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Mmm, I say VTS rims painted anthracite, or the cyclones left silver.

Cyclones

Your car suited being on the beach yesterday, think it had something to do with the yellow lol

vts!

~Nice car Gary. Lovely colour too. The only problem with the colour is the local plod. I had the same problem when I had a yellow car. Take it easy or you'll soon be pin pointed out as a 'known car'.
Looking forward to seeing your mods. I'll also see you at the next meet.

my car is officially broke. was driving it all day today and then started it up after a good clean and its all jerky and judery and not as quick as it was!

took it to a garage and they said it could just be a spark plug thats broke or a coil pack and its only firing on 3 cylinders! i duno what im looking for to do it myself so ive gota take it to a garage, im well and truly pi33ed off!

Sounds like water in the spark plugs mate, have you cleaned or steam cleaned your engine?

Give it time to dry an it'll be fine

yeah i have cleaned it you c0ck but it cant be that can it?
wouldnt the heat off the engine dry em out pretty quikly?

Nah, i think its gotta evaporate or something. If it doesnt work in the morning i'll be very suprised!

I agree with Ad. Itll clear in a while. I had a mate hu got a GTi and in his first week it broke very similarly. Its like they dont like bein ragged. Check the electrical connections to the sensors and plugs. He had a torn connection to somethin forcin 1 cylinder not to fire resulting in a backfire so violent it blew the bolts from the manifold/cat joint

It's water in the electrics (Spark or ignition). I did the same on my first Lotus and it didn't dried out for about two days. That was the winter though. In the end I sprayed everything in WD40 and it did the trick

He took the engine cover off before to have a look at the plugs. 2nd one looks a bit knackered, so hopefully itll be okay once theyre all replaced

yeah coil pack aswel is bust i think so ill be geting one of them,. the guy down the road is fixing it for me, he's a mechanic from home so itll be in safe hands plus i dont have to walk miles to get home and pick it up!

yeah its fappin expensive! worst thing is it wernt even me who snapped the ****in thing! not even fixed yet im seriuosly anoyed

Despite the small setback Gary this is gonna be a sweet motor. I was seriously lookin at gettin one before my civic. The initial ideas you have for it sound great too.
I'm jealous of the speed you've got with this!When its back & runnin properly maybe take me for a little spin!!??