Seeing as my garage is finally finished and usable, its time to crack on and get this started
Got the top part of the engine stripped down, air con rad removed along with the ARB, ready to come straight out the front
Rear passenger side cylinder is leaking, badly. Pretty sure the HG is toast. On the plus side, there was no chunks of metal when i drained the oil!
Stripped off the valve covers to retrieve coolant pipe and remove turbo pipes
Noticed that one of the O2 sensor wires were broken
And shes out
Now down to the engine.
Not done a compression test and not checked the plugs yet but seeing the leakage from the head, i'm certain at the very least the head is knackered. So, what do i do next?
Send engine off to Abbey, have a full strip down and rebuild and check everything is OK with it, possibly chuck a set of cams in it while its open
cut my losses with this engine and sell it, fit the turbo kit to my good working engine that's currently in my car
I'm leaning more towards option 2 and just running it at 400 hp instead of 500 hp