Recent content by NorthloopCup

On my old mk2, the throttle body caused a lot of problems. It would start up and run from cold fine, let you blip the throttle with no issues. But once there was some heat in the engine, it wouldn’t work and remained shut not allowing the engine to start. In the end it turned out to be the...

No problem at all mate. Gotta be honest, as soon as I read your latest update and you mentioned the issues with the valves, I was on my way down the valve float route myself. Cams can be very temperamental as not every engine responds the same - so what works for the Evo boys, won’t...

I’ve spoken to him and after a brief description of what’s happening, he said immediately - valve float. Regardless of what valve springs you’re running, if they’re not installed to the correct fitted height, you lose spring poundage quite dramatically. I mentioned the lean, then straight to...

Let me contact a mate of mine and see if he’s happy to go through some stuff with you. He’s a very switched on fella when it comes to all this kinda thing. 👍🏻

Do you run the full vvt inlet on this?

Pretty sure that chrispy clio retained the a/c on his with itbs mate back in the day, so I can only think the a/c compressor would be close to the filter. I know the original lower inlet has a mounting point on it for the alternator/ac comp/engine mount, but it’s nothing that can’t be overcome.

Have you got any pictures of an itb engine and a standard ac equipped version?

Yeah PPF works very well. We see a lot of the higher end bmw stuff with it on the headlights to protect them.

We are going back quite some years now, but I had a similar vibration from one of my cars at around 65mph. That turned out to be the cv boot had failed whilst I was on my journey home and all the grease had been flung out. So essentially the cv joint itself had minimal lubrication and was over...

We’ve got an MOT tester at work that puts down all the pointless bullshit just to keep his ‘advisory rate’ up. Reached a point that I called him out on it all as being pathetic, and for some reason, he doesn’t seem to find anything on the cars I’ve done. I may have been slightly...

Transmax FE75 looks ok to use, and Transmax multivehicle 75w90 also looks to be ok to use. Both oils are GL4 which is the important part for the jc5 and TL4. Interestingly, the Transmax 75w90 is closely comparable to redline mt90 - or at least it is on the data sheets.

Very nice work indeed Jord!

If you put the wheel bolt on the end of your peen after you’ve done it, that will also give you a hot tip. 😂

Get a wheel bolt and cut some grooves in the taper part of the bolt. Put it in the wheel and spin the bolt up with a nut gun. That will remove powder coat effectively