Ahhhh..... Sliders and sliding freely.


Piston boweveethas had it, won't wind back in.

On the hunt for two new rear calipers now ready for the weekend!

Here you go... Brakeparts

Edit....see they only have RH for 6speed cars ins stock but i dont know if there is any difference on 5speed calipers?

Cheers, dropped a message to Paul at TCB, but will give him and Mr2ben a call in the morning.

Failing that, I'll pop into a local breakers just for the weekend.

Quote from: Gaz2405 on July  6, 2020, 20:35Ahhhh..... Sliders and sliding freely.


Piston boweveethas had it, won't wind back in.

On the hunt for two new rear calipers now ready for the weekend!

@Ardent has a couple for sale:

https://www.mr2roc.org/forum/index.php?msg=827934

@Gaz2405

If you are after calipers for a 5 speed.
Then the ones I have are very likely to be 5 speeds as came off a 2001 car.
If that helps.

Cheers guys, looks like Mr2Ben can sort me out thinks he's got two on a shelf.

Mine would be cheaper and you get some discs as we.

Two brand new rear calipers turned up today from Mr2 Ben, top service delivered in less than 24 hours.

Already had some yellow stuff pads to go in them.

So Saturday should be a nice chilled day swapping them over ready for Sunday.

Phew! Panic over!

Home from work at 5:45 calipers swapped, new pads in.

Bleed tomorrow.

Boom.

Got bored watching re-runs of location location location with the Mrs.

Brakes now bled up 😂.

Just back from Blyton, car performed brilliantly.

Only thing it needed was fuel and a driver with more talent 😂

Loads of track time 136 miles worth and beatngtthe crap out of it 😂

It's definitely running faster than last time, lapping 9 seconds quicker and pushing the E46 M3's out of the way.

Some quick stuff there today, couple of Atoms a supercharged E46 M3.

Got some on board footage that I'll try and get up later.

Did get a misfire on the way home, quick check and the cam case breather that I have to atmosphere has covered the nearest injector connector in oil so that's probably the cause.

Not to worry, I'll get it rerouted to the catch can.


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Nice one glad it went well, im itching to get back out on track with mine

For those interested a few laps from one of the afternoon sessions.

Investigating my exhaust blow/misfire tonight.

Oil catch tank modified to accept another feed.

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Then proceeded to clean the injector connectors, checked the plugs and coils all fine.

Started it up, went for a run still blowing  under load.

Back home, staring into engine bay with the engine running scratching my head like a neanderthal.... 😂

Put my hand around the manifold, could feel exhaust around the turbo/manifold.

Cut all the heat wrap off.

Manifold has a slight crack, looks like it's due to getting super heated up!!

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It's also  blwon through the steel gasket between the manifold and the T3-T25 adaptor. Made a start on getting the world's most annoying bolts out!

Turbo is now free, so manifold can come off and be welded and a new gasket and studs can got in on the way back in.

Minor set back, but not bad considerinf it had a full day 9-5pm getting hammered around the track for 130+ miles!

Whoa hang on, isn't yours a turbokits cast manifold? I'd considered them to be rather bullet proof!

There is definitely a crack, but I do need to investigate further as to how bad it is, its not on a casting mark or anything or a weld, but I'll wait until tomorrow whenits cooled down and on the bench to check it.

Run a bit richer on track? Maybe on a second map for track. Cool those EGTs down

Quote from: shnazzle on July 13, 2020, 21:44Run a bit richer on track? Maybe on a second map for track. Cool those EGTs down

Im already on the rich side for safety, I think I won't heat wrap it next time and make some heat shields instead.

Had the manifold off tonight.

Definitely a small crack but not sure how deep.

Also really poor port matching on the manifold, so I'll ease those in whilst it's on the bench.

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So all in all not too bad, a £5 gasket.

Nasty!, crack could well be caused by the heatwrap so i think your idea of not wrapping and making a heatshield is a good one and what i was going to do with mine before i sold it.

You will need a good welder to keep that crack sealed and often once cast manifolds crack its time to throw away but worth a try as might work out.

Yeah I'm of the thinking its the heat wrap that's caused it, or at least brought it on quicker.

I know what I should do with the weld, but I'm a bodge master so will probably bodge it myself!

I'm going to explore it with a die grinder tomorrow night and see how deep it is. fingers crossed!

Quote from: Gaz2405 on July 14, 2020, 21:17Yeah I'm of the thinking its the heat wrap that's caused it, or at least brought it on quicker.

I know what I should do with the weld, but I'm a bodge master so will probably bodge it myself!

I'm going to explore it with a die grinder tomorrow night and see how deep it is. fingers crossed!

Do you know what material the manifold is made from ? is it magnetic ?  could be cast stainless or cast iron but either way  you will be very lucky to bodge fix cracked manifold and probably just make it worse, i would recommend leaving it and trying to find a local cast welding specialist to take a look, lots of places wont touch cast as its so tricky to do right needing to preheat and things and even then it might not last, especially a turbo manifold which could be 900c+ in use so has a lot to deal with, good luck though

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Quote from: Gaz2405 on July 14, 2020, 21:17Yeah I'm of the thinking its the heat wrap that's caused it, or at least brought it on quicker.

I know what I should do with the weld, but I'm a bodge master so will probably bodge it myself!

I'm going to explore it with a die grinder tomorrow night and see how deep it is. fingers crossed!

Do you know what material the manifold is made from ? is it magnetic ?  could be cast stainless or cast iron but either way  you will be very lucky to bodge fix cracked manifold and probably just make it worse, i would recommend leaving it and trying to find a local cast welding specialist to take a look, lots of places wont touch cast as its so tricky to do right needing to preheat and things and even then it might not last, especially a turbo manifold which could be 900c+ in use so has a lot to deal with, good luck though

Oddly I wouldn't consider wrapping turbo manifold, despite the fact that I would wrap an n/a manifold. 

Turbo manifolds just get so flaming hot

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Blyton booked again for 1st August!

Manifold welded up and checked for other cracks, seems fine..... Meh!

Manifold ported out to match the exhaust ports better.

Waiting on a gasket which should be here tomorrow.