Recent content by CMF_Red Menace

On the basis that I can't recall the history of one of them, not sure it'd be worth your while once postage is included. If both proved non-functional, I would of course give a full refund less postage - but they're not light, and I would guess postage to Aus came to more than the parts are worth?

Two throttle bodies. One was on my car until a head gasket failure took it off the road some months ago; this has previously been refurbished and looks very shiny. The other is of entirely uncertain origin; it's been in storage in my garage for a while. I think I may have acquired it when I...

I've got a 1.3 gearbox for sale. It's fairly high mileage (148,000 miles) but ran fine. Was pulled following a head gasket failure; I'm taking the opportunity to make some, er, major adjustments, so this gearbox is no longer needed. There's a brand new, boxed clutch as well. Open to offers (UK...

Lurch, it's R-registered (1997?) and is for the lightweight box that went with early CG10s. You're more than welcome to it, though as you're aware it's heavy and you're in Ireland... I don't want anything for it except the postage, though you're welcome to pick it up (Derby, UK) if you're over...

I should mention - I've now got a good few spare 1.0 bits, so if you need: - Crank - Flywheel / clutch, with 50k on - Big end shells Then you're more than welcome, they're not much use to me except as ornaments, and they'll only get scrapped otherwise. I can post the shells if they're useful? I...

Verrry nice. From the pic, it looks curved - did you blow it, suck it down over an existing screen, use some other method, or are my eyes deceiving me and it's actually flat?

1pm, Thurs: Four pistons out. However, in a moment of eye-popping stupidity, I drove the drift into the gudgeon pin bore in the piston and converted the close clearance into a fit. It was only over about the first third of the bore, so I've dressed it out, polished it smooth and persuaded the...

I had that with a bad throttle body. It led to the engine boiling over, very abruptly. Changed the head gasket (symptoms seemed to match) but the problem only went away with a new TB.

7s would do nicely :) but I'll settle for a runner first. I'm guessing the powerband isn't wide enough to eliminate the second gearshift from your 0-60? It seems to happen about 55mph... Time to break out the grinder (again) and cut some con-rods off. [edit] No access to get the grinder in...

Yeah, from looking at where the pins sit, with one face of the little end of the rod hard up against one side of the piston, the end of the pin is flush with the outside face - almost as if it was designed to allow that. I was planning to make just such a rod. You mentioned that you'd run all...

Yeesh Frank, you weren't wrong about them being a tight fit. My tool is bending (at least the welds hold!) but still the gudgeon pin doesn't move. That tool is made from 8mm thick stock! Clearly the overhang is too much :( [edit] Trimming it to remove the overhang. Then we'll see if the welds...

It would be better to say that the top ends are interchangeable. The 1.3 cams have higher lift and longer duration, but will drop straight in (you'll have to play around with shims to get the right clearance between cam lobes and tappets though). Don't believe everything you read, either - the...

Pants, just realised that the pistons won't fit through the bottom end. I was hoping to get away without disturbing the head; not gonna happen. [edit] Double pants, I did what you're not meant to and used a chisel to separate the timing cover from the block. Not only did I peel a sliver of...

One suitable tool (I hope). Welds are impossibly ugly, but I think it will work. I'll have to carve the forks to size once I have a piston out to check them against.

Obvious when you point it out; no chance of dropping it out the bottom without stripping the whole bottom end, for which the flywheel has to come off, for which the gearbox has to come off... [edit] Had a look - pistons don't fit through the bottom end, the only way to pull them is to remove...