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Had a delivery of cheap chinese tat.

Will probably burn quite easily, but look quite nice IMO. Sitting off to the side currently, but will remedy that in the long run.

They are a bit smaller than the Cobra tips they are replacing, so may look to get larger ones further down the line.
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Mad Professor wrote:Had a fun day out in the shed, not quite upto project binky standards.
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I probably didn't need quite so meny teeth, but as I only had some alu plate kicking about I went a bit overkill.
I really did think I was going to snap the breaker bar trying to undo the pully bolt with me hanging off a 2m scaffolding pole. or me face planting the dirt.
That's going to put much less strain on individual ring gear teeth, so has got to be a better idea than only 3 teeth, in a straight line, which is more common.

Alloy also means that it's kinder to the teeth and lighter, for when you post it to fellow members - only "on loan" of course :D

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Passed the 70’000 mark today :roll: :thumleft:
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To do: catch can, new intake & save for a rebuilt ported donk........
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On that note, has anyone else noticed that engines in 8s running in Europe, including Eire, plus Aus & NZ seem to last so much better than in the UK?

On average about 5:3 or 8:5 difference.

A while ago I discovered a button on the dash that can increase the reliability of my car by the same ratio
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Blimey that’s miles different!
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How very strange
I was thinking short journeys may play a role but we wouldn’t be any diff to Ireland would we?
What about available fuel and additives used in different markets?
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Kilometers verses miles eh
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If anyone is interested someone has 3 R3 alloys in need of refurb for sale on Facebook £45 each, I don't know the person and I hope this doesn't upset anyone, just thought someone may be interested
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I started my 8, first time since October, running sweet as a nut 😊 I have missed you ;)
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Sounds like love :inlove:
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PaulAV wrote:
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If anyone is interested someone has 3 R3 alloys in need of refurb for sale on Facebook £45 each, I don't know the person and I hope this doesn't upset anyone, just thought someone may be interested
I saw these... Certainly tempted... Clean then up and refurb them and they'd be worth about £400 even as a set of 3...
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Anyone down near Devizes who could potensh collect these and hold on to them until lockdown eases? Thinking these could be good for me to have mine refurbed one at a time...
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V8 Power wrote:
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Sounds like love :inlove:
Haha , yeah sure missed it and all that rotary goodness 👍
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Nothing done to rx8 still waiting on results on the rrp coils so been doing bits to the other beast wrx polly bushes and doing brake upgrade

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A few people doing this today I'd wager. Image

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Sooo today my mum has purchased a new power washer as a business expense (she was spending 7 quid a day on washing her taxi.. which was ridiculous when it comes to a yearly expenditure! She said I can also use it... However I can't seem to find if its snowfoam compatible... :(
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If it's got pressure coming through it it'll be compatible. :D

It'll either have a 1/4" quick connect which is pretty generic and standard, can get them off Amazon for £13 , or there are proprietary connectors as well.

Just make sure you get a 1.1mm nozzle adapter to put into the snowfoamer (couple of quid) - smaller orifice foams it up like a good'n.
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I think I already have one in my current snowfoam lance. The issue I'm having is the fact the manual doesn't show additional parts... And googling for them only brings up the companies website... Which again... Doesn't make finding additional parts easy. :/

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Managed to find what I need I do believe. :D https://www.pumpsandpressure.co.uk/inte ... 7294-p.asp
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Another day in the shed, and another bracket / adaptor.

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I am sure that eveyone can guess what I am going to be doing very soon.
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Doing soon? Looking for little apex seal tips and corner seals in ports and water jackets plus wondering how the hell the centre iron Is manoeuvred over the e shaft!
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It was my 1st teardown of a 13b engine.

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Still not heard anything about the rx8 coils from rrp thats been a week now and now needing my car not heard anything and the mark 3 coils are not in stock so no good even if it was just the coils so i been told

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Ok so after a week i been told its not my coils and i got to pay £20 charge and return postage. But if not coils am at a loss to what it could be cam sensor or the baro sensor or something else

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Just been to Ockendon to see Ashton at Essex Rotary. Had a Stage 1 ECU flash, some work done on the ignition coils (they were 2nd hand but low mileage BHR ones that somebody did some mod on the harness, so it was turned back to original), new HT leads and a new supply of premix. While I was there I had a comp test done too. I had one done there in 2018 when I bought the car and the results are pretty much the same luckily. However, I'm struggling to interpret the exact numbers, there's the well-known green-to-red chart with the hard line, the numbers don't seem to fit that format.
Mine look like this:

Front Rotor
First Chamber [680, 830]: 489.5
Second Chamber [680, 830]: 471.78
Third Chamber [680, 830]: 495.83

Back Rotor
First Chamber [680, 830]: 629.97
Second Chamber [680, 830]: 631.66
Third Chamber [680, 830]: 616.05

Chambers difference [<150]: 15.61
Rotors Difference [<100]: 135.83

Any advice on that? Front rotor looks significantly lower than the rear, should I be worried and start saving up?
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First would be figuring out what thats measured in. Then wether or not its been adjusted for altitude and normalised RPMs (which if Ashton did it I'd imagine its probably RPM normalised at least?) Did you not ask Ashton whilst you were there?
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