My Sable 2005 MR2 - shnazzle

[shnazzle]

MOT next week. Never been worried but this time bricking it

[shnazzle]

Passed!
Front brakes could do with replacing (which I was supposed to do months ago when I did the rears but got lazy
And I've introduced a tiny exhaust leak by changing cats. This one has a slightly leaky flexi it seems.

Lambda 1.006. That's something I can live with fo shizzle

No CO or HC values though. I doubt I had 0 for both. Odd

EDIT: Normal idle CO was 0.300. Exactly. So, passed with absolutely ZERO margin.    Eek

[MrT]

Patrick, get some catalyst cleaner from Halfords or similar, I cannot remember the exact name of it but it's a grey bottle with green and black text, ah Cataclean... Chuck it in half a tank of fuel and it is like drain cleaner, your 1zz's insides will be shiny clean and the carbon gone, and the cat will flow like new and if not knackered by heat will catalyse like new also! Worth the £8 before every MOT.

Well done on passing though, and get those brakes sorted! 2 things must always be perfect, wheels/tyres and brakes. No point going somewhere if you can't change your mind and stop again!

[shnazzle]

Funnily enough I said the same thing before I went in for MOT. I forgot to do my yearly Pre-MOT CataClean.

The brakes are fine. It's the offside front brake pipe
I'm assuming the hard line. So I'll have to have a look and replace it. Luckily it's the short one so quite easy to do

[MrT]

Ok that's good to hear (read?)...

[tricky1138]

Congrats on the new MOT, Take it the new place was ok then?

I must admit I was going to run cataclean through mine before this years, after my MOT last year said that it barely passed its emissions, but totally forgot like you did.

Mine this year flew through though. Any ideas why one year its bad and the next its fine?

[shnazzle]

Congrats on the new MOT, Take it the new place was ok then?

I must admit I was going to run cataclean through mine before this years, after my MOT last year said that it barely passed its emissions, but totally forgot like you did.

Mine this year flew through though. Any ideas why one year its bad and the next its fine?

New place never happened I just couldn't get there and their scheduling was random. So basically you drop it off and they plan it in as and when for that day.
I chose a place local to me. Gave me an 11:30 slot, it went in at 11:30 and by 11:45 I was driving.

Can't say why the emissions would be wildly different. Too many factors.

[tricky1138]

Congrats on the new MOT, Take it the new place was ok then?

I must admit I was going to run cataclean through mine before this years, after my MOT last year said that it barely passed its emissions, but totally forgot like you did.

Mine this year flew through though. Any ideas why one year its bad and the next its fine?

New place never happened I just couldn't get there and their scheduling was random. So basically you drop it off and they plan it in as and when for that day.
I chose a place local to me. Gave me an 11:30 slot, it went in at 11:30 and by 11:45 I was driving.

Can't say why the emissions would be wildly different. Too many factors.

I thought that might be the case with the emissions. We'll never know!

And oh, so you've found a local friendly MOT station then - 15 mins for an MOT is short! 

[MrT]

Simplest influences are driving conditions and type of fuel/additives used. Modern fuels are all about cleaning and keeping the engine clean. V-Power and Ultimate specifically have decoking agents that would clean the engine and catalyst.
Also doing a bit more high speed/higher load constant driving will keep the catalyst at temperature longer and break down deposits.

[shnazzle]

Changed the front brakes today. It was, err, necessary.
Damn near shot myself through the front windshield afterwards

[mikek]

Changed the front brakes today. It was, err, necessary.
Damn near shot myself through the front windshield afterwards

What did you put on?

Going to do mine over winter as they are not great. (Kate's were much better and I only put mintex discs and pads on hers)

[shnazzle]

Changed the front brakes today. It was, err, necessary.
Damn near shot myself through the front windshield afterwards

What did you put on?

Going to do mine over winter as they are not great. (Kate's were much better and I only put mintex discs and pads on hers)

Mintex
Can't fault them.. Until you glaze them

[Carolyn]

Changed the front brakes today. It was, err, necessary.
Damn near shot myself through the front windshield afterwards

What did you put on?

Going to do mine over winter as they are not great. (Kate's were much better and I only put mintex discs and pads on hers)

Mintex
Can't fault them.. Until you glaze them

Best not glaze them, then.  Always done well with Mintex stuff.

[Call the midlife!]

Changed the front brakes today. It was, err, necessary.
Damn near shot myself through the front windshield afterwards

What did you put on?

Going to do mine over winter as they are not great. (Kate's were much better and I only put mintex discs and pads on hers)

Mintex
Can't fault them.. Until you glaze them

Nice bit of Lemon Drizzle?


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[shnazzle]

Discs and pads scored, warped and glazed. Trifecta of brake mayhem

[tomaky]

This isnt like you...                 hehe

[shnazzle]

This isnt like you...                 hehe

Absolutely demolished these pads. Still tons of meat left.
Offside disc was warped by about 1mm.
The discs have worn really quickly actually, which I've never seen before.
Usually you take discs off and they still kinda look OK.
I didn't get a pic of mine but they were done. Utterly utterly done. Here's a pic of them on the car

[tomaky]

We talking front or back. Don't think you could get them that hot bar flooring it for a good while with the brake on. I'm impressed at the level of destruction haha

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[CrazySX]

Funny my discs are demolished too. They are rotten. What pads were you running pat?  Sometimes the pads will muller the disc. My yellow stuff will have nearly half left but discs are knackered and rotten. Going for brembo discs this time. These were pagid discs.

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[shnazzle]

Those were the fronts. Mintex discs and pads.
They've been on quite a while mind.

[CrazySX]

Those were the fronts. Mintex discs and pads.
They've been on quite a while mind.

How long? Mine 3 years. But maybe 10k miles at the most

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[shnazzle]

Those were the fronts. Mintex discs and pads.
They've been on quite a while mind.

How long? Mine 3 years. But maybe 10k miles at the most

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Can't find it!
I bought the set I just put on almost exactly a year ago.
The set before that was the only other set I've put on this car. I think over 3 years and 25k miles.

I'm going to need to look this up now.
Ebay purchase history won't go back past 2016 so it was definitely in 2015, possibly 2014

[shnazzle]

Plans so far:
- rebuild
- zero mani
- stg2 cams
- (maybe 2zz injectors?)
- 12:1 79.5mm pistons
- valve springs to support stg2
- competition flywheel
- 200 cell cat
- maybe different exhaust.

Added to the existing
- Hurricane intake
- bored throttle body
- emanage blue piggyback

[jvanzyl]

Out of interest- say you had the above, but with an EMU Black... What is the theoretical output?
I'm just curious as to the benefits of the black over the apexi that Bernie has?

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[shnazzle]

Out of interest- say you had the above, but with an EMU Black... What is the theoretical output?
I'm just curious as to the benefits of the black over the apexi that Bernie has?

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No idea. Just more features really. So wouldn't expect the power to be too far off