Recent content by Mertin

Pretty sure they are manufactured by Norbar so its a no brainer really

The halford's ones are identical to Norbar ones, and as said above try get one on trade card or join the motoring club and try get a money off voucher. I have the below halfords ones and covers most things from engine components to wheel bolts. They do a range of 4, I went for 2nd lowest & 2nd...

Top mounts was another sore point with our regs, as some were running solid top mounts such as PMS with their strut brace and that was a no no aswell. I proper 4 wheel laser alignment geo setup will do it the world of good aswell when you get your B14's on. I would also consider fitting cup...

Cheers, may just revert back down that route. No progress for next 10 days while Im away You go to all the effort to renew 'one use' bolts / nuts where required and you end up having to back them off again to redo timing 😂

Be careful if considering the roll centre kit, as it has rose joints which will affect the class you are in for hills / sprints. Im in A2 in Scotland, road going cars so allowed quite a few mods however blue book states that bushing material can be uprated for poly etc however no rose joints...

Spoke to Nick as I was messaging about the tensioner issues. The provide a cap screw for this application as the countersink on the cams swallows up some of the length. Link below incase anyone else comes across this or for future searching. Cheers for the info struggler, definately looks alot...

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Mulled this over for a few days and thought must be ok as even if there was a deeper thread in the cat cams, it wouldn't matter as would still bottom out on the non - threaded shoulder on the stud Torqued the exhaust cam and low and behold, didnt get enough 'stretch' to gain a full nut. Have...

Running a 'performance' car, fuel prices are going to be the least of your worries and you can't neglect some of the costs, whether its fuel or maintenance. With regards to fuel consumption, these can be fairly economical (for what they are) when driven sensibly / steady runs

Yeah I did check and see if they had anything but just the full kit as you say. No real rusj, just had my milestone was getting it finished off so once Im home I would then get the engine back in. Frustrating but Id rather it was right

Unfortunately dingbro had no stock in the company so got a gates one coming from autodoc. Unfortunately Im away Tuesday for 2 weeks so it will be burning away in the back of my head for the meantime

Anyone came across this issue with fitting a new exhaust cam stud on cat cams? With the nut just nipped up (not torqued) Im not getting a full nut and I doubt I would gain 2 - 3 threads when torquing. Genuine new stud used and wound in until bottomed out on the shoulder. Bit wary to build it...

Im going to have the bore of the pulleys worn out the amount of rotating the belt Iv done, still only getting the below. Stuck on the old tensioner, and can get the notches to line up on it. Think I'll order another new tensioner as I just don't trust this one now

I can get the marks near by manipulating the belt as the tensioner approaches the marks but still, from guides it seems it should be a straightforward process to align the marks. Everything moves freely with the tensioner, all pulleys flush etc etc

Manual states about not moving the tensioner itself anti clockwise when setting it Iv rotated it endless amount of times to try and even out the belt tension, and still the marks are stopping just short