I am in exactly the same position as you. I bought my car with new cup shocks and H&R springs (very low) Stance and look is great. Ride terrible!!
If you push it hard it bounces. The cup shock is under rebound dampened for the H&R spring and can't control the rebound once the spring has been...
Well moved on a bit , found a forged bottom end for the 20th and am really enjoying it .
Found this for my son busy repairing it .
The plan is to sell the 20th and find a Gordini 200 ( found an accident damaged one ) and get to this .
Does sound like it has been abused . May I ask what you paid ? They are only going to do a patch job , I mean it is a dealer we are talking about .
If you really like the car I would negotiate a big discount and then get someone else to build the motor properly . That , is going to cost a...
Sounds like nonsense to me !! It had a water leak because they hadn't torqued the head !!The bearings are something completely different ? That's oil pressure related most lightly .
Only way to build these motors is replacing a lot of stuff while you are in there and it get's expensive .
It lives , after finding there was a bleed screw on the thermo housing that was causing a water leak . All seemed good and it fired straight up . Wheels and front end tomorrow and maybe I can take it for a drive .