Liam
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he got 1 now 
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Marc
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Why do people say the engines are crap and weak? The 1.8 for example is practically a race engine in a road car. Fair enough they suffer from head gasket failure, but in the correct car ie with sufficient cooling they will not fail.
Put an F1 engine in a road car and see how long it last before it over heats etc!
The engine isn't the best design wise, its far from a bad engine though.
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Corsa93
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I mentioned this in the other thread about the yellow MG ZR (banana) but.... I have a black one for sale
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=299019
[Edited on 29-07-2006 by Corsa93]
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tooolbox timmy
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Why do people say the engines are crap and weak? The 1.8 for example is practically a race engine in a road car. Fair enough they suffer from head gasket failure, but in the correct car ie with sufficient cooling they will not fail.
Put an F1 engine in a road car and see how long it last before it over heats etc!
The engine isn't the best design wise, its far from a bad engine though.
thats the point tho, they dont put them in the correct car and they fail. so there shit.
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Dean_W
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Why do people say the engines are crap and weak? The 1.8 for example is practically a race engine in a road car. Fair enough they suffer from head gasket failure, but in the correct car ie with sufficient cooling they will not fail.
This about head gaskets is a load of shoot. I had a Metro GTI with a 1.4 in it. I ran it for 6 months with a fucked water pump and a shit radiator. It got thrashed every day. It gave me no problems.
The 1.4 is a great little engine IMO.
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Ryan_G1
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Also if the HG has been done right the first time and the head skimmed, it wont keep going and going
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jamied
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I have to disagree here, I know about 5people and 3 have had the headgasket done, one was bout 45k, others were approx 20k!!!
but then again my mate has had a 1.4 its 51reg and only had gearbox problems and he rags hell out of it.
[Edited on 29-07-2006 by 306CORSA]
[Edited on 29-07-2006 by 306CORSA]
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Dean_W
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quote:
Originally posted by 306CORSA
I have to disagree here, I know about 5people and 3 have had the headgasket done, one was bout 45k, others were approx 20k!!!
but then again my mate has had a 1.4 its nu51 and only had gearbox problems and he rags hell out of it.
Mine was on an M plate. Maybe the newer engines are worse for this than the old ones?
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