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Stephen do they have family legal protection on their home insurance policy? If so that would cover the cost of a legal claim. Vauxhall like most manufacturers are difficult to deal with and work on the assumption that if they say no often enough the average punter will give up. Thats why you want legal advice and someone to do it for you.

Well i just posted one above but as I said that was down to high boost being used on a n engine which was not designed to take it. That was the point I was making high boost and a semi-closed deck block = problems regardless of whether the rods and pistons are uprated.

Fitting gucci internals wont help if the support to the cylinders is still week.

The block will be on borrowed time if you are running any decent levels of boost through them.

This one likely outcome.

Thanks Davie message on its way.

Cheers Johnny

Still looking if anyone knows anyone

Anybody work for one of the windscreen companys or have a mate who is looking for a homer, and not one of the simpson's variety

The Hawkeye 5 speed boxes were uprated from the earlier TY754 boxes and are stronger. They do however use a different clutch set up and use male ended drive shafts so its not a straight forward swap to put one in an earlier car.

Could also be crankshaft oil seal

Excellent!

Any other Scooby owners up in GLA then?

I'm just a lowly pilok here on the Island- I forgot to hide when they needed a numpty so some call me the "Pilot Base Manager"- but mostly it's filling coffee machines and sending company mail.

Were you Loganair before Manx took over or arrived after?

No wasnt loganair before Manx one of the few that wasnt lol.

I suppose some of my posts may appear negative its genuinely not the intention. Certainly from my point of view I have been lucky in having good people around me to advise me and wanted to try and help stop what in my opinion, and it is only one opinion, may turn out to be things you will later change and incur expense in doing so. I try to do thing right the first time as the money invested in these cars is never recovered and the cost of changes soon add up. Specing a car for a season of hills and sprints only to find rule changes mean expense in adapting to fit rules is bad enough but having to redo something you have paid to have done is not a good scenario.

As an analogy if you were building a house and had sub contracted the building work to a builder and decided to project manage it yourself. Would you simply give the builder the plans on day one and say, build me that and walk away until it was built. Live in the house and then discover, i don't like this or that and have to redo it.

Agree Colin.

Your intercooler pipework is at the bottom because you havnt flipped it so the pipes are at the top but that has no bearing anyway on the outlet of the compressor.

The coil pack and power steering resevoir are easy to relocate with zero performance issues.

The compressor outlet pipework will have no"obvious issue" but there will be a penalty to pay.

Looking good some nice touches there.

The only point I would make is I def wouldnt have routed the compressor outlet hose the way you have the sharp bend at the outlet is not the best idea. Think about what your actually trying to do with the air in the compressor stage and what a right angle like that will do. Thats the reason people have advised you to relocate your power steering resevoir to avoid the very scenario you now have.

Snap was with MANX at Glasgow Line and still there with Flybe.

I have a phase one set up so dont have the coil pack on top of the manifold. In my opinion you would be much better ditching the current coil set up and going to newage coil packs. It will save you space and will future proof things.

As I said previously keeping your current power steering set up is going to cause you problems.

Just read the bit about the springs oops that needs sorted asap.

I was thinking about the wiring but as mentioned not difficult to adapt.

The i/c pipework and proximity to the aux belt will be determined by how they mount the alternator and what size alternator is used.

Just slacken the bolts on the compressor housing and rotate it but the fact you do not have a remote power steering reservoir makes the routing of the compressor outlet pipe work a bit more awkward.

In my opinion you would have been better going with a new age power steering pump and reservoir. That way the pipework can route nicely under the inlet manifold. and then run between the manifold leg at the power steering pump. There are other ways of doing it such as over the top of the manifold but going under it gives the shortest route. I had my pipe running under the manifold ceramic coated.

As above get some decent tyres on the car first.

Next give john at progrip a phone and get your alignment set up as the car does not sound right.

This will tell you fi the car is straight and also get the geometry set up properly which will make a massive difference.

http://www.pro-grip.org.uk/

I three options to try.

1. Give Ian godney a ring he may be able to help.

http://www.godspeedbrakes.co.uk/

2. Give Alyn at AS Performance a ring he has just about everything for a subaru on the shelf you might get lucky

http://asperformance.com/

3. Try a wanted add on scoobynet.

Just looking at the last picture. The wedge that you have had welded onto the inlet manifold, is the throttle body angled downwards?

It looks like it in the pic which might well give you an issue once you fit the alternator and fit the belt. It will depend on what size spacers you have used but looks to me like you have an issue when you fit your intercooler feed pipe to the throttle body.

ICV?

2002 STI if its a UK car will be 3.54. OP doesnt say if its an R160 or an R180.

Either way its going to cost around £300

Furthest north we go with our vans is leeds and furthest south is Christchurch dorset so im sure we could possibly help.

PM me if your stuck for someone inbetween those locations just incase i forget to check back here

that makes no sense when the item has to go from Dumfries to northern scotland.

Have you tried interparcel.com cant see them beong expensive to courier.

I have sent R180 diffs for £20.

1. Frenchy x 2

2. Warrior08 x 2

3. Rig-Pig x 1

4. Matty WR1 x 1

5. scooby222 x 1

6. ScoUK x 1

7. subarucraig x1

8. cruz104

9. stum450n

10. marko72

11. Gus the Bus x1

12. Vimmy x1

13. amccan10 x1

14. Smiffy852 x1

15. StrikE x 2 please

16. scoobro x1

17. Kevin x1

18. DaveyLWRX

19. ali37 x 1

20. Goofy x 2 (maybe 3)

21. Paul N x 1

22. Faxygaz

23. JD

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25. Tony x1

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27, hammer x1

28. scoobiefloz x2

29. j wrx tonkins x1

30. Arch x1

I am sure John wont mind but here is the pic I was refering to.