MG ZR: Cams & Maps

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I think I remember headgaskets being some kind of problem or something

Can't say I've heard it

Maybe I dreamt it

I do Steve if you are oop north?

JP

Aye, me old mucka I be up north like
You going to the rolling road session? Although I could pop over to Manchester sometime tis only down the road now

Couple that with some stripage and suspension work and then we'll have something worthy to go against the more lightly tuned gti6's

id bin the shell, go metro with a class c spec as its miles lighter

The shell stays! when you c spec you mean like this
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/used-cars/ro...?logcode=p

you wish I ment carb spec, in fact that's a good shell for mine!

I think he must mean cat c, what with metros belonging in the scrappers. :p

oi poodles respect the up coming classic
anyway you two I was meaning this sort of class c
check out some of the specs cars for sale
http://www.mgmetrocup.co.uk/forsale.html

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Okay a bit of a bombshell of an update:
A big thanks to Jammapic goes out today for helping get some more insight into this car with a compression test and taking me out in his gti +hdi, both of which sound amazing and pull like no mans business. Just a shame the roads were wet so the power couldn't be put down fully
Plugging the car into a reader showed the map sensor being a bit off with readings which could explain the blip when you press the throttle
The compression test showed that although the cylinders were within tolerances of each other 3/4 ran at 250psi and the other 240....a standard engine should be 160psi.
There also appears to be no repair gasket so James is thinking that the head has been skimmed and no gasket to make up for the loss of material has been put on resulting in the pressure bumping up making the ecu retard the timings so as not to knock orrrr the exhaust camshaft is timed badly and holding in the exhaust gases for too long. Either way something is afoot.
Removing spark plugs as well showed a lot of oil in some of the holes covering the plugs, possibly a rocker gasket which have been like that for a while since there's bathroom sealant around the area it should be.

In terms of future power mods, I want to stay n/a maybe with throttle bodies or something But for now it looks like it's going to be a bit of work getting it right again

throttle boddies on a k series engine, will cost a fare bit mind, the idea has tickled me for sometime. but I would have to rebuild a vvc block for the power.