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It will still crank even if the immob is active... It immobilises the injectors/coilpack if its active - the UCH is what runs the immobiliser and stores the code, if the correct key is present the UCH just sends a signal to a pin on the ECU to let it know everything is 'ok to start' so to speak...

lol, mine was the same for ages. Just gimme a text whenever

People on here say they have cleaned them and regreased with success, but ive done mine 4 or 5 times now and it didnt make much difference. I rigged it up with some heavy duty industrial elastic bands like so: It just returns the TB that last millimeter perfectly..Got millions of them in the...

You need the 's pipe' and a small pipe to go from the top of the header tank to the top of the thermostat housing (next to coilpack in my picture)

Big ends - one on engine block, one on bottom of rad Two small ones next to each other - heater matrix One small one (opposite the other two^) - Thermostat housing One small one on its own - Bottom of header tank

You mean the red cut off switch? Ive removed it and just joined the wires. I kept going over bumps in the road and it would go off and cut the car out!

With regards to the other one... You can see the small pipe to the left of my coilpack, that needs a hose from it to the top hole on the 172 header tank (Ignore where mine goes as I have my header tank in the scuttle panel)

Yeah you could do - I had it fitted at first (well or so I thought it was) and it was quite a bit longer/different shape and went down then back up... Had a bit of a kink in it as the space between the engine and rad is alot smaller in a Mk1. Probably be cheaper to go down a local scrapper and...

One small one from the top of the thermostat housing to the top hole on the header tank. Header tank only has two outlets One 'S-Bend' one from front of thermostat housing to the top of the rad - I used one from a fiesta as its a better fit in the Mk1 Looks like... Chopped the end off...

Wonder which would be quicker, this or Scoffs 5 @ 10.37/144mph, both road legal! Nice result anyway, seen a few vids floating round on youtube recently

Doh, cant make it that weekend, oh well.

when it does it look at the throttle body itself on the back, if you can turn the black bit slightly towards the closed position and the idle goes down - it means its sticking... Talking only 1mm of movement but you need to see/try it to tell...

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Yeah - the other ones were ok with no play or noise before but they had to come apart to do the conversion I guess... Thing is too, someone I know owns a very large nationwide bearing supply company, every type you could think of - I thought he would be able...

Good work - glad to see its finally getting there! I suppose you could just shorten the cat on the exhaust/center section side which would allow you to run any Mk1 fitment exhaust too

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project I would think you can probably get away with running the studs without taking material off the stub axle, but I didn't want to risk it and press them together with new bearings and find out they caught on the upright - as it would be a pair of bearings...

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project My tool/crane/spares rental rates should do me well that weekend then, wonder if it will be you or Adam? lol

The clio :)

Welcome - what year is it?

More than likely £20+ a go due to being proper metal, machined up specifically and treated for what they were being used for though - hence them being fine! Ive seen similar priced steel ones for sale in the past that had been tempered/heat treated

Depends on condition, milage, age etc. PM me some details too if you dont mind, I could be interested in it

Yeah, just on the front. There was one or two people who ive seen convert the rears to a hub based setup (to run bigger rear disks) on another Mk1 forum, but its hardly worth it for me. The fronts take far more load/stress and I dont really need to worry about the back :)

21, lol. And exactly... Im glad to be having some fun now before I get tied up with anything serious! Far from ruining it - you'l be glad you did it once its all working. Yeah the value of the actual car will take a knock, but the £ for £ performance increase if its been well thought out and...

You can - but it would mean unwinding the studs and screwing them into the new set of discs when you want to swap them as the thread is in the disc.. unfortunately no hub on the rear!

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Exactly something I didnt not want to do... Id rather spend time making my own 'one off' parts, making stuff fit where other people said it wouldnt and sourcing my own components/parts rather than through retailers (hence the high build cost of some...

I thought they were going to be w*nk in the rain, as everyone always moans about them being... I did a trackday in the pissing rain at Rockingham, which everyone moans about having standing water, and they were perfectly fine - just dropped the pressures a bit. All the comments have to be just...

Well that lasted long - I ran Security Essentials upto now but im getting fed up of it firing svchost.exe upto 99 CPU usage every time the PC boots, I have to end the task then I loose network access/audio drivers until I restart the services. Its all the latest version, latest def's etc - just...

Ah, I see what you mean now - im sure I have one somewhere il have a hunt

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1st Picture is Alternator Connector (For Alternator/Battery Light on the dashboard) the green stub is just a cover for the spare pin, it only has one wire (for the dashboard light) 2nd Picture is Power Steering Pressure Sensor - Not sure about it having oil on it but I dont think the sensor...

Lucky the guide he used tells you to take the RPM signal from the ECU ;)