Piggysniffer

Problem there is mate, you just have no idea what your getting, at the very least with these 2.5 engines you would have to have the Pistons out to check for ringland issues just to have piece of mind

Lol !! IAM is on zero and the car is still boosting up to 1.3bar WTF is going on, it should be in limp mode, you just gotta laugh really

There's was some on eBay yesterday

Drove it today, logged it, limp mode again, vvt was spot on but it was holding 14.7 afr up to 2400ish rpm and 1.25 g'rev, and maybe 8psi of boost, infact it looks like every incident of low knock is with the car holding that afr into boost

My wideband reads 10.2 even when calibrated, but romraider and my recent map read 11.1

I would defo drop some forged Pistons in there mate !! These are notorious for Pistons failing and farking the engine up

Yeah, probs best mate for tge little extra money, best of luck with the build !!

Jeebus, I read the first bit "block is split" and I took it to mean block has a split in it, which led me to believe that you had been royally stitched up by the seller, I then started having thoughts that really would have more than likely landed me in prison again hahaha mr b sounds like the man to help here

Thanks mate

No joy with the eBay ones mate ?

So what actually is the cause of the head damage ?

It's gone like this, I know your gonna think I'm a bit of a tit, but at this very moment, the thought of doing anything with the car is really !! stressing me out, I'm using my old vw camper and the wrx is left at home on the drive until it's sold or I sort out a fix with Duncan

Thanks gambit, he has text me

Scoobyghost, it has got a 255 fuel pump, and a couple of other little bits, but they were all on there before the mapping took place, the only thing that's been changed is one solenoid now, the car runs absolutely fine if I disconnect the avcs, just down on power and using loads of fuel as the cams are only really set up for high revs with the avcs unplugged, with it plugged in I can sit and watch knock sum increasing on tickover and by the time ive reversed off my drive it's logged about 25 knocks, and it just pulls loads of timing at low revs and puts IAM to zero, it is truly awful, and this happens every drive with avcs connected, I have to keep resetting the ecu or disconnect the avcs, i can only think that it already had a slight problem and the extra power being asked or changed parameters have highlighted it, I'm not saying for one minute that it's a cut and dried crappy tune as the car ran perfectly most of the way home, I think more than likely something is up the shoot now due to being tuned/asked to do more, it's just that I don't know what it is which is really frustrating, I have no way to fix it, and the cars worse than before it was mapped

Oh, don't get me wrong, I think he personally is a great bloke, which really is another reason why I wish I'd never started this thread, I was up there for a while and after the initial sounding out the customer to see if they're ok or not he was as nice a fella as you could hope to meet, my wife liked him and she don't like many people lol

Yeah I spose, just that I don't like slagging people off, it's not my thing, I'm the fella that gets served a cold steak in a restaurant and just has a little moan to himself then gets on and eats it, just at the end of my tether with it and a few other things at the mo, as for the car, I'm convinced in my mind that it's the left avcs pulley that's playing up, but without knowing what's been done in the mapping with it I'm just ****-ing against the wind, changing the solenoid got rid of all the high end timing issues, just have low end stuff again, I don't know if he mapped round the dodgy solenoid and now fitting a new one has thrown it out of kilter, I just don't know these things

It's been ongoing tbh, look I've lost my rag with the whole thing, the car is driving me mad, not being able to get hold of him, not being able to fix it/tune it myself all has added up to me being seriously frustrated and getting the hump, I got my wife asking why after paying to have it mapped am I now having more problems than before, and wasting time messing about on it, so I get the hump with her, it's just a vicious cycle, I'm sick of the sight of the car at this moment, don't even want to drive it. In all honesty though I would liked to have calmed down and not started this thread in the first place as things done in anger are not always the best time to do things in my opinion

252498844669 this guy on eBay selling both heads, they were originally £20 cheaper each, but he's upped the price, you may be able to have a deal on both if need be, can't vouch for him as never dealt with him

Welcome aboard mate, I feel your pain, what's this about the cams eating into the heads ? Has it been run low on oil do you think ? I think tidgy is right, if your thinking of keeping this once fixed it really needs a full strip and check, also, how did you remove the avcs pulleys from the cams ?

Ghost, if I had an issue glaring up he never should have mapped it, he told me it was fine, and it's his work phone I'm texting, the one he must use on a daily basis to run his business think that'll be it from me on this now, not happy bunny and it's coming across in my posts

Too angry at this moment to even want to bother tbh savs, I started taking it apart tonight to try and treble check things and it got dark and I had a torch and I just thought f&ck this, I am sick of it, and just put it back together to sell it, there is only so much logging, fuel burning and family time wasting I can put up with it'll either be sold as is or it'll go to engine tuner and be mapped and sold

Shocking aftercare for me with this guy as things stand, got my car mapped as having issues with little timing being pulled at low revs/load, came away with a car that goes like a rocket but was pulling timing at high load/revs, dropping IAM, going into limp mode and generally running like sh-it, I now have avcs/vvt issues and have had to disconnect the avcs solenoids to drive the poxy car any sense as its my daily driver, I've wasted loads of fuel and time logging the car trying to see what's wrong, I replaced one solenoid and it is a lot better, replaced the other as well and it got worse again, have had bugger all help really from him, doesn't even reply to my texts any more, I've not got aggressive or kicked off , I've just asked questions politely, so it's not because of that, I'm at my wits end with the car and £430 lighter in the pocket, I haven't got another load of money to take it somewhere else, so looks very much like I'm going to have to sell it cheap as it is as I am sick of looking at it, overall my experience has been stressful and it's made me f&@king angry, I would not recommend this guy to anyone at this moment, I understand that things go wrong, I've done stuff myself that has, but it's when it goes wrong that you see the true mark of who your dealing with fuming !

Boost gauge first is my opinion then take it from there

How much was the remap sir S, looks like I may have to take a drive up to them myself