Well after blowing the engine on my last saph i threw in the towel, sold it and lasted a pathetic 6 months before buying another one. have to come to terms with the fact i love cossies

T38
CP Low comp pistons (7.5:1)
Long studded 200 block
Seimens 83lb
ZF 2 way diff
Gaz Coilovers
blah blah







Collected the car and it wasnt holding charge so after a couple bump starts on the way to my missus in north london i got the RAC out the next morning and he spotted an earth lead left off the battery terminal after previous owner had trickle charged it





Got on my way and enjoyed a couple days boosting. this all came to an end as it died on full boost in 3rd. Best call the RAC again



Kitchen Devil and Rob_RS came over and after a compression test was done we found no compression on number 3. so no choice but to start the strip down



Head off and was greeted by this





Either the people who built the engine or the previous owner had skimmed the head passed the limit. causing the head to get too hot, expanding, and dropping a valve seat. luckily the piston fired the bits of valve seat straight into the head and managed not to score the bores at all.

So i need a new piston. new head. and may aswell refresh the other shells whilst im at it. here we go again

The bay had all this horrid wax stuff so ive stripped all that off and the paint underneath aint half bad still





Just need to rent an engine crane then i can get the fucker out and start rebuilding!