MRC work and tuning advice needed

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Post by Ads4 » Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:24 pm

Peakz wrote:There was a really sound geezer having the spider hose replaced on his mint S4, Dougal was working on the car and this chap wanted to show me the benefits of the Phat Noise system. In his enthusiasm he switched on the ignition instead of just putting the key in, fortunately Doug was admiring his handy work but was a little perturbed to find the engine kick into life. . . . made me chuckle anyway :biggrin3:
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Post by Harper--D » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:04 pm

Without the y pipe on you sure can hear the turbos!!!
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Post by imolas4uk » Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:57 pm

even over the squeal of someone getting there fingers chopped off ?? :shock:
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Post by Harper--D » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:36 pm

Lucky doug didnt have his hands near the engine!
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Post by snadge » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:44 pm

Harper--D wrote:
Takes along time to remove heads with engine in the car!
Where can I purchase the LC gaskets for the heads?

both myself and my friend are confident after looking into this job, I can borrow the specialist gear needed for it.

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Post by GardinerG » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:46 pm

Doug... note to self. "Don't let owners near their car whilst you have limbs in or under it". :lol: Just glad nothing happend!

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Post by Doug_S2 » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:46 pm

From us. We use a 1 point lowering gasket kit. shoot me an email.

If it is you first time doing this, make very sure you have no oil to contaminatethe headgaskets when you put heads on.
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Post by Doug_S2 » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:48 pm

GardinerG wrote:Doug... note to self. "Don't let owners near their car whilst you have limbs in or under it". :lol: Just glad nothing happend!
I could post up a pic of what happens when my fingers gets too close to engine bits! Not ver y nice though!
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Post by Harper--D » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:57 pm

PMSL, that 1 you showed me the other day was very bad!!!
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Post by snadge » Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:13 pm

Doug_S2 wrote:From us. We use a 1 point lowering gasket kit. shoot me an email.

If it is you first time doing this, make very sure you have no oil to contaminatethe headgaskets when you put heads on.
good advice, cheers I'm stll lucky to have 5L Jenclean, the best oil buster in the business till it got banned :wink:

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Post by buzzard » Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:20 pm

dont chop any of his bits and peices off.......

he needs them all to fix my car!!!
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Post by MarkB » Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:34 pm

dazzer wrote:
Didn't MTM used to make cast manifolds? Were they any good, i.e. have the performance properties of tubular with better reliability.......
How about these? http://www.wagner-tuning.de/produkte/ab ... aeufig.php
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Post by smurfbus » Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:32 pm

Good find but it seems they are not ready yet. Price is almost tolerable too.

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Post by MarkB » Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:44 pm

They do look good, I just wish the pound was stronger against the euro at the moment :(
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