1.0 lx engine bay

[shentyt]

This is currently my engine bay in my 1.0 litre lx k11 and I'm just wondering if anyone has advice on how to scrub it a bit maybe removing things moving things or simply cleaning things up I have a few plans for the engine bay but nothing major

 

[Lawrence832]

Gunk engine degreeaser. Rinse off with water. Take off rocker cover. Paint crackle red. Fit Allen bolts in place of rubbish cross heads and use impact gun to remove the rubbish cross heads as they are prone to shear.

And everyone knows when you paint the rocker cover red it adds 5bhp

 

[Lawrence832]

Oh and paint heat shield black. Use hi temp paint tho remember

 

[shentyt]

Ok then thank you and I'm going to fit new Ht leads and relocate the battery Into the boot and fit a induction kit to vet rid of the big air box and possibly a new japspeed manifold

 

[Lawrence832]

You can make your own ht leads for a cheap price in all sorts of colours. Grab some spare ones from a scrappy and copper cored wire from eBay. Try and get a Frankspeed manifold as they look standard and flow well too. Plus much cheaper. Induction kit is unlikely to do much. If it sound you want then just take off the resonator pipe (one with a funny blanked off extension to air box intske) free and sounds good. Have you done the rev limiter removal mod?

 

[shentyt]

Ok then I'll that cheaper and free is always better ) and I have had a quick look for the frankspeed manifold but seem hard to get hold of and no I didn't realise it had a rev limiter on how do I remove it ??

 

[shentyt]

Do you leave in the standard air filter when you take of the resonator pipe ??

 

[Lawrence832]

Leave the paper filter in bud. If I was you stuff 'modifying micra engine' into Google. That's what I did myself and it's taught me loads of information. I opened up about 40 pages of info and sat there reading it. That will give you the basics on budget mods

 

[shentyt]

Ok then sweet I'll. Go do that now then and sweet I'll have a look and see what I can find

 

[Agent_Sm1th]

Best and cheapest way to modify a 1.0l Micra engine is to replace it with the 1.3. Cheapest 30hp you'll ever get.