stan_the_man
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Registered: 14th Feb 07
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If you've had the pleasure of working on these you will know how badly screwed together they are.
The amount ive dismantled where the speakers arent screwed in at all is daft!
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Eck
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Location: Lundin Links, Fife
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Originally posted by MarkSport
I've had more than enough k series and not had one blow up, my dad has had plenty of them too and neither have they gone bang. i believe they're branded a shit engine because of the head gasket issues but that only happened due to them having aluminium heads. driven properly they have no issues.
Again, the few you and your dad have had don't account for the many thousands that have fucked up. You don't know that they weren't maintained properly. Didn't one of yours screw up anyway? 
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MarkSport
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I bought one broken, fitted a new inlet manifold gasket and sold it for a profit.
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corsacalvin
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lool
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8vcorsa
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Originally posted by corsacalvin
as any 1 had or drivin 1 off these? whats the engines like on them? as some 1 told me that not a mg/rover engine in them cud be wrong tho
2 of my mates have zr's and they still going and i know some1 thats got a rover 216 and thats idestrucktable he has propper abused it done burnouts in it hit limiter loads of times and its still alive and iv just bought a rover 25
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Brett
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quote:
Originally posted by Eck
Didn't one of yours screw up anyway?
I'm sure it went on him Mark's telling porkies as usual.
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MarkSport
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quote:
Originally posted by loafofbrett
quote:
Originally posted by Eck
Didn't one of yours screw up anyway?
I'm sure it went on him Mark's telling porkies as usual.
well you're wrong!
my coupe was fine, my first mg zs 120+ was fine (sold it to get a work van)
second one as said above had a hole in a valve, fixed it and made £500 profit
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whitter45
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the k series engine is a good engine with the head being the design flaw
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Eck
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quote:
Originally posted by loafofbrett
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Originally posted by Eck
Didn't one of yours screw up anyway?
I'm sure it went on him Mark's telling porkies as usual.
I was thinking that at the time Mark, either you broke it, or your dad screwed up with a repair or something?
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sand-eel
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Registered: 15th Mar 07
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quote:
Originally posted by MarkSport
UPDATE TIME:
Well as most of you will know.this car has been an absolute badger to me.I changed the head gasket a day after i bought it and my dad timed it up wrong bending 4 valves.changed them and it ran lumpy.bought a 2nd head to find it was the early model so had my dads old one.Its now running but still lumpy due to the fact i think the valve on this is slightly bent so after a compression test later i will know what the crack is
Busted?
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MarkSport
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Not really, I changed all that for no reason in the end as said above the valve had a hole in it.
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Eck
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Likely tale
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sand-eel
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quote:
Originally posted by MarkSport
oh and Hg was showing signs 
Busted again?
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Eck
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richc
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sand-eel
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Thats weird how the image has gone 
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Eck
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Imagine is still there on my screen And saved just incase 
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sand-eel
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Take it imagine = image 
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Eck
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Yes, damn phone did that for some odd reason  Cba changing it now!
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jase77
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Registered: 17th May 09
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people slate these cars because of headgasket failure but once they are fixed not much goes wrong with them. the worse car i no of for headgaskets is a vauxhall's xe engine
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Eck
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
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Then you need to behave yourself Porous heads are nowhere near as bad as the K series rep.
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jase77
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yes k series are shit for headgaskets but once fixed they are reliable. and every person i know who has had a corsa has at to replace a headgasket. i have owned both these cars have you ?
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Eck
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Oh shit, that means I'm wrong I've had two XE's and haven't had to replace a HG, nor do I know anyone? If you replace it with a standard head gasket it will be the same, don't you mean a Land Rover HG?
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jase77
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Registered: 17th May 09
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yes the double layer headgasket. people slate these cars and have never even owned one
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Eck
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Aye, so you have to modify the engine to make it reliable. Shit design in the first place?
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