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The engine builder :happy:

It was leaking water into the oil, which was basically due to not having the head and block decked together after it was pulled apart to fix a minor oil leak. Long story short is that the engine was in and out constantly for a year, the warranty work they were doing on it was taking forever and I lost confidence in them so I cut my losses and took it to someone who I knew would have some diligence and take some pride in their work.

Those bearings were in the car for a dyno session and half a lap of Sandown...

That sucks glad to hear it is all coming along nicely this time around. I was pretty nervous building up my SR as it was all very new to me im used to A series datsun engines you cant kill them haha, but my engine builder went through everything with me and so far so good 2 events down.

I hope so.

MCA coilovers arrived today, i can't wait to get them on the car to see how it feels.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm MCA's or as we call them MURRYFLEX, they are the single greatest thing you can do

to any car, turned our tarmac car from a rough jumpy thing into a magic carpet ride...

Machining was done by Blackwell race engines, and a friend of mine and an ex-supercar engine builder are putting it back together for me.

The engine builder :)

It was leaking water into the oil, which was basically due to not having the head and block decked together after it was pulled apart to fix a minor oil leak. Long story short is that the engine was in and out constantly for a year, the warranty work they were doing on it was taking forever and I lost confidence in them so I cut my losses and took it to someone who I knew would have some diligence and take some pride in their work.

Those bearings were in the car for a dyno session and half a lap of Sandown...

Really disapointing to see what happened with the previous motor and those bearings in particular, not very nice stuff. Good to see things are progressing nicely with the new rebuild and hopefully it will all work out for you.

Matt

it looks like they are second hand ones, you don't know anyone with the remote mounts laying around do you?

Nope brand new but the rears bottom mounting and canister are off his sons drift car so he could get mine done in time, even took some money of because of it so im not complaining.

Sorry don't know of anyone with some laying around.

August, doing 6th at Winton on the way up....going to be a busy 4 days working flat knacker to get my car ready. But have to beback in India on 16th so only chance to give the ol girl a punt

Unlikley then mate. I'll probably have the engine back in 2 weeks I'd say, then another week or so to get the nerw turbo kit on and tune and hopefully a run at Sandown in case anything goes pear shaped!

Thought I'd share this.... 3 years in the making and today was its first "successful" road test! (I had a few unsuccessful ones due to fuel system issues).

So here it is! Australia's first legally engineered and registered twin turbo'd VW. The goal is to be quick in the sprint events that I race in. The car hopefully weighs in around the 800kg mark, 1/2 the weight of the R34 which realy struggles around the gocart track I race at.

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Now just suspension changes to do and tuning tuning tuning...

Cheers,

Ian

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