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I have a brand new, unused one I have had for about a month... :? I just dont see the point in fitting it to my car:it MAY be that the ones that have failed are part of a duff batch (mine may be part of that batch?)... ..or more likely, they're just plain not up to the job..? I may contact Fensport ...

You gotta be shidding me..

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Couldn't have put it better myself... :D We did some tests with electric fans, both axial and radial types as a feasibility study for pre-charging the SC12 'charger in the Mk1... Nothing even came close to bringing anything to the party.... However, ther IS a company in Germany, I think, that produc...

True..!

But I reckon Fensport will ultimately need to sort this out..?

That idler simply is not up to the job!

Sure, Tom.....

But this is a "must have", surely..?

Everyone who fits this pulley kit will have this prob sooner or later, and the cost (financial / inconvenience) of a failure will outweigh a bit of "preventative investment"..

Ahh..I see now....! Mart...yes...loading off centre.... So..ideally we need a longer (slightly larger diameter?) stud to mount it on. A wider idler with a bearing race at each end to share the load. A piece of alloy to press said bearings into.. :D Tom....if this is what you're basically looking int...

..'uk it....I may even make one.......! Correct me if I'm wrong.....but is it not just a nylon ring with a bearing race pressed into it? Seems to me from the pix that the nylon is heating up / distorting, allowing the bearings to fall out...! OK...so we get a piece of alloy turned to the appropriate...

So..the hunt is on for an identical metal version, then..? :D I recently bought the Fensport alloy oversize, and just couldn't believe that the plastic thing they sent was gonna be up to the job, considering the stress its under... :shock: Some OEM part somewhere will be identical to this.... Its ju...

Hi Stuart.

I have this engine in my Mk1: if you have any probs, drop me a line...
If its at all convenient, I can go out and have a look for you..

IE: NOT if its pitch black and p1$$ing down outside...No Garage!

Wow..the Lotus Carlton... \:D/ I'll never forget in the early 90's, I was driving up the A24 one Sunday morning, and at the end of a mile-or-so-long stretch of (almost deserted) road as I approached a roundabout braking from 70-ish, I happened to glance in my mirror and saw a car in the distance.......

Well...just the 2: my old Mica Blue T-Bar NA, bought in 2002.....

Sold this in 2005!

Wanted more power (dont we all..?)...so bought a sunroof AE101 S/C conversion (also Mica Blue ).....

Still have this...but its now been modded slightly

....oh....and its now Satin Black

Phew......! That was a HEAVY read...! :D So....to summarise: Bigger alloys DONT necessarily mean worse handling....its just that unless you alter other suspension geometry on your '2, you upset the Mr.T OEM setup..... If you want better handling, get a better handling car..... If you want your car t...

Oh well........alu / polycarbonate it is, then..

Fabricate your own from GRP, aluminium, etc.....?

Thats what I'm doing...

May put a bit of CF on there for decoration, mind.....

Spoil the what..!!?

Mk1 MR2 is hardly an F1 car.......: besides, we need more air in the engine bay for IC's, induction, etc....

....and its a bit different

...I've already started...


.....well...its the right colour, anyway..

..I'm actually doing very similar to my SC in the new year... It a great idea....but you really need to be looking more RS200 / MK1 MR2 WRC-type... They have vents on the rear of the cover, which allows air from underneath the car and above to merge and somewhere to exit, too... Something like this:...

Wideband is virtually essential if you wanna really keep control of A/F ratio. The more power you extract from your engine, the more important accurate AFR becomes... Wideband tells you whats REALLY going on: if a narrowband is detecting lean or rich, it cannot tell you by how much, so you cannot ac...

Hmmm....there's a grey area between WI setups and NOS! I suppose you could add any combustible chemical to the mix, but obviously there are corrosion considerations :D ...and you would need to remap the ECU to take these additives into account......etc...etc.... I just use Optimax / Ultimate (ie: a ...

I use WI instead of an intercooler in my AE101 Mk1 conversion....and the thing flies.. :D I'm only running about 8psi boost, so its ok..... 8) I've recently started adding Methanol (30%) to the water...mainly for the coming winter, to prevent my ERL pump from cracking......BUT the REAL reason for us...