Stephen

Without knowing exactly what you've tested its hard to say but there's quite a lot of it. If you wanna give me a ring at some point il happily chat with you about what to check. I've played the same game myself a few times. - - - Updated - - - Always a good place to start.

Oh ye of little faith. It's probably a very simple and free fix.

It's an England final you want, I remember last time it was like 4am out there.

He might be a victim rather than a scumbag. If said car was purchased as a TT and the owners never questioned it.

If you have the stock PCV system oil is constantly ingested through the inlet track, in vapour form. If you look at the PCV location you will see its towards the rear half. A thin coating of oil in the plenum is therefore normal. If the plenum is swimming in oil and blue smoke is resultant then further investigation is required. If you've got a few quid, they are fairly cheap, I'd suggest replacing the PCVs while your there. In fact replace what you can. Priority to; The fuel line that connects the rails, these shrink and leak during winter. Ohm test the injectors, if ones starting to fail it's so much easier to sort now then once back together. Any small coolant pipes, such as heater matrix pipes. Oh and I'm sure you won't but don't reuse the plenum gasket.

That's cool. Is the Nistune board dear?

Problem número uno is "fast, reliable, cheap you can only pick two." If you do it on the cheap it will bite you in the ass. A freshened up healthy long block is just that, it should be ok but couple that with no or limited safety net and it's a risky mix. A tired engine is a tired engine end of, expecting it to do much is a tall order. If you want reliability you have to pay to play, if you can't pay you either get smart or don't play. The sniping as you say isn't useful. We all know the short comings of certain indivials, the horse is dead, no need to flog it.

Im out.

I meant in terms of the reward. You are of corse right though, most hobbies are just a liecence to burn money.

You know that kinda reads like your saying tuning cars is a waste of time and money...

It's a good point. Is it even running on all cylinders?

Was that a fatal?

The rear quarter is pretty destintive on them and appears fairly undamaged.

I've seen quite a few but then I get about. - - - Updated - - - You not working for them anymore?

He lives closer to you than Warminster.

Put it this way, these engines are prone to dirty connections just from general life. After 20+ years in an engine bay the tenpreture of Mercuray those connectors are brittle and have lost their water resistance. Adding water to the mix is a pants idea IMO. Up to you though mate, it's your car at the end of the day.

Except that is an old engine, over 20 years old. I personally wouldn't do it. Cleaner and rags yup, but not the hose or anything.

Like buses mate. I keep seeing a black import on the M27. Other than that I've not seen many recently. You may have driven past me in the van though as I've been in the Warminster area today.

Fair enough Gary. Still sounds fishy to me.

The email you have is probably the one at the top of this thread.

I agree Si, I smell a rat.

Could be a worthy shout that.

I'd rather drive an mx5 with a 300hp Volvo block....

Not wrong, just a different opinion. MX5s and other little lightweights are good fun, a Vauxhall Corsa is shit regardless of what edition it is IMO of corse.

That looks alright mate. Well done.