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almost mj, almost!

so did u say that gavin will also do your camgear?

i am keen to pull off my timing belt cover and see the condition of hte belt (so i know how much longer i need to replace it.. like another 5000km could be fine, or like NOW.. stop driving it completely, etc). I am thinking maybe if i get that far, i will just install the camgear.. then take it to gavin to adjust and do a full dyno tune.

Nah i wont get gavin to do my cam gear as its too much of a pain in the ass. I goto APC to use the dyno. Im thinking does it really need a dyno tune, ive searched the forums and it seems everyone with a camgear puts -4 and gets good results. So maybe if we just put it on and set it to -4 it should be fine??

yer, that is what i was going to put on.. but leave cover off for later tuning on dyno as required.

if you want to do it same time, could be a good little project i reckon.. there is a good thread in forced induction on how to do it.

bed? thats a little extreme jamez.. although i must say i don't feel much better..

yer, i understand .. and I am cautious myself. if i fried my engine i would be very up a creek.

But reading the thread, and all the comments from people (some of which don't sound too much experienced with doing mechanicals than me) who did it themselves, i think its doable. I have the tools, thats easy. It basically sounds like, remove fan and shroud (and x-over fmic pipe in my case).. mark CAS position relative to cover and remove.. remove cover.. behind should be the marks.. one at 10oclock inlet side, and 2oclock exhaust .. rotate crank to TDC, this should be where the built-in belt marks align with these marks.

unbolt stock gear.. pull off.. bolt on new gear, bolt on.

do all up..

i am confident now reading all that.

yup, i better go order mine too.. without a gear could be kinda hard to do. Wanting to do it about 2 weeks time. IF we get to a point where we go "hmm, looking too difficult" i guess we give up and put it all back together. Nothing lost, knowledge gained!

meant to make a nice difference.. better off peak power, and helps the turbo to spool quicker and harder

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