Gutted

[ro284]

Hi mate,
             Decided not to do my rebuild myself after all! Got a highly recomended guy doing it for me now, i took the engine out myself, And fortunatly Chris was free to do the rebuild, so as soon as i had it sat in the drive he came round stripped all ancilaries off, outside by torch light, mostly by feel, and took less than 2 hours to do all that, and tonight i took the block to the garage he uses and he stripped the block right down and found the problem in no time, hes very quick, it would have taken me a month to get this far! it was a failed water jacket gasket caused by corrosion eating away at the side of the o ring groove, but ive decided to replace front plate and both housings,while its at this stage,i dont want to risk having to take it out again, i\'m glad i didnt try this myself even with the video, i\'m not having any mods to the block, i had a test drive of one of Chris\'s standard rebuilds, and it doesnt need anything extra for me!very fast car, the guy knows his stuff, with luck he plans to rebuild it saturday, refit the engine on Sunday!if parts availiable,  Brilliant! i\'ll let you know how it goes,
cheers Bob

[Col]

That sounds well cool, and saved yourself a lot of money. Wish i had the know how. Sounds like we may have had the same sort of problem with the water seal.

[monkeyboy]

ro284  does your mate do rebuilds for Joe public?

I know i live other end of country but will to spend a couple of sunny days in Dorest, or even leave the car?

[ro284]

Hi mate,
Yes i am petty sure he will be doing rebuilds during the
winter months, i will check though, if the timing worked out i could probably put you up or arrange B&B, he is waiting for new housings to come in for mine so i will have to wait till next week,
( i could have had some very good used housings he has but decided on new, )but that is still way ahead of the 3 months i would have taken to do it! when were you thinking of having it done? is it overheating now, are you still using it?
I\'ll let you know how busy he is, if you can give me some idea when you might want it done,
cheers Bob

[ro284]

Hi Col,
          How is your car going? have you got it back yet, is it ok? any news at all from Dragon? i was at one time going to get them to do my rebuild, but they never replied to my email about that, or an email about supplying an uprated radiator! Hope all going well mate,
Bob

[Col]

Hi Bob,

Car is still at Dragons think it will be there a while, in no great rush, no news on the turbo yet, and it is hard to get hold of Ross. Have not read any bad things about them though. Is yours up and running, sounds like your mate could have a bit of business coming his way! Wish i had know before hand otherwise he could of had mine also!! I think my rotorhouseings are in good condition also, just the water seals had gone, I am going to ask for them and sell them on hopefully.

[ro284]

Hi Col,
          Sorry you not got your car back yet mate, my guy was wanting to get mine rebuilt tomorow and fit it in the car on sunday! unfortunately his supplier is out of housings untill later in the week, maybe next weekend, i must say something which is brilliant is to be able to watch whats going on with my engine and to be able to talk to the guy, about it, his name is Chris by the way,
i think he will be busy this winter, but that will suit him, good luck.
Bob

[monkeyboy]

It over heated once, took about 10 attempts to refill but she is not overheating anymore.

Iam going over to see pip soon as to check engine out, so i will know more when i have done it.

I will keep you posted and thnaks for the offer of sorting out the b&b