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you'd need to be more descriptive, that's nothing common.

Jack up the car (back first then do the fronts) and try and wiggle the wheels with the handbrake off. if you can get movement out of them then your in need of new wheel bearings. A guy on here had a rear wheel come off at 80mph on the M1 due to a bearing he left too long. Have you checked the...

I'd defo put money on the de-phaser from that vid. The noise even gets louder toward the cam pulley end.

iirc jetex do some pretty big ones.

thermostat itself has a rubber surround/gasket style thing. I don't remember any gasket on the housing.

anyone looking to buy one of these drop me a PM. A mate is selling a really nice one with all the import docs, tein coilovers, bigger rear ARB, f**k-OFF front mount intercooler (nearly 6in deep), really nice custom zorst and equal length mani, and recent rebuild. edit: oh and....christ on a...

oh hai. Not easy. lotta cash tbh. You can mount on subframe or on the car like I'm doing. Check my project thread. It's very similar on the MK2 to the MK1 i believe.

cat! meh. J-reg ftw :D

why pay £450 for a car then comprehensively insure it (presumably with a fairly sizeable excess?) good luck with the car.

The guy is a legend and can near enough anything, especially if you can find an engineering drawing of the flange. Me and the guy making the manifold spent along time deciding on turbo position. It's quite close to the bonnet (rain catcher will probably have to go), bulkhead clearance is fine...

I had my 172 zorst welded about 6 months ago, has broken again on the new owner recently.

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project consider that you are using longer wishbones than have ever been used on a valver subframe before. Therefore the wishbones lever on the subframe mountings more. Renault made the williams subframe stronger, presumably because the wishbones were...

wheel bearing is definitely a possibility. Sometimes they don't move that much, but jack up the car and try to wobble the wheels.

Oh is it one of these thing's that thickens up the oil and makes it run hotter?

standard exhuasts are all sh1te. Never get a new renault one. My 172 never, ever, ever used a drop of oil, but as said they can use a bit without issues.

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project a unit somewhere would be ideal. I'd love one too, but I havent really got the cash to be paying for it all year round. Go a little easy on the mega tight with everything. I shocked myself the other day by overtightening the balljoint to hub bolt. Thought...

run it. I would. For all the price of the pipes I reckon it's worth the piece of mind.

links, WTF is it?

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project ball joint/rod end. something like that. You'll have fun with it :D You gonna get a trailer licence then mate? About £120 for the test iirc. Then theres a car....and a trailer...

MK1 FTFW

I won't give it up, fo sho :cool: I'm fully aware that once it's rolling it will need plenty of tweaks and then there's also the shell to sort out.....which isn't h'exactly...mint....:dapprove: Next on the list is Piston rings and gudgeon pin clips, and I've just been told that a bore hone...

I've downloaded the signing .exe from the chinese website, but still can't get it to work? Anyone used this stuff?

Heres the manifold progress. He's just getting the lengths equal and tacking together before breaking it up, polishing the metal and welding it up.

Yesh. this is true :approve:

An update of what's been going on over the past few weeks. It's been really slowing up as I struggle to work out what parts I need and wait for things to be done etc etc, The cash is becoming a massive issue now.....please send donations :approve: Just wasn't happy with the last dogbone mount...

saab aero and yes, Im being serious.

A chisel/ screw driver and a big hammer. Shouldn't be too much of a problem at all.

liking the progress mate. That slam panel job will make your life soooo much easier. one of the best design features about the valver engine bay :D

super gash

cheers :D