Keep in mind that cylinder deactivation in piston engines has the capability to control intake and exhaust valves to reduce pumping losses.

With our ports being fixed gaping holes with nothing that you can really do about it... yeah.

Ferrari is hybrid so that's cheating.

I am reliably informed that LC Rotary / LC Motorsports is "no more" as a company ... no idea how this affects the OP but I suppose that makes the decision to "de-list" them as rotary specialists on the forum a bit easier?

Re: Seafoam I did it to an engine once. Literally the last thing I did to it before I took the engine out and stripped it. Wasn't overly impressed tbh. I know it's not exactly going to suddenly turn the engine into a dishwasher or anything but meh, I doubt it does much (if anything in some cases). B...

It's where the cold pipes run, yes. Almost certainly just condensation.

ffs :rofl: Though, full disclosure: When that happened previously, I only had limited time to check over the car and never got round to the fans as it seemed to behave immediately after tinkering with whatever, so we assumed a fix - it was the owner who later found the error and told me about it =D>...

The only bits I'm surprised haven't found a good home are the gearbox (is this too expensive?) Nah about right I'd say! Probably just that £150 for a box and £150 for fitting is a bit of a spend for most, just be patient. The boxes are quite sought after for kit cars I do believe so if no one on he...

Yeah it's a totally valid question to find out what exactly happened. Though I would assume Ranjan would know the difference between the two, I'm sure we're about to find out either way. That said, I would also assume that the car would have had its heat cycle by then and pushed out any excess :/ no...

Yis it will throw it out, but it won't overheat because of it. It'll just throw out what is surplus to requirements when hot, and then find its happy Full level when it sucks air back in while cooling. Not that that's the ideal method of setting the level :lol: but not as big of a problem as having ...

Looks like 9.55 should be fine:

They were what was fitted to the FD RX-7 - colder plug, less chance of detonation. The small ground electrode should be near enough the same gap with the centre, however the X shape part of the ground electrode is closer to the centre than on RE8C-L etc, so I would assume that this benefits in a mor...

My idle I have set at 1,100rpm (for oil flow reasons) so I can't see 1,200rpm really bumping up the heat that much - being a full bridge port, it's what it needs to be set at, and plenty of other FBP 8s are happy like it. Similarly with the mixture, I don't think there's much that can be done to alt...

Do you still have those Mishimoto fans on by any chance? Though, 28'C shouldn't really phase an 8 :/ even with the fans. It's only 22'C here but I caned it home from work without issue. I guess make sure any air is burped out of the system (raise the front and run it up) with plenty of coolant in th...

Rear mount turbos are so aids, and space under the bonnet isn't exactly the leading issue why more aren't turbocharged.

Not the best but when they work, they do seem to work.
I've got a set with one dead coil, so I keep the other 3 as spares.

Herko I think - though that doesn't necessarily narrow them down to one supplier. Also Dave, since the leading coil fires first, this wouldn't have anything to do with kickback. And even if it did, surely you'd just retard the Leading coil's ignition timing so that cylinder pressures reach their pea...

warpc0il wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:52 pm

The PCM only fires the trailing coils on the initial start-up

Nope.
It only fires the leading coils for the first few revolutions.

D585s judging from the first post.

But apparently, so I'm told, that a "trusted garage" doesn't think that those testers are effective on D585s.
But what would I / we know...

Might have to just order as many tins of beans I can afford atm and hope for the best

Ah darn, I really liked the car and watching your videos. Seemed like a well-setup and piloted steed. I must have seen you briefly at Mallory last year but I didn't say hi.

I hope it was fun while it lasted.

Juey wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:57 pm

As I rarely get her flowers, she'd immediately think I'd done something wrong if I get her some

Plan B it is then:

geofftl1000r wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 11, 2019 1:25 pm

I think the science museum has one!

I'll have to check one of the 1901 de Dions at works to see if there's one installed on the dash instead of a cassette / vinyl player

Top wifu. Flower-based positive reinforcement treat.

Perhaps a controversial / untrue / unreasonable point, but in my current opinion: I quite rarely feel as though I really 'require' such levels of performance from a tyre. Every-day driving I am far from pushing the laws of physics. Even when being quite brisk going about my business, I must be quite...

Wolverhampton Mazda on Willenhall Road is actually run by a buddy of mine - they did my drivers airbag a while back while I waited.
More like an indy than a monolithic, dribbling stealer.