Search results

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Certainly will be

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion But you're too used to driving a lardy arse Mk2... It will all end in tears.

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Yawn. The Mk1 is fine, and that's all I'm bothered about really... end of!

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Looking for all the nuts and bolts that had been 'misplaced' lol

Probably, never looked... I paid £5 for the brackets and already had a Mk1 alternator (which is the same alt the volvos use).. so was far cheaper

1.8 yeah, we've had them off volvo 340's before too, the small rwd ones

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Well it certainly must have been a f*cked head/rocker cover beforehand, as the cams that came with the matching head spin perfectly in it. Whoever built it up must have used parts from anything and everything. Timed it up earlier and span it over numerous times...

They are on lots Kevo, 8v is more common, same lump as the Mk1 RSi

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Its just a matter of giving it a try - problem is you need time/space/spare money to have a project that goes into that much depth. You'l be surprised how much you learn..

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Noope really, and I'm sure he will agree, he did not know anything (bar fitting seats and fitting coilovers in the past) before doing the car, never mind the engine. The easiest way to learn is just to do it, as he found out last night. I did the first couple of...

Mk1 172 for fun... and a Passat TDi for pulling it round...

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Hes a plumber/gas engineer, lol. I've just been showing him what to do and telling him to do it so he learns as he goes along after doing these engines for years

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Thought so, must be then. The dimensions differed quite a bit when I had a quick measure before

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Yeah, used an 'OEM' one as I've done on mine previous times, from the same supplier etc. Should be reet. The pics don't really show the rocker well, fair amount of 'dirty' oil on them with sh*te/swarf in, gone now anyway... got the matching one with this head which...

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Tasty...

Cambelt is tensioned with a 6mm allen key then the nut torqued. Aux belt as its own tensioning tool which is probably what you are thinking of...

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Here you go Rob - It was perfectly flat beforehand (so would have been fine), but 5 thou was removed anyway to be absolutely sure. All cleaned too in the kitchen dishwasher...

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Some pictures of the f*cked rocker cover...

Only way to be sure is to measure.. ruler from center of bolt to center of bolt with the car on full lock or the wheel off

Crank pin fits in the bottom right hand corner of the block looking from the front, flywheel end. Its an E-Torx bit to remove the bolt/cap for the hole usually, although its sometimes been replaced with a hex head bolt... The pulley tool holds them still for removing/tightening/setting timing...

Im not sure about the 1.4, but this is what most use the tools for on here... Couple of ways - either look for the timing mark on the flywheel when you are spinning it over, or get the slots on the end of the cams level, or get cylinder 1 to TDC by taking spark plug out and putting something...

M10 ones are 57nm M8 one is 29nm

Caliper off and moved out of the way, Hub nut and disc off, then the stub axle bolts are a torx head, with nuts on the back. 3 are one size with 16mm nuts (I think) and the other is a 12mm nut. Undo those and the stub axle will be loose, put shim in and bolt back together....

Horseshoe goes into the end of the cams.... crank pin goes in the front of the block... other one goes on the pully end to immobilize them...

Arty lol

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Doh, oh well. They were only a quid each anyway, would cost more in diesel to come and get them lol.

This was cost price at Renault in 2009..

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Well as mentioned earlier in the thread we picked up a replacement cylinder head to go on the engine to avoid any more f*cking about - better to do it right than go on hope, I've seen/had it happen too many times in the past. After the cams wouldnt turn we...

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion 10 of them would squeeze in and out by hand very easily like most others Ive seen before.. He means the others were sort of 'hydrolocked' and would not budge (stuck in the expanded position) unless put in a vice and squashed to f**k, even grips wouldnt budge them...

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Aye more than likely, absolute joke. The cam journals on the head itself are OK, but the cover is a lot worse. Wierd how the lobes look worn but the actual rockers look new when removed! All the other f*ckabouts ive come across on this site have sold us dodgy...