Spike2002's Silver Six

[spike2002]

Bought the car just over a year ago for £450 with a weeks' mot and no tax.
The lad I brought her from had only had her a week, and couldn't get insured on her as he was only 18
How she looked when i got her



So I put her in for MOT expecting the worse and she passd with flying colours :dance:
Drove her around for 6 months and one day she started to spew creamy oil and water out of the radiator :evil: so changed the heat exchanger hoping for the best and cleaned all of the cooling system out exc and few days later it happened again :evil: So conclusion was the head gasket had gone. Could maybe have something to do with having the needle bouncing on the clock at 140mph (on a private road) :o

For the past 6 months I have been sourcing a new engine for her and today I had this delivered



55k xsara vts engine out of a 51 plate vts
Will be fitting new cam-belt,water-pump etc. and swaping all the loom over from the gti in a few weeks

I can't wait to ger her back on the road again; the 1.6 was killing me until I killed it (gearbox went 3rd time lol)

Also got crystal headlights coming as well.
Tempted to put new clutch and lightened fly wheel on as well as an ally bottom pulley while the engine is out

I'm also thinking of changing the colour of the wheels any suggestions?