Smiffy69

Update ..... Bloody impossible to drive in square without damaging the bush so have conceded defeat and sent it to Bilstein. Anyone planning to do this I would take JKs advice and send it off straight away to Bilstein. Cheers

That looks useful. I'll try with the vice first and if that doesn't work I'll be off to machinemart.

Thanks JK as I suspected a bit of lube and a brute force seems to be the answer. Post title changed as suggested.

I am just about to replace the lower bush on the front suspension damper. Initially i thought this would be an easy job utilising the 2 sockets and a vice to drift out the old one. This was harder than I expected due to the bush not being a true cylinder but a having a narrower middle than the ends. I am assuming the fitting of the new one is just a reverse of above? However, before I apply brute force to this is there a better / easier . special tool for doing this. As always any top tips would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Smiffy

Hi Alan, I had mine done by CC (and had the RBTB added as well) FWIW my injectors are Green. I have no idea of the flow rate. Not sure if this has helped ! Cheers

I had a similar problem on mine and it turned out to be a bad earth connection. Given the sender is just a resistor that varies with temp then it may be a bit of corrosion on the threads creating a high resistance connection. Give it a good clean and see if that helps - could be a simple as that .... mine was.

On Saturday heading up Brook Lane towards Parkgate.

Saturday around 13:30 near Newbury Northbound

Spotted you last night 2 cars in front of me queuing for the roundabout. You then headed off to Sainsburys for Fuel .... I headed to the Pub

Saw you heading from Warsash towards Parkgate. I waved and smiled and you swiftly ignored me

Approx 19:00 ..... you were heading up Brookfield Lane towards Park Gate. Nice Hat - good job as it was cold !!

Can't add anything to the above other than say mine is Duratec with the standard CC Map for the stage 2 upgrade to 225 BHP. I run on 98 where available and 95 when not and have never experienced any poor running on the 95.

I think you can still get CR500 though (should you want them) as this debate was running last year ..... a hurried call to CC, after Dunsfold day, confirmed these were still available so I now have a spare set ..... I would not be able to fit the ZZS with out modifications to the cycle wings as the CR500s are a tight fit as it is so problem solved ...... for a bit !!

@ScottR400D - maybe they sent me your Drawing !

Agreed it looks very good. However, maybe it needs more info in the top tips bit of just general description for each stage. For example in the "old" manual when fitting the track rod ends it would give guidance to how many turns you should apply when fitting these to get a basic setup. Maybe this will come in the V1 release ? When I built mine I found the existing manual perfectly OK for the bits it covered.... the tricky bit was those it did not (No info on how to set up the cooling pipework which was solved by an emailed hand drawn diagram from CC )