the cars dead (now with pics)

[srs1]

after kicking as much ass around silverstone and getting a 5.89 second 0-60 time, the car has finally died a death.

what is more frustrating is, i was doing 20mph as i had pulled off from the lights.

slipped cam belt and bent valves.

not sure on how many, but enough to kill the car.

so the car is now off the road and i am left walking every where.

winter rebuild now.
:(

[Dod]

DOH. Sore one mate. stick a 12300SR nin it while you rebuild the first enggine. It'll save you from loosing weight, ugh, exercise!! Yuck!!!

[benji]

arse, no guarentee from the garage that did the work? :wink:

[LURCHIO_NOVA]

sorry 2 hear that mate! is been a while since i have seen the car but if its any concelation you can probably walk as fast as my beast :D . take it that u aint goin ahead with the rolling road at the end of oct? either way good luck with the re-build. im shure when it comes back it will be faster some how!!

[srs1]

that'll be a deffinate be better once out.

[hendrix]

sorry to hear that mate!
you're like me then, walking everywhere, dammit i need another car!
andy

[srs1]

sorry mate, i have three cars lol.

just the better one is not moving very far lol

[hendrix]

yeah i have three too
1. black sri 1600, no mot (no cash to sort it!)
2. my old sri, rotting away on the driveway, awaiting engine removal
3. my white valver shell

im after something non nova now though

[burgo]

lol im walking also. well actually im not i just stay in instead lol. sorry to hear that tho sean, sure it will come back bigger and better

[srs1]

i hope so, i have over a grands worth of stuff in the garage to be fitted.

every one keeps telling me to scrap it now.

i'm tempted to sell up thou.

[burgo]

dont be a fool get the stuff bolted on and get thrashing it again

[srs1]

i think that,
well, i'll sorn the car now. and rebuild her to how i want to. dont have to rely on it being my means of transport

[burgo]

thats more like it build a track slag

[srs1]

i aint no track slag. i'm just too lazy to fit the carpets back in

[scott.parker]

Ah so is that what it was mate,last night when you spoke to me you woke me up lol,has riggy still got that other head floating about?

Scott

[srs1]

yes and chris has still got my other one too.

anoyed thou, the blystein head cost ?750 and its only been on since june

[hendrix]

cant you do anything with it though??

[srs1]

no punt intended yet.

but wait till i rip the head off it will you

[Stuart]

?750 :o fooooooooooooook me

[Lee H]

Won't be needing that chipped ECU off me so soon now then :lol:

Gutted for you, makes a change from it being me though :oops:

[Dar]

Sorry to hear the news, I was kinda hoping it was something silly that caused the loss of power.

[NovalutionGSi]

Ouch not good fella.

at least your in good company! soon will have mine back running i hope! :lol:

[peester]

?750 :o fooooooooooooook me

billy prices, innit.. get wot u pay for though.. its times like that, and now; with it needin a re build, u had an 8 valve, lol.

[Ste L]

unlucky mate, can't sell it, sort the engine, and get it back outon the road lol

[Adam]

Sorry to hear about your bad luck Sean.
Rebuild it bigger and better!

Fingers crossed the Billy head aint too damaged.

[srs1]

pics to follow, but here is the out come of ripping the head off tonight.

the kent veneer pulleys. one of the bolts came loose and fell into the timming belt.

this caused the cam belt to jump a tooth or too.
still got to take the head off, but all the manifold etc is all off. only the head to remove.

[novamadcars]

well sorry 2 hear about the car mate just hope its not as bad as you fink it might be

[burgo]

ooooo so someone didnt use lock-tight tut tut

[Rick Draper]

Its never good when something like this happens. It happened on my engine when i had fitted verniers but luckally i had only ran it up on the garage and i saw a bolt fly out. I turned the engine off and discovered the other 4 bolts were all loose but luckally i had had no valve to piston contact. I had forgotten to tighten them when i fitted the pullys.

[NovalutionGSi]

could of been nasty that!!!

guess you'll be using abit of Lock-tight once the engine is rebuilt so it dont happen again!

[srs1]

this is the little git that caused all my problems

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v194/sean_srs/bad1.jpg

the damage to the valves

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v194/sean_srs/DSCF0006.jpg

and now the damage to the bottom end
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v194/sean_srs/DSCF0007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v194/sean_srs/DSCF0008.jpg


the head is now off and getting repaired as we speak, 8 new valves and 8 new guides also. plus a skim and a de-coke of all the rubbish on it.
only main problem i had was getting a threaded star shapped head bolt off.
also, went to halfords and the person i spoke to, knew exactly what size star bolt i needed for the head bolts, i almost fell over, but fair play to him.

thanks to antonio at A&M garage 01244 818868 (top fella who builds vaux rally cars and has access to rollers)

also stu for the endless phone calls to him when i reached a problem.

chris t for letting me wake him up yesterday lol

rexy, just cause he's sexy, i mean for getting new head gasket set
and
riggy, who helped me source new valves etc.

[burgo]

bit of a shitter. gd to see yeah putting it back together tho

[nova---chris]

Agreed.
Not good. least the pistons look only pitted. So not major.
Shame it fucked so much up as in valves ect.

But yes put it back together!!!! Decided mines being put back together!!

:)
:evil:

[scott.parker]

Umm nice....you had to go one better then me didnt you! :lol:

Well glad your not going to through the towel in yet then mate,should be even quicker once done,mine was due to the skim,more compresion.

Scott

[Adam]

Glad to hear its being put back together :)

[Stuart]

pistons look fine :D just get it all cleaned up lol.

[srs1]

well i am now waiting on the garage to come back to me with my head all done.

i think its a good price too.
de-coked, chemically cleaned, heat treated and skimmed.
16 new valves and 16 new guides
fully rebuilt back to brand new condition
?330.

whilst this is getting done, i have stripped the rocker cover completely and resprayed it to make my engine look a bit cleaner.

hope to have the car on road by next week end.

also fitted some poly race rear bushes, a sbd manifold and a full jp system.
then the car is off to be set up on the rollers.
so come mk meet, it'll be all singing and dancing.

oh and i'll have my dif fitted by then too.

[scott.parker]

Nice one mate,and yeah thats a dam good price on the work,mine was ?500 when i ballsd it up.

Scott

[Adam]

Nice to hear its almost all sorted :)
nice one.