Recent content by ed1801

£2200, I would rather it went to someone than to a garage mind. Hence the sudden drop in price, there is nothing 'wrong' with it, just I want rid so I can get my motorbike :-) I sold my Mx-5 about 6 months ago and that sold within two days and I had loads of offers. Now absolutely nothing...

Hey there, Anyone have any advice for selling cars at the moment? My Ph1 is down to 2350 asking price, it isn't in bad condition, just average, few car park dents and so on. But this seems a complete bargain to me, I'm surprised someone hasn't bitten my hand off? :dapprove: It's on 72k and has...

Those two 90° bends you introduce doing it will probably harm more than the couple of degrees drop in temp.

I put some rubber spacers to stop this happening again on mine.

Engine has a capacity of say 2 litres. Each rpm half the cylinders draw in air, so 1 liter per rpm. At 7000 rpm that is 7000 litres. Efficiency loss will knock say 10%? off that, somewhere over 6000 litres per minute, which is 212 cubic feet per minute.

Get the Wynn's throttle body and carb cleaner from halfrauds or similar. It comes in a spray can. Yes, it does contain nasties. From the MSDS: Ingredients Chemical Entity: CAS Number: Proportion: xylene [1330-20-7] 30-60% acetone [67-64-1] 10-<30% ethyl acetate [141-78-6] 10-<30% butane...

It will boil if you are constantly going lock to lock flat out, doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong.

Carbon build up is not too bad to sort though, either use a treatment thingy like: http://www.seafoamsales.com/motorTuneUpTechGas.htm or loads of throttle body cleaner down the intake (don't let the engine stall), this will clean out your plenum nicely too! Did this on my old Mx5 and it vastly...

Hi there, Leak down test caused bubbles to appear in the expansion tank! Damnit! :dapprove: I need a garage to do the head gasket change, so I have had some quotes Rentech ~800 inc new cam and aux kit, angelworks ~1000 but using genuine renault bits. But they are both miles and miles from me...

You are running out of brake fluid most likely. Top it up before they stop working...

Looks like your power is flat after 5k rpm when it should still increase to 6.5ish, because your torque curve is peaking low down. Is your variable valve timing working? If the cam is not as advanced you won't make power at the top end.

Yeah, so just had the thermostat off again and the top rad hose and the thermostat were bone dry - no coolant came out when I undid the three bolts to the thermo housing. This is despite putting in over 5 litres of coolant (5.5ish?) at the weekend when I did the rad. Bled it again when back...

Still doing it! More info: It is definitely only from cold first start up. It is definitely the thermostat not opening. And it is almost certainly because air is collecting in the top rad pipe and behind the thermostat causing it not to respond quick enough, so I'm getting temperature...

Remove the thermostat. Also watch it - if you have the bottom rad hose disconnected loads more coolant will come out when you do. Located on the right hand side of the head. The top pipe from the expansion tank attaches to the housing, which also has the large bore top radiator hose - there...

This place does gauges and adapters, they will even make up an adapter to any thread/shape that you want. http://www.thinkauto.com/adapterscol.htm