now a member or team shitting conrod! :(

[306Puggy]

is that it??

Depends how you look at it, sometimes it's not worth spending more than the car is worth. Depends on how you feel about it.

This. If the car isn't worth much more than the fixing cost then theres very little point (unless you are intimately involved and couldn't part with the car, and have more money than you know what to do with). Imagine if you'd spent £500 on the car, then a week later something catastrophic happens....maybe engine failure or its crashed or whatever....you'd never get that £500 back. Much better (imo) to cut you're losses before that happens, sell/break the car for £500 and move on. Sure it's a gamble, sometimes it is better the devil you know and the car may be fine after it......but if not....

So what? If you treat life like a never ending game of investment and return on investment you are gonna end up dying having never done anything really worth doing. Okay for some people they would rather save the money and go on holiday with their family which is fair enough and certainly worth doing but for a car enthusiast who enjoys playing with cars then why not! I must have spend thousands on my car over the 4 years I've had it but the main expenditure came when I crashed it which I probably spend £600 on repairing. All the rest of stuff has just been in pursuit of gaining mechanical experience so I'm alright with that.

Guaranteed you did the damage with the TD04 on... Finally it's given up with the K14...

Interesting analysis Ruan. As we know, the TD04 facilitiates high revs, would you say this was as a result of revving the engine higher than a K14 would allow? Or increased cylinder pressures? But the cylinder pressures wouldn't be as high, since you don't have to run a TD04 at as high boost to generate decent power. Unless the owner got greedy and pushed the engine too far.

Both, and a combination of those and metal fatigue. There's a reason they didn't come out of the factory with 150bhp.

Interesting. I was more probing at the fact that Ruan thinks that the damage was done on the TD04 instead of the K14 though. And Phillip, not everyone can be an engineering genius so we laymen have to ask these types of annoying questions