Recent content by dac69er

I have 1 in a box in my shed, maybe I should sell it!!!!

Most people come from the cigarette lighter or stereo supply.

Imo I wouldn't waste my money doing it again. With more power comes a smaller power band and less driveability. It's fun for a while, but it does get old pretty fast. If I was to do it again, I would probably go 5e and spend decent money on a good turbo. The improvements wouldn't be huge over...

Just unscrews. It can be a bit fiddly if it hasn't been off for a while (or ever). Once it gets moving, it should be fine :)

It will be restrictive. It will be ok for a stock engine on stock boost, just not ideal. It will get you out of trouble, but you would be better off with a sports cat.

When warm, try partially covering the hole in the throttle body just Infront of the butterfly. If you can lower your rpm via that, then it could be the stat at the bottom of the throttle body that isn't working properly and allowing more air to pass than required.

Probably just the idle screw needs a tweak. Iacv makes little difference if any once the car is up to temperature.

I would go with changing the whole distributor completely. Ground wise, yes there are 2 main ones, onto the chassis and onto the gearbox. These do get old and degrade so supplementing this with additional grounds won't hurt. There is also a main sensor ground on the intake near the idle...

Have you checked for ECU codes recently to see if that gives any clues? Any vacuum leaks. Has the tps been setup correctly? Is your Ignition timing correct? Is your cam timing correct? Alternator charging ok? All your earth's good? Do you have any other electronic things connected? Fcd...

I'm not expecting to be able to do everything. Just some ideas, especially from anyone who has been (or lives there). As time will be short, I want to make the most of it. Ideal world I would travel back to the 90s and visit Japan for the cars, but I don't think we are quite at time travel yet ;)

I've tried everything including special lined silicone and nothing seems to work other than the stock pipe. It's nitrile rubber, but it seems a bit of a mission to find one the right size with a right angle!!!! If you find something, please share. It's 19mm Inside diameter

Definitely not that cheap. Flights are like £1000 each. As I will be going in school holiday time, I will end up paying a premium unfortunately. The cost isn't the issue as such, just want to get the most out of the trip as it's not the type of place I can easily pop over to a couple of time a...

Looking at a holiday in Japan next year for mine and my girlfriends 40th and my stepdaughters 16th. Looking to go for approx 2 weeks. We are getting some ideas together of what each of us would want to try and do (unfortunately it won't be all car related). Anyone got any tips, things to watch...

I'm pretty happy with my cheap and nasty eBay china special. Cost £17 delivered about 5 years ago and it's still going fine. It takes a Makita battery which I already had as I have a Makita drill. It won't undo any big boy nuts, but it means it won't break anything either ;)

The rebuild is fine. Again, not perfect, but ok. Input shaft can cause a rattle sound, I've also had the centre of the clutch crack and that caused a rattle. I can't help much with your predicament. It's harder still as you aren't 100% sure which box you have. I believe the synchros are more...