Gutmann pug

At bedford Book A Track event.

It sounded terminal ..........

Better off with a good old 8 valver

how many mins till Dream Weaver sees this and replies I wonder

Gary

ScoobyJawa

LMAO!!!

Zip up flame retardant clothing

rb5_336

who's was the mi16 then ?

Gutmann pug

No idea rb5 ... it was a white one at Bedford book a track yesterday..It was going really well for a while.

rb5_336

hasslin your scoob was it ?

Dream Weaver

<looking skyward and whistling> Someone shout?

Probably a lottery install again, shame anothers blown

But i'll hopefully have an 8 valver as well soon, so the best of both worlds

Floyd

iTrader: (9)

Hmmm...

Simo, you read'in this?

F

New To Scoob

Yup it'll be another chuck it in special hould have stuck with the 8v and stuck a blower on it

John

Gutmann pug

Chuck it in special lol .... much better paying someone £4K to supply the engine and fit it I guess.

I knew it wouldnt take you long to appear DW

Dream Weaver

Aye, not sure where you get the £4k figure from though. You can have a fully rebuilt engine fitted for about £1800-2000. I prefer to do it myself though, and the rebuild will cost about £1k hopefully.

Gutmann pug

Just making it up DW becuase it sounds better

How's yours coming along now?

Gary

Dream Weaver

Slowly

Finally have a garage now, so its sitting in there ready for its new engine, and currently having some Corbeaus fitted.

Engine is stripped now and ready to be shipped off for some checmical cleaning, head skim, crank regrind etc then I can build it up again.

Once built, then need to install the TB's/Emerald and pray it works

In the meantime, i'm selling the 405 Mi16 and hopefully buying another std 1.9 GTi, so i'll have a std road 1.9 and my Mi16 track weapon.

Its all taking longer now though since moving house as I need my spare time for decorating/house maintenance etc

New To Scoob

GP, seen a few of these big money engine transplants also doen really shoddy. After we sold the Mrs 1.6Gti (should have kept it really ) some hamfisted garage stuck an Mi in it, the next owner eventually contacted me and started asking questions about the engine number etc, so I had to tell him I had never done the swap and couldn't tell him anything about the engines origin, I got a chance to look at it and the workmanship was shocking to say the least pity coz it was a good motor before then

John.

Gutmann pug

Looking forward to you eventually getting the old girl out on track DW ....... I retire in 30 years so you had better crack on though mate

I hope your 8 valver isnt quicker though

Gary

New to scoob ..... I know there are a few bad conversions out there. Its a long standing joke between me and DW. Everytime I go on track and an Mi or some such car is about it seems to break down.......

Dream Weaver

I know, need to push on but the rebuild is scaring me, never done one before.

Just ordered Dave Walkers EMS book though for the management side of things, so hopefully that should help once its rebuilt