Carl.

could be loads of things. do a compression test. you can get a tester from halfords http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/...tegoryId_165557

piece of piss. i did it whilst changing mani n gutting cat though, so had turbo off car. cant imagine it been too hard whilst turbos still in car though its only held with 2 bolts

LMFAOOO enzo gotta resurrect this thread. literally burst out laughing to myself reading this.

haha

on harry's face

yeh. can be done easily by keeping your foot on the brakes when their hot and your stood

sounds like your rotors (discs) are shagged with vibration or could be other things like wheel bearings or even balancing of wheels or uneven tyre wear and so on but if the rotors look f**ked its probably them. as for travel of pedal its most likely they need bleeding as you said. have you checked level of brake fluid?

wow looking very nice mate. love the front mount your making me want one haha i bet you dont want to put a plate back on with it looking so good as it is

no havent had chance to even order them never mind fit them.

bump

im a cnc machinist anyway mate. should have took it to work and whacked it on surface grinder but it looked pretty smart already so didnt bother. does anybody know any ways of pin pointing the leak?

ahhhh i was in two minds about fitting them aswell when i recieved them but i thought they'l b r8 lol thing is aswell though when i stripped it back down to put that sealant on i couldnt see any black marks from it leaking nor can i see any exhaust gases escaping from anywhere.. i can just hear it

i dont think its related tbh mate. ive heard they take a little longer to hit peak boost anyway because they have a stronger sprng or something but thing thats annoying me the most is that if i set it one turn inwards to raise boost to just above boost cut it seems to spool up fine. but just one turn outwards to bring it down to 0.8 bar it takes foreverrrrrr. ive also noticed my bov isnt as loud so maybe ive got a boost leak. havent really checked because at moment i want my manifold to stop blowing.

yeh but they were cheap ones off ebay

was thinking about that but it looked pretty flat. its one i got off someone on here, used.

right.. fitted uprated manifold, gutted cat and fitted hks actuator a week ago now it sounds like the manifold is blowing from somewhere. stripped it back down and put loctite copper gasket sealant on but it still sounds exactly the same. sounds like a tractor, as if it is missfiring.. but its not any ideas? any tips for finding where its blowing? also after setting boost with actuator it seems to take forever to reach it peak. put foot down and i just get lag lag lagggg lag boost well above 4000 rpm before it starts to rise as if its opening wastegate way too early.

extra packing

love it

be careful when filling up lol

ive had a bottle of it ran through over 2 full tanks of petrol (70 litres) even though it says 1 bottle to 100 litres of petrol didnt notice much difference after tbh but didnt do no harm

backfiring as its launching sounds

looks like it most of it was done in the summer. no cars were on my drive so i put post code of lad that i bought car off and found this wouldnt let me go down his street tho ;)

ive recently serviced mine using 10w40 mobil magnatec. was going to go for super s cause its good for high temp protection associated with turbo charged engines... but i mainly use my car to get to and from work and barely boost at all during week so was thinking about the cold starts (where i believe 70% of engine wear occurs) lol anyway the oil does the following: Offers 4 times better wear protection than ordinary oils from start up Provides critical engine protection during start and warm-up periods Oil clings to the engines surface like a magnet providing constant protection even when the engine is switched off

happy birthday bud

lol im not finding it hard. just that nut i cant get to - no room at all. hopefully get it sorted tmora