After a successful day at yoof's unit getting the ppp frame done i drove back and was 40 miles from home and lost power, plume of smoke from the rear, and engine cut out quickly. So pulled over, started it up and it was running ruff as fook. Called the mighty AA and while they were on the way me and my mate took the plugs out. 1,2 and 4 were a little black but no3 was oily suggesting a fried ring or melted piston. My money was on the piston as the power loss was similar to my mate who melted his piston.
Today we were taking apart the engine and i thought lets take the injectors out to see if they are spraying ok. We turned the crank over by hand and they were all fine, so we knew it wasn't a problem. After a lot of hassle with that stupid plastic timing belt cover we got the head off. And found this......
There is damage to the block and it will be easier to get a bottom end. I would like to get forged pistons as that was the plan if it was only the rings that had gone but that didnt happen.
However the fuelling is what i think has caused this. Time for a bottom end.
But also the big valve head goes on too.
