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[Gedi]

I'll buy it!!

[out on the bike]

Sorry to see your having problems Si.If the crank sensor is scored it might be the same problem I had with my last engine which was the trigger wheel bolts shearing though as far as I am aware mine is the only one that has done that but the only way to check is taking the sump off to have a look.Hope you get it sorted soon

[cnrandall]

I've had a trigger wheel fail before too and my machinist (who removed the bolts) said he had done a few. Obviously a weak point in the engine.

[MrSimba]

Sorry to see your having problems Si.If the crank sensor is scored it might be the same problem I had with my last engine which was the trigger wheel bolts shearing though as far as I am aware mine is the only one that has done that but the only way to check is taking the sump off to have a look.Hope you get it sorted soon

Looking exactly like this Dave H has had the sump off & bolt heads in the oil

Spent far too much time that really could have been spent on other interests last year on the car to do the same this year as well, the car is now Dave H's & I'm sure he'll carry on the good work & very sure he'll see the 400+ out of it, me I'll still be arround just need to get car / life balance back in sync!

[christhegasman]

Sorry to see your having problems Si.If the crank sensor is scored it might be the same problem I had with my last engine which was the trigger wheel bolts shearing though as far as I am aware mine is the only one that has done that but the only way to check is taking the sump off to have a look.Hope you get it sorted soon :grouphug:/>

Looking exactly like this Dave H has had the sump off & bolt heads in the oil :(/>

Spent far too much time that really could have been spent on other interests last year on the car to do the same this year as well, the car is now Dave H's & I'm sure he'll carry on the good work & very sure he'll see the 400+ out of it, me I'll still be arround just need to get car / life balance back in sync!

simon so your saying you have sold the black beasty on ? Hope you find a replacement if that's the case can't see you dropping out ?

[Darcini]

Blimey Si, you really have fallen out with the thing haven't you! Presume this was the final straw, thing is, it is only a car at the end of the day, you could always buy another at some point in the future. (if you ever feel the need that is)

[catstain]

I for sure will miss your posts about it , as with most things in life there are high's and low's but you will bounce back chin up si.

[Bumblebee]

I read mrsimba's post that he had passed it on to Dave H to complete the work not that he's sold it to Dave H? Have I read it wrong??

Edited by Bumblebee, 21 March 2013 - 10:01 PM.

[Zoobeef]

"The car is now Dave H's" not "the car is with Dave H"

[Bumblebee]

Blimey! I read it the wrong way, really sorry to hear you've given up on it Simon

[Hark]

That's a shame after you've built it up to that point and it's consumed so much time/money. Saw it for the second time at AutoSport and it really was a fantastic looking car.

[JG]

Perhaps a stage too far? As soon a you start to seriously affect reliability i guess the fun goes very quickly.

[Wolfstone]

Really sorry to hear / read about your woes with the car Si.

[Ormes]

Jeez sounds soul destroying

[mbes2]

I just re checked the last 2 pages to make sure that what I read was really what I just read....

[GeorgeBC]

Perhaps a stage too far?

Looks like it

What a quick turn around from one day driving to efi all happy and the next day sold. Hope you got a decent price for it and didnt sell too early whilst it was all a little raw. Im sure you will be back.

[MrSimba]

Many thanks guys I know I could pull it all apart & re-build but thats what I spent most of last year doing, with working long hours it leaves me very little time to do anything else, think I'll need the sat nav to remember where the gym is at the moment, in fact I've actually been to EFi more times this year than the gym! So its just reached the point where I've lost the motivation to spend then next xx months doing it all again that really I now value the car as 'parts' and have sold it as such. Dave's a fantastic bloke & he's spent most of yesterday trying to talk me out of it but its now a chore not a passion and has been a money pit for more than a few months now, when the ECU died with a power spike think it cost me an extra £2k to go standalone, which is fantastic but it was another £2k to find that was not planned, and the extra expenses keep coming in & keep going out, and all the time other hobbys & interest sit on the back burner, so I decided a while back that the 'next' big unexpected was going to be my 'stop' point and this is it! Don't get me wrong its been great fun & with very very few regrets, but time to have a few more thing going on in my life than just a pair of feet sticking out from under a VX!!!

Edited by MrSimba, 22 March 2013 - 08:16 AM.

[ChrisS1]

Well Dave's certainly got a hell of a car there! Get a standard NA and drive it flat out everywhere Hopefully you'll be sticking around .org?

[sford]

Sad to see you part with her, especially after all the effort but I understand that it will have become a chore.

[rob999]

Si You're a petrol head so I know you'll be back in something decent pronto.