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For the K12 its three bolts that hold the heat-shield on (forgot to say I meant the heat shield and not the exhaust manifold). Then again one of the bolts for the shield is missing ... but it doesnt sound like it would be the heat shield. Its a kind of squeaking rattle

Has anyone ever changed the camshaft in a K12 before? Apparently working on a car with a timing chain is a pain and so many mechanics are reluctant to do it, but I'm determined to at least try unless I have to remove the engine or something to that extent. You'll see that the camshafts are...

I have a similar-ish problem with a rattle that occurs when the car idles. This is probably because idling is when the engine is moving with the largest amplitude and is shaking around the most as the sound disappears when you rev the engine or start driving. Anyone had a similar issue? I feel...

I was looking at exactly the same thing because my car barely makes a stop when it really has to if I start throwing it around the back-roads, and I've got a set of EBC greenstuff pads which do give braking some more bite but don't give much real stopping power. If you take off the front wheel...

Micra turbo parts are incredibly limited for the K12 because there's only the turbo-diesel engine that comes stock with a turbo in the first place. I felt certain that the Micra shared its turbo with some other cars .... maybe a Renault of some kind? Bearing in mind that the K12 was built on the...

That is going to be a sexual car when its finished hahaha i'm not sure you'll need quite 400hp in a K12, though you'll definitely feel it! I wonder how much you could've done starting with a stock engine like a 160SR or something ..... :rolleyes: if i become rich and famous I'll be sure to get...

By 'coils' im assuming you mean coilpacks? And it might be a bad/improper fuel mixture if you have smoke coming out of the coilpacks, unless its the coilpacks themselves melting in which case it could be something to do with spark timing leading to the engine overheating and thus melting the...

Could do with air-ride tbh .... exhaust clips high speed bumps because the bolt-on backbox is slightly too long to fit with the mid-exhaust section and so pushes the exhaust downwards :eek: I personally have an FK lowering kit including struts and springs and its not too bad actually. No...

Been ages since I've been on the forum, but i'm back just with a general update as to how the Micra is coming along and to offer my help to anyone looking to do similar modifications to their car. Thus far I have: -Fitted a new exhaust and backbox -Removed the catalytic converter for a...

Both of those components are basically ECUs for certain parts of your car, meaning they're small boxes with lots of wires, lots of circuit boards and lots of programming, like mini computer hard-drives in a sense. I'm sure they bought the parts from a Nissan dealer who drove up the prices of...

You might have to be a little more specific than that .... hahaha :D

True, because you cant compress water ... good call. Id rather have it be water in the engine block than a warped or seized engine, depending on how the water got into the combustion chambers in the first place ... a cracked block would not be a happy discovery

My 1.0 K12 overheated whilst driving and began to lose power sporadically, driving fine one second and then slowing to a near complete stop the next before driving fine again and then stopping. After a few days, I have jumped the car and tried to start it and the crankshaft turns 90* (or there...

Alright alright, Frank, I get it. We learn from our mistakes and we move one haha who'd honestly have thought it'd be a 20*C day on the Isle of Man?? :O but surely if the engine was lubricated sufficiently it wouldn't have melted, would it? Unless the oil had begun to burn .... but the dipstick...

Further notes on the engine .... • The engine will now not turn over at all. It lurches forward and then does nothing, but I'm nearly 100% sure this is the battery being dead, however I'll check on that fact. •There IS oil in the engine, roughly half level if not a little more than half. •The...

Oh f*ck .... hahaha how can I be sure?

Whilst driving my K12 into town, the coolant temperature soared and the car began to overheat, and a minute later when I was turning into a side-road to park the car and check the engine the car began to lose power and slow down even with my foot on the accelerator. The coolant was steaming in...

I drove down to my local DMS to grab some oil and spark plugs for a friend's Renault Megane and pulled into a space and went in to buy what i needed. I came back out and went to start up the car and the engine cranked but wouldn't fire. I cranked it 4 times for roughly 4 seconds each time before...

Having just done a few launches now it must have been that I wasn't rev matching before the launch because it takes off extremely well. My only complaint now is that there's a noticeable gap in power between the first few gears: is this to be expected from a low torque car?

When performing a 'launch' from a stand still or just accelerating quickly off the mark, the first gear seems to be significantly less power-driven than the rest of the gears. Im sure this is to be expected as it is the smallest gear and would be ideal for doing small, sharp movements with the...