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This morning I gave the head a retorque and reset the tappets to pipers values 0.25 inlet and 0.30 exhaust (bit big?). Adjusted the base timing a little on the ECU as the 36-1 is back on in a slightly different place. Ecu has plenty of adjustment though so all is good. Fresh oil and filter on to...

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And we are in and running! Fuel from a jerry can but I wanted to get it fired up and revved to get the cam bed in and allow it too cool overnight. I can do the retorque of the head and reset the tappets tomorrow along with a oil and filter change. little tappy and idle is struggling, love that...

I had a valver engine in a 5gtt once, ran a little lumpy with higher revs at idle, once hot it would revs its tits off, had a crack in the inlet that only showed itself when hot hot.

Smoke check for air leaks in the pvc or manifold. Can you see what the throttle is doing when its revving high? checked the throttle pedal output? is the ecu requesting it or is it a mechanical fault

Super quick service from the guys/girls at piper. Turned up this afternoon so spent some time this evening getting it bob on. Ive left the timing cover off for now. Next up will fitting the valve springs, followed by a test fit of the head, checking for piston to valve contact and making sure...

And I have found my new favourite job on an 8..... fuel tank removal. Im sure the Haynes manual told me I need to drop the axle and engine only 2 inches. Yeah I needed alot more than that and I have no head on the block. With some assistance from the wife and kids the fuel tank has now been...

After some chatting to sparkie ref N/A tuning the 1397 I contacted piper cams and asked for a custom grind camshaft. A little back and forth and they have one on grind for me (y) So off with the head and I whipped out the old cam ready for the new one. Cam is a 288 degree with a shave over...

Decided to do some more tinkering and digging around. Opted to buy myself some kit that allows me to bench flash and obd flash many ecus, but also the dc4 getrag TCU! If you remember I had my original TCU fail, bought a Chinese supplied item but it didn't work correctly and i was told it had...

About a week ago, the car threw a gearbox warning fault (could be tied to the emissions issue/fault in the above video though mpg has improved) Decided to do some more tinkering and digging around. Opted to buy myself some kit that allows me to bench flash and obd flash many ecus, but also the...

I'm not sure what's come over me, I couldn't bring myself to start ripping the engine back out...

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the last f4rt I built up I used parts from engine dynamics (try TurboRenault as a discount code) Id leave the oil pump and mains, I've also used second hand rod bolts with no issues. Plasti gauge is good for checking clearances (y), stock new head bolts were fine for the thicker HG too

Want to change your pre cat lambda but not sure how? Watch Adey's easy change, DIY video guide (y) 😁

got an angle or bench grinder? not too hard to add a fresh tip to a drill bit

been there done that, drill the head off, easy really. small bit down the middle then keep stepping up (y)

Threw some wax on today just to assist for a while, it'll do(y) nothing much else left to do other than drive it for now. Then look to finally start the turbo engine build, all being well by the end of this month

I didn't realise how faded the paint work was, it has been way too long since I've cleaned it. Started with a rinse off at the local car wash then busted out the polisher. Comes up well considering the age, need to get something on there to try and keep it looking like that for longer, any...

i think there are a varying level of faults in these, all heat or age related. Capacitor didn't work for myself and neither did the import tcu, that said it might be perfect but just needs the correct data flashing on it. May look into this for the future when my replacement TCU eventually fails

It has active charging, the alternator only charges when needed. There's a voltage sensor on the battery that reads this.

Didn't work for me, had the incorrect firmware, I threw my toys out of the pram and fitted a tcu from a breaker. Working fine now. Pretty sure you remove 6 screws and the top pcb board pulls off the bottom one.

So after nearly 8 weeks away its back on the driveway. I've not started refitting the interior yet but have cracked on with the headlights and indicators. I did originally put yellow tint on the new larger units but decided to remove them as I did a curse word job at the edges. Cars looking...

Jim's been giving me regular updates, I was passing today so popped in to drop some parts off and take a look at the progress. All being well I may get it back by the end of the week, Excited and very pleased with the work on the rusty 8, should give it a few more years of life for sure

Haven't updated this much as I've had a shite recovery with further complications but have had the odd picture update Lots of metal removed, more that could be seen but expected, and some replacement panels made up

no, a little more. 250 rods and pistons, 1.9mm gasket, 172 inlet and exhaust cams, 19t hybrid turbo, meg 250 injectors and map sensors. Exhaust cam was a bit spicy for the stock megane exhaust manifold and rear housing. This was stuffed into a twingo with a diesel gearbox, was spicy on the road.

I ran a 1.9mm cometic gasket, was trying to drop the comp pretty low for bigger boost, was running 304/300 on that.