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Great thread. Doune next weekend?

Nicky Grist is excellent. Very knowledgable and great after sales service to make sure the helmet fits correctly.

Hi @Leslie Graham apologies for bringing up an old thread but did you confirm whether this was the lifters and did you manage to sort it without removing the lifters? I suspect I've got the same issue with mine. Thanks.

Yes I had to bend back the tabs mentioned above. It's a fiddly job. I think I got the lower bolts in first, loosely, then put the upper ones in. I could take a pic of my one if you like but it'll probably be Wednesday before I'm back at the car.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the guidelines were that these heads shouldn't be skimmed. In any case I think heads are normally skimmed by around 8 thousandth but mine was missing around 40 thousandth. I also had issues with the timing belt but I've used a thicker...

He skimmed a big chunk off the head and the engine failed shortly after it was built. There’s question marks over whether he’d cleaned the oilways and whether he’d changed the valve guides which he’d charged me for separately. When I asked if the valve guides had actually been changed, he...

It's worth doing some research before getting any cylinder head work done. Like a few others on this forum, ALD (or A.L.D) worked on my head and it's had major problems. In the half season of racing I've now missed, I've been in touch with him to try and resolve it and been given no help.

I used to find that going direct to elephant / bell / admiral got the lowest quotes. All the same company so doesn't really matter which. Shite to deal with and always had issues with them but cheap. If doing a price comparison website, I think moneysupermarket is the best.

Have a look at your first photo, that pipe which joins the elbow between the throttle body and the airbox should look familiar :wink:

Cheers!

I'll have another look tomorrow. Cheers

Hi @alistairolsen , Had a quick look at this the other day and from what I could see, the column is mounted by two vertical bolts - the ones you mentioned and two horizontal bolts (one captive as per the picture). Is this the same as yours? My car is a 172 cup. From the horizontal bolts, there's...

Excellent thanks

Alistair, thanks for that. I'll give that a go! You managed this without removing the dash top? That would be a benefit as my cage makes removal of the dash a little trickier.

@alistairolsen ?