Help! Where can I find an engine?!

Cutz · Post by **Cutz** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 9:49 pm

Jamie P 2013 wrote:Put a h22 in it

everything's better with a H22 in it

becca · Post by **becca** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 10:41 pm

Bruce thinks that when the distributor blew it may have knocked everything out of sync and caused a very small crack then - hence the tapping, which started after we replaced it, and it's probably sheer luck that it's lasted so long since then as it easily does a few hundred miles a week.

MAY have sourced a replacement though from Holland but I won't get it til the end of the month if I go with it. Got a lot of thinking to do now... It'd be great to just have something economical but I just hate the feeling of being driven rather than driving. I detest power steering too, the non-feeling you get going round a corner, to me power steering usually just feels like serious understeer and freaks me out

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:12 pm

did you look at the link I posted? @becca

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:13 pm

So that's how it looked when you dropped the sump? One of the big ends gone walkies?

Has it scored the crank journal or bore?

If not, could you not just get a replacement con rod and slap that in?

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:14 pm

mercutio wrote:did you look at the link I posted? @becca

She knows you too well to do that merc...

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:15 pm

wurlycorner wrote:
mercutio wrote:did you look at the link I posted? @becca
She knows you too well to do that merc...

this time it wasn't to that site you introduced me to

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:16 pm

Oh God, that's worse then... A site that Phil or Luke introduced you to?

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:28 pm

nope

Lisa

Post by **BlackMwack** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:44 pm

She definitely shouldn't look then

becca · Post by **becca** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 12:06 pm

Ok so... Bruce is taking me to look at a new car today that he wants to buy me. I'm not sure how I feel about it because it's really my responsibility to deal with... I always complain that he never gets me gifts (I was given a note one christmas a few years back that was an IOU for coilovers but I'm still waiting!) but when he now wants to get me something I kind of feel guilty and like I don't deserve it

but we'll see what happens eh.

If it goes ahead, then the plan B with the spareodeck is pretty interesting... Well a good friend has a very cheap SR20DE spare... And the spareo may end up going sideways in a few years time when other projects are out of the way