VW Golf GTi Mk5

[xcentric]

Cam follower for HPFP has scored the cam on my tuned and tweaked GTi.

Is it worth taking the head off and fixing? any ideas on complexity, how DIY it is, camshaft cost, etc? It's not just the cam follower, it's definitely the shaft too.

Are there engine specialists for whom it's routing and a few hundred quid in labour to do it - usually garage is quoting £202.5k to fix and I don't think it's worth that as who knows what other gremlins are in there (had balance shafts wear oval holes so oil pump not working properly and some low oil pressure lights. Hardly driven with low pressure, but it may well have damaged it, and after £1k fixing that, not sure if more costs worth it or not. But I do like the car.

[E-bmw]

xcentric said:

garage is quoting £202.5k to fix

I assume you don't actually mean £202,500.00 to fix this?

[paul_c123]

I'll do it for less than £202,500.

[Dave.]

I’d be looking for a low mileage, rear end damaged car to yank the engine out of personally.

[xcentric]

Dave. said:

I d be looking for a low mileage, rear end damaged car to yank the engine out of personally.

Yeah. the quote did seem high to me :-)

Thought of doing that, but again not sure how easy that is to DIY and the sorts of costs I'm looking at. Clutch, other ancillaries, buying engine hoist, etc. Long weekend? How much for a garage to do it?

And really, if yanking engine out of another, and rechipping that, then why not just buy another older GTi and redo that one? This one is good but not perfect - odd supermarket dings, seat bolster hole, etc.