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Originally Posted by Peter Jones
*cough*giveittojarred*cough*
Hhaha. Only joking.
Good to hear you got it all in and fired up and going.
After exams, I'll come round for a spin. (You've got a month to practice :D)
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Originally Posted by Peter Jones
*cough*giveittojarred*cough*
Hhaha. Only joking.
Good to hear you got it all in and fired up and going.
After exams, I'll come round for a spin. (You've got a month to practice :D)
It's a very tight fit to get a 2.0 K-Jet into MK1 engine bay, I'm not sure you could actually get it in there with the inlet manifold already on.Quote:
Originally Posted by golfworx
I do it all from above, it's not hard with the right tools. Once the inlet manifold is off doing the exhaust is easy , especially extractors. The only work I do from under the car is disconnecting the CVs, which I do with a very long extension from inside the wheel arches, and the rear mount.
Thanks for the tip on the chassis rails, I hadn't considered that.
Pete
First drive tonight, just once 'round the block.
1st Observation - Solid mounts make you think the car is going to rattle to bits. It's been a while since I had a car with urethane mounts, I'd forgotten the joy. Once it's off idle though it's all good.:biggrin:
Tune is way off, I'll set the CO levels on the weekend when I can let it idle in the drive for a bit without bothering the neighbours. To get it to idle below 2000 rpm I had to wind the idle jet right in which is less than ideal.
There's plenty more torque as you'd expect and when the cam comes on song around 3500 there's a lot more push in the back than before.
As before, and I suspect the K-Jet is to balme, you need more throttle input than I'd expect to make it accelerate. You're almost on the secondary just taking off very gently.
The torque's there but you need some revs on board to get use of it. This is similar behaviour to before so I'm suspecting the K-Jet still needs sorting out. I'm going to try another solution shortly.
It is faster than before, but it's not tunnel vision "crazy fast" yet. I think there's a bit more to unlock with some more work.
Compression seems good, no sign of pinging so I can wind up the timing a bit more too.
Exhaust temps are up, could be the exhaust wrap but I've never heard the thermal contraction as the exhuast cools from down the back of the car before.
All in all it seems pretty willing.
Pete
Good to hear!
Always good when stuff just works! :)
Another run today, looks like I've got a cooling issue. It's getting way too hot.
Tomorrow I'll pull the (brand new) themostat out and check it out.
Mmmmmmm.:bangheadwall:
Meanwhile bolted up new oil cooler today, the hose fittings are going to cost me more than the cooler itself!:duh: Damn those alloy AN fittings are expensive!
Pete
Bugger hey.. Can't be anything too serious. Not something simple like the thermo fan not coming on??Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Jones
Yeah those fittings are pricey, i'm not looking forward to plumbing mine up!
Nope's fan's working. It seems like a circulation issue. I'm hoping for a dud thermostat rather than some 2.0 with a 1.8 head hybrid issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Preen59
Top hose gets too hot to touch and the bottom hose stays cool. All new plumbing and radiator. Pump's OK and spinning.
Time to hit the tools and figure it out.
Pete
Locally around $50 per fitting, There's generic stuff coming out of asia for about 1/2 price via e-bay for the rice brigade. Quality unknown, although it's possible they're unbranded OEM stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Preen59
I'm trying to find a US source for the fiitings at the moment.
Pete
Might be a false alarm on the cooling front. Pulled it all apart, thermostat pulls in OK. As I idle it up to temp I can see the recirc hose get hotter until the point where the thermostat kicks in.
Warming up the recircirc hose gets to 70° surface temp when the 80° thermostat kicks in. The top hose follows.
When the thermostat kicks in the bottom hose heats up as you'd expect.
Fan kicks in around 65° measured at the bottom hose, temp rapidly falls away.
All in all it seems to working as I'd expect.
Yesterday, the dizzy has spun in it mount, I hadn't done the clamp up tight enough. This led to retarded timing combined with a hot engine bay due to some "spirited" test runs at high rpm. I'm probably just being a bit over cautious and possibly a tad paranoid since the episode at Phillip Island.
Now on to more exciting things...
Watch this space;-)
Pete
ohh im watching :D:D:D
good to here that the cooling issue wasnt a biggy!