Dylan8's Vento

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More mk3 hangs thanks to Dart

Vento seems to have started a terrible idle. Starts off as a bit of a miss or vibration, after 10 seconds or so it turns into have a wild over sized cam.
Feels ok once on the accelerator. Any way of testing the idle control valve without a vagcom?

I unplugged the maf and it didn't seem to make any difference

Found the solution to the above. Missed a hole in the hose.
New bushes in thanks to sneaky Pete, now to install the beam

Added the vr6 fire wall heat shield.
What a night mare with motor in and brake lines plumbed in, hopefully keeps the floor and tunnel a touch cooler
Fitted my oem coolant sensor cover finally
Was going to fit my neuspeed strut brace, but it fowls on the coolant bottle, not sure if this is because I'm running a 2Lt one.
Found and fitted a oem battery cover. Looks so much neater.

Good to read you are making progress.

Really wish I had not thrown out my oem battery cover years ago.

Cheers!
Yeah I didn't even realise I had one until I stumbled across it at my parents house looking for other parts.
Took the Vento out last night and so far so good. Floor and tunnel stayed pretty much cold, will see if that's still the case on a hot day when getting driven harder

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Originally Posted by dylan8

Cheers!
Yeah I didn't even realise I had one until I stumbled across it at my parents house looking for other parts.
Took the Vento out last night and so far so good. Floor and tunnel stayed pretty much cold, will see if that's still the case on a hot day when getting driven harder

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I'm sure there's another culprit.

My stripped mk3, no fire wall shield, rubber mat on inside removed as well as missing grommets in firewall was never 'hot'

Hmmmmmmm. I'll take it for a hoon on the weekend.
I found my other stock cat so might swap that over too and see if it makes any difference

Exhaust manifold studs?

Will suss those when i do the new exhaust manifold and down pipes