NS Dev
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 posted on 10/4/07 at 11:25 AM |
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Psychic link between my engine and the SVA centre?
Arse, SVA booked for next thurs, and my head gasket has promptly started allowing oil into the water on my XE.....................doh
I hope its the gasket, but I'll put money on it that it looks fine when I pull the head off! Its a Coscast head so shouldn't have gone
porous, but you never know.
I have a spare engine with coscast head from a 1994 car so I think that one might just go on the 1992 (pre cat ) bottom end anyway and I'll
check the head later when I have more time!
Arse arse arse why can't these things happen when you have time!!!!!
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 10/4/07 at 11:45 AM |
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Its sods law and it's heavily enforced 
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mookaloid
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| posted on 10/4/07 at 12:18 PM |
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It definitely knows.......
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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MikeR
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| posted on 10/4/07 at 05:56 PM |
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sorry ..........
it was me!!!!!
Saw Cal in Leicester and he let the cat out of the bag about the date (don't tell the misses you've got a date with your other woman). In
a mad fury (red obviously) i raced round. When i realised you where not in i tampered with you head.
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NS Dev
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 10:26 AM |
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spare head now off engine and on the bench, cams and followers out, turns out to be a recon coscast one in nice nick.
Hopefully should be on tonight.
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thomas4age
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 11:54 AM |
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Hey Nsdev
If you see mr Murphy again any time soon, tell him I say hi, and warn him, for if I meet him again I'll murder him with my bare hands.
(my 4age head did the same right before dutch sva and a holliday trip a few years back)
hope all will be well again.
grtz Thomas
If Lucas made guns, Wars wouldn't start either.
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MikeR
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 06:29 PM |
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Spoke to him (NS Dev) a little while ago, had to ask what he was doing as it sounded like he was hitting an anvil. Turns out he was removing the
exhaust and whilst talking to me the spanner kept hitting part of it.
Turns out that wasn't a good time to muse that the block might be cracked. I don't think i cheered him up when i mentioned i've got
a crossflow engine i could lend him 
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NS Dev
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| posted on 12/4/07 at 07:05 AM |
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New head now on (as of midnight)
Just got to fit exhaust and a few other bits and bobs and then we shall see if its better (bloody hope so ! )
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NS Dev
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| posted on 14/4/07 at 08:28 AM |
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up and running now, all seems well
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 14/4/07 at 10:52 AM |
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Did you trace the problem down to the head gasket or the head itself?
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NS Dev
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| posted on 14/4/07 at 01:30 PM |
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Nothing obvious on the gasket. Looked to be a bit iffy here and there but nowhere between an oilway and waterway.
I'm guessing its the head, which is unfortunate because its a coscast one.
I have two more coscast ones but they both need bits and bobs, plus one GM one that has been repaired!
I've just used my third and last Coscast head, which is a recon one, as the replacement on the 7!
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 14/4/07 at 03:03 PM |
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Glad to hear you're back up and running in time
Bit OT, but how are you proving the engines age to the SVA man/DVLA? Will a Vauxhall service place do you a letter if you ask nicely?
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NS Dev
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| posted on 15/4/07 at 08:54 AM |
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I have the V5 for the engine donor (my mate's old calibra) and whilst it doesn't have the same head anymore, the number on the block
matches the one on the V5 and the date of registration of the calibra is on the V5 as 1st Jan 1992, so I'm hoping that will sort it!
In fact the head is actually older, it was on a 1994 block but it was a recon one dated 1989.
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iank
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| posted on 15/4/07 at 09:16 AM |
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I believe the only bit of the engine that matters with respect to age of engine manufacture is the block i.e. the only bit with a number on it.
So you should be fine, providing they take the V5 as enough evidence of engine age.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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