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27-04-20, 06:04 PM
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Good man...
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28-04-20, 08:16 AM
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Location: The Shire
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Sounds like you've been making good use of your time!
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Pipercross Filter; Full 2.5" 'Wingy' exhaust; Donny Custom Turbo outlet pipe; Custom injectors;
Uprated gearbox bearings; Helix Clutch; Quaife ATB; Upgraded clutch Hydraulics; FMIC; Ported Head; ARP headstuds; Leda coilovers; 'Brembodge' 326mm disks/DS2500 pads
Dieselpowered
Fitting Custom Hybrid Turbo (1856GTBv) & controller; Remap, swirlpot, lift pump
AMW Motorsports
Custom exhaust manifold & downpipe
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28-04-20, 10:47 AM
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Site Owner
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Waterlooville, Hants
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Might as well. I have jobs for rainy days so I’m doing dry day jobs for now. That means MG work! Well it does to me.
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29-04-20, 08:16 AM
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Well this week is plenty of rainy day jobs ahead I think!
But glad you're making progress again
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Mods Fitted
Pipercross Filter; Full 2.5" 'Wingy' exhaust; Donny Custom Turbo outlet pipe; Custom injectors;
Uprated gearbox bearings; Helix Clutch; Quaife ATB; Upgraded clutch Hydraulics; FMIC; Ported Head; ARP headstuds; Leda coilovers; 'Brembodge' 326mm disks/DS2500 pads
Dieselpowered
Fitting Custom Hybrid Turbo (1856GTBv) & controller; Remap, swirlpot, lift pump
AMW Motorsports
Custom exhaust manifold & downpipe
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29-04-20, 11:20 AM
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Site Owner
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Waterlooville, Hants
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Indeed. As I have partially stripped the top end I have cleaning jobs to do in the garage of all the parts.
Well, shopping list drafted to refurbish the engine, sitting at just under £300! Think I’ll wait until after my birthday, I did request DMGRS vouchers, got £40 from xmas still to use! Takes the sting out of it a little. Got my furloughed wave to look forward to yet!
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14-05-20, 06:24 PM
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Order placed with DMGRS and weighed in a fair bit. So during furlough I aim to
- Fit Piper 270 cams and oil seals.
- Full cam belt service, water pump and tensioner.
- Set of spark plugs.
- Fuel filter.
- Oil service.
- All new gaskets to cam covers, inlet manifolds.
- Replace the thermostat housing and sensor whilst it’s accessible, was done several years ago but not worth risking it.
- Total clean of all brackets, covers and might even try to polish the cam covers.
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15-05-20, 05:57 PM
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promoted bloke!
Join Date: May 2008
Location: bournemouth
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sounds like a plan, hope it all goes well.
Clutch OK.
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17-05-20, 10:26 PM
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Gonna be a busy boy with all that....
Hope it goes well...
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08-07-20, 07:39 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Update:
- New thermostat assembly fitted.
- New water pump fitted.
- X6 sparks plugs fitted.
- Piper 270 cams fitted (with issues).
So, the Piper cams. All fitted and torqued as per the book. Went to fit the main cam belt then the primary locking tools. I can’t fit the tool to the front bank. After much checking and questioning my sanity it appears I have a duff camshaft in such that they have machined the sprocket notch in the wrong place, about 90 degrees out. I offered my original camshaft up against the new one and it is different. So I have some thinking to do to get around this.
One thing I have learned from this strip down, the cam covers mesh filters are located where the breather push fittings are, one fitting is a large hole, the other looks like a solid wall, no it is not! There is a diameter 1.5mm hole there! Mine were blocked, couldn’t see it. Could cause an issue with crankcase pressures apparently.
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10-07-20, 03:41 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by stamford
Update:
- New thermostat assembly fitted.
- New water pump fitted.
- X6 sparks plugs fitted.
- Piper 270 cams fitted (with issues).
So, the Piper cams. All fitted and torqued as per the book. Went to fit the main cam belt then the primary locking tools. I can’t fit the tool to the front bank. After much checking and questioning my sanity it appears I have a duff camshaft in such that they have machined the sprocket notch in the wrong place, about 90 degrees out. I offered my original camshaft up against the new one and it is different. So I have some thinking to do to get around this.
One thing I have learned from this strip down, the cam covers mesh filters are located where the breather push fittings are, one fitting is a large hole, the other looks like a solid wall, no it is not! There is a diameter 1.5mm hole there! Mine were blocked, couldn’t see it. Could cause an issue with crankcase pressures apparently.
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Have you got an idea of location (picture or whatnot) of those breather holes? When I have got T16 on the road, its on to FE54 to ger her back running again!
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