So... Was having a casual snoop on eBay as I wanted to get another vRS after missing my MK1 Fabia... Thanks to the loins' productivity we are now a +1 couple. An Octavia was the only genuine option. I am immensely tight and half capable on the spanners so I wanted a broken one! Annnd 1 night I found one [emoji106]

After 7 days of watching my eBay account I won.

Got the car home on a trailer and the morning after I got some pics...

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Edited 2 March, 201313 yr by Turbobell

So... First things first, I got the battery charged up and checked for faults...

3 codes were present relating to inlet cam timing... 1 for fuel pump pressure...

These were cleared and I flicked the key... The classic noise of lack of compression filled the garage :(

In preperation for the typical worst case scenario, I grabbed every guide I could from Elsa-pro and started taking bits off

When chatting to a good friend of mine about the car, he remembered he had a 'spare' BWA head lying around... We had a staring contest, I won, and took the head home with me with a few spare bits like the fuel pump etc.

Thats a great bargain, I'm sure you'll get it running great!

With only around 70k on it are the shocks, bushes etc in the good condition you'd expect?

You should do a running total to see how much you can get it 100% running for.

Thats a great bargain, I'm sure you'll get it running great!

With only around 70k on it are the shocks, bushes etc in the good condition you'd expect?

You should do a running total to see how much you can get it 100% running for.

Yeah Jord, it's not bad at all, I think the car stood for a few moths post-failiure... as the disks are pretty much shot, front pads look low and OSR bump stop has broken. Bits to be fair bud.

So, as the main fault codes I had were all to do with inlet cam, I wanted to see the valves/cams and as intake manifold and rocker cover removal are pretty easy i whipped them off.

The box of bits

So... Cams looked fine, inlet valves were all present and accounted for, head was itching....

I timed the engine up however and the marks for cam and crank were perfect! Like a muppet I forgot about a key feature on the TFSI the camshaft adjuster and fuel pump cam on the NS.... :p

After being reminded of this fact and with some help from a good friend of mine @skodalee23 we whipped the casing off to discover this....

The adjuster on the exhaust cam was shot... the chain had snapped... the guide for the chain had been smashed... and pretty much every tooth on the exhaust cam adjuster had been sheared off... Champion.

With what spares I had with the head came a complete camshaft adjuster, with chain and guides... So we removed the old kit and using a locking tool for the cams, we timed the exhaust and inlet cams and locked them together... New chain and adjuster were refitted and the rest of the ancillaries were refitted. Last thing to do was give the lump a rotate and check for contact/compression... zero contact/plenty compression... Happy days!

Battery on... Flick of the key... Broom broom

Not all smiles though, the engine sounded pretty rough, with a blinder of a misfire There was a serious case of top end rattle so I quickly switched the car off and got the sump off. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures. Which is a shame, as the sump was completely saturated with sludge, even after draining, and worst of all, the oil pickup looked like it had been painted with black wallpaper paste, to the point I could not even blow through it! This has been cleaned, along with the sump, within an inch of their lives.

Oil pickup refitted, sump sealed and refitted, a few litres of the finest longlife, key flick round 2!

Engine now sounds lovely, still misfiring, but no more rattle from the top. I think the original fault must have been an ignored oil light for a drop in oil pressure/starvation due to the blocked pickup! Something so simple eh?

I have got extremely lucky with this one, the eventual failure must have happened under very little load. So when the chain lost pressure and tension, the exhaust cam dragged up the slack, snapped the chain and sheared some teeth. Meanwhile, with the last bit of hydraulic pressure left, the inlet valves were slammed shut and survived!

This leaves me where I'm now at;

Car at least wants a flywheel so will have all at once Flywheel/clutch etc.

Diagnose and rectify this mysterious misfire

Disks & pads all round.

What do we think of this folks?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261104807838?_trksid=p5197.c0.m619

Google Tehniclutch! They have some very, very, very bad reviews including some on here. For the sake of a few quid I'd AVOID.

Oh and top work by the way, well done! What now - Sell it for a profit?

Google Tehniclutch! They have some very, very, very bad reviews including some on here. For the sake of a few quid I'd AVOID.

Oh and top work by the way, well done! What now - Sell it for a profit?

Thanks Joe, I will have a look and I like it too much to sell it.. Once it's been properly resurected then I will make my mind up, probably involve power.

Google Tehniclutch! They have some very, very, very bad reviews including some on here. For the sake of a few quid I'd AVOID.

Oh and top work by the way, well done! What now - Sell it for a profit?

Ditto to both, AVOID techniclutch. Just search on here for some threads.

Just been googling... Can't believe they'e still in business with that sort of feedback!? Who do we recomend on price/quality?

Time to revitalise this thread....

So.....

Still got the car, and still enjoy driving it every day.

Since getting the car back on the road, and the usual, service and maintenance,

I've added coilovers,

Had the zeniths refurbished in gloss black,

Fitted 16mm forge rear spacers,

Whiteline RARB,

Full LED interior bulb kit,

Dash and door trims gloss black,

Londoncolour 5k HID conversion,

Silver indicator bulbs front and rear,

And LED number plate lights.

How she looks now

Dale.

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Few sneaky pics of the goodies......

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Looking really good now.

Ace work
The fitment of those rears looks top notch 

Excellent work always great to see cars resurrected

Excellent stuff did you cure the misfire?