Head gasket @ 50k

Lawrence · Post by **Lawrence** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:34 am

shooomer wrote:
Lawrence wrote:per cent age
of what Lawrence?

Dear Paul

Of all the number of K series cars that you have owned, how many have suffered HGF? Please express your answer as a percentage of the total.
If K represents the total number, and H is the number of failures and P is the percentage failure rate.

H/K x 100 = P (%)
we know that H =3 from your previous post

so P = 3/K x 100 = ? (%)

Thanks
Lawrence

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:49 am

Better would be the total mileage (M) divided by the number of HGFs (H) by those Elises

ie how far did you get each time!

Lawrence · Post by **Lawrence** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:55 am

thanks Paul

robin · Post by **robin** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:05 am

shooomer wrote:the answer you're looking for is 50% but I've already said all failures happened on 1 car

Interesting that you got a "new" engine from Lotus.

I cannot be 100% sure, but I don't believe the engine fitted to the shed is a Lotus sourced 1.8K - the reason I say that is mostly because it had an oil temperature sender fitted to the oil filter housing but not connected to the wiring (Elises don't have these normally).

It's of course possible that was fitted by an owner at some point.

Cheers,
Robin

Post by **campbell** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:11 pm

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote: What were your liner heights like Campbell? Mine were between .10 and .15 mm IIRC across the lot. Only measured them as I was there as there was feck all I could do about them!

We haven't formally measured them yet but I think Robin planned to do that before reassembly. Big Brother will get back to you

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:03 pm

Just interested that all. Like the block tester, nice to know but you'd rather not know if it fails!

Post by **campbell** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:14 pm