Timing belt snapped - energy engine replacement?

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

swap heads! where is wigan? sorry i only got a c in geography Rolling Eyes

Level 6 User Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 130

About 600 miles away from you Laughing

Right between Manchester and Liverpool Cool

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

ah not far, i traveled to scotland a week after passing my test lol, its about 200 miles Razz

but anyway, swap the heads! ive got msn if you want to know anything else, im pretty much always on it lol

Level 6 User Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 130

This is chris, i wish people would just opt for easy approach.

Scrap it! and buy a new one, alot less hastle if not my true opinion is rip out the entire lump, go alittle bigger in size 1.4 so its faster, let me hammer it then sell it on.... lol

As one careful lady owner, never been smashed crashed or bashed Smile

driven and thashed by alcoholic boyfriend at the weekends.

Site Subscriber Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 2281

Option A - getting a second hand cylinder head and swapping it over is cheapest. Option B is slightly more expensive but you get a nice power gain as well from doing it.

Cost for parts and labour for C would be too dear.

And I gather you don't want to scrap it do you?

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you are correct in the fact that irn bru is best from a Bars bottle. You get 20p back on the bottle as well!

Level 6 User Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 130

(This is Nicola)

I've only found one shop in Wigan that sells it in glass bottles, 90p for 1l and he sells out really quickly Rolling Eyes

dearer than bloody petrol though!

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up here its 750ml glass bottle.s about 70p then 20 p back when you hand the bottle back.

Level 6 User Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 130

Yeah we get the 20p back too. The only thing is the shops miles away and at one time I had 14 bottles waiting to go back to the shop Laughing

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I used to save them for petrol, went down with 8 quids worth once.

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

umm, one of the high lights of the bsm that irn bru

Level 6 User Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 130

Chris H wrote:

I used to save them for petrol, went down with 8 quids worth once.

Level 6 User Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 130

I remember when I was a wee girl Wink

visiting my aunties and uncles in Cumbernauld (My dad's side of our family all live up in Glasgow & surrounding) and going round the 'estate' (Is cumbernauld still like a rat run?) looking for money back bottle lids to buy sweeties with. Embarassed

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

yeah cumbernaulds still as bad.

The shopping centre, most of it hasd been knocked down. I used to live in cumbernauld until i was about 6 or so.

My uncle still lives there.