drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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My exhaust is shagged somehwere (either cat or silencer, and this is going to be fixed tomorrow morn). I was taking my mate out for a quick drive so he could hear the noise and see what the problem was, and i could hear air pissing out of somewhere. (along with the rattle, so i asumed they were related - and possibly are) then i noticed a huge loss of power (about 5 seconds to get from 40 to 50 in a 2.0 16v  )Pulled in at my dads place to have a look to see if there was anything obviously wrong, the engine was just idling on his drive when steam started coming out of the engine bay.  Didnt get a proper chance to look what happened, but the steam looked like it might have been coming from the head, so do you reckon this iis a fucked head gasket? Hope its nothing more serious than that, but its just one problem after another at the moment!
EDIT - taken swear word out of title
[Edited on 26-06-2004 by drunkenfool]
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broster
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seems like youve had no end of probs with that 2.0ltr mate! has it ever worked properly?!
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drunkenfool
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it did for about 3 weeks Had the dizzy and knock sensor replaced today too, so now there are no error codes, and i knew the exhaust needed sorting, but now this too 
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Mattb
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your head gasket may be fcuk'd, that would explain your high water pressure
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broster
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3weeks, was that in one period of the total time it was working for! sounds unlucky, but if the heads gotta come off, may aswell get it all ported and polished....................then mayaswell get cams and verniers to make use of the new head work..............and then unichip...................lol, damn this is what the garage said to me lol! no wonder my engine cost so much!
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drunkenfool
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Im getting a 4-1 manifold fitted, but cant afford to get any headwork done apart from the necessary.
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broster
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i couldnt afford any of my engine work lol! just managed to scrape the money together lol! man that was a hard month!
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drunkenfool
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head gasket i think is fine! The fan switch stopped working, causing the engine to overheat, making the steam. The steam inside the engine bay obviously took some of the oily grime with it, which i thought at the time was a proper water/oil mix coming out. Cat was fucked, completely disintegrated, so ive got a decat on there now and its running a lot better. Codes from the knock sensor and dizzy are still showing on the ECu though after replacing both, so now we have to look at other solutions. :S Can you get uprated silencers though? Cos its far too loud with no cat now!
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Davido
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least ur still laughing mate good attitude 
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drunkenfool
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its the only way to be with all thats happened! Off to the posh cocktail bar now for my mums 50th, will be back later!
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