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Stagea was my next guess. Sweet looking motors never the less!

Looking mega. Is that a Mercedes you're parked next to?

Very nice. Definitely room for a few more Starlets in there that's for sure!

Probably best place to start your research is having a look at what WEPR have achieved with their GT.

Nice bud.

JDM Flare

Yeah that would make sense, since they're harmonically dampened. You're really lucky that that's the worst. I heard when they go, they explode!

Mate that don't half look the business with that pipe on it So rude!

Love it. OCD is a good thing!

No, but what I was saying was white is a very common colour for those Starlets and you had such a unique colour for it. Almost a shame to have changed it, even more so if that was the original colour. Looking sweet though.

That was quite a unique colour before. Was that the original colour?

Just looks like it's an EP80 with the way you've managed to fit that in there.

The JDM EP82 lights are glass as well, non-GT. I imported a set from Japan. But do differ. Ended exporting them to Africa lol. Nice chap got them

The cam belt tension idler pulley runs a bearing, if it's old and the bearings worn and or dry it could be that.

Could be the idler tensioner pulley. How loud is it?

What are the benefits?

I feel like you are being pretty harsh Padders, as I said on TGTT, we're not all mechanics and some of us like to learn. He's not harming anyone by having a go and is probably learning a lot. Sorry we're not all professionally trained but there are a lot of gearheads on here who got where they are today by making mistakes and learning from them And we're all friends here, if you got a question, instead of randomly searching Piston Heads, why not throw it up on here and let some of us answer those questions. I hear the only stuff worth using for the Sump is this VW stuff, it's not cheap though. Either way mate, keep persisting. It's all a learning experience and these engines are pretty forgiving. As I say, lots of expertise on here, I would ignore Paddy, he was calling me stupid on TGTT for asking questions...

The issue with the rod is you've now made a place where stress's and fractures can occur. When these sorts of parts are made, they're treated to stop fractures occuring. When you expose the metal like that, and introduce angles, you're allow for cracks a place to start. I'm not a mechanic, but I've done a lot of reading up on metals under load, and that's what I've read about. Not sure if it applies here, but I'd imagine it would. If this were me, it would be crank out to be treated and put back in. But someone with more knowledge will be able to shed some more light here.

You do realise MCM is for entertainment purposes only right? I would literally take what they say with a pinch of salt.

Ah that's really interesting. As I say more technical than your average Joe, but not impossible to understand. But I guess it comes back to my original point, the RCA must be made to suit the cars geometry then?

Yeah, I just meant for the average Joe it does require some specialist knowledge? I certainly wouldn't know how to set it all up.

Oh that's cool. What are the plans for this? Restore or modify?

That's really interesting. But isn't this designed based off your cars needs.

Wow, it's making stock power at 4250 RPM. And that powerband mind. Bet that feels pretty awesome!

You'll wanna read that then bud.