after a lot of grief with an engine i brought for £1600 which lasted all of 1 mile and the person i brought it off saying not his problem
i've now decided to go the route i should have gone in the first place and hand the lot over to tremona garage to rebulit the hole engine
all the engine work will be carried out by them and work done as they advise . then i will have a solid 330bhp hoping nearer to 350bhp engine
they are top blokes at tremona and the level of work and quality is %100

 

I would go another route first.Level the bastard you bought it off.

 

[quote="croppy"]after a lot of grief with an engine i brought for £1600 which lasted all of 1 mile and the person i brought it off saying not his problem

what went on the engine then?
did you buy it complete and just drop it in?

 

Unless its a trader its ALWAYS "Sold as seen"

Got no comeback, and anyway he 'may' not have known

 

was a trader on here but not going to get in to all that bitchin
turbo blow'd up and we then found out it had a cracked in the block when the new turbo was fitted we changed the oil as you do and noticed water in the oil.
i'm looking at way's ov sorcing my money back through small claims court

 

when the sump was removed the oil pick up pipe was covered in so much shit you wouldn't ov belived it there was a dead beattle in the sump to con rods where in the wrong way round and all bearins had picked up total mess
this was an engine that had spose to ov done all ov 1200 miles
think it was rebulit by cowboys in they barn in a sand storm

 

omg!

 

photo's ov old sh!tty engine soon so you can all see how i was bump'd of £1600

 

great would be interested to see them.

 

not sure if these will work i have got plenty moreknackerd

 

hmmmm. the only way that those bearings have done 1200 miles is either a) the bolts were done up miles to tight or b) the journals were put back in the wrong order or the wrong way round.

 

some more pics off my dud engine

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the start of a new begining my brand new 200 block
sorry but pic a little on the large side

 

just brought a group a rally spec head new and unused off ebay wicked spec
and some ford motor sport racing low comp pistons from ian howells (racetek)
sould be a very good spec when done

 

sounds good

 

will post some pic on sat going to build the head up then

 

None of the pictues work, sound like a bad job though i wouldn't mind but putting engines together is easy when you know how, it must have been a proper cowboy

 

yeh a proper cowboy and he's a passion ford trader as well
those racing pistons have a c/r of 6.8-1

 

to be fair he brought the engine already built and sold it on altho he wont take responsability for it i know it was sold with no warrenty but 0.1 ov a mile takes the piss a bit and the block must ov been crack when it was sold to me

 

I'm dying to see these pics mate, could you mail them to me?

 

what ones m8 ov the knacked engine or all my new goodie bits

 

the knackered one mate, would also be interested to know who you got it off but it's up to you if you wanna tell me