Golf: New gear linkage arrived today to try and tighten up the change and improve the shift into 1st.

New number plates also turned up to tidy up the exterior. Once clean it looks 4 years old not 14

Porsche: New number plates turned up. I hate advertising that I'm not being paid for. i.e. a previous supplying dealer

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Cracked my bumper on a speed bump only had it sprayed 3 months ago !!! back to the body shop

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You cant beat the sound of a fixed c1j in 2oC air.

Happy days.

( and cold fingers and toes )

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andybond said...

You cant beat the sound of a fixed c1j in 2oC air.

Happy days.

( and cold fingers and toes )

Excellent work Bond

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I was correct on the lag on the new turbo BTW ...

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andybond said...

I was correct on the lag on the new turbo BTW ...

Hardly surprising with a 0.63! What's happened to the fuelling?

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At the minute mike , nothing

I have wound boost back from 16psi to 10psi ( just above stock ) till I can get the AFR checked.

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Noticed my n/s foglight was, er, fogged.
Closer inspection reveals a stone has smashed it. Bah.

Ben__B said...

Golf: New gear linkage arrived today to try and tighten up the change and improve the shift into 1st.

New number plates also turned up to tidy up the exterior. Once clean it looks 4 years old not 14

Porsche: New number plates turned up. I hate advertising that I'm not being paid for. i.e. a previous supplying dealer

Ben, who did you get your plates from? Are they standard font and size? Last set I had made (for the Mazda), the 8s they used were slightly blockier than usual so I don't like the look of them, but they were the only place I found which did legal cut-down sizes.

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Mike1215 said...

andybond said...

I was correct on the lag on the new turbo BTW ...

Hardly surprising with a 0.63! What's happened to the fuelling?

That would be quite laggy on a 2l, let alone a 1.4. When does it start boosting ?

JL said...

Mike1215 said...

andybond said...

I was correct on the lag on the new turbo BTW ...

Hardly surprising with a 0.63! What's happened to the fuelling?

That would be quite laggy on a 2l, let alone a 1.4. When does it start boosting ?

3k ish.

Smaller front end though so its not "that" bad ..

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Fair enough - what does it rev to again ? The Fiat was properly boosting by 3.5k, which although fairly late still gave you 3.5k to play with.

JL said...

Fair enough - what does it rev to again ? The Fiat was properly boosting by 3.5k, which although fairly late still gave you 3.5k to play with.

Officialy 6200. With the rev limiter off , who knows ? Munkii tried and i got all girly when I saw it go off the scale ( 7k rpm )

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MOT passed with no advisories

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andybond said...

JL said...

Fair enough - what does it rev to again ? The Fiat was properly boosting by 3.5k, which although fairly late still gave you 3.5k to play with.

Officialy 6200. With the rev limiter off , who knows ? Munkii tried and i got all girly when I saw it go off the scale ( 7k rpm )

Not deliberately! It didn't sound to be revving all that hard, and had only just come on boost....

Just about to do a long trip and my turbo outlet pipe is looking a little dodgy, I have a small split through the first outer layer of rubber so think I'll order a set of black silicon hoses for it soon.

A fair few pumps of grease into the propshafts and a check over before my journey and all is well in Land Rover land

Dave!

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Si_ said...

andybond said...

JL said...

Fair enough - what does it rev to again ? The Fiat was properly boosting by 3.5k, which although fairly late still gave you 3.5k to play with.

Officialy 6200. With the rev limiter off , who knows ? Munkii tried and i got all girly when I saw it go off the scale ( 7k rpm )

Not deliberately! It didn't sound to be revving all that hard, and had only just come on boost....

Its a 1400 pushrod. How hard would you like it to sound when revving ?

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Like a rally car

Its a turbot from the 80s. I suspect the fact that mine has 4 tyres is the only similarity between what you were expecting and what you got

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I actually really liked it, i'd just got carried away and hadn't realised it was running out of revs.
It revved more freely than I expected - the last Turbo I drove was a 2.0 TFSI with a low pressure turbo, and it didn't rev like that!