20-12-2014, 11:30 AM
(20-12-2014, 11:07 AM)7057sam Wrote:(19-12-2014, 06:11 PM)procta Wrote: you need a lighter shell man steve to beat srowell, one on ebay at the min for 1200 quid.Yep I degreased and painted the entire thing,then we fitted it and my mate who's been working on pugs for 20 odd years told me he never heard a engine that was that shagged.
sad isn't it when you get bumped!
I know the feeling sam I got screwed over too with my 1st vvc engine, £500 quid gone just like that!
worse thing was we had spent f*cking weeks putting the car back together for only it to die! and then to go about pulling the thing a part again! I was so close of loosing my f*cking rag with that!
After that I never really go enjoy the little car sadly, I enjoy the 1.1s more due to it having known running gear.
Why do people do it for ffs?
The engine that I got had been badly trifled with, what ever he had done, he hadn't timed it up properly, so something must have gone, and he may have glued what ever was f*cked, so it would run for ok for a bit.
He even damaged one of the head bolts so that I couldn't even remove the head to see what had been damaged, also the vvc pick up was damaged which is about a 400 quid part, so it was scrap.
costed me another 500 quid for another engine! that cash could have gone towards the exhaust now.