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I drive a standard S3, and always use V-power, pretty sure i read the tesco super is just 95 ron with some bits added to it to bring it up. crappy supermarket petrol isn't going anywhere near my car, V-power gives a far cleaner burn if nothing else.

Mine is a G60, but also did this and one day it blew apart. :lol: If your not confident with doing bits internally, it might just be cheaper for you to buy a known good 16v and drop that in, its not hard at all to do a like for like engine swap, just time consuming. Whilst the old is out you can then fiddle with it and learn how to do piston rings, stem seal etc.

A proper gasket sealer wouldn't be a terrible idea, but isn't needed aslong as your careful. Silicon wouldn't be a great idea at all, its not rated to that kind of temperature for one, unless its fireseal :D One tip though, When your doing up the rocker cover don't start in one corner and do the nuts up one by one clockwise. Work in opposites,do them all up so there tight~ish the top left nut done up reasonably tight then bottom right and so on, don't tighten all the fronts before you've even got the back nuts on, a friend did this on his 16v and thought he'd done them all tight, once the car was started the vibrations shook the rocker down another few mm and pissed oil everywhere :lol: Its not terribly important, chances are you'd be fine but its good practice anyway and theres alot less chance of the gasket getting snagged if its getting pretty equal pressure.

Nah it hasmn't bothered me to much :lol: Not to expensive really, new engine and whenever I find time to fit it really. Think defo bottom end damage due to a oil pump failure... starts for the moment but a serious death rattle and no response from no. 2. :D Think im picking up a 02 audi S3 this or nextish weekend so every cloud and all that :bad-words: 8)

Just a quick update, The car destroyed itself afew hours after this thread :lol: Something inside the engine has definitely destroyed itself, haven't even had the chance to sort anything out on it yet, will be taking the head of at some point though. Roll on this weekend, imola yellow audi S3 :D

I'd give you £200 for it without charger :)

Does your clutch have a good bite or does it slip? Could be a cable issue...?

Cheers swompy, i'll have a good think about what i want to do. I know i won't get rid of the car, i've still got my MK2 GTI from when i first started driving tucked away :lol: If i do decide to venture to something more modern i'll hopefully start to want the 'rado back into one peice, i want to buy a G60 engine and rebuild that one and keep mine on the road for aslong as poss, i'll keep an eye out for an engine...

^^ true I keep meaning to buy a compression tester from halfrauds with the trade card, i'll get round to it soon. Either way i expect i'll need to strip it down, its pumping a serious amount of smoke out and stink, with a crappu idle and sound TBH. Thikning about moving my GTI out the garage and just slamming this is there, kind of fallen out of love with it and really thinking about picking up a S3 or Alfa GTV 3.0 V6 cup :lol: 'Bloomin Rado's! :mad2:

New thread bump.

Sounds more like the power steering pump...?

Well, I've decided to rebuild the engine, I'm pretty sure the car is going to need a head gasket pretty soon as its been giving signs of going for a while now. I'm just looking for anything your guys can think off 'while i'm there'. I'm pretty sure the VSS need doing so, Cambelt Aux Belt V.S.S. All gaskets (inlet, exhaust etc + Metal head gasket and new bolts) oil pump..? lick of paint I'm not sure how far to go on the rebuild, also never really touched a bottom end..? Any tips? Cheers guys, Pete. I'll

Ah, thats fine then :lol: Yeh, your temp question reminded me i've got my mocal sat in a cub board waiting to be fitted :lol: i'll fit it on my day off.

Last time i was in there, afew months back i got a meter of vacuum hose for free so i really wouldn't expect that to be true... Sure it depends who you speak to and what kind of day there having. You can buy vaccuum hose from GSF btw, sure they stock all different sizes and pay by the meter, plus its cheap to and from what i can remember (bought the GSF about 3 years ago) the same as the VW stuff.

110 on the dash water temp is way to hot, i like to see mine around 90-100, usually fan kicks in and keeps it around that. You can bridge the fan connector to check the fan is working, might be worth putting a manual switch in. oil at 108 isn't to bad, but if its thats how hot it is in this weather without giving it to much beans then expect that to be 120 in the summer, maybe think about an external oil cooler, that will see it below 100 alot of the time.