[CATS]

Cool, where did you get the motor from? Best one I could find was 25K

I see there is an engine on Gumtree for R15000. No pump though.

http://johannesburg.gumtree.co.za/c-Car ... Z317808455

CATS

[Freshman]

I would seriously reconsider rebuilding the engine. I have too often seen folks with hi mileage engines pop a cylinder head gasget and after a short while the heads crack and problems just keep on popping up. If it was up to me I would have a look at a jap runner and add that to the options as well.

At the moment I am running one of those jap imports and have had 100k of faithful service from it with no indication of any surprises in the near future. It cost me R6k where the spares and engineering would have cost me more than 20k and saved me on down time as well.

Hi guys,
I recently upgraded to a Gen3 2001 3.5 V6 after writing off my old Blister.
After buying the car I noticed the contact details of the previous owner in the manual so I decided to call him.
He told me that he is a mac and that he re-did the motor completely with new pistons etc etc himself not too long ago.

So yesterday out of the blue the car started overheating. The Rad place did a block test which came out clear. The rad did not look all that good according to them so I had that replaced.
But afterwards she still overheated. So I took it to the Dealers and a local mac and both confirmed that the head gasket is just about to fully blow since there was white soapy residue in the oil cap.
So I booked it in for the gaskets to be done.

Now after reading Henk's post I'm a bit worried. Am I wasting my money here (even though the motor was re-done by the previous owner). Should I have the gaskets done or try and find a re-con motor?

Thanks
Pierre