Marcus_mb4 Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 I then had 1 weekend in which to swap everything else over on to the new shell including fitting the b18c4 from the vti and have it ready for a mot on Monday morning. It was a hard weekend but I got it done 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus_mb4 Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 But then 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus_mb4 Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 I didn't make it to work or make it to the test station. I made a huge mistake thinking it had wiring issues and drove it with the oil light on. It managed 27 miles until it died. That's it. The 74k miles healthy none smoking b18 was dead. I was gutted. Starved it of oil because I'd fitted a sandwich plate and blocked it off by mistake. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus_mb4 Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 I then got it In bits to see if I could salvage anything but no. It was all gone. Here's what one of the bearings looked like 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus_mb4 Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 I then remembered my mate had a b16a2 sat in his garage for years, 14 years to be exact. So I gave him a call and went to pick it up. Also got the s4c gearbox with it 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus_mb4 Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 Anyway after I got it home it was all cleaned up and poured some oil through it and cranked it over by hand to make sure it was OK. I put a new cambelt kit on it and Waterpump, the rocker cover from the b18, got some nice Magnacore kv85 leads and swapped the s4c gearset into the s9b casing. Also got a full mongoose exhaust system and japspeed manifold to go with it and in it went. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus_mb4 Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 I then had all the panels to swap over from the old car as I didn't like the dark green and it didn't come with wings anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus_mb4 Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 The wheels I had on were borrowed so had to quickly find some more so picked up these horrible old tsws 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus_mb4 Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 I had to find some better wheels so came across these pro race 1.2s. Love them and they suit the car. Still got them now too 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus_mb4 Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 My k sport coilovers were pretty b****red so it was time for a change so I picked up some Hsd momopro coilovers which sit much lower than the ksports and a brand new set of white Pro race 3s which I'd been after for a while 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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