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More progress today, finally got the cambelt and Dephaser job done.
The Dephaser was noisey and cambelt overdue, I'd bought 197 cams while back but circumstances meant wasn't in a position to time and map them. As such decided I'd change the belts and Dephaser and get another year out the car...
The cam sensor oil seal has been leaking for a while, common fault on these engines, the phase 1 is the same and did the track car one last year.
It was annoying me everytime I serviced the car seeing oil all over the cam cover.
So today I replaced the offending seal for a new gen ren one. I...
Any specialist insurer should be able to offer a low mileage discount etc.
Also of the cars are fairly standard, try admiral multicar as they can sometimes come up trumps for more than one vehicle on a single policy with one being the daily and one on reduced mileage. Limited mods allowed though.
saw a ratty evo 4 tonight actually, blowing oil all over the place, was still absolutely awesome, had a try at playing in my crap old saab but he still naffed off!lol!
my place is littered with cars I've got attached to and then not used and lost interest. by that time they too knackered to sell, flol
mk1 turbo - now a shell that's just full of junk and rotting
phase 1 172 - nearly finished it then got it stuck on back of drive so just full of bits been...