After a mornings thrashing around the Anglesey circuit two or three months ago, the turbo melted the wiring loom and I spluttered to a halt.
After an hour or so of chopping the wiring loom in half, shortening it and soldering it all back together again, we go it running. More than a few warning lights on the dashboard, but it was running and we managed to do a drive out around North Wales the next day and make it back to Essex the following day.
The car went back to RSP to re-wire the loom through the outer wing and well away from the heat. While it was there, the oil breathing problem that I had was cured with two new linked oil catch tanks. The car was delivered back to me and it was running fantastically, so damn quick :-D
Then we went to a static show at Hampshire Pageant. Just got onto boost coming out of a roundabout on the way home, changed into third and it started to missfire. Then all hell broke loose, a torrent of steam through the vented bonnet and I couldn't see bugger all, except the armco out of the drivers window. In my panic, I couldn't even find the wiper switch :roll:
After pulling onto the hard shoulder, phoning AA, talking to the very nice motorway traffic officer thingies and a fellow SOC member, Kriss offering to follow the breakdown truck to RSP and then take us all the way home to Essex, we sat on the armco and played eye-spy :roll:
Got recovered to RSP, which was only 22 miles away and managed to borrow Richards Toyota pick-up, so Kriss could then go straight home and not via a 300 mile detour. I can't thank you enough for your offer Kriss
The diagnosis is a split water hose underneath the plenum, blown headgasket, 7mm deep melted chanel in the cylinder head and damaged piston
So the engine is being rebuilt again with 6 new pistons and another head.
Should have left the bloody thing standard.
It has been on the road for just 3 weeks this year and done half a trackday :roll:
