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sorry mate ment inlet, i may remove both cams and replace the followers if i cant see any dammage to the tensioner, dose the tensioner go weak so makes it easy to push it down by hand when faulty?

ive got an oil pressure gauge fitted in the car and all seems good in that respect i think like you say going to have to take the cover off i do have another good chain tensioner i beleave you have to remove the exhaust cam to do this? am while im in there best off changing the lifters too? it...

more a tappy noise on start up id say but the brrrat noise dose sound some what similar to the warm light loud noise i get its wierd youde think it would be there when revved but its not its only there on the load in gear when warm. No fault codes and mine is non VVT

hi guys after abit of guidance with a little noise I've got coming from my S3. First start up the noise is at its loudest the noise sounds like a noisy/sticky lifter as soon as its warmed up noise has gone rev it nothing spot on but when you drive under light load you get the rattle back again...

Well I've tryed it running it up till the stat opens draining it out and topping it up as required until red hot water came out the pipe the bottom hose was luke warm il be honest not convinced it's got it out, I also pressurised the system manually and forced little bits out at a time it was...

Mint will give this ago tomorrow thanks for your help mate :)

Shall I do this while it's running? I think I've drained and refilled the system 4 times today lol stupid question but which way round dose the coolant go? Out the engine into the bottom hose or out the bottom hose into the engine, I'm pretty sure I've got all my pipes lined up correctly too as...

Rite guys just put the S3 back together after a rebuild and bigger turbo all good but I cannot get my coolant to bleed up, my heaters are hot and the temp gauge is working but the bottom hose is stone cold! The rad is also cold, I've put another new thermostat in it still the same checked the...

Got my S3 stripped at the moment doing a major rebuild and the rose joints that is pressed into the hub that the tie bar mounts to has popped out of its mounting so needs replacing not a issue but I read somewhere you can replace these with a poly bush dose anyone know if this is true? If so...

Do you know if an APU head is a large port head and suitable for my S3 I'm going to get uprated valves and springs the motors only 5k old :( just hope it's not got the bore

I know gutted :( don't suppose you know of any big port heads going do you?

Thanks for the reply tuffty found the problem snapped valve so I have a destroyed cylinder just hope it's not caught the bore :(

Would the knock sensor cause the vehicle to fire out the intake and no longer start as this has just happend to me while drive home car won't restart and this is the only fault code I have on Vag com

Hi mate just leaving a message on here I've replied to your message about the plate but I'm not sure if they are sending as there's a red ! Next to it cheers Nick

My engine is fully forged and rebored I'm running a gt2871r turbo with a tial tubular manifold I've got a big port head as well I'm going to get another inlet manifold and basically copy what tuffty has done

Tuffty that's perfect just what I wanted and I was also thinking of get a spare small port manifold and doing what you've done as I'm running a big port head thanks for everyone's feed back I will get in contact with bill see how much an adaptor is thanks again

Hi there ive just got my self a R32 throttle body for my S3 but ive bought a mk5 R32 throttle body not mk4 has any one fitted these? the difference i have seen though is theres no vacume port on the throttle body like there is on my 1.8t one but i was going to put a port in the adaptor so thats...

Thanks Mush, and if any one dose have any pictures that would be great all in all its not to expensive to do? do you find your pumps noisey?

Hi guys just after abit of advise really on a fuel pump to run on my car ive just had a gt2871R conversion done on my S3 and i know im going to have to fit a uprated fuel pump to safely run some good power, just want to see what everyone is using, what it cost you roughly to install and how and...

using a T3 turbo mate