Just time and money..It will be fixed eventually but likely not this side of summer at least. Will try and store the coupe in the garage for now until decisions are made.
Money is the issue atm.

The easiest way to find out is to do a dry compression test, followed immediately by a wet test, where a little bit of engine oil is dropped down the plug hole, then the test is repeated - if the compression improves with the wet test, its your pistons / rings / bores. If the compression doesn't improve, its the head gasket.

If its the head gasket, a few hundred should sort it (would be daft not to do the cambelt while the head is off)

If its the pistons / rings, its a biggie to repair - would definitely be cheaper to swap lumps with a known good secondhand unit

Thankyou nigel,the above results are a dry test so will do a wet test tomoz and fingers crossed it is the gasket.

It wont be the gasket,double check the figures but if there low like that then the engine is damaged.
Dont rebuild it especially at that mileage regardless of what advice you get.
Engines are cheap enough to get now so do a swap as its a weekends work.

Hey reuben. I'm really sorry to read this mate. Are you aiming to have the car sorted by june? Can understand if not. If I can help in any way please let me know and ill come up mate.

Know how you feel money wise though. I don't know if I'll be able to do half the stuff I intended by spa..

Cheers Howard.Need to sort these springs out somehow.

I always said this would be my last turbo coupe if its anything major such as the lump..hmm
What would i do with it as it is?Break it?

Arhhhhh this is racking my brain completely

Take you'r time Reuben and dont rush into anything. Sleep a few night's on it mate.
You are in a strange situation with you'r car,as it's in nice condition .
So you are torn between another engine or strip it and sell for part's.
There may be an engine around the corner mate.Check out who is breaking their coupe's. Could be one there.

Got to say a set of ring's a set of bearings and a honeing tool will not cost a lot! would have thought it would add £120 to the price of doing the head gasket

I don't think Reuben can do the work himself though Adam, so quite a bit of extra labour cost there.

... And new pistons.

Really hope you put another engine in it, think of all the fun you already had in it!

Unsure of the plan yet,Joes going to have a look as he can collect it on the 19th.
Ive drained the battery from the cranking before with plugs out so needs another charge..

On the upside i have found the oil cooler and braided hoses that i mislaid so that is another bill i dont have to worry about.

It defiantly leaking from the driver side near the wheel so oil cooler looks to have damaged with heat. Soon see the damage report...
For spa...
If i wont be in the coupe it maybe the stilo JTD

Watchout NA coupe's!

On the bright side, at least you wont be the only stilo going!

Are you real???
This will take 3 times as long so wont be cheaper at all.
On top of that bearings,honeing and rings cost more than £120.

Joes just collected the coupe,few quick tests and looks like headgasket..Joe will get the head off for a look

Fingers crossed no huge issues,found water leak..chod for sure dropped all my coolant.Not in one go but enough over the few miles.Will be swapped for silicon one which was booked in for today anyway.

Should come back with some extra toys as well.
Thanks guys for the advice..Joe had a recovery truck which makes life easier than trying to get to any other mechanic.

Good luck mate! Hope the damage to the wallet is limited!

Compression and Leakdown test showed head gasket cooked between cylinders 2, 3 and 4, water and oil clear so the loss of water and heat hasn't done any major damage to the rest of the engine.

Head off, pressure test, skim and rebuild with the new silicone CHOD, I'll get the valves lapped as well as she's got some mileage on this one now but it's still one of the best engines I know running today.

Good news rueb, best of luck bud,having seen what you are going through, I'm keeping my coop, sod it,, I love it to bits,

Cheers pal...if your keeping it belts and coolant hose of death

Just put a new aux belt on it today and goes and does this now... Dies and locks me out,, So what's time scale for your coupe? What's next for it aswell mod eise?

Few suspension toys going on,braided oil hoses etc

Timescale...no rush..gotta save for the bill..lol

Bet the misses is really happy haha

After over three month's my coupe is finally back with me...

Gotta thank joe(countycruising) and jake for all the help with reviving my coupe and being patient with me.

She drive beautifully especially as she ended up with a new engine and a few other trick bits...

New engine
Braided oil lines and cooler
rear arb
bilsteins
plus rims and t1r's
new radiator
new silione chod and turbo water feed hose
ac removal
new ebv
new clutch
plus much more im sure.

she drives so planted now and with an new ebv she is now boosting to 1bar rather than the 0.5-0.7 bar i was getting previously....(be embarrassed if i overtook you at spa last year,was boosting like that all the while)

Car feels quick and nimble..
A few photos from today..not properly washed yet

great news Reub, and well done to the CC crew

Great news Reub, glad to see the car back

Spa next

Nice

Good to here and see Reubs!!!

Bet it was well worth the wait!!!

Ross

good to hear its alive again and its look very nice in the pics mate

Nice one Reuben, and well done Joe too. It looks just like mine - i.e. gorgeous!

You must be a happy man.

Allelujah!!

Great news mate; enjoy

looks great mate....:-)