Recent content by Adey.

I had a valver engine in a 5gtt once, ran a little lumpy with higher revs at idle, once hot it would revs its tits off, had a crack in the inlet that only showed itself when hot hot.

Smoke check for air leaks in the pvc or manifold. Can you see what the throttle is doing when its revving high? checked the throttle pedal output? is the ecu requesting it or is it a mechanical fault

Super quick service from the guys/girls at piper. Turned up this afternoon so spent some time this evening getting it bob on. Ive left the timing cover off for now. Next up will fitting the valve springs, followed by a test fit of the head, checking for piston to valve contact and making sure...

And I have found my new favourite job on an 8..... fuel tank removal. Im sure the Haynes manual told me I need to drop the axle and engine only 2 inches. Yeah I needed alot more than that and I have no head on the block. With some assistance from the wife and kids the fuel tank has now been...

After some chatting to sparkie ref N/A tuning the 1397 I contacted piper cams and asked for a custom grind camshaft. A little back and forth and they have one on grind for me (y) So off with the head and I whipped out the old cam ready for the new one. Cam is a 288 degree with a shave over...

Decided to do some more tinkering and digging around. Opted to buy myself some kit that allows me to bench flash and obd flash many ecus, but also the dc4 getrag TCU! If you remember I had my original TCU fail, bought a Chinese supplied item but it didn't work correctly and i was told it had...

About a week ago, the car threw a gearbox warning fault (could be tied to the emissions issue/fault in the above video though mpg has improved) Decided to do some more tinkering and digging around. Opted to buy myself some kit that allows me to bench flash and obd flash many ecus, but also the...

I'm not sure what's come over me, I couldn't bring myself to start ripping the engine back out...

TurboRenault.co.uk

the last f4rt I built up I used parts from engine dynamics (try TurboRenault as a discount code) Id leave the oil pump and mains, I've also used second hand rod bolts with no issues. Plasti gauge is good for checking clearances (y), stock new head bolts were fine for the thicker HG too

Want to change your pre cat lambda but not sure how? Watch Adey's easy change, DIY video guide (y) 😁

got an angle or bench grinder? not too hard to add a fresh tip to a drill bit

been there done that, drill the head off, easy really. small bit down the middle then keep stepping up (y)