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[Marks DTM Calib]

It sounds like you are taking the right approach and not trying to do a quick bodge  

[HolyCount]

It sounds like you are taking the right approach and not trying to do a quick bodge  

Hope so -- bottom line is I want a car that will run right and long! And bearing in mind that it will be carrying my wife and family it will not be bodged.  

As, it seems, others have discovered, a bodge job is a shortcut to nowhere (or oblivion if very unlucky!)

[HNO3GOH]

It sounds like you are taking the right approach and not trying to do a quick bodge  

Thats one thing its not is a bodge. The new engine before it goes in has had (all gen part) new head gaskets and bolts, new stat, new oil cooler plus gearbox and TC that has done very little miles so with a bit of luck on Monday she should be about ready to come out on the road

[Marks DTM Calib]

Excellent, do it right and do it once  

[HolyCount]

Excellent, do it right and do it once  

That's the line we are taking  

[VXL V6]

I seem to recall the loom was spliced together in an 'interesting' way as well.

[HNO3GOH]

I seem to recall the loom was spliced together in an 'interesting' way as well.

Thats in the bin now and a nice new one put back in.

[VXL V6]

I seem to recall the loom was spliced together in an 'interesting' way as well.

Thats in the bin now and a nice new one put back in.

Excellent  

[HNO3GOH]

In the service book there is a stamp from an auto gas company in london who i take it fitted the gas system. Well if it was them lets just say they should be shot.

[HolyCount]

In the service book there is a stamp from an auto gas company in london who i take it fitted the gas system. Well if it was them lets just say they should be shot.

I should add that the old mixer system is out (should never have gone in a V6) and a front end upgrade to sequential on the way in

[Martin_1962]

Lol, sorry, I had a falling out with the original person who worked on it due to his corner cutting and bloody mindedness through not listening and heeding the advice when working on this one.

So now the cat's coming out of the bag!!

don't tell me this was over the exhaust manifold gaskets  

It was over the:

Fitting an unknown cheap nasty early engine
Non-gen cam cover seals
Not bothering with the manifold gaskets
Badly fitting the gearbox so as to destroy (as was found out later) the torque converter because the advice of fitting it to the box first was not heeded.

Then posting that there crap which was totally due to an incompitent worker who didn't practice what he preached!

The bodges I witnessed on some of the cars he bought was shocking and I could take no more!

I remember this car - and I remember the person doing it! :-?

[VXL V6]

The engine in that car wasn't the original hence the whole front end of the gas system had to be replumbed and wired when the engine was swapped. Just a pity the standard wasn't very good but then it matches the rest of the sad engine swap (well two engine swaps actually) story.......

[HolyCount]

Lol, sorry, I had a falling out with the original person who worked on it due to his corner cutting and bloody mindedness through not listening and heeding the advice when working on this one.

So now the cat's coming out of the bag!!

don't tell me this was over the exhaust manifold gaskets  

It was over the:

Fitting an unknown cheap nasty early engine
Non-gen cam cover seals
Not bothering with the manifold gaskets
Badly fitting the gearbox so as to destroy (as was found out later) the torque converter because the advice of fitting it to the box first was not heeded.

Then posting that there crap which was totally due to an incompitent worker who didn't practice what he preached!

The bodges I witnessed on some of the cars he bought was shocking and I could take no more!

I remember this car - and I remember the person doing it! :-?

When you next see it - it will be a different car (unless I have blown it up in the meantime !!! )

[Martin_1962]

In the service book there is a stamp from an auto gas company in london who i take it fitted the gas system. Well if it was them lets just say they should be shot.

I should add that the old mixer system is out (should never have gone in a V6) and a front end upgrade to sequential on the way in

Sounds like a good job

[Martin_1962]

Lol, sorry, I had a falling out with the original person who worked on it due to his corner cutting and bloody mindedness through not listening and heeding the advice when working on this one.

So now the cat's coming out of the bag!!

don't tell me this was over the exhaust manifold gaskets  

It was over the:

Fitting an unknown cheap nasty early engine
Non-gen cam cover seals
Not bothering with the manifold gaskets
Badly fitting the gearbox so as to destroy (as was found out later) the torque converter because the advice of fitting it to the box first was not heeded.

Then posting that there crap which was totally due to an incompitent worker who didn't practice what he preached!

The bodges I witnessed on some of the cars he bought was shocking and I could take no more!

I remember this car - and I remember the person doing it! :-?

When you next see it - it will be a different car (unless I have blown it up in the meantime !!! )

I haven't seen it in the metal but it has been around quite a fwe members and I remember reading all about it