Mk8 A series

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matnrach
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Re: Mk8 A series

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Its 1293cc.
The ECU is a Megasquirt which I built myself from a kit.
I'm very happy with it.
Like all management systems at this level, its only as good as the person who maps it
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Hal Mercier
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Re: Mk8 A series

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Well it sounds as if it's getting there!

I play with the Emerald system on the 'K' series engines a bit.
gtm4honda
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Re: Mk8 A series

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Hi does your car have door bars.
Thanks Dean
matnrach
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Re: Mk8 A series

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The doors are only shells with no internal reinforcing beams
Is that what you mean?
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Hi no it is a pair of bars that sit on the sills and are atached to the front screen bar and the rear hoop,it would be on the sill,you would see them.
Thanks Dean
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matnrach
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Re: Mk8 A series

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If you look at the picture of the interior on the previous page you can see the roll bar going around the windscreen .
I presume this goes into the sill but I don't know
I can take some other pics if you like
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Re: Mk8 A series

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Thanks for that,it seams lots of MK8`s just didnt have door bars,i have had a pair made up,fitting them this week.
Thanks again Dean
matnrach
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Re: Mk8 A series

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Finally got round to making my headlamp covers.
Quite involved but turned out OK in the end

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Also did a bit more mapping today on the throttle response. Before there were some occasions when there was a short hesitation after a long time on trailing throttle but looks as though its fixed now.
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It has been a while since I have done any work on the car due to restoration of a Riley RM

Just had the seats re-upholstered as they were looking a bit tired.
Great service from the manufacturers:
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Looks like photobucket has deleted photos from all websites so I thought I would put some recent ones on that wont get lost
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