Originally Posted by
rickbartlett
just before xmas my wiring loom had loads of problems with melting wires and blowing fuses and things not working so over last 5 weeks ive slowly put a new loom in,new payen headgasket,new turbo etc.
got it all up and running,but its smoking quite bad so just did a comp test its got 90, 100, 125, 50 in the cylinders. and this bottom end has only done 3k miles


WTF has happened to it, how did the rings get fried so quickly??
Or is the head/block warped, or even the HG gone already, maybe cracked ring lands?
Feel for you mate!!