Jerm

Don't spam please... it was an invite to a party.

Fuck that looks nice... tidy as

Haha probably more like, "we get more markup on monroes" :]

Sorry i wasn't told that i just looked:D the ones on mine were so close they were just about touching! who machined the head for you? the valve seats and everything had to be recut aye? is it really worht it?

i think thats a bit out of his price range... the big 1600 valves are almost as big as you can fit int here i have been told....

yeah it would be easy to make it stay closed longer... but i don't think thats the best way to fix it.. look for that carb you were tlakign about the other da from the lancia turbs

You can get manifolds that rise a bti don't flow as well though... I don't think the GT head makes a diff.. all the mk2 heads are the same with big valves... i think? its the older non 711M engines that have small valves... To be honest i like the 1600 better.. way lighter just better to drive... and you don't aev to muck around putting the 2L in... no cert needed either. i would go for the big 1300 pistons if you ccan afford it woudl go fucking hard i should have done it but couldn't afford cos you need all new bearings and bolts etc.... and my bottom end was in good cond.. Big carbs a nice idea.. sideys won't use that much more if they are tuned right... and apparently when you are running a lumpy cam it will idle way better with sideys.

yip

1600 carb is the same as the 2L one... 32/36 DGAV/DGV some of the later ones have a cap over the mixture screw though apparently... it can be removed though...

haha that car was for sale on here for a while aye.... i have seen you around the shore twice... once in wairau around mid day at the bank, i was in a white 4 door mk2

pipe looks like its going to the same place but via the carb on your one because you are running an auto choke which is activated by water temp. escorta is that a pic of your 1300? engine?

hmm.... it looks like a 1300 engine to me... not sure though kinda hard to see on that pic but the waterpump looks close to the deck of the block... which means its a 1300.. check the number son the side though below the exhaust

Changing the heads around makes no difference in compression... as stated above the only thing that would happen is the valves would be smaller with the 1300 head as most of the late 1600s have larger valves

Yeah i think the solution is firmer mounts and a bracket to the exhaust....

Yeah i thought about this... is it alright? any exhaust hop should be able to do it aye....? doesn't change the sound or performance aye?

Yeah i think they actually come with brackets that go to the gb or engine from the factory.. i don't have one though.. you the flexi sounds like the go, i think the engine does move to much though cos sometimes when i launch or suddenly put alot of load on the engine i hear a knock.. i think it is the exhaust hitting the floor pan/base of firewall.

I think its being caused by excess engine movement.. is my engine moves sideways quite a bit and it may be twisting the joint.. as that middle branch the bolts are in a different configuration to the other two pipes which i think is alowing it to twist a little vertically.. which is casuing it to disturb the gasket and eventually blow... might look into gettign some firmer/better engine mounts? as mine are fuckign shit...

Anyone have this prob? I keep blowing exhaust gaskets on the middle branch where it is bolted to the head... always blows out the top, i think its because of the excess motor movement and that middle branch is only held on by two centralised bolts rather than one top and one bottom like the other two branches.... Any ideas? Cheers Jerm

Water a product of combustion? i really don't think so.... but i could be wrong..

Haha yeah that happens... or when your jetting carbs you can't remember if its better or worse and shit... and its a cunt to change it back the anoying thing is you have to go to far then go back but its hard to tell whats happening

What did the carb come off? why don't you take the jets out and give them a drill i fyou have access to precision drill bits? The screw that goes into the baseplate of the carb in on an angle from the throttle linkage end is the mixture screw... its quite bad to run your engine lean though.. try screwing it in untill it is about to stall then on 1.33 - 1.5 turns outwards...

Thats quite high compression are you using 98 octane? cos it could be that you have a tank full of OLD 91 or 96 .. which would run like shit....

Yeah high comp just doesn't work with turbs. I always run 98... You need to run high octane with high comp, i probably wouldn't even run 96 in yours alex...

I used it on my door cards works a fucking treat... looks mean as nto sure about seats though would probably be ok its made by VHT

I have some in auck... you can have a whole shell for free... i think the sills are pretty mint...