someone posted that he'd bought some sticky insulating sheet from demon tweeks and covered the backside of his inlet manifold. Said it reduced intake temp and that after a good run he stopped and the top of the mani (normally gets hot) was pretty cool. http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/products/ProductDetail.asp?cls=MSPORT&pcode=NIM14100 - thermo tec cool-it mat http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/products/ProductDetail.asp?cls=MSPORT&pcode=DEI010402 - Versa Shield Cheap effective intake mod i plan to use...the manis are too rich for my tite fistedness
cars is mint Pete mostly, and engine is running but just a little rough and a little blue smoke sometimes. I do 140 miles a day so am thinking about longevity...and also a 100 shot nitrous Just found a place in Chesterfield, http://www.vegeuk.com who will do a reconditioned 12v engine (swap) for 1600 squids...hmm
agreed on the engine history..its just the cost of the rebuild..painful. No havent looked around yet... what about your old engine Pete, you keeping or getting rid?
anyone got a corrado engine for sale, or an idea how much i can expect to pay? any suggestions for rebuilding my current engine, that dont cost nearly 3 k!! cheers
Owned the car about 2 weeks, MOT due end of this month and ive only just realised my car has a bypass pipe. The last owner didnt mention this when i bought it, i didnt spot it, and he didnt give me the old cat to put on at MOT time...hence my question...
OK well the car was looked at yesterday, JBS say that my misfire is due to having split insulation on all plug leads....ill change the leads later on today and post again. Richy youve done your leads right?
Looks better on! Mines been nicked off the back, keep getting punk ass boy racers in saxo's who dont know what they're about to be blown away by wanting to race Zzzz
do post up your progress and maybe we could get the thread made sticky... so how much of a temp difference do you think there would be? spacers a good idea too... My VR6 is missing the engine cover already, so i'd be happy to be a guinepig...depending where youre based?
interesting, mine hasn't been reset but it takes a long time to update, its taken 2 days of 140 mile round trips to work to go from 24.9 to 26.2 this evening, at 70-80 mph...still climbing (gradually)...
cool phew, thought for a minute i might have a vr from a ford, or a van or something (they did put in the galaxy i read somewhere?) Thanks for answering that one Renagade .....Doh