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Check the wiring going from the ECU at the back of the engine through the thick rubber casing. The wiring at the back of the engine is housed in a metal "cage" this is notorious for rubbing on the wires causing a short.
The caliper pistons are well known to stick. this combined with the camber of the road will cause it to do what you describe.
You can get exchange calipers for £45 each you need to ideally change them both.
when i changed my engine they base the quote on the donor car (172) but because it isnt a 172 its cheaper to insure (less desireable to thieves)
I thought quinn only insured mods so long as they didnt up the power of the car?
Brand new from renault £142+ vat, pattern parts start around £70 but i have seen a few pattern parts that are not exactly right and dont fit correctly.
When i crashed mine last year i bought one from Sel imperial and i couldnt get it to fit right at all, therefore i swallowed to bullet and...
There are 3 wires red black and white, the red is live, black earth and white is power from the UCH which controls the light when you open your car and it dimms etc
they are not easy to remove without damaging them, you can get rear disks with bearings and rings already on from yozzasport or german swedish french for around £55 each+ vat
first sensor fits into the manifold so its left alone, the second sensor fits in the cat and you will have to swap it over.
if you want to change the gaskets you need a front ring kit (£12) and the rear metal gasket (£1.50)
Yeah met you in the texico mate, i live in tyldesley now loads of places do engine builds but many places specialise in in certain parts of the engine too and different makes of car.
For engine porting work port performance in warrington are good
Check the plastic rocker cover, it happened to mine ages ago - The cover was over tightened after a throttle body change the plastic cracked causing oil to spray all over the engine bay.
Once you get the subframe off its really plain sailing, you could do it in about 7 hours.
The hardest part is keeping the release bearing in whilst trying to attach the box back to the block.