well boys 'm back..... i went to paul at engine advantages back in may... we had my 3 door on the rollers and experienced a few problems(none were pauls fault... it was my car..) it had been in storage for 10 years when i bought it, and had a new engine built for it which was in the car ,but never been run! we got the engine running(to a fashion) but it had issues.. The spec of the engine is.. low comp pocketed pistons. coopers rung head gasket(doh £420) t4 8 injector plenim(only running on 4 greys though) 500 cooler pace alloy rad etc etc.. the car was finished off and got running shortly after i got it.. it wouldn't fire up on the ecu which came with the car, so i borrowed one, still no joy.. tried another chip(greys etc..) and it fired up.. but ran like a sack of shit.... this was greatly improved by swapping the 3 bar map sensor for a 2 bar!!!! so now i have a lovely 3 door which runs but had issues. i got another chip from a1 rally sport which enabled the car to run on a 3 bar, but it still wouldnt boost properly etc.... this is where paul entered the equation... i took my car down to him and said i wanted him to sort out the running and give me around 400 bhp (greys and a t4? should be easy...) he sorted out some running issues.. which turned out to be injector caps causing it to splutter.. however, we couln't get big power, as it now developed another problem... at 4 -4.5k it started to missfire and even drop a cylinder doh.. paul spent over 5 hours on my car, swapping bits over trying to eliminate the problem..we tried plugs, leads, coil, ignition amp, blue sensor,brown sensor, another injector rail, another ecu, checked cam timing etc.. the conclusion he came to was it could be lifters(which i wasn't convinced...but after all he knows more than i do)so i paid my bill (VERY REASONABLE>> ONLY CHARGED ME FOR ABOUT 3 HOURS...considering i was there for over 5!!) and left... the car was much smoother and running about 280 bhp(which was not how much i wanted. but we coulnt extract any more due to this miss fire) i had another set of lifters fitted.. and there was no difference.. altough it was a lot quieter! i was running out of suggestions and options...(i was thinking wiring loom etc) we swapped the cams for standard items and this made it slower but the missfire was less.... DISASTER THEN STRUCK!!!!!!! the exhaust cam seized in the head and bent 6 valves.. so head off!! everthing was still fresh,, but we noticed it had standard valve springs(wondered why as it was meant to be such a high spec engine)on closer inspection we realised the head had been machined for double valve springs.. doh. and 2 inlet valves were not seated properly... so 8 exhaust valves.... 2 inlet valves... set of double valve springs... and head gasket later it was up and running she was a honey.. pulling hard in the gears.. cleanly to 6k with no missfire. so... back to paul with something to work with now!! i drove into his workshop with 270 bhp(but pulling nice and smooth with out any missfires) and drove out with 380 bhp and 355lbs torque.... the car is transformed and now a pleasure to drive, paul was in the right ball park with his lifters theory... we didn't think for a sec that it would be something as major as valves and springs!SO ITS A BIG UP TO PAUL FOR SPENDING TIME ON MY CAR AND HELPING ME GET THERE.... I WOULD RECCOMEND HIM TO PEOPLE AS HIS WORK WAS SPOT ON.. HE WAS HELPFULL AND HIS PRICES WERE VERY REASONABLE.. i'm glad that i didn't listen to some peoples comments on here . i can only talk as i find and i was WELL HAPPY. (sorry for the long boring essay.. but i thought it was all rellivent