red reading
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2.4 litres of power there! nice mark very nice, the porting will work very well too.
Bens Engine Rebuild
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2.4 litres of power there! nice mark very nice, the porting will work very well too.
bensmith907
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Still waiting on my head to be returned I'm afraid. I reckon I've probably missed the window for this week as I'm back to work on wednesday:doh: I know how it feels waiting for stuff.
I fired mine up earlier and let it run for 5 mins but couldn't drive it as i haven't taxed it yet and i damaged one of the water channels on the radiator yesterday putting the engine back in
My stupid fault for being a retard :doh:Hopefully it'll be taxed and the radiator will be sorted tomorrow.
If you tax it tomorrow don't you lose 21 days because the liability is from the start of the month? Or is that only if you do it at a Post Office?
I remember having this dilemma before; lose two weeks worth of road tax, or wait two weeks before the tax was valid for me to drive the car.
I remember having this dilemma before; lose two weeks worth of road tax, or wait two weeks before the tax was valid for me to drive the car.
skiddusmarkus
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2 weeks of road tax is never going to come close to 2 weeks of wasted insurance though, so a no brainer if you want to drive it.Its shit how it works though, should go on the date you buy it, not just the month.
Now who does that remind me of...... :lol:
Good work Mark and Ben. Gets me excited about restarting my engine build.Jim
I'm already paying the insurance despite it being SORN for about a year now... but that's a good point, and one that I hadn't really thought about.
I makes sense that the Post Office don't have 52 (or even 365) different tax discs, but you'd think if a computer was issuing it from Swansea they'd be able to put the date you paid on it.
What would make the most sense though is to not bother with bits of paper on a windscreen at all. - If the ANPR system can tell anyone who's interested if the car is MOT'd, taxed, and insured (or not as the case may be), then why do we need a tax disc? If there is a dispute, a driver could always produce a reciept for the payment.
That's the way it works in Western Australia now, but I don't know about anywhere else.
bensmith907
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Does anyone use hylomar to seal the head gasket with a cosworth one?
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No don't use anything on it, the black coating on the gasket is nitrile rubber which should do the job of sealing it on its own.
bensmith907
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Nice one.
Update on my running in as i've done just over 100 miles now. First start up was done tuesday after cranking the car for around a minute until the oil pressure was up, i let it run upto temperature then switched off as i had to get the radiator sorted out :doh: Last night started the car and let it warm up again then straight out for a drive. As soon as i hit the main road it had 1.1 bar boost and 4000rpm (this is after being driven less than 2 miles :lol did another 5 or 6 miles with quite a few pulls from 2000-4000rpm with varying loads on the engine.
Drove the car to work today to get some more miles on it, after around another 75 miles i've upped the boost to 1.5 bar and taken it to 5000rpm a couple times. I'll be driving it to work again today then changing the oil later on and then i'll be redlining it :twisted: Should have around 200 miles on it by that point ;-)
Just got in from bedding the new brake pads in, there was a lovely burning smell coming from them when i parked it up just now :lol:
did another 5 or 6 miles with quite a few pulls from 2000-4000rpm with varying loads on the engine.Drove the car to work today to get some more miles on it, after around another 75 miles i've upped the boost to 1.5 bar and taken it to 5000rpm a couple times. I'll be driving it to work again today then changing the oil later on and then i'll be redlining it :twisted: Should have around 200 miles on it by that point ;-)
Just got in from bedding the new brake pads in, there was a lovely burning smell coming from them when i parked it up just now :lol:
bensmith907
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wow straight on it then, lol! would be interested to hear what your compression figures are like in say a weeks time.
My head still hasn't come back from the workshop. Ive been told that he will have it finished by monday so next week is engine week!
My head still hasn't come back from the workshop. Ive been told that he will have it finished by monday so next week is engine week!
stumo
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hmmmm sand in an engine????
sandy something....it's on the tip of my tongue.... :lol:
Compression test results after the first time it was run were 182, 180, 180, 176. I'll do another one in a day or two. I've been running it in on mineral oil and was going to put some decent oil in it tomorrow when i change it but apparently changing to fully synthetic too early isn't good for the rings so will probably put some more mineral oil in for a few hundred more miles.
stumo
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i could do with getting my finger out and doing something....
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If you're bored Sunday afternoon you can come over to mine for some pizza and motivation
If you're bored Sunday afternoon you can come over to mine for some pizza and motivation
skiddusmarkus
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Yeah, not really practical when buying it from a P.O. without spending a lot of money on installing printers capable of doing tax discs.They could do it it at DVLA though so useful for people like me who renew online.