In all honesty Wezz I'm no engine whizz. Look what happened when I did the cams...4 weeks then oil reek. I just cannot bring myself to work on this one's bowels and trust myself that everything will be ok, especially as it's worth at least twice that of the GTi.
Goin to get a local guy who knows what he is doing to get it all out to inspect everything as it's very odd that this would happen so quickly. The clatter its making is one of the worst he's heard and he's done numerous SR20 bottom ends so I don't think this is the end of this...
Looking at it, it looks like to do it without taking the engine out you'd have to remove the front subframe etc so probably be just as much work as getting the engine out. It gives me an opportunity to do a few things while it's out as you can get easy access to things like turbo elbows, braided hoses etc.
Goin to get a local guy who knows what he is doing to get it all out to inspect everything as it's very odd that this would happen so quickly. The clatter its making is one of the worst he's heard and he's done numerous SR20 bottom ends so I don't think this is the end of this...
Looking at it, it looks like to do it without taking the engine out you'd have to remove the front subframe etc so probably be just as much work as getting the engine out. It gives me an opportunity to do a few things while it's out as you can get easy access to things like turbo elbows, braided hoses etc.
