the car has pushed the dipstick out twice now in about a month and spat about alf a litre of oill allover the n/s turbo, wasnt pretty, i thought i had blew it up! is it time for me to buy a spare engine and start rebuilding it or do i just need a new dipstick coz it feels slacker than the local bike?

Holed piston or cracked ring lands - sorry :( What boost are you running? New engine time anyway...

only runnin 1bar, but when i bought the car it had some severe boost leaks so was thinkin maybe the extra fuel coul have been washing the oil off the cylinder bores causing accelerated wear, still runs perfect and pulls like a train but does tend to use quite a bit of oil, the car gets used almost everyday and can use upto a litre a week :cry: how much could i pick up a decent second hand lump for? how much for uprated rods and pistons? 1-2k?