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from the report's i've heard they know what they're doing, £225 is just for labour i assume?
cambelt kit is £150, 172 cup (non aircon) aux belt is about £12, plus the core plugs at £12
i'd run a blade round the edge about 5mm in, cut off all the s**t paint, sand it, acid etch it then paint it with some white hammerite or similar, it'll be reet then
yes indeed, he bought all the bits off moteur huger, built it himself, turned out huger sent a load of bits that were wrong and the engine s**t itself a few times, swindon race engines built it in the end and its been spot on since
blue one??? he's the only road car in the uk with them, his is about 350bhp (but its a 3.5 stroker engine with custom cams etc)
there's a lot of rallycross boys running them on their engines
drives fine, haven't thrashed it but it goes fine upto 5000rpm
its meant to have high comp pistons in it
rockers are all find and cam lobes were all identical
the thing is it was ok before, something has happened to it on the test drive to cause the rattle (sounds like there is a nut rattling...
all or nothing fella
only 2 people have fitted the RS front bumper to standard front wings, but it requires the bumper being customised etc
skirts don't fit non RS wings
you need wings, bumper and skirts and rear bumper
well according to the owner the car was taken for a test drive buy the potential new owner, who's obviously ragged it, but the car was low on oil (no warning light) then the noise started
the owner has put in 4/5L of new oil in and then it came to me 4 days after having new oil, i drained the...
right there's no noise coming from the dephaser (i ran the engine with the covers off) haven't bothered changing it as i don't see the point
its had a different set of tappets thrown in
interestingly the noise seems to be coming from the plenham which is very odd
i'm 300% baffled by this car!