I am paying over 2k. I am happy with that. I am not mechanically minded enough to take out and overhaul an engine so I would rather have someone that knows what they are doing do the job and pay for that. Work comes with a warranty and rolling road test. As I mentioned before I am only an hour away if anything goes wrong. I have seen the work he has done and the work he is doing so am happy to pay. There was another Mk2 in, and a Lotus Elan waiting. I was in contact with TSR and they were quoting £3000+ for a Cadwell 16v fitted. I'm lucky, I have spare cash to spend. The car is pretty much perfect. The only thing left to do was sort the engine. Yes I know 164000 miles isn't high mileage but head gasket was on it's way out anyway. I could have just had the head tuned and do the bottom end at a later date, but that would mean having to pay to have engine removed again so I thought get it all done at once. I plan on visiting when engine is being re-built and I will ask Rob to do a write up of the work he's done. That will be something else to put in my huge folder of paperwork for the car.
