeah, Esprit - that's bargain motoring all right!

 

They never go wrong.

Yeah, Esprit - that's bargain motoring all right!

 

They never go wrong.

 

Just like Z's then :rofl: :slap:

 

There are plenty of Rover V8's lying around and selling for buttons. + you can saw the body off to get in to the engine and when you'vr finished, you just glue it back together :D

Killed my car on Saturday. Just headed off to the village which is about 2.5 miles away. I floored it to pass a line of cars and crunch grined pissshh and loads of yuky noises clouds of steam. More like Thomas the tank than a Z.

:

 

What a bummer! Sorry to hear :( :(

Bad news Mark, but like you say, all those miles, you've doen well from a zed IMO!

sorry to hear it

:( what a sh****r. hope you get it back on the road soon. what shade of blue is that? it's lurrrrrrrvly.

poor you,

keep us posted on the damage

luckily mine didn't blow up, just horrid grindy noise I know how you feel both our zeds were fine a few weeks ago...... :(

Bad luck mate, hope you are back on the road soon.

Bad luck mate, hope you are back on the road soon.

 

Thanks Guy's and Gal

 

I'm going to bight the bullet and go for it next week. have arranged big loan and going to get everything bob on. :shock:

Commiserations, and glad to see you're sticking with it!

 

Do you know what broke yet? :( Sounds very much like the way mine died...

Commiserations, and glad to see you're sticking with it!

 

Do you know what broke yet? :( Sounds very much like the way mine died...

 

Haven't got a clue yet. It could be a number of things, but there was definitely bits of Metal smashing and clattering around in there.

 

The last time I heard a similar noise was in my Patrol and that snapped the cam in for places bounced valves and split the head and the block. The difference was that was under warrenty and mister Nissan paid the bill. All because of a sudden main oil seal failure.

 

you know whats failed on yours? How old is this one, because it doesn't seem that long since you blew the last one.