Christopher
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Yey! Now drive to eastbourne and see us before it breaks again!!  Hopefully thats it now buddy 
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Martin W
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Yey! Now drive to eastbourne and see us before it breaks again!! Hopefully thats it now buddy
let me get to the 500 milestone and ill come down for the day and do something 
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Martin W
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Good to here Martin hope you sort noise out looking forward to some meets as I'm only at bluewater defo pvs convoy
oh ok mate, what colour is your one? have i seen it?
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Darryl H
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Nice one Martin, glad you've got it working again!
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Christopher
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Yey! Now drive to eastbourne and see us before it breaks again!! Hopefully thats it now buddy
let me get to the 500 milestone and ill come down for the day and do something
 Yeyyyy!! Need to meet you haha!!
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Martin W
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30/12
been doing a bit more investigation into the tapping, i reckon the lifters are playing up. never played up in the other hundreds of times ive rebuild the engine though.
on idle it has a slight tapping noise which increases with revs. we dont think we lined the oil hole on the head to the hole on the lifter so we are hoping this could be the reason for the tapping?
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CORSAb GSi rep
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Very very nice car
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TheDane
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Oh my god Martin, this has been an up and down trip reading through your project. If it was a movie it would have been "Lord of the Arden blue GSI" 
Glad it has turned out to be a happy ending for you 
PS.
Did you get your intake hose with the MAF plug fitted, or have you fitted it yourself? As I need something like that when fitting my own powerbox to my x14xe.
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Darryl H
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Lifters can take a while to fill up if they've been left sitting dry for a while, has it got any better?
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Martin W
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Originally posted by TheDane
Oh my god Martin, this has been an up and down trip reading through your project. If it was a movie it would have been "Lord of the Arden blue GSI"
Glad it has turned out to be a happy ending for you
PS.
Did you get your intake hose with the MAF plug fitted, or have you fitted it yourself? As I need something like that when fitting my own powerbox to my x14xe.
Seems a bit better now , still smoking out the back though, but it's overfuelling so much I'm hoping its black and not blue smoke. Most likely gonna be selling it in the summer so just gonna look at a few things but fed up with spending fortunes on it again.
The maf hose is part of a breathing mask apparatus. You know some people have air canisters and have to breathe from them , that's the pipe the air travels through to the patient .
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Martin W
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Originally posted by Darryl H
Lifters can take a while to fill up if they've been left sitting dry for a while, has it got any better?
Still no change mate , 160 miles now it doesn't get worse when the car gets hot luckily. Will get round to having a look eventually I guess.
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Darryl H
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Ah that sucks, should have gone by now! Hope you sort it mate
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Christopher
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Why is it not just sorted for you bud  Hope it makes it to pvs because i need to see it again!! If not im driving to your house when my cars in
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daine
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Hi Martin, just been having a read!! when you refitted the followers mate, they didn't have to line up
with the oil ways in the head.
the followers rotate every time the cam presses them down.
when you took your followers out!, they should be submerged in new oil other wise they drain.
Drain your oil out Martin, put half hydraulic oil to half Diesel! making up to the correct amount for the
engine, run on tick over for half an hour, then drain.
replace/new oil and filter.
should now be quiet.
hope this helps mate.
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Martin W
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cheers daine, the heads been leaking oil out of the rocker cover nuts so i've phoned up the engine company who are gonna ship out a new head, which is a result all round. thanks for the advise!
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gav93
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sorted like i said to you on phone just argue your case you had warrenty on the head anyway !!
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Martin W
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Wasn't any need to argue just said ok we will send out a new head, didn't even ask for purchase details! Arrived today aswell!
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Martin W
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3/2
a couple of friends helped me swop the head over as i was fed up with pulling it apart and putting it back together all the time.
also changed the oil pump on the XE ready for its first track day next weekend
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gav93
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shall we start counting the trouble free days hopefully now old bean?
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Martin W
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yeah i give it 2
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gav93
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pmsl well we got the 'back up polo' at mine should be ready in 3 days haha
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Martin W
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all seems to be good so far, not one bit of smoke all day
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Darryl H
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3rd time lucky! Hope it sorts it out mate
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Martin W
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3rd time lucky! Hope it sorts it out mate
cheers darryl, its amazing just being able to drive it, get out and the exhaust still being clean!
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andy_mk3
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Holy shit mate. I opened the link in you sig as I'm currently rebuilding a 16XE myself and was getting some inspiration. Found myself reading through this whole nightmare you've had with it! That's insane what you've gone through with this engine, it's incredible that you stuck with it!
I really hope this has sorted it for you now at last! I look forward to seeing what power this engine is making too It's a stunning car and it looks immaculate in the bay
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