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feel really bad for you, sorry i knew you were a girl i put him by accident ha ha!!! you read it before i could edit it lol. Is strange though, in 4 years of starlet ownership i have seen maybe 2-3 posts on melted pistons and those were usually due to injector failure etc, now i have seen two posts in the same month!! I was convinced timing was the problem, now with you as well I am certain with it, either that or we have just be REALLY unlucky lol!!

I am going back to TD next Thursday, so i will get them to double check everything, particularly timing!

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Ha ha thanks for the comments, although what is the issue with running standard fuel lines, they are metal pipes the same as the ep82 and there were clean as a whistle, as for the hitting the rev limiter while i was running it in, I had already done over 1000 miles on the engine so it was well run in already!! So would appreciate you not talking utter shite, pistons dont melt because you built a bad engine. Its down to timing/fueling or the map! Reading this i am livid though with funny onions car, the piston damage is EXACTLY the same as mine WTF!!! All 4 of mine had gone too while drivin

It looks like it was a timing problem by all accounts, right pain the butt that one! I have just dropped the can with the engine still to have the bores honed and take 0.001" off, hoping to have the bores all cleaned up for the new pistons and rings. Then its a mad dash to put it all back together by next Thursday for a lovely drive to Manchester!! Loads to do and it doesnt help that I am working outside, so weather is a big factor! Hoping to get the car back tomorrow, so i can start putting it back together on the weekend, then i can run the piston rings in just before i go up

you can run the TD04 on the stock ECU and stock injectors no problem, you just need a RRFPR and a FCD, you can run 200hp no problem at 1.0bar on the stock ECU or if you get it mapped with emanagement blue you can probably hit 200hp running less boost at more like 0.8-0.9bar which will be more friendly to your stock internals. It is worth spending £50 on an uprated walbro fuel pump though to ensure you get decent fuel rail pressure, the stock one will do but it will be old and not worth running the risk. Hope that helps I have made a TD04 guide for starlets on you tube, search my u

I'll be honest i came very close to just breaking it all at one point!

ha ha tell me about it.

Yes it will be back together in no time, its just a kick in the teeth when it happens!

Operation rebuid here we go! Bitten the bullet and started to get things in motion to get the car back on the road for Japfest (will be a miricale if i can pull it off). So ANOTHER set of forged pistons arrived today from tuning developments Here is the worst melted piston, i can give these then for the JAE trophies once i have finished with them, you can see they are royally fucked. Shiney new ones, this is what they should look like lol I wasnt happy with the bores either, there are minor score marks in all 4 bores, nothing major you can feel but you

Anyone got a HG for sale, PM me

nice to see another 70, were a rare breed these days!

yeah i'll let you know Ryan, cheers.

mines on hold not sure what i am doing at the minute

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I just spoke to wossner in america and he reckon i can take off 0.001" without any problems which works out as 0.0254mm doesnt sound like much but its all i need to clean the bores up, gonna give them a quick hone to remove some of the very light scoring which you can see but cant feel, no doubt caused by the pistons melting!!

I need another HG to rebuid mine, if you can do a better price on this msg me

I need to find out what the tollerance specs are for the bores after a rehone for 74.5mm pistons, i.e how big can the bores be to a thousandth before they go out of spec?

Here we go again, Ordered the forged pistons and rebooked to go back to tuning developments for the 25th April. In fairness they are putting it back on the rollers free of charge to retest it as a gesture of good will. Lets hope it works out better this time eh!

Such as shame its gone like this, i liked James. Looks like its just spirraled out of control now, i guess if you paid by paypal I would be all over the dispute option. No way would i risk going past the claim date!

Yeah i have noticed there is alot of shit on there lately, but i guess thats down to who your friends are and what they post, clearly mine post lots of shit ha ha

Not sure but my engine had a decked block, skimmed head so it was smooth as a babys bottom and it was still weeping oil after being torqued down with ARP head bolts. It wasnt leaking as such, but you could see a thin film of oil going around the head against the block, definetly not a proper seal. I wont use Athena again

thats partially true The head bolts can be reused up to 10 x if they are ARP, the crank bolts can be reused as many times as you like. They are not torque any where near the levels of the head so can be treated as normal bolts. ARP do sell crank bolts but they usually come with new rods. So in a nutshell, yes if you have too The crank cap bolts are also the same and again can be reused

Yes Adam has got it spot on

i went td04