That'll do lol lol
Ive got the same footrest, spot on for the money
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That'll do lol lol
Ive got the same footrest, spot on for the money
Oh dear, it appears as though I have bent an exhaust valve...
:cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul
Thats ****e mate !
oh dear miss a gear mate ???Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul
no hit the rev limiter quite hard.
we think its flipped a shim and bent a valve.
All provisional as the head isnt off yet...
Give you 50quid scrap for it? :(
£120 scrap value round here...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Crap round here, just had to pay £30 for my bare shell to be taken
Shait mate, not good!
Hope it's just a slightly bent exhaust valve with no head scoring etc.
I have been there and done the missed gear trick, did it in my XR2i and the old silk GSi while "overtaking" a Audi TT, went for 4th hit 2nd lol
Ive rounded up some troops for the morning, so ill post up my findings.
May the luck of the car god's be with you when you take it apart.
Bad news Paul, you have the same luck as me.
While you are there please can you check the play in the clutch arm for me though if you get chance?
What ****ing no luck at all. Join the club, LETs are pap TDI's FTMFW :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee H
thats s h i t luck mate,whats wit lets blowing up nowadays?
what is your limiter set to paul? what valve springs you running?
Rev limits set to 7k.
If you see Chips post over on VS, you will se what I've done. The shims have been re-designed to stop this happening.
It does appear from initial inspection that I have bent just one exhaust valve.
a real shame , get the new shims from steve:dQuote:
Originally Posted by Paul
heads with him now, fingers crossed im picking it up tomorrow
****y new valves or just one ???
just the one, it looks like at the monet anyway.
cool cool, they oversized one's in your head ?
nope just standard, opted not to go for oversized, couldnt see the point in it tbh.
All sorted, should be running again tonight.
No bent valve just wedged open 2mm as the solid lifter shim had flipped off, on one exhaust valve, which can happen when the engine hits the rev limiter.
New design (problem has been known since the late 70's, but not by me) of shims will stop it from happening again.
Steve
sounds good then so paul should still be out for woodbridge track day. as always good work steve
good work :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by steveboyslim
Its alive!
good work Paul, impressive turn around.
good work fella
Well today was interesting, my tie bar snapped on the way there. Quite lucky really.
Really arent having any luck with this car are you lol
Was it the thicker gsi ones you use?
he has now upgraded to a thicker tie bar rich hopfully that will sort the problem lol
You know you're doing well when you start snapping tie bars lol :d
both my tie bars snapped on my 1.3sr what was i doing wrong lol
Just bought a few new bits for it...
It has been bought a line lock valve so I can do a proper burnout in the fecker.
And also a trailer so when I blow it up burning it out, i can still get home.
Pics to follow
A trailers a good idea incase things go wrong!
Line lock ? on a fwd car !
Thats what the handbrake is for unless you plan to lock the front wheels
You can put a line lock on the rear wheels :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonlem
Yeah TBF unless it's a hydraulic hand brake then it's just going to stretch the cable, mine didn't like it too much for the "infamous" burn out pic lol
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TBH my handbrake would totally lock the back wheels, the issue with fwd is the front tyre grip will just drag the rear wheels along.
No line lock will sort that out, its just a fwd thing.
Yeh but even on the hanbrake it'll still drag the rears, this wont stretch my cable every time.. But agreed yeh FWD will drag the rears