Phil87's 5th Gen UKDM 2.2 VTI

Hagland-BB4 · Post by **Hagland-BB4** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:45 pm

Great restoration, how much and what company if you dont mind pal

mr_drc · Post by **mr_drc** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 9:27 pm

Hell of a lot of work gone in there

need to tackle my arches at some point not looking forward to it

Phil87 · Post by **Phil87** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:52 pm

Hagland-BB4 wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:45 pm
Great restoration, how much and what company if you dont mind pal

Company is Dal performance (and Chaps called Dal)
https://m.facebook.com/d.a.lperformance1/
He does loads of metal work, his yard had several nissan 200sx's as the guys on those forums use him for a lot of work.
Cost for the metal work was just short of £2k

Phil87 · Post by **Phil87** » Tue Mar 03, 2020 9:20 pm

So absolute disaster

Since getting car back there's been an odd overheating issue, driving above 20mph never occurs but in slow stop/start traffic temp will start to go up and fans can't keep temp down. Had temp sensor changed then thermostat and it seemed to have fixed the issue. Happened again last week so sent the car to local garage who found bubbles in coolant.... Did a chemical test and found combustion gasses. Indicating head gasket failure!

Have messaged rich at PAW to see what I'm going to be looking at price wise. Just when I thought the lude was all done and sorted

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Tue Mar 03, 2020 11:55 pm

Excellent work.

toadster · Post by **toadster** » Wed Mar 04, 2020 12:50 am

Lo Phil97
Sorry to hear Your possible head gasket issue

Hope it isn't the problem but wish you all the luck getting your Lude sorted

Cheers

Toadster

ATR84 · Post by **ATR84** » Wed Mar 04, 2020 9:48 am

It's quite rare for the HG to go on the H22 I believe, but these engines are old now so I guess this kind of thing is to be expected. You will be in good hands with PAW

Phil87 · Post by **Phil87** » Thu Mar 05, 2020 4:14 pm

Yeah i was surprised it being the HG but all the symptoms point to that being the case. Car is booked into PAW now. Anyone been here before and tried to arrange transport away from the shop? Looks like without a 2nd car it's quite a pain to get to a train station.

ATR84 · Post by **ATR84** » Thu Mar 05, 2020 4:25 pm

Yeah if it is a job that takes a few hours I just wander into the town or use their wifi and work from their premises. When they need the car for days you either want someone else to bring their car or get a taxi to the train station.

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Thu Mar 05, 2020 5:46 pm

Yep that's the pain with Performance autoworks. Middle of nowhereville.
I get my car transported there on a carrier, much cheaper than taking the day off work and arranging a 2nd car to drive down with me.