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Old May 15, 2012 | 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by mintseries1
Nice to see this still about I owned this about 7-8 years ago. Guy called jay had it off me from stoke I think.
ah right cool. good to hear from a previous owner. i bought it off a lad in skelmersdale lancashire 2 years ago. obviously hadnt been looked after just before i got it. everything had been bodged up. could tell it used to be really looked after then went downhill. it had a non lsd gearbox that was whining and grinding when i bought it, had cheap pattern head gasket that blew with 14psi of boost between cylinder 3 and 4, exhaust manifold gasket was on back to front covering half the ports lol, someone had disconnected amal valve and fitted a bleed valve and someone had fitted cosworth 4x4 discs on sierra hubs with the standard calipers spaced out and 10mm thick spacers on the wheels (seriously terrible judder on braking) so its now on new standard calipers, mintex 1144 pads and ebc 260mm discs. the rings were poorly when i bought it only found out late last year after leak down test (always wondered why it kept bursting coolant hoses) so ive got a 1.9 bottom end to go in and its still got the power engineering stage 3 head and cam. goes very well with just a bar of boost
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