A mate of mine rings me up this week saying they think there's a problem with their Golf GTi as it's not running properly, and can I have a look at it for them...needless to say I found some problems with no.1 and no.3 cylinders...





...the moral of the story is: don't rag the crap out of your car 24/7 with no oil or water in it as it will break!

The funniest thing was seeing exhaust fumes coming out of the header tank - never seen that before! That was one proper fooked head gasket

The head was mashed too due to the piston breaking up and damaging the valves and seats etc. so it looks like engine out next week and a 16v conversion