Old Sep 20, 2020 | 10:34 PM
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Well, its been a while, how about an update!🤣

Alot has happened in the last two years, I had pneumonia and septicemia which almost killed me, I recovered, then got divorced which was even harder to deal with, but got through that. Then I had my work truck nicked along with all of my tools! And that's without the cosworth issues!! So here goes, the cossie.

So, we put the old girl back together and got her running, ready for mot, which passed with flying colours but, when it was up in the air I spotted a drip of water coming from behind the head. So of with the head to inspect, and we found that it had not only had zero work dont to it (despite the engine builder being adamant I was lying) I think you can see from the pics it hadn't been cleaned. I pushed a screwdriver through the alloy, and out came loads of gunky rad weld! Tried to get it welded back up but came to the conclusion that I needed to source a new head. So I searched. And searched, and then just as I was about to bite the bullet and buy one new from Burton, one came up on facebook, brand new, made in 2012, authentic made by cosworth head! So I bought that up right away. It was a bare head so I had a little machine work done porting and polishing in all the right places, and swapped everything over from the old head, replacing everything I needed to. Head back on the block, cams timed in, and all back together! I've since run her in, and now all thats needed is a re map and a polish up! Celebrated today by going to ford power live at brands and had a great day out. Here are some pics below
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