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yeah not my cup of tea. too in your face punto/saxo/corsa material.

don't spray it white it looks awesome as it is! nice to see something different. would look nice in like a midnight purple. do you use it as a daily? never seen you about in it only ever seen it parked up that's all

cheers mate, few bits need sorting like the lip needs lifting up on the offside arch and re bolting but it's staring to look better nice to meet you and the mrs and the animals tonight! will have to see yours when it's back on the road, sounds like a beast!

you'll be the one then, near haltemprice? looks nice mate, love the black bonnet and white scoop.

will have been a kid called andy, he's not on here. where abouts in hull are you from? seen a white gt parked outside my mates house a lot, wondered who's it was lol

haha you guys are awesome! lol. when it goes bang i'll be in touch, or when i can afford it i'll bear the fmic in mind, deffo need one tbh, especially if i go td04. i'll have to work a plan of action out, could do to sell my arc top mount first but i refuse to put a standard intercooler on in the meantime haha

i'll look into getting a better oil feed sorted, might have someone who can make me one up, if not i'll invest in one of those how much you after for the fmic?

I didn't buy the kit new, bought it off a member on here hence it not having the downpipe and feeds with it i have spare ct9 oil feeds and pretty much everything spare for a ct9 set up so if i encounter major problems i'll just have to put her back to standard on your wastegate, were have you taken the pressure feeds from? like the side and the top feed on the wg? been told sooo many different things :S. atm it's not got anything connected to the top, and it's got what would have been the actuator line connected to the side? got any pics?

right! got the wepr manifold fitted! had a fair few problems alone the way; - boost pipe going to the top mount is a very tight fit against the mainfold, could do to rotate the cold side of the turbo slightly but meh. all in good time, probably going front mount before long anyway. - the whole turbo sits a fair bit lower than before so the decat brace no longer lines up, so might get a new bracket made up - major disagreement as to how the wastegate actually bolted up between me and sam meant that it was bolted up the wrong way round the first time (and no, it was not me who was wrong!!!) lol - the mani to head gasket i got was not going to seal at all, not a chance, so ended up stealing sams old one (mine was buggered) so it's blowing slightly from the head, nothing major but in need of a fresh gasket asap. - the wastegate (once set up right) holds boost perfect with no spiking at all, but it only has a 0.4 bar spring in it, i've got a 0.6-0.7 bar spring on the way though anyways enough of the problems, she runs fine at the current 0.4 bar, bit of popping which is probably due to the blowing but other than that, all seems well piccies! i bolted the turbo up to the new manifold while sam cracked the old one off (i have an insane fear of snapping one of the studs in the head) Put sam's old ct9 on instead of mine, it's in near perfect nick, no shaft play and the slightest hairline crack in the wastegate; i don't even know... and this is the wastegate of the one that came off mine; my oem manifold was basically cracked beyond repair. the 3rd runner on the top side was completely gone, like horrifically (forgot to get a pic) and this is what we found on the turbo side, it had literally cracked all the way from top to bottom right round the flange. the way it pulled with the mani in this condition was amazing haha. pulled like a train despite everything haha; and here you can see where the old mani was blowing against the head; close fit on the boost pipe; this is how sam set the wastegate up originally. i am not a mechanic so i'll always trust what he says but intuition told me it should go the other way. turns out i was right lol. haven't got photos of it set up the right way round yet but the following pics give you an idea of what she looks like now And finally a few pics of the gt at Bridlington Cruise which we went to straight after fitting the manifold haha. To anyone who's in the northeast, this is definitely a cruise worth travelling for, even though there was only me and ajep91 there in starlets. awesome night though. Can just about see the rear lip in the last pic too

mine boosted to 0.6, then after about 4000rpm it shot right up to 1.1/1.2 bar before the fuel cut had chance to kick in. standard actuator was buggered. i'd say decat it, worry about fuel cut if and when. it's not a good thing but not the end of the world.

do you have a fcd or different ecu?

you might hit fuel cut, mine used to hit fuel cut all the time. just get a boost gauge in it and keep an eye on the boost and let of if it's creeping towards 0.85 bar (when fuel cut kicks in)

depend what else you've done- standard mani? full exhaust system? intercooler? air filter relocation?

personally don't believe heat wrap has much effect on whether a mani cracks or not. quality and grade of stainless, quality of welds, flange thickness, braced or not etc makes more difference if you ask me. bring on the comments saying how wrong i am!

when i use my turbo timer it doesn't beep, but if i leave it to cool down with the key in and then turn it off with the key it beeps. leave my side lights on all the time haha.

haha i know i am semi obsessed about not scratching my car/wheels, and when i did that last night i just sat there for about 15 mins trying not to have a mental breakdown! lol. looks a lot better now though, at some point over summer i'll get some filler on it and sand it all back and spray it again but for now it will do. literally in the process of sorting a sticker from josh by the way! gonna be reppin' uksc asap.

i'm ordering a custom uksc sticker that's going across my sun strip! don't be like that! uksc is gonna have the full length of my windscreen can't wait- it's gonna look sick if it turns out the way i'm imagining it. yeah everything is getting a lick of paint atm, in the process of doing centre console and clock surround and other little interior bits the same grey as the bumpers had a bit of a boo boo last night, backed onto my drive too quick and caught the front lip on the drivers side, scraped right down to the fibre glass so in a panic/attmept to make it look semi acceptable i just caked it in high build primer and then caked it in paint, and looks near enough mint again! lol. women drivers eh...

only a small update standard fpr is back on, so no more misfiring and stuff changed my rocker cover back to my freshly painted fte one; and a close up of the oh so sparkley red bits clutch kit arrived, will be fitted either when my current clutch gives up, or when the weather gets better and me and sam can be bothered. not looking forward to fitting it at all. and finally a little pic of my local jap club sticker on the rear quarter window also go the rear lip fitted! i think it looks ace! love it will be getting some pics at a local pistonheads meet tonight. i know it needs side skirts before people feel the need to tell me. all in good time. probably gonna go for toms skirts though, even though the front and rear lip are livesports. just prefer the toms skirts. opinion on which rocker cover looked better? i can't decide. wepr manifold with external wastegate and screamer to go on at weekend! can't wait so should have a better update soon fingers crossed

deposit paid!

it's alright babe you don't have to, valentines is just a scam anyways... you can do it for my 21st in 2 weeks time!

oooh you're buying me a wideband and paying for a remap you say?

well the first one was completely buggered so it was swapped for another one. seems ok today, but like i say standard one is going back on asap. and it least it's finally had a compression test sam has stripped the first one down at work and he found something that looked like a piece of chalk holding the valve open. i honestly couldn't even imagine how whatever it was got there.

i would love to come to this but i depends if my car is playing ball, should be by then hopefully!

cheers lew i really love it! nightmare of a day with this sodding machine. fannying around with the fpr all day to get some form of mixture that was not going to cause it to misfire it's tits off. drove to uni and back, not a problem, drove to pick sam up and went to asda and back, no problem. went to drive home and it literally wouldn't even tick over without misfiring/ hardly firing at all. sam shit me up by saying it might be low compression on one or some cylinders, so off came the intercooler and plugs and out came the compression tester (all on the side of a dual carriage way, and sam is actually amazing enough to have a compression tester/any other tool you might ever need in the back of the vitara). 12 bar spot on on every cylinder, no variation at all. so everything went back on, tried firing her up and she ran sweet as a nut! so cranked the fuel pressure down a wee bit, took her for a cautious drive and no problems. in conclusion, the standard fpr is going back on until i get a wideband, tempers will be lost and fpr's will be hurled if it carries on being possessed. i personally think the gauge on the fpr is foobar'd but i really don't care enough to buy a new one for now. but on the plus side, nice results from the compression test