had the camera out with me so thaught i'd have a wee picture whoring session

hope you like the pics?

this is how it stood for all of a week til i took it off the road as we baught abit of a bummer:(

after changing the exhaust i started noticing the car was using a load of oil (4ltr's in 2days) and the blowing reek out the exhaust kinda drew my attention to it also,

so came to the conclusion that we had infact baught a pile of crap i was'nt happy that i'd let my gaurd down and let my heart rule my head on the day we baught it, so sucking up my man pride and thaught (fuck it) i got stuck right in about it.

here is where the story really started for this polo.

started stripping the cams off:

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head off:

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when the head was off you could see that the valve stems where weeping oil but i did'nt think it was all that bad enough the be causing the reek that i was seeing, so sent the head away to be cleaned up, with new stem seals and some porting and polishing of the ports, and a good bath also.

just whilst it was off you see :) (don't think the wife was too happy

but anyways got it back a week later, and it looked like this:

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then came the part i was dreading on building it back up and turning it over the reek remained :(

i was gutted at this point because i thaught i'd just get the head sorted out and boom job would be a good un, but nope was'nt ment to be :(

so off the head came again to change the piston rings and whilst i was there i changed the big end shells so i would'nt come across anymore problems when built back up this time,

and also borrowed a hone to sort out the bottom end so the pistons bedded in properly,

i don't have any photo's of this as i was far to much covered in oil, plus i was getting abit pee'd off at the car at this point.

but as iwas there i thaught it would be rude not to get a spare flywheel i had just collected lightened :) so here it was:

from a very wieghty 6.5kg's standard

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down to a very decent 4.5kg's :)

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then a few days later i had it fully built back up and timed up perfect ready for the running in period,in this time i was suposed to be attending a rolling road day that eck had planned for the fife lot :) but having just built the polo back up i did'nt want to risk it just yet so played it safe.

so i also treated the polo to a new induction kits for being a pain in my arse for te whole time it took me to finish her a bmc cda

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so there we have it all fixed and running great and she is a fair bit quicker now than she was and i'm glad she's smoke free and running great

thanks for reading guys hopefully there will be more to come ie: remap and cams

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nice job buddy,

I have rebuild the gti engine last week to :)

fingers cross that everything else will work fine.