June 1st, 2017

Spend: £25.00

When I notified the DVLA about the engine change, I got a letter back saying that they could only accept an inspection of a garage on headed paper.  Visited a few garages today and found  V-A-G Tune Services just around the corner from work who was happy to oblige to that request.  Paperwork now off to the DVLA again, so fingers crossed!

June 11th, 2017

Spend: £0.00

Free tickets to see the GT3/4 racing at Silverstone today, courtesy of Pistonheads.  We stopped at McDonalds for breakfast and then when we tried to leave, the car would not turn over, as if the battery was flat.  A helpful passer by pushed started the car and off we went again.  Turned off the exit road at Silverstone and the car started to struggle a bit, and a loud knocking noise came from the engine.  Pulled over into a layby straight away, and called AutoAid recovery.

After all my hard work and great expense to get a faster car, I now seem to have just a very expensive door stop with suspected spun big end bearings.  1,000 miles is all it lasted...

June 15th, 2017

Spend: £0.00

Tinker day.  Put coolant reservoir on it's own mount, along with the oil catch tank so the scuttle can now be removed without tools.

June 18th, 2017

Spend: £0.00

Paul popped round with a compression test kit and it doesn't look good.  Cylinder 1: 100psi, 2: 50psi , 3: 40psi , 4: 70psi .  We took the cam cover off and went through the required bits that need to be taken off before the head can come off.  It's +30C in the shade in the garage, so I will start on it another day...  Bye bye summer.

June 24th, 2017

Spend: £0.00

Unbolted all the ancillaries off the engine so the head can be removed.

Last month: £  6139.80
This month: £    25.00
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Total:      £  6164.80