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I know!!! what a fool, I do it every time.
You are more than welcome to take it out on Sunday Ken - Its a single seater, so you'll have to be brave and go out on your own!
These don't appear anymore.
Why?
Are RStuning still going?!
We should arrange. I vote for Jim (Leeds_182), because he isn't in Leeds and doesn't own a 182.
And we were doing so well!!!!! Arrrrgggh.
Went for a spin after resolving most of the niggles and could smell burning rubber or plastic. And the suspected clutch noise was getting worse! It didn't seem to matter whether the clutch was in or out either!
Popped the bonnet with the engine...
Re: My new project - 106 GTI
Excellent read.
Very similar (in fact, in places, Identical to my VTS thread!).
In terms of brakes, you could go to the GTI6 caliper setup. I have and it is superb - 283mm. You could even stick the GTI6 master cylinder on there as well, although I had mixed...
Update
After Cadwell and the wash out, I thought that would be the last trackday for 2012. A rare opportunity has arisen to do an invite only day at Blyton and rather than turn it away - I dusted off the wallet.
I went round to see the car after it had been sat for a bit. I started first...
http://www.saxperience.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-394627.html
Lol. The guy who I bought them off has posted in here with the same issue as me!
Doh.
Sorted anyway.
Well, they are marked in and ex. The exhaust profile or tip of the lobe looks more pointy than the inlet one, which in my opinion seems sound.
Even so, the height of the lobes don't appear to be at fault, it's the width of the casting near the journals. It looks as if the lobes are too wide (in...
Thanks Mick.
Checked the site and it said the only thing to worry about was stock timing would potentially cause an idling issue and to r****d the inlet by up to 2 degrees - fook all about them not fitting. They're massed produced too - stuck in a million saxo's/106's etc - no one seems to have...