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It was last done in May however, when it comes to doing the oil sandwich plate, will do filter and oil then. The car used to belong to RyanMT. I do have 2 12" JBL W12GTI's and a JBL BPX1100.1 amplifier that I would like to get installed at some point as well so will see what happens.
Its strange going back to an accelerator cable as well as I am now used to fly-by-wire (compensates for slight foot movements etc) in my other car but I am getting there slowly.
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If you haven't done it already, drain the oil, check ALLLLLLLL, (yes ALL) the breather hoses, as they getting blocked easily and destroy engines on newbie's (like me :*( ), put in sexy new oil
A general service of other bits is worth while as well (like fuel filter etc, and perhaps using some injector cleaner, and changing the rad fluid/brake fluid/clutch fluid
EDIT: Opps, just saw you serviced it, but I would still take off the breather hoses and make sure they aren't blocked, especially the one below the intake manifold (bugger to get to but it blocks so very easily due to bad design, and you don't want big end failure do you?).
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Thanks for the advice guys, will give it a good going over at the weekend with a bit of luck
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It's worth the effort to either replace them/clean them, or just check they are not blocked. I highly suspect my engine failure was partially or due to the breathers being blocked up. They were gunked to crap, and it was meant to be a well maintained engine.
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nice example by the looks of things
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awwww snap, same head unit as me, had it for over 5 years now, still love it
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Indeed MaccyD. Had mine about 5 years or so now. Still sounds awesome. Still can't find anything to match it in terms of looks and performance
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the only thing i had go was the ribbon that attaches the face to the main body but i got a replacement from sony for about £2 and my dad rewired it all, got it for my 18th birthday lol
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Nice
Keep it upp, mvh
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OK So no pictures update but an update all the same.
I have noticed on the Apexi TT that it was reporting an A/F of no less than 16 and as high as 19 on occasion down the motorway along with black smoke when accelerating hard so replaced the fuel pump with a Walbro from here and now get an A/F of between 15 and 16 with no sign of black smoke on booting it.
So left to do now for hopefully somewhere near a strong base is big end shells, replace passenger chassis leg and rear wheel bearing.
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OK so more of an update. Have spent all day Monday and yesterday at Pit Start and got a few bits done on the car.
Nice early start (8am)
OK so how the rear started
I knew the rear brake pads needed changing but when I had previously attempted to do it, couldn't get the caliper off. With all the arms and everything off there was plenty of room to get the calipers off and therefore change the pads, I think they needed doing
Does anyone know the mad rain dance come voodoo chant to get the caliper pins back in? I spent an hour of trying to do it on the near side, got someone else to try for 20 minutes and then in a stroke of luck got it in.
And then with the coil over and two of the 3 rear arms fitted
All was going swimmingly with the fronts, changed the near side in about 20 minutes, went to do the last bolt on the off side and for love nor money it would not come off, ended up grinding the head off, using a hammer and drift to get the offending bolt out
and then how the car sits now
Yes it needs a clean but then I am travelling back to Manchester from London tonight so it will just end up filthy again. Yesterday was spent doing the big ends in situ. What a job and a half but at least I know how to do it now. A total of 14.5 hours to get it done including cleaning everything up while it was off the car. Anyway I think they needed doing
So, next on the job front is to replace the front pads, replace rear wheel bearing, renew brake fluid. So that will be more time spent in the Pit Start garage
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looks good pal where did you get the gauges from?
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