Merlin's 2.2 VTi H22a8

mills · Post by **mills** » Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:52 pm

Great news buddy

good to hear its back on the road to

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:15 pm

Nice one, well done - nearly a new engine

"quarts" of oil

Post by **Doggo** » Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:21 pm

Great stuff

Post by **Merlin** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 9:05 am

wurlycorner wrote: "quarts" of oil

That is the amount Amsoil MTF comes in

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 8:52 pm

Post by **Merlin** » Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:43 am

What do you want me to do? Write a letter to Amsoil saying "make litre bottles bitches!"

The yanks have crazy measurements. They measure the maize harvest in bushels (volumetric measurement

) instead of tons.

Also 2 quarts just so happens to be the exact amount that our gearboxes take. M2U4 is the ATTS gearbox so ignore that.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Jun 30, 2013 7:19 pm

Merlin wrote:What do you want me to do? Write a letter to Amsoil saying "make litre bottles bitches!"

Yes goddamit!!!

Post by **Merlin** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:53 pm

300 mile update.

Now all the funny smells and noises are dying down. The stinks are what I assume is the new rocker cover curing on the car plus all the excess sealants and greases being burnt off. When the car was first started there was a disconcerting noise coming the timing belt, lots of scraping / rattling going on (not the best description of the noise) and driving my paranoia crazy. But this noise has almost gone now, must have been the brand new timing belt pulleys.

The car drives great. The clutch (which I am still getting used to the new biting point) feels very good, and has a slightly more pronounced bite when releasing the clutch when changing gear. I assume this is from the larger contact area of the ATR clutch.

I cleaned up all my brakes at the weekend too. All was generally good apart from the usual deposits of grime in the carriers stopping the pads from moving freely. A rear caliper had seized up due to both boots splitting and drying the grease out. This had caused quite uneven wear on the pad so lucky I had a new set of rear pads.

I hope the only thing left to do is a wheel alignment which is happening this Thursday. If all goes well at the alignment the car will be going on track on Sunday when we are all at JapFest at Knockhill

macky_6 · Post by **macky_6** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:26 pm

Glad to hear the smells/noises are fading! Nothing worse than niggly noises feeding the paranoia haha!

Would love a passenger run if you do track it

Post by **Merlin** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:31 pm

Yeah no probs. You were meant to have a run out in the 4G last year

Shame the track car isn't ready yet.

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