Cheaper to buy a healthy rebuild engine
Keep selling it baby
haha I am tempted, but no...
Yoofs right, the chances are buying another engine is easyer/cheaper and then you have a spare as well.
I would be wanting to see the spark plugs you took out before fitting the new ones. Any det damage or sign of running lean?
I wouldnt worry about piston weights too much, as long as its the same brand as the rest. These things dont rev very high anyway.
Did it make a sound like a machine gun before it died? If not then its probably been gradually dieing of det for a while, rather than a sudden change in mixture/timing.
Do all the cylinders have major det marks? If so then its a timing/chip fault. If its just a select few then its down to injectors I suppose. Obviously the cylinders that run hottest will be prone to det first (the middle two) although I wouldnt be surprised if the ECU retarded the timing slightly on the middle two cylinders to compensate anyway.
Was it overheating at all at the time of the damage?
I don't want or need a spare haha. As much as I am a petrol head and I'm one for power coming before looks and all that jazz I just want my G running sweet as fook, I'm happy with the power and don't want to spend any more on performance. If I do more I'll spend a lot off the time paying someone to sort it out for me. Most off you bois enjoy spending your weekends under the hood fixing it, tweaking it, playing with it and then driving it. I wish I had that gift but I dont and certainly wont for a while, when my G's running I do 300 miles easy in it on weekend. I am saying this in a nice way btw because sometimes i can get ready as blunt and mardy
I just want it as it is running perfect, so I can enjoy it, keep it and then move onto the Jap metal dream
I changed back to standard Bosch ones before melted piston and it was deffo running lean!
We weren't worrying about weight too much tbh
That's a good word for it, my comparison was a scooby... but deffo a machine gun, yes!
I'm not sure but I can get that checked... Right OK, more knowledge, what I like to read, learn and take in
No not at all, it did run to about 90 whilst i was sat, but that was about 45 mins before this happened on motor way and it had cooled right down after i moved from sat location after 10 mins and was normal at time of this taking place