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yeah it was the loose cannon behind the wheel! heheh

Richard - thanks for the kind words mate - exactly right, Im glad it never happened to me when I had the R33! that would have been costly!

lol dont worry, your SR20 is safe!

Charles @ Ando - maybe 5 years time I'll have an SR in there! or....maybe 5 years time I'll have a mx5 SP turbo racer!

So yeah, car is back at mine, going to be sitting under the bed sheets in the garage for a couple months till after my wedding and honeymoon.

The guys at Unigroup had a look at it all and feel it shouldnt be too hard to fix, minor damage. So plan is Tony at All cylinder heads will do head work with some port and pollishing. Im going to buy some cams, and get it put back together and tuned. pistons dont look damaged, worst case a valve or two may be bent. well, fingers crossed its minor!!!

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Now you are talking - forget the SR20 go for something big.

I can just see a LS1 under the bonnet of your red baby and I am sure that Stuart will head you in the right direction with the install.

V12 is a winner for sure. just don't think about the iridium spark plug bill on that bad boy! lol. only 3 times your current donk and probably as much as a BP engine rebuild.

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LOL

I'll get them to take some for me!

And unfort I was going to do a bit of a bigger build...however with just purchasing a house I can really afford to just get the head fixed.

Was going cams, ecu, maybe pistons etc but sadly, getting just the head fixed will have to do for now.

at least I'll be back on the track hopedully soon, been to bloody long!! (december!!)

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should be back by end of the week ;)

who wants to guess my rw killawasps!?!?!?!?!?!

im guessing 80! LOL

so yeah, the head wasnt as badly damaged as first thought. a few broken valves, head has now had some extra work done with it so maybe another few hp im hoping haha

will post up results!

oh, and painted my wheels black!

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beer is good. that is all!

oh, so got a call from unigroup, all back together cept 1 drama, harmonic balancer is fubared.

so on the phone to mx5mania, got a 2nd hand one and they sending it to them tomorrow

yay!!!

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