Ah well, found another one, paying £350 this time but it's got 8K less miles on it, so swings and roundabouts i suppose!

The bar-stewards sold it............ Back to the drawing board, can't explain how truly ****** off i am! :lol:

Well on the 1.4/1.6 sport the XE1 fits on the standard mounts but think for eg the 1.0 & 1.2 all you gotta change is the driver side mount i think.

I got a lady contact in Aberdare, the same lady who did the bodywork on my car, she's gona give the engine a FULL service inc timing belt, fan belt etc and installing it = £200

So to say im chuffed is an understatement :D

awesome news mate, just out of interest whoes doing it for you, how much and what mounts etc to they fit on?

I found it on:

www.carsparefinder.co.uk

3 companies responded but only one of them actually ang me up asking if it was competitive and so on! Their price was in the middle but chose them because they seemed interested in business!

That sounds brilliant! :thumbs:

Where did you manage to get that from? I ended up paying more than that to get my engine fixed, would have much rathered a new engine like you though!!

Sounds like you got yourself a really good deal though fair play!

Fingers crossed 2weeks TOPS! Thats including a full service of the engine and new belts etc.

Any date for that yet?

well done buddy :thumbs: get it fitted for the rr day

Banged a deposit on a full engine just now.

For literally EVERYTHING (except gearbox and shafts) am gona be paying £300 including delivery and VAT so £300 all out, mega chuffed with that :D

1.8 power soon to be :thumbs:

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Well fingers crossed i shall be having my "dads car" to borrow, when i do, i'll show some pics of it, but til then ;)

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Sorry to hear that Steve :(

Any ideas about when it'll be back on the road with a new engine? Have you got other transport to get about in at the moment, or you having to use good old public transport?

Lol well fingers crossed you will catch it before it does what mine did before it wouldn't start "bang bang bang crunch *cut-out* **CRY** " lol

Thats shite mate!
Hope that you manage to get the new engine in soon!

Mine is going in tomorrow morning with a suspect slipped cambelt!
So hopefully mine is repairable!

buggered otherwise! lol

Well that's it, the cars nackered.

It driven into the garage to diagnose a mild misfire, and was towed out by THEAA with a broke gugion pin and collapsed con-rod and i guess it's going to the great scrapyard in the sky now due to the times being hard and that :(

Let's take a moment:


Oh woe is me.......................................













































Well the engine is going to the sky anyway, the car however will be staying here with me where i will (eventually) be getting round to sticking a X18XE1 init with if plans go2 plan aswell, the car may look "slightly" different again as got a few bits :thumbs:

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