Jesus Christ!!! How fast...

[Quadcam24]

Originally Posted by caled

His original thread

well i spose i should have guessed ...so you are saying this engine was purposely sabotaged ??......you see that should amaze me, but it just doesn't anymore.

[Fred68]

Originally Posted by littlened

I don't understand how someone can get it wrong, especially the big belt, providing you mark everything up I just can't see how you can **** it like that.

It's not a hard job to do the KV6 cam belts if you know what you are doing but easy to **** it up if you don't!!
Glad you got it sorted!!

[littlened]

Originally Posted by Quadcam24

well i spose i should have guessed ...so you are saying this engine was purposely sabotaged ??......you see that should amaze me, but it just doesn't anymore.

I don't know if the timing was set wrong on purpose, and there's probably no way of telling either way.

I told George about the timing being out, and he's said that he didn't do the belts on this engine, and the driver of the car it came out of was elderly, so he didn't go over 4k rpm and wouldn't of noticed the problem I was having.

Although I'm not sure how you wouldn't notice, I've just done 150 mile on £50 of fuel!!! I'm assuming it's because the engine wasn't generating the correct amount of power per explosion as it should of been.

[WalkerDnB]

Originally Posted by littlened

I told George about the timing being out, and he's said that he didn't do the belts on this engine, and the driver of the car it came out of was elderly, so he didn't go over 4k rpm and wouldn't of noticed the problem I was having.

Thats a BS answer if I ever heard one lol

[Fred68]

Originally Posted by littlened

I don't know if the timing was set wrong on purpose, and there's probably no way of telling either way.

I told George about the timing being out, and he's said that he didn't do the belts on this engine, and the driver of the car it came out of was elderly, so he didn't go over 4k rpm and wouldn't of noticed the problem I was having.

Although I'm not sure how you wouldn't notice, I've just done 150 mile on £50 of fuel!!! I'm assuming it's because the engine wasn't generating the correct amount of power per explosion as it should of been.

How far out was the timing and which way and what was out?

[Fred68]

Originally Posted by Quadcam24

well i spose i should have guessed ...so you are saying this engine was purposely sabotaged ??......you see that should amaze me, but it just doesn't anymore.

I don't see why it would be deliberately sabotaged?? If that happened he would never be able to resolve anything!! More likely poor workmanship I expect.
From what I experienced that is most likely!

[Supercharged_Z]

Lol normal bandwagon without people talking both sides of the story.

For reference the engine came from a ZT, elderly guy called Jon who's retired and does a bit of driving every now and then. He wanted to sell his car but could get the money for it so broke it.

It was marked because of the issue with the first engine, this engine had given Jon no trouble at all so there shouldn't have been a problem.

End of the day, George knows how to time a ZS180 and other KV6 engines, I know for sure he wouldn't tamper with a engine for the sake of it? what does it give him other than grief bearing in mind he had already replaced a USED engine sold in good faith ( with warranty mind) FOC (so im told)

anyway I'm glad you sorted it

Ross

p.s i have posted this for a bit more or how this happened rather than defending. I am sure George has sold 50 kv6 engines in the past few years with no come backs, just so happens this one caused some bother.