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They're plastic. They fatigue and break up.
Also, there's no way they managed to get the belt around the bottom pulley, so they'll have undone it. Which will have moved the crank without the cams.
I'm based in Glastonbury, if you haven't already had it recovered you can get it recovered under a break down policy, as most higher policy's have the choice to take it to a garage of your choice
Depends who you go to, I don't use a pin extractor etc as for me it's not worth the money. Which is why what Carl has said is correct. As people like myself and other people who use genuine Diagnostics rather than stuff like autotech need To have the correct bin number to get the correct...
To stay NA, and produce decent power (a genuine and reliable ~220bhp/180lb-ft) you're looking upwards of 8k. Spend 2k on suspension and leave it, there's engines just don't respond to NA.
So new shell has been collected...
Pictures stolen shamelessly from one of @Porkie's threads.
Many thanks to @Richy182. for the help/company, @BIGASH for the help loading it and of course telling me it was for sale :)
Kinda in 2 minds what to do, whether to just reshell the grey one into...
Lol.
Risk you take without fitting forged rods, It seems like boost spike when it went, spooked then it went, nothing had changed since the previous few runs.
Really unlucky though, was going so well before that.
I've got a couple of ideas, stuff like remote pedal box and mounting the seat a bit further back for weight distribution, but I need to work it out. But it may just be a straight swap.
Lol! It's taken me a long time to decide to scrap the shell, but after having some rediculous quotes for sill replacement I had no other option, and porkies shell coming up at the right time was a no brainer