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Doubt Il be going this year, complete waste of time going last year, especially in mine, nothings changed in the 3 times ive been! Id rather spend the money in fuel/entry/hotel on a trackday TBF.

Electric Speedo FTW eh ;)

Apparently so, I found the same when I was looking for one a while back. Are you a member on Clio16Valver? Im sure someone over there will have a good working condition one if you post up in the wanted section.

I tried to get a video of mine doing it on the way home last night, but im pretty much sure its something gearbox/flywheel/clutch related (i.e. just the nature of them). Il try and get a little clip later, to see if its the same thing as yours lol

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project Ah cool, thanks for the advice. So would I be right in saying, if you were moving at the same speed - A fast wire speed would result in a 'tall/high' weld, and a slower wire speed a 'flatter' weld?

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project Might try slowing the feed down then. When I was trying joining two pieces of scrap CDS on the lowest setting, with about 50% wire speed, it was kind of 'blowing' through the CDS (1.6mm wall), kind of as if there was too many amps...

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project After tidying up the welds where the old lower door bar used to be a few days ago, I decided to set about getting the two new ones level and tacked into place. Once I got them spot on angle wise, and tacked into place all was good. Then thought f*ck it and...

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project PM'd ;)

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project Well as you can see this one is only a 130amp'er too! Replaced the liner and put the fresh wire in not so long ago, made a massive difference to the smoothness of the feed, just spent a few hours playing around...far easier to get it to do what you want...

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project What welder are you using wookie?

My throttle body was cleaned and refitted with a new gasket less than 500 miles ago...

Mine does it but its like through the whole car with the 5 engine mounts. I always put it down the box/clutch and just dont really think about it now... But saying that its only at very light throttle and very low speeds in mine, no difference between cold + hot either.

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project Just been and picked up a new reel of wire, couple of tips and a new liner for the torch wire, so tomorrow probably.

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project 0.6mm or 0.8mm? 5kg reels? Not something I want to be hearing lol!

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project Yeah, ive done some TIG welding before, but never had the cash to buy a decent enough TIG Welder. So just went with MIG this time as a starting point! Stripped it down before and cleaned up all the feed mech, started having a play and ran out of wire...

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project Hah, nothing really. I got it the lot silly cheap from someone, and its something ive been meaning to learn for AGES. Ive done bits before, but will be perfect for me to use it to tack all the new cage bars into place ready for a mate to weld them up...

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project This should keep me entertained for a while :sleepy:

Defo sounds like a worn engine mount with the relation to the throttle. Open the bonnet and try and pull/push the engine, see how much movement there is

Least I can have my piston back now innit.

Its untouched on the exhaust side, flange is still there as it would be standard, just the other bent end that goes to the manifold has been cut off and was used to make a downpipe for mine. If you cant get hold of one and you think you can get it onto your system you can have it for nothing...

Seen them go on here time after time for £30ish second hand, steve79 might have some available. I have one sat around but it has no downpipe section on it, its just the cat box which would be useless to you Im guessing...I really should make the effort and scrap it in for some money.

3.3ohm is what I used when I had my Mk2 to turn the airbag/pretensioner light off with non-standard seats fitted.

Pretty sure thats Ph1, can double check in the morning

Just a different spacer on idler pulley IIRC

Upto :)

Ever measured them? Get the tape measure out next time youve got the wheel off... Ive got my pics of the valver + williams arms next to tape measures somewhere...

Sounds fast :rasp:

No, from the 5 Valver Racks and 3 Williams Racks ive had (weather the people on C16V believe it or not), not to mention the other ones ive seen... Valver = Male Arms, Female Track Rod Ends Williams = Longer Female Arms, Male Track Rod Ends Four different part numbers for the track rod ends...

Yeah afaik.

Its the arms that are longer... They are the Male track rod ends as the Willy rack has Female arms