Thought it was time I put up a thread on my recent ebay purchase.
Lovely looking car on the surface, no welding so far but will need some work done to the front passenger sill where its been crushed. Its rotten behind the seal at the top of the drivers side windscrean. Its needing replaced anyway, I just hope the auto-glass man can leave it with me a couple of days inbetween removal and refitting so I can repair it. Its also leaking water somewhere but yet to verify its the screen causing this.
Other issues is the interior as its not great and not put together well. Bits missing here and there. Front seatbelts are not mounted to pillar correctly and rear belts not even there. Have Mk2 Golf ones there but not sure they're the same. No parcel shelf or spare wheel and boot carpet. Central locking not working most of the time. Front strut top are hanging off it, ruining the osf tyre on inside edge. Small dent in osr wheel arch. Has a momo steering wheel I want to swap for a standard one and aftermarket rear lights i'm not too keen on. Bit of laquer peel on ns door and a few wee other stonechips etc but nothing major there. Loads of history adding up to 10k+ and recently had a new distributor and fuse box.
The job that takes priority though is changing the engine as sadly after only the second day of ownership one of the pistons melted. I have one lined up off another svag member just need to pick it up.
Obviously i'll need to figure what caused this as usually related to a fueling issue. Poor injector maybe. I'll probably clean up the bay and paint the new engine while its out but all dependant on cost and motivation but morale is low with this just now. At the stage where I wish I never bought it and just kept my tidy vr6 but I know it'll pass once some progress is made and it'll be worth a good few qud once its done. Just want it running and on the road as it's still mot'd till august. Still waiting on docs from previous owner due to private plate going on retention so cant even tax it until then but its been about 3 weeks so hopefully not long to go. Also need to recieve docs confirming last charger rebuild as left them behind when I collected it. Apparently on a stage 3.
So upto where i'm at now I picked up a 1H rallye engine at the weekend. Just a head and block with low miles but has sat for a good whille.
Anyway got it on the engine stand and began ripping it apart. The head's fine, real good condition. Will just require stripped, cleaned and rebuilt. However, although the bores are really good in regards to wear as it's practically nothing, some moisture has got into one of them and suffered some corrosion or a build up of rust. This is what i'm left with after cleaning away all the brown mankyness and hitting it with wone wd40 and some 2000 grade wet and dry.
So more #1 piston/bore fun. Cars killing me lol. I'm not sure on the what the next best course of action with this or if it's needing the machine shop. I have a bore honing tool for the dril and various air tools that I could try. It is quite prominent when you run your finger over it.
I also had some movment of the same piston so removed it and found the ring to be sticking which after cleaning up seems to be fine. Some moisture got down there too.
Other than this everything else appears to be spot on but yet to do any measuring but it is obviously low miles so in general i'm happy aslong as I can resolve this bore issue quickly.
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