BUT................
day of cannonball run and the car was stickered up ready to go
we heading up to aucks at 6am and noticed the car was really low on power for a 1600 which we thought was a tad odd but we carried on and made it to the start line.
after 3 odd hours of driving and we had just started hitting the first hill of the coromandel and poof! running on 2 cylinders banging and popping away pull over to find oil everywhere!
we clean up the engine bay and find the crankcase is preasuring up and blowing the oil out the filler neck and dipstick hole! but only when the motors under heavy load??
so we turn round, roll down the hill and make the slow crawl home
so sadly its either rebuild or shop for a new motor by the looks. from what i can guess my rings are rooted as the filler neck is chuffing BIG time
oh well she looked good i reckon!