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There are plenty of theories about, but like i've said i've never 'seen' one work. There is no documentation, and none of the theories about really have any concrete base.

at the front of the car, when you start up, there will be zero difference between those areas temp wise. Any by the time there is any mild temp diff when sitting stationary, the engine will be fully warm......and when your moving, well, again no diff. I've never seen it working to any...

but both airbox feeds go to the front bumper area.......no hot air there.

yay!

GTL is no doubt the best.

i beg your pardon si!! your berry is black!?

nice mark, your car keeps getting nicer all the time.

i'll inform him of that, good idea. But i think he has a 20v turbo POS in there now.

I'm actuall Chinglish and the golf was 16:1 and promptly blew its tinfoil (no joke) headgasket in about 400 miles. Wasnt me doing it, but i found it facinating, especially how well he cut the gasket out of kitchen foil......those copper gasket makers need to seriously reconsider their...

larger piston bore, but then you'll have to get a piston made, which isnt a problem if you want one. But a non standard or even 1mm oversize piston wont be cheap by any stretch of the imagination. But it'll be cheaper than offset grinding your crank to stroke it and having a custom rod made up.

If you lost all your oil, then filled it up to the max mark......when you started it back up there would be a portion of the full sump volume used to fill the oil galleys and oil filter etc etc. That is IF everything did drain out whilst you waited. 350 could be a nice car, totally depends...

an increase in piston size of 0.3mm will see you up about 15cc.

capacity increase itself will not increase power. Power increase comes from the higher rate of processing air, by increasing capacity you will simply lower the rpm point at where peak power and torque is made if everything else is constant. In laymands. Why the 5-10cc increase thats a very...

Thats the cam cover yes, common problem. It doesnt look 'fresh' fresh though, lots of grit and dust. As for where your using oil, its hard to say.......if its physically leaking and you can notice it using oil, there will be a large mess in the area its leaking. How much oil and how...

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nope, they will actually add 4 mm track total to your car, nothing to worry about. the fins will point forward on one side and backwarks on the other, not a big deal....its debatable but i've never worried about it. They are giant alloy heat sinks.

i prefer 15's. Cheaper tyres, more predicatable and chuckable.....i just like the 'feel'. Offset for the turbines is -36, so almost the same. And the turbines, it can be debates, have the small fins in a directional fan manner which will draw air through them.

Its common for the cam cover and breather baffle to leak so i doubt its related to you dropping your oil. There is only one breather pipe comming out of the back so it will be easy to check if its blocked, but i doubt it is as were not running mineral oils anymore. got any pics?

turbines will be fine.

You could put a longer ratio box on if you wanted, but thats totally personal preference. And i dont think people would really buy the car then spend alot just to have a comfortable motorway car? And if your going to strip the engine and rebuild everything just to add oversized pistons you...

You'll then have to make sure the crown thickness is large enough to allow machining for valve reliefs without breaking through, plus enough crown thickness below them.

Its a heavy engineering excercise, and thats it. Its not complex, but its not easy......and its certainly not cheap. Upping to 2.1 would involve overboring. Upping to 2.2 would involve a stroker assembly. new crank/rods/pistons alone in major components would come out to about...

when your on overrun, just very lightly touch the throttle, you'll find the point where it pops and burbles like nothing else. Does use alot of fuel though.

Mark, once its setup correctly you wont have a problem. Jerkyness is all down to the ignition/fuel maps in majority, and you can compensate for when the extra load of the aircon kicks in to stop stalling.

just the N20 kit. 50bhp isnt much.

and seperating it from the crap. They've got the easy oil, but that is only about 40% or 60% of the wells they tap.....or so i've heard.

plastic leaves no room to improve as its very thin. headwork will see a minor gain as the 1.2 head is a pretty piss poor casting and design, but agian, its alot of money for a 1.2.....and i wouldnt do it without cams. And at the end of the day, were talking about a 1.2 with a shed load...

The cost of PROPER headwork might be prohibitive. You wont get much change from £600 for something that someone can show actual flow gains on, plus you'll need fitting, gaskets, cambelt and your remap etc. And at the end of that, you probably wont see more than a few bhp gain because its...

Peter griffin, is that you?

lol, what is going on here hahaha.