NL: Robert

[r.ave]

So unfortunately this is the current status...



There is always a risk in buying a car second hand...
The history of the car wasn't there when I bought it. But looking at the state of the car and the guy selling it to me gave me plenty of confidence this was to be my car.
Still no regrets, it's just unfortunate that I ran in to some things due to aging (leaking front window) or mis-use.
I knew my car had ran on LPG in the past in France or Portugal (where it came from), didn't know that should've been a red flag for these engines. Saw a minor sweat spot between cilinder 2 and 3 on the exhaust side which didn't alarm me as it is an older car. Also didn't got any bigger in my posession. However, the car started to smell more and more to the point I needed a shower after a few hours of driving in it. So had it checked out and seemed a few things were wrong with it.
Some liquid on cilinder 2, timing was way of, no coolant in the reservoir (did not have cooling issues though), so all in all safe to say the headgasket was done.
So decided to overhaul the engine completely and while everything was apart I opted to change the cams to the most modest ones from Toda (So i could still use the stock internals and ecu).
Engine will be going back in shortly just before the winter comes.