well found out yesterday that my head gasket has been on its way out for almost a year. i asked a few of m8s why it was doing this and that and they didnt know, so i just ignored it, until yesterday. i had to help my m8 jumpstart his car and one of my other m8s noticed that steam was coming out of my oil breather and under the oil cap on the rocker cover, was orange foamy stuff, ahhhhhhhh he said, head gasket.
great, but i said its been like that for ages, but only recently has been losing quite a bit of water. well apparently its going to go soon then!
sooo, gunna drop another 1.4 AEX in there for now, that should be a straight forward swap. Still looking at putting a better engine in though, not sure what yet. I've been through so many different engine ideas
ohh thanks to rmachines for basically answering every Q, my PM inbox is like a conversion guide lol
Well onto other news and got new tyres coming for my Azevs, thinner ones, 195's so hopefully that will reduce a bit of rub. if not, then roll the arches.
now, the car has quite bad paintwork/bodywork tbh. there are a couple dents and both rear quarters are sh!te. minimal rust though, i mean i havent found any major rust, which is good news. sooo a respray is in the cards, but a full respray in original color isnt really worth the hassle or the money, sooooo, rattle can matt paint it is then!
Was thinking a simple black or camo green. dont want to do matt yellow or blue or red really. But respraying it like this means i dont need to worry about scratches, etc, as its sooo easy to touch up, even a dent you can fill, prime then just spray, dont need to worry about it.
i might have a go at smoothing bumpers, etc too in the process of doing this. will look phat with smoothed body, the wide offset azevs in matt black or camo green. especially awesome if it had a 1.8t mmmmmmmmmm
its only a 1.4 cl, and i was going to run it into the ground anyway, so lets have fun on the way down!!!!!
