Flaminsam

Hey welcome along. I work with a bloke that used to live in south africa. Spot on lad. Not to be a Dick here or anything but that is a filter. If it was a one way valve it would get a vac signal then stay as a vacuum. Its there to prevent any muck or debris getting into the sensor itself and giving a false reading.

I've re conditioned some for my housemates 200sx just cut the old collars off then wire wheeled the threaded part of the shock. Some places needed a thread file to restore the threads to their former glory. Also when using a vice I would encorage the use of soft jaws. I used 2 pieces of alloy angle iron. Works just as well as soft jaws.

@snow the tester probably followed the manual.

Nope, every vehicle is due for a emmissions test when it comes to mot. The vehicle may fail a cat test, but then after that the tester should look into a vehicle specific test. These are the limits the manufacturer has supplied to vosa when the vehicle was new. Problem is with imports, no specifications are given to vosa. So the vehicle must meet minimum requirements found in the testers manual. Hence a non cat test.

Lol ask for a vehicle specific cat test. They don't have starlet gt or glanza on the emissions testers in the uk. Therefore it gets tested as a non cat test. Says it in the mot testers manual.

Starlet is locked away for now. So chances are I'll be writing off the vitara.

The vitara dog is now back on the road so I'm all prepaired for this white stuff.

Will be easier to just put a engine in it. If your doing the bottom end any who you could do with the engine out. Why not put another engine in the car and rebuild the bottom end one with forged goodies?