I guess he talks about a long straight where he measures the distance on which the car can get to 100. And now it can get to 100 on 300 yards less. But to me it seems too nice for just polishing the TB.
yup it is but i want to do it anyway with a direct ram so air is forced in to see if that makes a big improvement
TB was to a mirror finish and has made a big difference in performance
but i never new what it was like before as i bought it with cambelt failure
after spending £300 on repairing all the damaged parts inc big end shells
the car only ever seemed to go after 3000rpm !
now it goes and pulls in 5th under 2000rpm altho not blisteringly quick
I wouldn't bother with an induction kit. Waste of money.
Forced induction????
Anyhoo. The twin spark engine reacts really well to a remap. I had mine done 3 weeks ago. Gave the beast an extra 15BHP and I have a really smooth acceleratioon from 1500RPM right through to 7200RPM .
Before, the car barely pulled below 3000RPM as you describe.
What engine do you have and what did you use to polish the throttle body? I was cleaning up my throttle body (and inlet mainfold ) the other day and was going to use some Auto Glym Metal Polish to bring them up to a nice finish...
What sort of wax did you use, the same as you would on the bodywork?
I've got my engine (1.8TS) on my drive at the moment and the throttle body and inlet manifold are both off (along with everything else, hehe). The amount of crap on the 4 ports of the inlet manifold was shocking though, much worse than in the throttle body - obviously it should make a similar improvement to what you claim polishing this as well, although I appreciate it's not the most practical thing to do
I just cleaned the TB on my 145 cloverleaf. Can't comment on a change though as there is an electrical fault on the engine at the moment.
The standard 145 TB has a large polished area already around the butterfly valve but on mine it had a black "scorch" mark around the betterfly in the direction of the airflow. No amount of scrubbing lifed that mark, Can you recomend anything?
i was going to do that BUT i thought about it after i just replaced the head after cambelt failier so next project after i get back from croatia
bloody hell thats gonna be a long drive with no cruise control and its a 99T so no chance of modding it like everybody else with the later cars
roll on 3 weeks
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