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Al told me that his van has never gone as fast as it did when you were towing him along that single track road

Quite terrifying in fact, especially as lee was accelerating out of corners, just as I was being towed into them...

well its good to see some of you are optimists unfortunatly the compression was down on one cylinder so on to the long time pit it went.




figured with zero compression the head was going to come off and after pulling the head off it was obvious that this had to happen



needs some bits changing and my machine shop hates dirt so its ended up like this.

can you spot the obvious ?

can you spot the not so obvious ?

Man your lucky owning a garage

jed

i wouldn`t say i was being very lucky atm

that said i am resourcefull.

We should all save our problems up, get ten crates of Double Dragon and a barrel of lava bread, and have a weekend lock in

jed

Ouch! that cylinder head doesnt look too healthy..
Is the block rebuildable, or a write off?
i think you need a more reliable WBX put in

@ lloydy i`ll have what you drinking mate. cylinder head was on the other bench.

@ jed dont tempt me. we could tow it back to the bomb and lay the stripped engine all out over the grass. that would get the bikers thinking.

It's the piston that doesnt look happy to me!! Jeeezus!!!

Is that a hole melted in the piston ?

Were you running bigger nozzles but with standard N146 map ?

How did that happen with egt temps at a decent level, it looks like been scorched?

Out of interest, was the tip of the glow plug gone?

Andy and AL TOP OF THE CLASS. BUT NOT TOP MARKS I`M AFRAID.

there`s something else amiss.

do you need a clue.

glow plug ok.

standard "GG" ECU WITH .230 NOZZLES. Andy. bloody caps lock

Piston is what I meant
Never been good with names

jed the spread wrote:We should all save our problems up, get ten crates of Double Dragon and a barrel of lava bread, and have a weekend lock in

jed

I'd be up for that, but I doubt much would get done!