I bought my RS about 4 months ago and after 3 days it broke down and i had to have it towed to work, after taking the head off the car i saw one of the rockers had come off, it was then clear that the previous owner had replaced the lifters and accidently left one of the old ones in the head it had flicked up and caught in the cam popping the rocker and bolt and chewing up my cam!
I did a leak down test and there was also some damage to the pistons/rings from another time and i decided to just strip it completely and start again, the cylinders had to be bored +1mm and i have had the head skimmed, valves cut and crank reground.

this is the car when it was running





this is the car as it is now



started to buy parts

JE custom forged pistons





AFR gauge



H section steel rods



Turbo Technics stage 2 T3



rebuilt head, Kent cam, new springs, lifters, gas flowed, seats recut, helicoiled



new main bearings, big ends and thrust washers, sized to reground crank



full roose boost, coolant and ancillary hoses, chrome crossover pipe, forge dump valve, bailey oil seperator, pace intercooler



cleaned and painted head, inlet throttle body, block etc



red magnecor leads



the car already has a bayjoo chip, scorpion system, k&n etc, it should be nice and clean when its done the body is in really ncie condition, no rust etc and im hoping to be pushing 200-210 bhp, its starting to come together just been quite hard when i lost it after so little time and im only 20 it was my first RS.
i will update as it goes
joe