SRowells Black Rallye

[Eeyore]

Well I dropped this off with Carl Chambers on Friday evening. Thanks to Sam for coming and picking me up in his 6 and taking me back to the Saab.



So the current list of things for Carl to fix stands at...
Front Rust
Fit new Rad and ph3 water pipe
Cambelt & Fit Billet AUX Pulley
Raise rear beam and fit ARB plastic caps
Check and replace engine mounts
replace and align passenger side headlight
fit exhaust/fuel tank shield
Tracking
Resealing tyres and balancing
MOT

I have since however been told that the rust on the bulkhead is a fail so that also needs to go on the list. Im waiting for him to have a look at the drivers side when he does the cambelt. If that side needs doing too then it will be an engine out job. Weld, stone chip the engine bay, fit a clutch and lightened fly, fit the seam welded subframe and meyle HD wishbones before putting the engine back in.

Driving the car there have been no engine related issues. Carl said it sounded good when it arrived. We let it hit 90 and sure enough it started knocking. Carl believes that its a lifter at the cambelt end. Seeing as it only does it when hot and is otherwise sweet Im going to leave that for now.

Basically I want to get this to a nice state where I can drive it around for a bit. The bodies and OMEX can be whipped on pretty quickly and Carl has a couple of maps for bodied 6s so should be a brilliant base map.

Whilst I was there I also saw my old 1.8 engine. It finally has its gti6 and a few more naughty parts Might have to go back to the 1.8 if this gti stuff doesnt work out!