Dream Weaver

Just taken my Pug for a leak down/cylinder balance test, due to its continuing oil burning, and the guy has confirmed that my big ends have gone, and probably valve seals, so it needs a full rebuild.

Anyone know likely costs for this?

Looks like I may have to pull out of the Scooby shootout now.

ScoobyJawa

Oh bugger mate

The parts won't be much, a few hundred quid tops, can you rebuild it yourself, will save a mint, if not I'd guess around 500-600 quid?

Gutmann pug

Thats the thing with the Mi16's in my opinion.... they are a great high HP car but they seem to break more than the 8 valve motors......

sorry to hear it though mate and good luck with the rebuild

Dream Weaver

I think the problem with the Mi16 motors is that people buy the engines from scrappers for £300 with the scrapyard mucker saying "oh yeah, its only done 45k miles - wink, wink ".

They then pay someone who reckons they know what they are doing to fit the engine, then they go off and razz them around for a bit.

In reality, the engines have probably done more like 200k miles to start with, and have usually been stood in a scrapyard for ages, so they dont last long.

In theory, an Mi16 engine in a 205 is not being as stressed as it is in the 405, the car (and weight) it was designed to propel, so a rebuilt and properly installed Mi16 engine should last for years.

If I had a garage I would do the rebuild myself for about £600, but its a bit hard to start taking engines out in the street

Gutmann pug

I think you are right mate. The pug forum I use have more Mi's off the road then on it all the time. If you have a proper sorted car with proper sorted electrics you have it cracked. Anyway that isnt helping you mate.
I hope you find someone who will do a proper job for you at a reasonable price, and of course while she is bits it would be rude not to fit a hairy cam etc

David_Wallis

dw.. you can do it in the street.. just do it..

have you got a driveway?

Buy a marquee..

Lockside engineering were very good for machining.

David

Franx

Going by the price of my V8s' top end rebuild, I'd guess more like £900-1k, to be honest
Sorry to hear about the problems...
To take the engine out, which I assume you'd have to do for that car, it's about 2-4 hours, & then to strip down, rebuild, & buy all the parts.
You get the idea
Hope it goes well
Also hope it's cheaper than mine was

Dream Weaver

He's giving me a price for rebuilding, and a price for fitting another Mi16 unit if I can find one, so will wait til he gets back to me.

d_w - dont have a drive mate Was supposed to have a 20'x11' garage by next weekend, but thats another thread