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[TheRealVXed]

Had a look at the one Artic picked up for £200 and it runs perfectly

[siztenboots]

plus the gearbox might be a better one too , but its pot luck again

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

Have a word with john turbo He has just swapped his oil burner for a engine at a great price, his contact might have a other one

[AliM]

I've had a look at some Astra's/Vectras, but for the money I've got they've all got a billion miles on.  

 

I should have my pennies back tomorrow, if I can find a suitable engine i'll try and get it delivered for the weekend.

 

 

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

Will keep a eye out for you Ali

[AliM]

Will keep a eye out for you Ali

 

Thank you

[jameso]

Good news Al - I think you wouldnt have been confident in another engine from them

[JohnTurbo]

Spin the wheel as to the health of my engine...but it does start and run. Thats a shame about the loss of carriage Ali. Im sure your luck will be better 2nd time round.

[AliM]

it better had be John!  i'm this far --->  <----- from losing my marbles.  

[Claws]

Glad to see they gave you your money back for the engine, you probably could chase some of the carriage, but as you say...nightmare and hassle I'll keep an eye/ear out for any engines or complete useable sheds with Z22SE inside (du du dum dum!)

Edited by Claws, 08 October 2013 - 06:59 PM.

[AliM]

Round 2:

 

I collected a 65k engine and gearbox at the weekend, and have a new chain kit to go on it. Total £850. It's going in this week I think, so fingers crossed i'll have a running car by the weekend

 

If all goes to plan, i'll be stripping my old engine and selling the other gearbox I bought, which hopefully should recoup some of the costs.

Edited by AliM, 15 October 2013 - 09:51 AM.

[Claws]

Good luck!!

[christhegasman]

Good to hear Ali Hope things go better this time 😀

[turbobob]

Any update Ali? Sorry to hear about the carriage but glad you got your money back.

[siztenboots]

In turkey atm

[AliM]

Yep sorry am away at the moment! Garage has the car still, have had the timing chain replaced on the new engine and a new clutch fitted and I think the engine will go in this week when I get home. Will keep you posted!

[AliM]

OK so time to update!!

 

After engine #2 went back to the breakers and I got my partial refund, I did what I should have just done to start with and bought an engine and gearbox off ElizP.  It's from VX Boyds old car (written off), it's done 65k, has FSH and I have the service book.  I had a new timing chain kit fitted, and a new clutch, because I thought doing both should save me any hassle for the foreseeable.  

 

I didn't have the time or motivation to try fitting this engine, so I got a friends garage to fit it and I collected it a few weeks ago.  On the 11 mile drive home it felt like a different car, the engine runs perfectly with no rattles, the exhaust note sounds better and gear changes are a lot smoother.  It drove fantastically well, much like I remember from years ago.

 

Parked it up on the drive, ran inside like a giddy idiot to get my house mates out to look, went back out and the fecking thing wouldn't start.......  On further inspection I had left the loom hanging inside the wheel arch (the liners were at home) and the tyre had chewed through the coating of the loom and fried something, no broken wires though thankfully

 

I've spent the last few weekends checking and cleaning connectors, checking earth points, battery connections etc etc and after reading loads of threads on here bought a new starter relay (£20 Christopher Neil).  It arrived today, et voila!  Brum lives!!   I've been back out a few times since just to make sure it still starts lol.

I'm going to finish putting it back together this weekend so it'll go for it's MOT on Monday and then, fingers crossed, i'm officially no longer a bus w4nker!  

 

Just want to say a big thanks to JohnTurbo for pitching up at mine and helping take out the old engine and fitting engine #2 (even though that was fruitless lol), FLD and Nelly for the loan of bits I needed, ElizP for helping me at such short notice to sort my awesome new engine and Duncan for ferrying bits round for me (and for standing by the side of the motorway for 4 hours with me while I waited for a flat bed )  Thanks also to everyone else who's offered help or advice. It's been 3 months in total now so i'm going to be thrilled to back on the road next week!

 

[Ormes]

Congratulations Ali

[JohnTurbo]

Yay!!!

 

Really very pleased for you!

 

- It strikes me when we changed that first engine...it was warm out!

Edited by JohnTurbo, 12 November 2013 - 07:59 PM.

[XXX]

Great news Ali! Glad all you woes are behind you...! Glad you kept faith and didn't give up and put a match to it all......