Search the Community

Yesterday we said good bye to one of the most genuine people you could meet. We feel privileged to have had John as part of the club from it's very early days. We know he is doing laps of the race track in the sky now. Our Thoughts are with Scott, Claire and the family. Rest In Peace John "Vadg" @gadg Andrew. Please feel free to post a memory or pic below.

Hi all, Earlier this year my 25 neo in my 34 did a head gasket during a track day. Had that fixed up and shortly after ran into more trouble which was diagnosed as rings. $6k and 10 months later with a freshly rebuilt motor I hit my 2nd track day of the year and the car has turned around and chewed through another head gasket on the first lap. Motor was tuned, ran fine on the dyno in heat, didn't make as much power as pre rebuild but we attributed that to the hot weather. Found shit loads of oil in the coilpack valley, after opening the bonnet up, but only in cyl 1-2, assuming this was spat out of the breather. Motor now has shitloads of blow by, is running on 5 and obviously is spitting white smoke out of the exhaust like crazy. Trying to figure out how exactly it's managed to eat a head gasket (and do the rest of the damage it's done to my motor) after one hot lap of Winton. Coolant was boiling when I pulled off the track, powersteering was also overflowing (which set my manifold on fire, yay) before anyone says check your temps, stock gauge said I was slightly above half, which is what I expected given it was a 35 degree day.