having just bought a house the car was unfortunately not the top of the list for financial outlay so I cleard all the rubbish out of the garage put the car in there pulled the head of to find a big melted mess, I then closed the garage door and left the car there for about a year!

I started looking at the car again in about august 2005 pulled the rest of the engine out and stripped it down ready for some attention.



I send the block crank and head to be bored ground and re built, it turned out the head had 8 bent exhaust valves and absolutely knackered guides on account of the bent valves, hence why it used a bit of oil

after receiving the bits back and having my wallet raped by woodford for a load of other bits I re built the engine myself








as part of the build the engine was ballanced and I fitted all arp bolts in the bottom end and group A gasket with standard bolts, the head and inlet manifold where also lightly ported by me under the guidence of someone who knows what there doing.