Its alive! (Leon is nearly repaired)

top stuff. :)

So its two cars from now on then.. hhmmm im not intrested in your daily driver. But i am in the track car of choice :D

any ideas?
 
ZG002 said:
top stuff. :)

So its two cars from now on then.. hhmmm im not intrested in your daily driver. But i am in the track car of choice :D

any ideas?
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No serious thought yet, but I'm tempted to get another e36, but a coupe, 328 with a 325 manifold, stripped, caged, ad fully track prep'd. Given that I can repair these cars in hours rather than weeks, and that I know them inside out.

L1J said:
Dont tempt me!

Good to see it going again, your failure is the main reason I've fitted a baffled sump to mine.
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Tempted by the K04 are we :p
 
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I dont envy you undertaking that task, that engine bay looks like a pita to work with. lol at the down pipe location.

Am thankful that the 200sx is pretty easy to work on. The downpipe is actually pointing down rather than to the side :D
 
I wouldn't wish the task of working on a 1.8T engine bay on anyone who isn't doing it as a profession. The whole engine bay is a mass of pipework, its so bloody confusing!

And yes, the downpipe location/direction is retarded!
 
paradigm said:
No serious thought yet, but I'm tempted to get another e36, but a coupe, 328 with a 325 manifold, stripped, caged, ad fully track prep'd. Given that I can repair these cars in hours rather than weeks, and that I know them inside out.
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Not a bad idea. i look forward to your choice :D
 
Its back, and its alive properly now!

Just needs some tax and I'm away!

Is there a special procedure for taxing a SORN'd car?
 
Cool, has it got a baffled sump and things now then so it won't do it again?

For taxing after SORN...this thread was asked about it and has all the info needed...can't remember which post is most helpful mind. :p

Lopéz said:
No, just tax it as normal.
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That's what I thought, but there are some other views in the thread I posted. :/

InvG
 
Glad to see you didn't give up on it.

How much do you think you'll get for it, I'd imagine a lot of buyers will be put off by you having to replace the engine.
 
Quite. The logbook will not show the old engine number (I asked the DVLA), so as far as a potential buyer is concerned, it will show nothing out of the ordinary (as with HPI). If they ask, fair enough, but otherwise its staying quiet.

On a separate note: I've got the old engine in one million peices, and found the cause of the failure. I'm going to replace the damaged parts and sell it back off as a complete engine, should recover 80% of the costs of repairing the car, which is nice!

Pics and writeup to follow!
 
Are you leaving the clock at what the car has done then rather than what the engine has done? I was in two minds about this when I changed an engine, as technically I could have gotten the clock from the donor car and place it in mine, reading 117K for the engine. I left mine as the car's clock though, at 206k.

InvG
 
I'm leaving it at what the car has done. I can't comfortably drop the clock by half, as more of the car is at 80K than 40K.
 
If anything.. I'd be happy to know that a car I was buying with 80k on the clock, had a new engine in that had only done 38k..

Para, what bit of the engine failed please ? that sort of thing interests me :p and.. I would love some pictures aswell please :D

edit - you can never say please enough ;)
 
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