You never mentioned rattling, you stated "it helps mesh the 2 gears better " They mesh together fine even when you dont tension the cam gear, hence i posted what i did.
Factory settings wont cut it due to the material used in manufacturing the head bolts are diffirent!! Mine are done per ARP and i never had any issues torquing them down.
Without worrying about tyres, why not learn what your car is going to do on normal road tyres? Learn how the car moves about before splashing the cash on R888 etc. I usually find the folk that have never been on track or very little soon fall off with there super duper tyres... Yep you geaussed it in-experience. Food for thought.
Yeah ive done it, but i never had time to make a guide. You will need as much room as possible, so seats and all plastics out from around the gear knob etc. Then be methodical and start taking it out.
The engine loom is a piece of cake to change, on the other hand the interior loom is a compete ball ache (dashboard out etc etc) And for the CD player plugs etc you will need to change the interior loom.
From the metal pipe from the water pump? Sounds like its over heating and pressurising the system. Where is the fan located? outdide or inside? Indide should suck, outside should blow.
When you say cam cover, do you mean the actual cam cover or the cam pulley cover? Theres nothing really under the cam cover that would give a tractor like noise? Unless theres something gone really wrong. Whip the cam puley cover off and have a look in there. Are you sure its not coming from the exhaust manifold?
Fuck me the ring gap on the 4e build, you could get a bus through that!! Who ever done that needs shot. The ring gap you have went for, is that within standard specs?
Unlucky Sparky. Are you going to find out what caused the problem? DET, lean burn, ring gap etc etc You could rebuild it and it could do it again, id be wanting to know what caused it in the first place.