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well the hog is rebuilt from major reworks and paint job ( well still waiting for bloody head simon).

chucked last years head on as stiull waiting for nead from morspeed.

then got here running ok on normal ign before waiting to fir mega jolt.

any way took here to tecticals ( soory tescoes) to fill up on superplus before the old mot. got to round about and started to run on 3 so u turned back and got home.

pluuled plug which was very wet and oily and loads of blue smoke belching from exhaust. not good.

changed plug but still no joy.

done compression test and gauge didnt do alot so wipped of roker cover and yes low and behold no 4 inlet tappet had come undone ( thnak f@ck for that), done up to setting and cleaned plug then back to tescoes and she ran well on 7psi givenj her a bit of a blast as you do, so alls well which ends well i hope .

just got to go for the dreaded now.

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

how long you been waiting for your head phil?

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

to bloody long, suposed to have been posted month ago and appenerntly been sent back twice with unown address make your mind up on that one

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

Edited by jamesfawcett on 9th Apr, 2007.

Previous Engine: 1040cc Morespeed engine, 1275 turbo head T2 Turbo Mirage Manifolds Megajolt
Previous engine: STD metro turbo, megajolt
Drives: 399bananahp (flywheel) Honda Civic Vtec b18c4 T28 Turbo 1968 Mini

Megajolt maps to download: http://www.jamesfawcett.co.uk/cms/index.ph...&gid=3&Itemid=3

he said the exact same thing to me mate, told me it was done, until i rang one day and one of the other guys picked up and said yeah i just think hes doing yours now!!! dropped him right in it. so i went to fetch it in person.

'always keep a spare shot for a stray bird'

From what I have heard of Morspeed customer service, my advice would be to contact Benross for a head.....

iv not heard good things with morspeeds customer service either! not sure if i would bother with them even if there stuff is good as people say!
ill be in touch with benross when the time comes!

My build thread..

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=542985

i would mate

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

I've done worse, in a moment of blondness, after I replaced my head gasket a few weeks back (also had the head skimmed whilst it was off) I couldn't get the car to start, despite the best part of an afternoons worth of effort.

The next day I realised that I'd forgot to reset the tappets, so I went out with a set of filer gauges and not only was there no clearance on any of the rockers but they where actually preventing the valves from fully sealing. A bit of tweaking later and they were all happy and the car started started first turn of the key.

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

If my heads not here for this weekend, Im just gonna fly tip the car off the pier.

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"