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yes prawn came from Andrew. thanks aswell i want mkre carbon now ! so many more bits I wanted to buy lol splitter is complete carbon fibre.
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yes prawn came from Andrew. thanks aswell i want mkre carbon now ! so many more bits I wanted to buy lol splitter is complete carbon fibre.
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Wow it's been a while since I updated this !
Fair bit has happened since August lol
Did the last trackday at rockingham and found quite a few issues that needed addressing for the car on track, as a road car it was fine but track opened up new issues.
Powersteering pump was knackered and went while I was at 120 on the long sweeping back straight (scarey moment )
Car was absolutely horrendous in the bends with understeer.
The car was to laggy for track and was putting a lot of strain on the engine and gearbox going down an extra gear so it wasnt to laggy out of the corner. Kind of knew this anyway
THE FINALE was killing my turbo ! (Didnt know this until the next drive but my oil feed had got blocked and run the bearing dry !
So as we all do rather then just rebuild the turbo I just bought another turbo kit
Really wanted to go g25 but got a gtx3071r gen 2 kit for easily half what a g25 would have cost (second hand obviously)
Unfortunately the nortech mani that came with it was cracked (buyer and I didnt see it) he was good enough to sort it out and it was sent to nortech and they sent me a brand new one with updated external Wastegate design (billet external)
Also the other advantage to this kit was to now go external wastegate and SCREAMER !!
The kit was a owen developments gtx3071r gen2 tial .82 exhaust nortech mani and downpipe with tial external wastegate
So whilst fitting all this I also replaced both tie rod ends, new powersteering pump and fitted silver project adjustable top mounts.
Excuse the terrible charge pipe ! First attempt at wrinkle paint. I'm going to get another charge pipe keep it standard and also run engine cover to keep with the OEM look.
All it needs now is mapping and hopefully I can enjoy it for the rest of the year plus this new setup should allow me to easily swap to a different turbo where as old setup was a lot more difficult.
Sorry for the long read if you made this far lol
Fair bit has happened since August lol
Did the last trackday at rockingham and found quite a few issues that needed addressing for the car on track, as a road car it was fine but track opened up new issues.
Powersteering pump was knackered and went while I was at 120 on the long sweeping back straight (scarey moment )
Car was absolutely horrendous in the bends with understeer.
The car was to laggy for track and was putting a lot of strain on the engine and gearbox going down an extra gear so it wasnt to laggy out of the corner. Kind of knew this anyway
THE FINALE was killing my turbo ! (Didnt know this until the next drive but my oil feed had got blocked and run the bearing dry !
So as we all do rather then just rebuild the turbo I just bought another turbo kit
Really wanted to go g25 but got a gtx3071r gen 2 kit for easily half what a g25 would have cost (second hand obviously)
Unfortunately the nortech mani that came with it was cracked (buyer and I didnt see it) he was good enough to sort it out and it was sent to nortech and they sent me a brand new one with updated external Wastegate design (billet external)
Also the other advantage to this kit was to now go external wastegate and SCREAMER !!
The kit was a owen developments gtx3071r gen2 tial .82 exhaust nortech mani and downpipe with tial external wastegate
So whilst fitting all this I also replaced both tie rod ends, new powersteering pump and fitted silver project adjustable top mounts.
Excuse the terrible charge pipe ! First attempt at wrinkle paint. I'm going to get another charge pipe keep it standard and also run engine cover to keep with the OEM look.
All it needs now is mapping and hopefully I can enjoy it for the rest of the year plus this new setup should allow me to easily swap to a different turbo where as old setup was a lot more difficult.
Sorry for the long read if you made this far lol
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NIGE28 as my dying wish (got a bad knee) if you would like to kindly donate this car to me that would be great. It would be going to a good cause (bad knee). I also would repay you monthly with smiles per miles out of the hoohaa and the occasional snickers. If you accept this offer then my email is onehappychappy@iloveyourcarpleasegiveit-tome.com 
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Thanks for the heads up
NIGE28 as my dying wish (got a bad knee) if you would like to kindly donate this car to me that would be great. It would be going to a good cause (bad knee). I also would repay you monthly with smiles per miles out of the hoohaa and the occasional snickers. If you accept this offer then my email is onehappychappy@iloveyourcarpleasegiveit-tome.com
Cheers Josh unfortunately there seems to be que lol surprise people want as it's apparently been ruined
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Another update not to everyone's taste but got the car dyno'd a few days ago and here is the result.
Still could be a lot better response but im running a big hotside I reckon If i went to. 63 i could get full boost closer to 4k.
Very impressed with the figures but we ran into a fuel pressure problem where after about 7k it would loose pressure, so revs have been capped for now, this wasnt a problem before so one of my pumps I feel is worn.
I only say that as they have probably done close to 30k
Going to order a new inline and intank hopefully get it finished.
Still could be a lot better response but im running a big hotside I reckon If i went to. 63 i could get full boost closer to 4k.
Very impressed with the figures but we ran into a fuel pressure problem where after about 7k it would loose pressure, so revs have been capped for now, this wasnt a problem before so one of my pumps I feel is worn.
I only say that as they have probably done close to 30k
Going to order a new inline and intank hopefully get it finished.
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Thanks mate and you should of just come over and said hello lol , was hoping to maybe see some audi members there. I will be there next year aswell
