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ahh man what a f**king mess that is, in hindsight i gues you should have just left it unless all this work is worth 10kg.
Cant you find another shell to put the engine and bits in lol.
Your best bet is to take the cumper off smooth it over and spray it, or just be a pikey like me and pinch the grommits out of the seats at work, fitted perfectly lol
Sound like you have a bit of an attitude problem to me, don't "kick off" just take it easy and explain the facts. It you put across some decent points they will turn red and just give in. Been there before similar situation with Renault in New Milton.
I'm ditching the PCV system in my car asap so I can actually tell if I have a problem with the seals or not, obviously you will always get a small amount of oil weeping past the seals in a healthy turbo but it makes diagnosis a bit difficult when the breather throws oil everywhere in the inlet.
I seem to get a lot more oil being pushed out the crankcase brather on my turbo car than I have on any NA car maybe they are more prone to it for some reason or another.
you have tried just twisting if off with pliers? remember once the head is removed there is no tension in it so it should come out fairly easily.
edit: pretty much what izzimushrooman said.
I'm pretty sure the fella isnt talking table salt
Add some water softner salt and use a pressure washer as suggested I do this and it makes it very bubbly!
The pipe looks like the crankcase breather to me
Ohh just realised you can enlargen the image, Ok maybe thats where the servo vac goes been a while since i worked on theses engines!
Milteks are terrible for the welds cracking in general, although they from what I heard have good customer service ie they will replace it no questions asked.
Sounds like immobiliser problem to me
This sounds really daft but back when I had my ph1 1.4 I could press the key in really hard and turn it and it would disable the immobiliser wher as turning it normally would leave it active (really odd i know but might be worth a shot!)
The car started...
I had a friend who had an accord Type grampR when I had my 182 I'd say the accord was slightly faster in a straight line but the clio once on some decent springs and had the geometry (sp??) set up etc.. will handle better. (and they look better IMO too :))