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Ebay, get some LED ones as the coated ones can go flakey and turn white - I know from experience and being pulled over/fined for it!

If you're taking the reading off the standard temp gauge then there is a problem (most likely thermostat as I said) as it should get upto temp then never move unless the car is severely overheating, but then it will have probably boiled all the water. If you have an aftermarket water temp gauge then what temperatures are you seeing?

Sounds like the thermostat could be stuck open, its easy and cheap to change.

1. No 2. Yes 3. No Easiest to move the rad hose a bit.

Congrats to everyone, it's certainly onwards and upwards at the moment - the club is growing very well.

Well yeah when you're overtaking you can't avoid but just general driving about you/garda won't notice. Plus you can boost without the screamer needing to make a noise, it's only when the wastegate needs to open - so if you push on at half throttle/ 0.5bar it probably won't need to open.

Well if you route the wastegate exhaust back into the main exhaust then you'll hardle notice a difference, if you just leave it as an open ended screamer then obviously it will be louder. Day to day the screamer isn't bad unless you drive like a tit.

An internal wastegate is what a turbo has as standard, (on pretty much all turbos) external is an upgrade which gives better boost control, however you need a modified/new exhaust manifold to fit one.

Thanks, so am I! It is sad to see any good project get broken but I'd say the bonnet has gone to a good home. Thanks Joz, a set of wings like yours next and I'll be happy. The website is speedflowshop.co.uk they have loads of fittings and you can get complete kits with lots of options.

Great to see you straight into another ep, I've a feeling this could turn out awesome!

It's sad to see this but it was asking a lot of the standard internals- you know you're now going to rip it apart and go forged, just admit it!

Time for another update.... I'd been worrying about my oil temp for a while now as it seemed to be higher than it used to be for no reason - I was easily seeing 95+ just cruising on the dual carriageway and then when on the back roads giving it a lil stick it would rise to over 100 pretty quickly, so an oil cooler was required. Handily the girlfriend very kindly got me this for my birthday last month: A speedflow kit complete with mocal thermostat - not the cheapest kit but I wanted one which was good quality, since a leaky connection from a cheap fitting or burst hose could spell disa

Very nice diagram - I think it would work on the turbo's too - as you say they act the same under vaccuum. EDIT - The only thing that would concern me (in the first case) is whether the vaccuum from the inlet and hence under the rocker is enough to pull open the check valve and let clean air in - will the whole rocker be under vaccuum due to the inlet, I'm not so sure? The set up is actually the same as the stock setup it pulls the vaccuum thorugh the rocker cover and has a hose onto the efi pipe and obviously works - even though there will also be a slight pull from the throttle body in

I'm using an hks actuator to hold mine closed, works fine. Bare in mind the turbo will have to come off anyway to fit the new mani though.

Oh kinky! For anyone that hasn't used a clay bar I would highly recommend one - it's amazing the difference they make and the shit they take off the paint that you didn't even notice was there.

I use the bilt hamber clay which you only need to use water with, its easy to use and was only about a tenner.

That's why you ideally would have a second catch can in that line too.

The check valve is needed in the same line as the pcv valve to stop the catch can being pressurised, you don't actually then need the pcv valve (as the new valve will act the same but just 'upstream' of the pcv valve) but it won't do any harm leaving it there. On the pcv line the flow is only into the inlet mani, but the other breather needs to be able to flow both ways so you don't want a check valve here, the only problem will be if you get chatter as this may pressurise the head. Liam the best method is using two catch cans, if everythin was still standard you simply put one can between th

I did say on my first post in this topic that two catch cans was the ideal setup. However I now actually know how the stock setup works and why not having the vacuum conected isn't best ie an open line running under the car may pull a vacuum at speed but not sitting on idle stationary plus you won't be pulling through clean air at all. Looks like I'll have to get another catch can unless I can think of a way to maintain the stock setup with a single can. Some coalescer cartridges for inside the cans would be good too.....

This is automotive news how?....

Those parada's have certainly seen some action! Cars looking great now - track slag indeed.

I'm understanding it now that you need the vacuum from the inlet pulling through clean - filtered air from the inlet (with just a breather filter fitted there it may not perform too good as that small filter can get blocked with oil quickly, so this is best routed to the inlet pre turbo) which also pulls through the contaminants into the inlet manifold. This will only happen off throttle, at all other times the breather will be pulling out the contaminants (via the inlet pre turbo if routed this way) not letting the clean air in. So as I say ideally you would have the set up exactly as standa

You can see how Gavin/ enzo_e..., has his setup in the photo above, on the 4efte for the same setup you'll have the catch can in the line from the pcv to the inlet manifold, on the turbo you would need a second one way valve to stop the catch can being pressurised - this won't happen on an na so it's not needed. The second breather can then be linked back into the inlet pre-turbo with just a simple hose. Now what confuses me is nastyrash was saying the catch can was needed before the throttle body not after yet agrees with the set up above where the can is after the throttle body?? I'm thin

You'll want a second one way valve (what the pcv valve is) in between inlet and catch can to not pressurise the catch can, otherwise it's ok.

How very random! I can't think where you would've been but obviously not far from where I live!