I have heard that the oil pressure light comes on way to late on the vxr resulting in damage before the warning comes on. And when starting the car after filling the oil back up iv always thought a good idea is to take off the coilpack plug to build pressure in the engine before trying to start it up as there were a few not good noises happening there which sounded like damage occurring
Sorry to see this, nothing worse than something that you've modified to improve the car fails. Not sure if they still sell them but i got a good kit from gizfab the lines bolt on as additional to original they give you double banjo bolts and found the lines long enough to fit where i wanted the cooler to go.
Fait does mate im sure my head gasket is leaking water the oil lolks good but as the rest of the system is bramd new and no leaks im guessing its also become time for a forging myself ill be ringing around monday for qoutes 🤦♂️ good luck with yours bro
Gutted for you too mate, it sucks doesn't it! Tbh I'm glad it happened now, a few miles from home not on the track day I had booked 3 hours away. Definitely don't want to oil down a track, ruin it for myself and everyone else there, and be stranded miles away from home.
gutted for you mate but i know you said you were planning on forging anyway, sucks you have to pay for it now rather than later on down the line but at least this happened before you having it done and not after
It was only a matter of time running stock rods and the anti lag etc anyway, time to make it stronger man 🤟 surprised there was no safety function built into the ecu master, sprogley intake is not great heard a lot of similar issues
Yeah was just betting on it surviving about a year before I could forge it when I was ready - unfortunately it's decided it was ready to drain my savings on its own 😂 There is an oil pressure cut-off but its usefulness depends how you look at it - if your ECU kills the engine on a blind bend on a 70 road, you might end up with a written off car stopped there rather than just a blown engine if it lets you drive it to safety In this case, and on track, it would've been helpful. On a different day, who knows 🤷♂️ I'll probably be turning that on though when I get it back, blowing a stock engine is one thing but ruining a forged one has to hurt even more
@@JamesBalazs aye got ya mate maybe a pressure switch upgrade incoming for your new motor? And some safety measures in place based on pressure over time or something
Yep I found the same - if you want to mount it central the hoses don't reach, and if you mount it further to one side to give extra slack they hit the headlight so you can't really win. Theres very little engine movement in mine since it's on vibratechnics mounts but it could cause problems on a lot of cars.
plenty of barb to put 2 clips on each pipe, Unlucky, it's going to be rough without the maf on, video probably doesn't let us hear what you can here though.
Find it mad an oil cooler kit would come with a Barb fitting. Wouldn’t trust anything that isn’t a AN fitting for the oil system Ballache of a situ but rebuild bigger and better. I finally got mine running pretty much spot on after rebuild and diff let go at Bedford few weeks back. Lost interest for now 🤣🤦♂️
Bent rods, crank scored and needed a regrind, all bearings in the bottom end badly scored, and oil pump failed. Will be a video on it not long after I pick it up which should hopefully be in the next week or so.
Personally i would not go to rusty. Had a mate that had and engine done by them and it lost compression 4 times. He has gave up and went to RnD who started there life’s as engineers in machining which says alot about their ability
Tbh I'd never heard a bad word about Rusty before now, searched owners groups and all their reviews are 5* Sounds bad, but it's already with them and I'm guessing RnD would've had months wait leaving me without a car if I'd taken it anywhere else really.
It doesn't have an LMM/MAF, it's on a standalone ECU. At high flow rates MAF readings are relatively inaccurate, whereas the standalone uses a wideband oxygen sensor to fine tune fuelling rather than MAF.
@@JamesBalazs sorry for your missfortune...in my experience try to buy an engine already built that you can test. If you do it yourself it will be good but maybe twice as expensive. Good luck!
Worst oil filter use ever. Use Mann Filter or Filtron or Hengst. That’s uses original factory hole technic and inside technic too. I’m really sad with you, paid a lot of money for fancy companies sh** stuffs. As I wrote in previous episode…. Hope you get well too. 🤞🏻
Don’t waste your time with those Barb fittings for an oil cooler, get the right AN lines with the fittings and delete the rear oil cooler… absolutely waste of time those kits, shame Giz doesn’t do his kit anymore because I have that one and it’s the proper stuff!
Yeah shame half of the stuff on the Giz online shop isn't there anymore tbh. I've got some AN lines and BSP to AN adapters for the sandwich plate all sent to Rusty, so that should be going on with the rebuild and should sort it
Which pipe popped off?, the one attached to the sandwich plate im guessing
Yes mate unfortunately 😔 will be replacing with AN lines as soon as I get it back from being rebuilt
Oh noooo! Sorry to see this mate. Good to see it coming back stronger though
I have heard that the oil pressure light comes on way to late on the vxr resulting in damage before the warning comes on. And when starting the car after filling the oil back up iv always thought a good idea is to take off the coilpack plug to build pressure in the engine before trying to start it up as there were a few not good noises happening there which sounded like damage occurring
Sorry to see this, nothing worse than something that you've modified to improve the car fails. Not sure if they still sell them but i got a good kit from gizfab the lines bolt on as additional to original they give you double banjo bolts and found the lines long enough to fit where i wanted the cooler to go.
Fait does mate im sure my head gasket is leaking water the oil lolks good but as the rest of the system is bramd new and no leaks im guessing its also become time for a forging myself ill be ringing around monday for qoutes 🤦♂️ good luck with yours bro
Sad to see this after a great series of VXR content. Hope alls sorted soon and back to showing us what’s been done
Nice car vxr that hopefully car come back even better
Hindsight tip, Slam your brakes on and let the clutch out in 5th/6th, it'll soon shut off
I know this pain, I just lost my Clio 197 engine on track last week, gutted as it has only just been rebuilt last year.
Gutted for you too mate, it sucks doesn't it! Tbh I'm glad it happened now, a few miles from home not on the track day I had booked 3 hours away. Definitely don't want to oil down a track, ruin it for myself and everyone else there, and be stranded miles away from home.
Contain the power!
Man i feel for you 😢 hope you manage to sort it
gutted for you mate but i know you said you were planning on forging anyway, sucks you have to pay for it now rather than later on down the line but at least this happened before you having it done and not after
It was only a matter of time running stock rods and the anti lag etc anyway, time to make it stronger man 🤟 surprised there was no safety function built into the ecu master, sprogley intake is not great heard a lot of similar issues
Yeah was just betting on it surviving about a year before I could forge it when I was ready - unfortunately it's decided it was ready to drain my savings on its own 😂
There is an oil pressure cut-off but its usefulness depends how you look at it - if your ECU kills the engine on a blind bend on a 70 road, you might end up with a written off car stopped there rather than just a blown engine if it lets you drive it to safety
In this case, and on track, it would've been helpful. On a different day, who knows 🤷♂️ I'll probably be turning that on though when I get it back, blowing a stock engine is one thing but ruining a forged one has to hurt even more
@@JamesBalazs aye got ya mate maybe a pressure switch upgrade incoming for your new motor? And some safety measures in place based on pressure over time or something
It does have an oil pressure sensor since the new ECU, just have to switch the safety feature on so it's an easy precaution at least
@@JamesBalazs u fitted a better one than the oe vx one?
@@ALs_Autos yeah the vauxhall one is just a switch this is an actual pressure sensor, so it gives you the actual psi / bar not just low or high
Allways use an fittings with hoses that have pressure
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That must be gutting you fitted new pipes 3 months ago and now she's toast..should of left it alone😔
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What happened man!? Sorry to hear tha!
Ohhh ı'm sorry man 🥺
When I have these kits I sometimes find the hoses are not long enough to allow a lot engine movement..
Yep I found the same - if you want to mount it central the hoses don't reach, and if you mount it further to one side to give extra slack they hit the headlight so you can't really win. Theres very little engine movement in mine since it's on vibratechnics mounts but it could cause problems on a lot of cars.
@@JamesBalazs that's the way I went vibra technics mounts .
That might be jubilee clips ?!
Hope the damage is not too huge. 😢
What is the head unit you have
quick questions mate - is it okay to shift gears at 4-5k rpms especially from gear 1 to 2 without damaging the engine?
plenty of barb to put 2 clips on each pipe, Unlucky, it's going to be rough without the maf on, video probably doesn't let us hear what you can here though.
It's on a standalone ECU, it doesn't have or need a MAF (notice it wasn't plugged in before I even removed the filter)
makes sense@@JamesBalazs
Find it mad an oil cooler kit would come with a Barb fitting. Wouldn’t trust anything that isn’t a AN fitting for the oil system
Ballache of a situ but rebuild bigger and better.
I finally got mine running pretty much spot on after rebuild and diff let go at Bedford few weeks back. Lost interest for now 🤣🤦♂️
How much rusty quote for forge build ?
2500 or 2850 with wedged block - all their prices are on their Facebook too for various engines
Get another vxr for that. Or block alone for around 1000
@@yorkshireman7025 i thought the price was more than reasonable, and ill be having them do my corsa. lots of good feedback on facebook
That sucks man
Any update on this yet ?
Bent rods, crank scored and needed a regrind, all bearings in the bottom end badly scored, and oil pump failed.
Will be a video on it not long after I pick it up which should hopefully be in the next week or so.
Sorry to hear that @@JamesBalazs
If there's no metal in oil should be good
Personally i would not go to rusty. Had a mate that had and engine done by them and it lost compression 4 times. He has gave up and went to RnD who started there life’s as engineers in machining which says alot about their ability
Tbh I'd never heard a bad word about Rusty before now, searched owners groups and all their reviews are 5*
Sounds bad, but it's already with them and I'm guessing RnD would've had months wait leaving me without a car if I'd taken it anywhere else really.
@@JamesBalazsI thought you would of rebuilt it yourself
Varför starta upp den när inte LMM är kopplad?
It doesn't have an LMM/MAF, it's on a standalone ECU.
At high flow rates MAF readings are relatively inaccurate, whereas the standalone uses a wideband oxygen sensor to fine tune fuelling rather than MAF.
Change them lines for AN lines mate them airtec kits are wank
I really don't think 5 sec of no oil presure had any major effect on the engine or at all...maybe it took evem more since you saw the light?
As I said in the video it was more like 20-30 seconds, and it lost oil pressure at 5000rpm. Definitely did damage.
@@JamesBalazs sorry for your missfortune...in my experience try to buy an engine already built that you can test. If you do it yourself it will be good but maybe twice as expensive. Good luck!
use Proper clamps ya stand a better chance
Worst oil filter use ever. Use Mann Filter or Filtron or Hengst. That’s uses original factory hole technic and inside technic too.
I’m really sad with you, paid a lot of money for fancy companies sh** stuffs. As I wrote in previous episode…. Hope you get well too. 🤞🏻
Don’t waste your time with those Barb fittings for an oil cooler, get the right AN lines with the fittings and delete the rear oil cooler… absolutely waste of time those kits, shame Giz doesn’t do his kit anymore because I have that one and it’s the proper stuff!
Yeah shame half of the stuff on the Giz online shop isn't there anymore tbh. I've got some AN lines and BSP to AN adapters for the sandwich plate all sent to Rusty, so that should be going on with the rebuild and should sort it