SupraDan24

Do we use Euro's now? RIP GBP

Don't forget your meant to be attaching the photo's to the thread as it's in the "Project Cars" section, not posting links. I only noticed as I can't see the links as they're blocked to me

I don't like that at all i'm afraid, it looks like a child's finger painting to me. Each to there own though I always say Looks like you've done a good job of it, so A for effort.

250mile round trip is too far for me fella, sorry.

It's up to 3k already

130 miles from me

I'm not sure what's worse, the car or the add.

Gutted i'm not going this year. Hope you all have a good time

Haha tell me about it. Tbf, it's been a pretty good daily runner, Tasha's put about 45k miles on it sicne she's been driving it and all i've had to do is change the oil, plugs and tyres. The crap bit is i made her get the cambelt done about 2months ago, it's going to have to come off again when I tak the head off, so a bit of a waste of money in the end

I'm home next thursday, so i'll hopefully have a go at stripping the engine down over the weekend if i'm free. All in it should cost me less than £200 so it's worth doing myself. The idle wasn't great either so i'm going to look into that as well, probably just a dirty throttle valve.

I take it everyone has been on his page, and clicked on the "Report Page" and reported it as a Scam? I'm down with posting on his page as much as the next man, but if he keeps just deleting them then its futile.

Good viewing so far

He's just accepted my Friend Request. Back in a bit, i'm going to go say "hi".

Just going to give mine a blowover paint wise so it's all one shade of white Still hunting for some new wheels and that's about it.

Nice one, thanks Ben. It's looking more and more likely that I will be doing it as the GF's dad got a price at his local garage and they told him circa £500 without even seeing the car. Not sure if that was including parts or not, but it's enough to warrent at least having a go at it myself.

Haha well I am in most ways attached to my fingers, so I would defo be making sure you got it back. Do you mind if I message you nearer the time (i'm out of the country for the next 2 weeks) and sort something out? Is it postable if I covered the postage cost?

Last week, me and the GF were driving back from her Dad's in her Stilo, it drove fine, I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, I didnt notice any high temperatures or anything, not that I was particulary looking. We parked up outside my sisters for about 20mins then got back in the car to go home. When i started the car it sounded horrible, like it was running on 3 cylinders. I got out the car went round to the rear and there was alot of white smoke and you could clearly hear through the exaust that it was running horribly. I gave it a quick couple of revs and it went back to normal and there was dramatically less white smoke, so I figured at the time it was possibly a dodgy plug or coil pack so we drove it home and parked it up. The next morning I started it and it ran okay, but there was alot white smoke again and it wasn't going away, so i hooked up a diagnostic machine and found no error codes. At this point it occured to me it might be the HG. I checked the header tank and it was way below the minimum mark, i dont check it that often as its her car, but everytime i have its been up near the full mark. I've checked the engine oil at the dip stick and it was fine, no signs of milkiness. What i'm thinking is the HG is maybe leaking into the combustion side, which would be why it sounded like it was running on 3 cylinders when i started it at my sisters? My Q's are: Is there any way I can say for 100% that it is a HG leak before i tackle it, maybe get the coolant tested for CO2 or something like that? Secondly, because of the cost of labor I am toying with the idea of tackling this myself, her Grandad used to be a mechanic so can help me out with the more techincal side of things and I would do all the physical labour. Are there any special tools I would need to do the job, maybe Fiat specific ones? Also, is it best practice to just get the head skimmed regardless? Lastly, is there anything I should particulary look out for when removing/putting it all back together. I've got a friend who works at an autofactors that can get me all the bits at cost price as a favour which is also making me think I should have a go at it myself. The car in Q is a 54 plate Fiat Silo 1.6 petrol. Any input would greatly be appreciated. Thanks Daniel/Tasha

Personally I found that part of the drive the best bit of the whole weekend John, the twistys through the countryside were great until I thought it had ended.....then we had to turn round and go right back through it again due to the Circus. I was chuffed - - - Updated - - - I bought that one as well Tony, it performed really well.

Personally I think polished wheels suit a white supra the best. Either deep dish, or mulitspokes....or both

Get it done fella, massive improvement.

Even if it did give you extra power, which is debateable, it would be negligable anyway. It's just an induction kit at the end of the day.

I think the guy meant it would cost circa 15k to fix, which is debateable in the first place. I very much doubt he is going to give you 15k in cash for a car worth less than half of that. If he does, he can crash my car anytime he wants, I will order a nice big single through Jurgen to replace it.

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I remember this car, the guy did have quite a few issues with it if i remember correctly. He singled it himself in his garage. There was some Youtube videos of it running with blue smoke. Glad it's back up and running now though.