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StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:57 pm

gawd yea..... :lol:

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:52 pm

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:42 pm

just realized , this sh*t thread has been going for 15 years . LOL

PaulF · Postby **PaulF** » Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:28 am

It's still one of my favourites!

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Tue Dec 14, 2021 2:32 pm

so after a few weeks of chasing gremlins , oil leaks, & water leaks shes back running. I got one of those aftermarket cam cover seals. Don't know why I bothered :roll:

seriously. found a OEM seal amongst my spare sh*t. Sealed immediately. nothing required. :lol:

At 1200 Rpm shes very lumpy at idle . essentially thats where I would like her..... but she just want to idle at 1600 rpm naturaly at the moment. My idle valve works intermittently. no idea why ...

She ducking hammers .....she starts going all quiet & smooth as she comes up the rev range .....then you start hearing the scavenging work from the overlap through the mania intake .....she starts to howl. its awesome :lol:

and she just goes. the revving is beautiful.
its quite intense.smooth as well. 3rd gear is a lot of fun. Sure shes no 400hp monster.....but this is intense & dramatic in a different way.

im really tickled pink right now.
Currently I'm using the VVT head COP's which is not ideal because they are not bolted down & i don't have an rpm gauge working , so over the next few days. I'll have to wire up the Toyota cops again . No idea why that original wiring was cut to pieces. would have been great to just swap them over.

the ultimate for me would be to do this to the VVT head..... bigger valves similar spec cams..... and shaved to an inch of its life.....

as far as power goes. ive really got no idea

11.5:1
APR head bolts
238@0.50 duration
10.8mm lift
port matched
ms2pnp
BP4W head
vvt bottom end
VVT modded headers
98 & E85
2.25 Inc exhaust

PaulF · Postby **PaulF** » Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:12 am

Sounds like a riot and I bet it's way quicker than most people expect!

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:15 am

well its sounds pretty meaty & dramatic at idle.

Nevyn72 · Postby **Nevyn72** » Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:40 am

Nice!

I look forward to hearing it in the Royal National Park sometime soon. :wink:

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:44 am

I cant wait..... but I seem to miss all the runs of late. quite a bit of action happening at Roadster brothers but ive missed 2 runs now .....didnt find out about them until it was too late.

Not much action on Sydney Mx5 events anymore

Daffy · Postby **Daffy** » Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:56 pm

StanTheMan wrote:I cant wait..... but I seem to miss all the runs of late. quite a bit of action happening at Roadster brothers but ive missed 2 runs now .....didnt find out about them until it was too late.

Not much action on Sydney Mx5 events anymore

Hopefully by winter 2022 most of this covid crap will finally settle to a point where we can all get back to getting some runs tee’d up without any hang ups (fingers crossed).

Craig · Postby **Craig** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:53 am

If you organise a run can I bring my Audi? :lol:

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 1:58 pm

I recall you didn't turn up t0 one of your own runs one day. :lol:

Craig · Postby **Craig** » Sun Dec 19, 2021 11:04 am

yep!!!

jules · Postby **jules** » Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:59 pm

lol I seem to remember that

jules · Postby **jules** » Mon Jan 10, 2022 11:15 pm

Looks like I may be following you into the dark side Stan...
My head gasket has started letting a little drip drip of coolant into cylinder #2.
Runs on 3 cylinders for the first 20 seconds in the morning, then drives fine.
Not bad for a 30 year old car.....that's been pampered and over serviced all it's life.

Given the cost of a getting the head gasket done with associated head reco, along with the now due timing belt/water pump combo, I've asked Mania to source a 1.8.

Would love to drop a VVT in or even a BP4W, but might need an ECU for that.
Actually do you need an ECU like a MS or Haltech for the BP4W or just the VVT?

I know the VVT doesn't like the NA6 ECU due to coil pack and VVT issues.