R32 Gtr Long Term Love, Now Project

[The Bogan]

On 01/11/2023 at 3:19 PM, PranK said:

God damn I wish I'd thought of that. So many kids! 

I started handing out fresh fruit to them, the look on their little faces was priceless

I didn't come up with the idea, I saw it somewhere, but I did roll with it for a few years

Jackie ended up banning me from doing it as it was later being discussed in the local mothers Farcebook group page thingie because some of the kids had a sook

Makes me smile just thinking about it

Fat little shits

[MBS206]

2 hours ago, The Bogan said:

I started handing out fresh fruit to them, the look on their little faces was priceless

I didn't come up with the idea, I saw it somewhere, but I did roll with it for a few years

Jackie ended up banning me from doing it as it was later being discussed in the local mothers Farcebook group page thingie because some of the kids had a sook

Makes me smile just thinking about it

Fat little shits

I dislike Halloween, as I dislike children, and don't want them knocking on my door.

 

Until I watched this video, and so now I'm getting ideas for Halloween 2024, except zero candy, choosing trick every time...

 

https://youtu.be/Zb01RStdzEs?feature=shared

Edited November 3, 2023 by MBS206

[r32-25t]

I just let the dog answer the door,they get the hint when all they find is a little staffy smiling and wagging its tail on the other side of the door lol

[MBS206]

13 hours ago, r32-25t said:

I just let the dog answer the door,they get the hint when all they find is a little staffy smiling and wagging its tail on the other side of the door lol

Ha ha ha, I have 3 German Shepherds.

When we aren't home one of them yells at the school kids walking past, so much so my partner has witnessed the kids psyching themselves up to walk past the house.

You knock on the door, all 3 will go be the doorbell. I've already had to replace a front window from a dog going through it...

Thankfully it was due to him playing wrestles with his brother, and not to get the postman or something... Ha ha ha

 

But definitely didn't want to hear that multiple times during the night while I'm trying to watch TV ha ha

[r32-25t]

All the fab work is done. I got the cooler piping and intake made up all with genuine Wiggins clamps (believe me they aren’t cheap) also had the blow off valve put on the pipe inside the front bar on the drivers side 

[r32-25t]

well things took a turn for the worse and then got even worse again. Will update with full story soon 

[Shoota_77]

On 09/11/2023 at 7:55 AM, r32-25t said:

well things took a turn for the worse and then got even worse again. Will update with full story soon 

Oh shit......  That ain't good.....

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Do I put in BMW jokes now?

Spend more time off the road than a BMW.

[MBS206]

Considering the fun you e had with he engine, and theirs no photos of fluids on the ground, I'm suspecting a clutch / gearbox issue and the pic of the engine is a red herring?

[r32-25t]

Sorry it’s taken so long but I haven’t been well (not sure why)

Unfortunately it’s not a throw off, while the car was at the fabricator/tuner they noticed an oil leak and said they didn’t want to tune the car until it was rectified. the car was towed to the fab shop that did the sump and put on his hoist and we looked for the leak, we determined where the leak was and what had caused it and the engine needed to come out because he didn’t want to weld it on the car.
 

He then offered me his hoist to pull the engine out which I was very grateful for and the next day arrived tools in hand and remove the engine and gearbox in about 4 hours!! Now, while draining the oil tank I noticed what came out first appeared to be coolant then followed by oil, I undid all the scavenge lines and we noticed there was a milky layer coming out of them as well 😞

once the engine was out and and the sump removed there was clear evidence of coolant in the oil/sump, so the engine was put into my Ute and I took it home to take the manifolds and etc off and dropped to the engine shop. The car was then towed out of the workshop to get it out of the fabricators way 

[Duncan]

not ideal...so engine shop to find the problem? did they supply the block or did you give it to them?

at least nothing ran and broke.

[r32-25t]

Yeah to the engine shop to find the issue, i supplied the block brand new in a box and let them machine and build it 

[Shoota_77]

Fark…..  Hopefully just something dumb like a missing plug in a gallery or something specific to the billet block.  Hard to imagine what else it could be?  Having not run nothing could be pressurised to force coolant into the oil and vice versa.  Very unusual….  A lot of extra farking around you probably really didn’t feel like doing!

[r32-25t]

Looking at it myself there’s only really one thing I believe it could be, I’m just not going to say anything until the machine shop looks at it and gives their opinion 

[r32-25t]

So they took the head off pretty much straight away and pressure tested it both hot and cold and confirmed the head is fine, they are going to pressure test the block but don’t believe there is a way that can cause the issue. 

[Duncan]

What about the head bolts, are they blind holes or do they go through to the crank case?

[r32-25t]

They’re blind holes and they’re designed with a shank on the bottom of the stud to bottom out and make sure the length is correct 

[r32-25t]

Block was tested this week and turns out it’s leaking from number 6 sleeve, been told they’ll strip it down to a bare block and and pull the sleeve out to find out why it’s leaking 

[Duncan]

Bit of a surprising way for it to fail, glad that are sorting the problem anyway

[r32-25t]

It’s a bit of a weird one considering water isn’t supposed to touch the sleeves in these blocks. I’m just glad they found an issue rather then not finding anything and guessing the head gasket just didn’t seal