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It was sold as it was working fine so the guy thought/said, seen it on piston heads on sunday and then rang up on monday/yesterday then went up there lastnight 5hr round trip it was from middlesbrough area. Thought id ring before anyone else did, got a good deal with it bottom end, head, inlets...
Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh This car is really starting to get on my nerves ive bought 2 bottom ends and both have been broke and the one i bought yesterday was the worst of the 2
Ill updater later, as im so angry at the mo as wot to do and were to go from here on
Think ill stay with the naples and white for abit looks good imo
yep going to go and have a look at it later, hopefully itll be ok and i can bring it home
I took my time with a really small paint brush, now its dry im going to tuch it up with naples as the white dripped down the letters abit
Little update on wots been going on the last few days
Inlet now looks like this
Ive also been painting the rocker cover, cam cover, fuel rail guard, lower inlet and top mount bracket not got any pics yet, ill be painting the subfame in the next few days ready to go back on the car
Here is that other thread with the tight filter epic, might be another one shortly
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showt...tle+body+cloth
LOL
LOL again
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I was told by foxy and the man does know wot he is talking about
Mate take the tights out of the air box as that is the most stupid idea ever, you will regret it when it gets sucked in througt the throttle boddy and then into the engine NOT GOOD :dead:
Well i guess it was pot luck any of us could of got them when they got to kam racing and then straight out in the post prob didnt even open them, im sure it wont cost much for 6 washers ;)
Took the engine down to ryan k so we could put the piston in the bottom end (couldnt be bothered to buy the tool) and needed to go down to buy some stuff off him
knocked it in with a hammer
Got some more done on the engine lastnight
We took the flywheel off the bottom end so we...
The clocks are going to be the last thing on the list to do, if i do get round to putting them in, good thing is it does all the mpg and other stuff too. Personally i think they look miles better lookin tbh
The part no for the williams track rod ends is : 606 74 5140
Few more items for the dishwasher
I also went on a spending spree yesterday
172 gasket kit
Bosh spark plugs
Champion oil filter
Halfords fuel filter
Halfords advanced coolant
2 williams trackrod ends
2 172 ball joints
172 Thermostat switch
Naples red paint
Loctitite black...
Thats why you have to do it when ther are out lol ;)
Yep we forgot about those
Will be giving it a final wash just to m ake sure nothing is still on it
words + pics = help if its needed and you dont know how to do something, i know i talk crap sometimes but im still learning myself...
Last night took the head down to the factory to get some work done on it (laped the valves in) so its ready to put the valves back in
first two done, you can see that the one on the left has been done should go a gray colour when done and that is now a perfect match to the valve
If there...
I know i said id buy it but its not off his car yet and other stuff etc. it will be good to learn from by doing it myself
u got any of the bolts for the rocker cover and any others i may need as they didnt come with the head lol
Spent loads today, then looked in my bank not happy :dead:
Big thanks to willy lover for coming down to bring me some stuff
Clutch
Engine pipes
172 Starter motor + Heat shield
172 Clocks + ECU
172 Rad
172 fan
Last but not least 172 engine loom (now ive got to cut it up to fit bring on the good times lol :S)
There is going to...
Took the head to be skimmed at Roant engineering lastnight (Warrington), took the head in and the guy said, we are quite busy so itll be a few days, i said no probs not in any rush for it left at 16.45. Decided to got to my my mates in warrington and at 17.30 i get a call from a 01925 number and...
Another update
collected these from the post office before
Big thanks to gray for the 172 engine mount + gear box one too
also thanks to arj156 off cw. Batter cut off switch with 2 pull cables will look good when it's in and also serve a purpose