TorbayGlanza
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Just got my car on road set off to have tyres and tracking done and boom bang there's a piston out side of my engine 
Just blown piston out the block :( FML
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TorbayGlanza
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Was doing head gasket only just brought the car with blown head gasket just finished today.
Chris_GlanzaV98
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was this in the corrolla that you have the 4e for sale no ? were you driving hard or just normall, such bad luck sorry dude, maybe if the moneys there could be an oppertunity to go forged ?
starletburkie
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bein there a few times lol
TorbayGlanza
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Yup so not sure if to forge and use starlet bottom end or forge and 5e it.
Chris_GlanzaV98
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once again depends what you are after forged is the way forward
forged is the way forward
TorbayGlanza
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I don't really know a lot about it all just know pulls more power but I would like if people could point me in the right direction is it worth doing? Or do I just get another 4E bottom end and forge that I am open to people's opinions as I don't really know a lot.
MARK@CMBAUTOS
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A grand Na u need 2 grand
Diy with a grand
richglanzav
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id say ya need 1500 lol. if u doin it yaself
starletburkie
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a grand? dude its about 1500 for all parts then machine work on top! easily 2 k euros
TorbayGlanza
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A good friend of mine works for EngineTuner in Plymouth so he will be building it so building won't cost that much but how come it costs so much looking at parts how's does it add upto that :/
Well a grand euro is getting my parts so what ever a deck and a bore is going to cost.
doing my engine was around £900, that was buying fresh 2nd hand pistons and rods, block deck, cross hatch, new - rings, bigends, mains, oil pump, gasket set, pressure switch, head bolts (they were chewed) timing belt kit, head skim, crank polish, buckets re-shimmed, oil, filter.
£110.80 for machine work and £96 for buckets, the rest was just on parts as i built it myself. so deffo needing atleast 2 grand to do things right.
£110.80 for machine work and £96 for buckets, the rest was just on parts as i built it myself. so deffo needing atleast 2 grand to do things right.
starletburkie
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dac69er
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forged pistons and rods can be got for under a grand new. the rest of the bits for the rebuild would be needed whether going forged or not, bearings, headgasket, gasket kit etc. add in he machine work and its just over a grand extra to go forged as apposed to a stock rebuild. the way i think about it is would i have £1000 more fun with the car if it was forged? probably not