rorenapier

Temps are you seeing with the cooler in place?

From what ive read, its being broken due to a dodgy head gasket. (Thats what i read between the lines anyway)

Idree's your a nugget if you do.

The seat belt points are more than fine. If the MSA "Blue book" says its ok for racing then im sure a track day wont give you any problems.

My own car has been through scrutineering at events and has caused no issue.

Mounting belts on any brace, Strut bar, C pillar etc is a recipe for disaster.

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.

Doesnt help mesh anything, it stops the inlet cam rattling.

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.

The ARP bolts will need to be torqued to ARP specs. Factory ones will not do.

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.

What was the outcome of your new motor?

Out of cusiousity, are the wheels 14 or 15"? And where did you pic em up from?

Was the block checked for being flat?

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.

I would, it doesnt take long to fit one. Even if you have to make up the lines it doesnt take long.

If your going on track then use a good high quality fully synthetic. Has a higher shear rating, and better protection.

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.

Not so Sparky, yes you could change the polarity around, but think about the fan blade direction.

If its blowing then all you need to do is swap the two wires round to reverse it.

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?

Remove the blanking plugs from the 2 top ports, and plug the other 2 bottom ports, and try that.

Well well well, i thought you would never compete with it Sean?

has cars been picked yet??i might enter

how much does it cost all in spud

Anyway, i might pop down, ill see how things are at the time.

Double check your cam timing

Did your pistons and rings not come with the spec sheet for the gaps etc? Still a sore one to stomach all the same.

Lets just hope this one is better.

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?

Not just the engine as a variable here either, remember it was being mapped at the time.

Person behind the lap top is another variable.

i wouldnt say stock pistons and rings are shit at all. theres loads of starlets running 100+bhp over their stock power out put from the factory, with some of these engines over 20 years old now. i ran a td05 setup for around 2 years with no issues ect. or look at mini valvers making 252bhp, that gets abuse every time its taken out, its seen 165mph a few times now too, last 1/4 mile day it did 25 runs maybe more no bother. something must have been wrong with your engine for it to fail all of a sudden on the rollers.

I hope you are going to find out what caused the cylinder to drop comression, and not just break it??