1.6d to 1y the definitive guide

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All in and back on the road:

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Oldiebut goodie wrote:All in and back on the road:

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Did you do anythink to the inlet manifold for clearance away from the chassis rail.

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See my post on page 2.
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Oldiebut goodie wrote:All in and back on the road:

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Looks sweet as a nut, im gonna have to give mine a degrease and a good blasting with the jetwash now tho.... :D
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It helps to have a reasonably good engine to start with, for all it's spilt oil and coolant flanges that it came with it was in good nick. Not bad for an engine bought blind! :D
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wow..i bet that took more than 5 litres of swarfega :shock:

was it worth it obg ?
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just noticed 2 wires to the pump ?
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Definitely worth doing. Went up a small local hill that I used to struggle up in second in third, amazing. I gave the newer engine a good degrease as I hate working on a dirty engine with the chance of shyte dropping into something that I forgot to plug.
One wire is a spare that I used whilst trialling a timed solenoid operated cold start - it didn't work as well as I hoped it would so reverted to the cable method.
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so as a 'now' 1y convert do you wish you had done it a while ago ?...i know you were well happy with the 1.6 but still...also metal mickey has been umm'ing and arrr'ing over this for years :lol:
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and...with that air filter what noise levels are you getting ?
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Must say when I did mine I found that without the original "snorkel" that lives in the corner post it was very noisy BUT I think this gives a bit of restriction to the airflow ? Probably better without it but noisier ? Perhaps you have the answer O B G with the K N set up.
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Oldiebut goodie wrote:Definitely worth doing. Went up a small local hill that I used to struggle up in second in third, amazing. I gave the newer engine a good degrease as I hate working on a dirty engine with the chance of shyte dropping into something that I forgot to plug.
One wire is a spare that I used whilst trialling a timed solenoid operated cold start - it didn't work as well as I hoped it would so reverted to the cable method.
Bent Hill ? :shock:
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alreet pete :wink:

the inlet manifold is going to help loads too.is the egr valve working too ?
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peteabbott wrote:
Oldiebut goodie wrote:Definitely worth doing. Went up a small local hill that I used to struggle up in second in third, amazing. I gave the newer engine a good degrease as I hate working on a dirty engine with the chance of shyte dropping into something that I forgot to plug.
One wire is a spare that I used whilst trialling a timed solenoid operated cold start - it didn't work as well as I hoped it would so reverted to the cable method.
Bent Hill ? :shock:
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I'll come up and try Bishop's Hill soon. Should be third gear but will try it in 5th and 4th first. :D
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weldore wrote:alreet pete :wink:

the inlet manifold is going to help loads too.is the egr valve working too ?
EGR exactly as the original on the engine as it came. I was in two minds as to whether to keep it or not as the inlet manifold was full of shyte, will see how it pans out - if it gets choked I will blank it off.
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