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    Dunno what to say really.. vids inside.

    Well, I suppose it was always going to happen after over 2 years of torture... and when it did happen, it was always going to be big! As you may have gathered, it doesn't take a genious to work out what I'm talking about. Yes, it's finally given up

    We don't know the cause of mechanical failure at present, as it only happened on Friday, and we are having a new garage built at the moment so our house just looks a bit like a building site! We have had a quick examination, and basically the engine has hydraulicced - so we're looking at catastrophic engine failure. All 4 chambers were filled with water, which is unheard of! The headgasket has obviously failed, but must have totally failed! It went without warning, no loss in performance, smoke or anything beforehand. The engine was not running hot, it was at its normal operating temperature I exited Cascades corner and was pulling 6000rpm in 3rd, about to shift into 4th, when a big cloud of white smoke erupted from the rear of the car.

    Various vids can be found by clicking on the following link, including a tribute video for the Punto: http://www.gpmotorsport.co.uk/videos.htm

    I'm not looking for sympathy or anything like that, because when you tune an engine to the extent that this engine was tuned, you expect problems. We haven't had any over the last couple of years (a few minor niggles here and there in the early days, through no fault of our own), and as I mentioned earlier in this post, we're still unsure of the exact cause, so no pointing fingers please.

    We'll let anyone who's interested know the outcome, and obviously the resolutions once we know the task ahead of us.

    Thanks for reading.

    Regards,
    Matt.
    If you have any car care related questions, ask me in the Cleaning/Detailing section.

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    No way! Absolutley gutted mate.

    Bagsy the dta if u sell it.Lol.

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    im very sorry to hear that mate, what sort of power was it producing? you say it was tuned to the max yet the figures of your 1/4 mile say it would proberbly only be running around 160bhp.

    i have seen the spec and i think its very good, just cant see why your terminal speed was so low even with a bad start.

    Quote Originally Posted by tom
    Deans 16VT is producing standard power, on a standard map, with standard fuel pressure and standard boost. So in which case is perfect.

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    good choice of theme music to the life and death video


    are you going to rebuild and resurrect

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    sorry to hear it mate.

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    Its not letting me open the last video,i can open all the others,but not the last one!!!

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    No one will ever know how slow or quick it was now.

    Hans will be dissapointed.

    1600 rebuild....

    Punto Gt no more!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ben_ward2oo5
    Its not letting me open the last video,i can open all the others,but not the last one!!!
    it does, youve just got to give it ages


    1600 resurrection rebuild

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    How long is ages??

    It just says, downloading,and then doesnt do anything!! The other ones,windows media player opens automatically.
    Last edited by GTBen; 12th November 2006 at 20:55. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

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    bad luck mate.

    sell up and but a CTR, thats where your hearts at.

    btw if you decide to sell without the DTA and engine, ill take the full rolling shell lol

    thats if i dont find another

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