Idrees

Sweet choice

Marc, I've gone with the factory settings now. See how it goes

GT ftw - no doubt about it.

All the problems I've had? My old 4E gave me trouble a few times due to burning oil and that was due to the machine shop boring it too much. I put some pictures up to show the piston gaps, lesson learnt that I should have measured them just to check. And this is the first problem I've had with the 5E. Reusing a ZEP headgasket and ARP bolts isn't cutting corners... If you binned them then thats fair enough. I believe that the best way to learn is by giving it a go, and that's exactly what I've done. I'm not bothered about the first engine as that just helped me learn a whole load more! Do you think the best engine builders out there were born with a special talent? Bet they've screwed a few before and learnt from their mistakes.

It's water, cleaned it all up now. The headgasket looks absolutely fine and has no wear or damage showing at all. #4 isn't distorted its just the water making it look like that. Streetracer sounds about right, that's the piston that had most water sitting on it when looking down the spark plug hole. I've refitted the head now, I'll get it running and see how it goes. Also they are ARP bolts and they don't stretch so they're good to use again.

I've noticed that piston #1 is rather clean, while the other 3 have a layer of carbon already. The engines done 1k miles and these pistons were not brand new, Oem FTE pistons that had just been cleaned. Before: 1k miles later: #1 #2 #3 #4 What could be causing this? The car isn't burning oil at all but oil and water has been mixing recently. I've reused the Zep headgasket a few times and maybe it's time for a new one, I don't want to assemble it until I know what the problem is! Cheers Idrees

Breathing mods to start with; Port the stock manifold, front mounted intercooler, decat, exhaust.

The cylinder head is back off now, suspected headgasket problem but I think it was due to not torquing the ARP headbolts enough. I was going to retorque them and put it back together but then decided to remove the head to inspect the gasket, and it's in good shape so it just needs to be put back together now.

Awesome piece of kit

Paid £45, so that's a stand pass and one session for now. I'll pay for another track session soon. 1. Ryan lang, TT x 1 - PAID 2. Jade_star - PAID 3. Mark tozer TT x 1 4. Taggy 5. kidV 6. Idrees - 1x track sessions PAID 7. Nastyrash2003 8. Liam D 9. Rhys (my buddy who looks like hes wafting a fart in taggy's vid) in his transporter 10. Electranova + 1 Passenger 11. Raffa MK TT x 1 12. Dan507 TT x 1 + 1 Passenger

Which is 81.4nm so I need to redo them. I wonder if the HG has survived..

Just had a brain wave, should the ARPs be torque'd to 60ft lb instead of 60nm? I don't have the instruction sheet so can't check, maybe I've under torqued them. Plugs are brown ish grey, and no it doesn't smell of coolant. Rad fan is on constantly. Engine has been rebuilt by us, it was a low mileage 5E-FHE when I bought it. The inlet vac pipe is on correctly, it's a 1.2mm ZEP gasket.

Hi, The Glanza has given symptoms of headgasket failure; Overheating Losing water - it's mixing with the oil Occasional white smoke Running on 3 cylinders I'm using ARP head bolts that I didn't retorque after 500 miles, so I removed the cams to retorque them now that I've done 1k miles. They were all tight (60nm) apart from the top two corner ones on either side, which were a tiny tiny bit loose (20 degrees on the torque wrench or so) So we've put the engine back together after retiming it etc, found a tiny leak on the thermostat housing so resealed that and took it for a drive today. Within the first 5 minutes of driving it ran on 3 cylinders again, found one lead had come off the distributor so put that back on and it was just the same. Got home and did a compression test: Cylinder 1 -165 Cylinder 2 - 159 Cylinder 3 - 162 Cylinder 4 - 169 That's on a warm engine with WOT I also removed the intercooler pipe off the throttle body, turned it over but no smoke came out of there. Another thing I found is that the water system isn't pressured extra, I can open the radiator cap within 5 minutes of turning the car off and it won't come flying off with a load of pressure. Any thoughts on what else to check? Or shall I just whip the head back off and inspect the gasket? Cheers guys Idrees Ps. When driving it on the motorway it's absolutely fine. I've done 2 120 mile trips and it's never failed on the motorway, but as soon as I arrive at my destination it overheats and wants more water.

Thanks for popping in, nice to hear from you. Congrats on the wedding and house!

Amazing pictures, I'm changing my POTM entry! On another note, I've purchased an oil cooler kit. Will order a thermostat for it too.

Make sure the person doing it doesn't started cutting the lip off the inner arch. I did mine at home too

1. Ryan lang, TT x 1 2. Jade_star 3. Mark tozer 4. Taggy 5. kidV 6. Idrees - 2x track sessions 7. Nastyrash2003 8. Liam D 9. Rhys (my buddy who looks like hes wafting a fart in taggy's vid) in his transporter 10. Electranova + 1 Passenger 11. Raffa MK TT x 1

What injectors do you need? I've got a set of FHE spares, you can have them as a freebie too with the exhaust manifold.

Two words - F**kin awesome. Well done

Just a few shots I took on my camera, not the best but some are alright! An awesome day out! Last minute repairs before going on track, the fan stopped working so my mate Usman wired it with a live feed. Shaq ready for the drivers seat, helped me loads with the car so let him take it on first! Notice my Honda addicton

Worth a try

Cheers mate that would be super! Thanks Josh, sorry mate we'll have a proper chat the next time I see you! Cheers Luke, I'll be on the hunt for some nice 15s when funds allow! Thanks Lewis, means a lot! I didn't expect them to approach me that's all! Treated the car to a lovely set of Volks wheel nuts too.. And more Japfest pictures.. Usman & Moi

Nice pics, all 3 of these looked super clean at Japfest!

Cheers Liam, was nice to meet you again too. If you could pics in here that would be awesome!

As you already know, we managed to attend Japfest in the end. Planned to have more of it finished, ie the sideskirt fitted properly and the spoiler fitted but we ran out of time. I was really surprised with the amount of interest the car actually gathered, including an offer from Japanese Performance for a full feature! A few pictures from my phone, I'll add a video and more pictures when my camera stops playing up. There's an awful problem with the steering which made is really poor to drive, especially on track. So many times the car felt like it was sliding towards the other side of the track, felt really dangerous. It wasn't long til I decided it's not ready for track yet! Things that need sorted before it goes on track again: Steering 15" wheels as the 16s don't feel good on track Rear ARB fitted Rear strut brace Oil cooler as it now reaches 120 degrees More boost!