Hmm, this one is going to make getting to TOTB a little on the difficult side.

We were setting Robs car up last night on a private test track (called the M5 )
And fook me it was flying, there is no reason for any astra to be going that quick, lol


Anyway, pulled off the motorway and as he dipped the clutch at the roundabout to come to a stop the engine cut out.
Hmm, "strange" we both thought, as there was no hint the engine wasnt running fine (quote the opposite in fact)

He went to restart it and you could here what sounded like the starter spinning but not the engine turning over.

We pushed it down to a layby and got it half up on a curb so that we could get underneath it, and took the cover off between the box and the engine so that we could see the flywheel, as we rocked it back and forward in 6th gear we could see the flywheel moving but the cambelt end of the engine was doing nothing, the flywheel though was still visibly attached to the crank (no loose bolts poking half out or anything).

Sadly ive had to go into work today as we've got a bit of an emergency on here, so Rob is now on his own today trying to get a new crank into it by this evening, worse still he is only allowed to work at the workshop till 6PM at night (its in the lease), so its not even like he can pull an all nighter on it if he wants to.

Fingers crossed for him but its not looking good for us running at TOTB now