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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?

Unfortnately the oil seal is fitted into the oil pump assembly. So its quite a involved job really. Need to take bottom timing pulley off too, they can be tight!

Or you can be dangerous like me. Get a 2ft strong arm with a socket on the bolt (19mm iirc?) then get a assistant to flick the engine over on the starter motor while holding the bar against the floor. That's how I did charls on my drive before I got my lock up.

That's a easy way to ruin 12k. Glad she is OK though.

Thought it was September 97? Could be wrong though. U got your class 1 now phil or is it your class 2?

You can tow a maximum of 750 kg on your cat b licence. Or you can tow a maximum combination of car and trailer up to 3.5t as long as the trailer does not exceed 750kg. Also the gross train weight must not exceed the towing vehicles limit. To confuse things even more the gross train weight can be exceeded if the trailer is braked. Confusing I know. This is what I can understand from it any who.

4GB? Or is it the 250GB?

Have you actually read the item description? They are breaking the car. I would be very supprised if they don't wriggle out of it saying it was a breaking advert.

Agreed the rear ones are longer to miss out the two seperate pipes. Fitted a set to charls car.

Mazda 3 MPs? They are a 2.3l?

I use castrol transynd in mine. Castrol tes-295. Designed for automatic gearboxes with excellent shock loading and anti foaming properties. Works well with my LSD and no crunches on cold mornings.

Thing is though chaps and chappettes, most people in the country have debt. How many people actually own their house? Also if you don't take out finance nowadays you struggle to get a decent mortgage later on in life. The way I see it is if you understand the Apr and how much it is actually going to cost in the long run then that's your decision. You worked for your money, you spend it how you see fit.

Yea that's correct. If you get them the wrong way round your steering will go light when you accelerate but will be heavy on tick over I believe?

The aem does not have a simulated narrow band. Yes the dials are a touch bright but it all depends on where you mount it. It only needs calibrating on first installation. Its really easy to use. With the aem you will have to run the standard lambda sensor too really.

Use the mtx-l in my starlet. It has a simulated narrow band output so you can just run a wire to the ecu to keep it informed of fuelling.

Here you go I knew I read it somewhere. />http://www.burtonpower.com/tuning-guides/tuning-guide-pages/formulae.html

Me thinking out loud here but the tappets are solid on a 4e as standard? They are shimmed so actually do not have hydralic lifters? Also no point in getting high lift cams if you don't have them proportional to the valve. Any greater than a 25% lift of the diameter of the valve will not increase the flow. I read it somewhere in a engine Blue printing book. Its duration that you actually need.

I want so many parts off this car. Shame to sell/break though buddy.