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Nope, I am seeing what seems to be clutch slip at high gears / rpm but no apparent evidence, unless I am being stupid the only reasons I can think of: - Slipping clutch - Slipping diff, I don’t think a plated diff would result in this? - ECU pulling the timing I don’t think it’s the ECU due...

Hmm, is it possible that I had made the rotating assembly too light resulting in the slip?

Pulled the engine, no surprises with the exhaust valves in cylinder 1 looking a little bit broken. I have found pieces of engine in the throttle body and I still need to pull the manifold to check the cat survived. Hard to tell with the head on but it looks like the valves in 4 might be...

Nice, what do you reckon the problem was? A bit of everything?

Have you tried taking the alt belt off just to narrow it down to the engine itself? But as above my money would be on exhaust or flexies, they would have removed the engine mount to fit the belt.

That’s cheating

I thought I had hit the bottom last year, apparently not. Spent the last few weeks doing fun stuff on the car, fire extinguisher wiring, hazards/heater wiring, ABS sensor issues and various small but satisfying things as I waited for the weather to improve. Last minute day booked...

Where did you get the RPX pads from? I checked their website the other day and was saying out of stock.

Glad your both ok, that went really quick, the saxo will do that if you lock the rear but I would have thought ABS would have prevented that. As you described just too much steering + brakes although it looks like it was the downshift to third that initially upset the car and then it didn't have...

Turning up to the unit over the past few weeks with fun stuff to do has been a joy, a year of turning up with the prospect of pulling out an engine I just put in or deadlifting a box has been draining. First job was to dump the break in oil, I have put some fresh running in oil for at least...

Different box

Clio2 workshop manual

I don't think the input shaft actually reaches the crank, I think it floats like the 1*2 but might be wrong?

If you want to be competitive in HH it will be the dunlops or AO52's, top 3 in class B are on the latter.

That was my dream first car, I remember you could get a poor 1.6 for about £800 when I was 17 but the insurance was close to 4k, had to settle for 1.1l clio :tearsofjoy:

Thanks, yep those are the ones.

Just got back from Engine Dynamics, highlights: - 226 BHP - 171 FtLb I am very happy, I was hoping for 220 so 226 is very nice surprise, talking to Andy he expects it to rise as the rings bed in further and it would happily reach 230 if pushed to 8k but I would rather it lasted! Very...

In the manual no but in the R3 pdf it mentions it, tbh I also originally used slightly shorter bolts as I couldn’t find the originals. I have now found them so thought I would try and improve my chances with the loctite and replacing the gasket which also meant removing the belt and re-timing.

Agreed, going to try running again tomorrow once the loctite has had some time to dry and if it still leaks I will postpone.

Mapping booked for Thursday and I am not really ready. The good news is that the engine runs but the bad news is that I have a leak from the water pump bolts as I forgot to loctite, rookie mistake as I believe two go into the water jacket in the block. This is why she is currently leaning on...