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Hi Jimmy,has he told you what colour hes having the plenum done?

A belts £50 but the idlers and tensioner will set you back £250 ish.And these almost always need changing as the heat melts the grease in the bearings eventually and they go dry and sieze up.

If your in any doubt get it done.Never assume that it must have had the belt changed.

Lymons post "I wouldn't use a NA box on a TT, as it will burn out within 1000 miles. it does fit though, but you need everything: AT box + ECU , converter, flexplate and propshaft (front part)"

IIRC the tt box will fit with some mods.Ive never done the swap but im sure it is possible.Lymon posted a couple of weeks ago that it can be done.

Rebuilds coming on well mate.Engines as good as built except for turbos(hes ordering soon) and plenum.Oh and the rocker covers,engine mount brackets which were painted tonight will go on tuesday.Seen your post Stu and he wasnt online so thought id tell you.:)

Is your car an auto and youve got a manual loom?

You must have hands like a 5yr old bud.I cant get my hands in that small a space.Fair play if you can do it though.

Mot regs dont require cats after 92,just that it passes a cat emission test.Youd be amazed at the amount of testers that dont know the interpretation of mot regs.Had a mate ring the other day because his discovery was failed by a tester who said the new boot floor panel hed put in had to be seam welded and not spot welded.Only patch repairs need to be seam welded.

54 is an auto box code.not the det sensor.itr refers to the communication link between the engine and box ecu.

Hope you get it sorted.Still worth checking where your loom plugs into the new ptu as you said.The pins can get very corroded.

If the cat overheat light is coming on you have unburnt fuel going down the exhaust,So that rules the injector connectors out.Check your coil pack/ptu plugs are tight and making good contact,see if you can borrow a known good set of coil packs and ptu and swap them and if that fails check the plugs.It could still be an issue in the loom even after youve done all the other checks but thats worst case scenario.

Didnt he fall from grace for having under age sex with a girl or something similar.Im sure it was in the nineties?

A shim that big would cause issues.Ive fitted similar but much smaller shims on rover k series heads that have been skimmed to the limit.

Be warned the last call i made to Shawn @ Z1 cost me £27 for 25 minutes.

^^^ Ive got one that Lloyds the chemist do for £15.You do look like rudolph the reindeer using it but i swear by it.I suffer really bad with hay fever but 3 minutes use and the sniffs go.

The average size used is 1.2mm or 051".This will account for the average losses due to skimming.Any increase in compression will be so minimal if any it wont be worth worrying about.I can assure you it wont be a problem.

If it does need new guides,its usually the exhaust ones which suffer,dont get new ones as the cost of them plus the fitting is extortionate.Get the machine shop to fit sleeves in the old guides.They are readily available and can be reamed to the size of the valve for a long lasting cost effective repair.

IIRC the new bolts may be coated.If they have a blue band around the threads they are already done.

Give em a small dab of loctite when you re fit them that will keep them in check.

Did you post alan that youve changed your pcvs?If the old ones were faulty you may have oil in the pipes and plenum which is drawn in under boost.this will cause detonation for sure.

You shouldnt need to remove the housing.A seal hook will get it out or drill a small hole in the seal and screw in a self tapping screw to use for pulling it out.Tapping a screw driver down the side of it to lever it out can mark the housing and cause an oil leak around the new seal.

Im puzzled over the badge.Have seen several cars with the same badge on and only on the n/s and always in the same place.how bizarre is that?

Hiya Joel,aint even given it any thought bud.Japfest is on the horizion and im still not sure if im going.

Brave guy taking on all those pulsars.The gt ir is more un reliable than a zed and a pig to work on.Faster than a stock zed though if you can keep em on the rd.They understeer really badly.Blokes got his work cut there !!