That inlet mani looks 10x better than mine currently does! How difficult is it to get out? Do you HAVE to remove the turbo to get to it? Think it owuld improve my car's mpg and performance quite a bit!
Kudos on the amount of work going on recently, how is it running with the reconned turbo and cleaned intercooler/inlet piping?
It would be alot easier with the turbo off! just access would be so much easier.
It's running like a piece of **** if I'm honest, the only thing is the boost is smoother on the gauge! First
problem was the rattle plate between the box and engine, was hitting on the flywheel! **** myself when I first turned her over! This is all fixed now, but I have bigger problems, the turbo is chucking out a serious amount of oil out of the dp! I don't know what it could be, it was slightly overfull after the oil change, because I was lazy and did 4.5l off the bottle instead of using the dipstick, so I drained some oil and unplugged the crankcase breather, but no luck! Also, took the bumper off when I didn't really need to, to clean the cooler, but this has only minimal oil in it, so I'm not worried about that, as there was no oil in the pancake pipe or the bright red one, so that's not the
problem. (Turbo didn't actually go boom, so I didn't bother cleaning the intercooler) Checked the oil drain pipe and its all free, and oil flowed out of it when I took it off, so it's working. So, the only other things it could be, is the oil feed pipe or the seals have gone already! I've ordered darkside's braided one just incase the original pipe had a restrictor or something I blew out with HP air. I will give Midland Turbo's a ring tomorrow, I think it will have to be remanufactured again to be honest! But I did everything they said to do, made sure all the pipes were clear, clean boost pipes and i/c (for a broken turbo) put oil in the turbo, (bit of a bodge that I didn't turn the engine over I know but they won't) All new gaskets, OEM ones, not the shite they supply. New oil and filter.
This week or so has seriously made me skint, Mr. Lloyds loves me I tell you that! Had to order new driveshafts too because I can't get the CV's off the old ones.... and now maybe another £250 on the turbo being reconned again!!
I'm just going to try and say I did everything they say, so it must have been their balancing skills or something! Anyone free to take a turbo off with me tomorrow pop down to Culdrose!
Ordered a steering rack polybush too, mines a little tired, I would get an ARB considering the subframe is out, but don't have the funds
Ahh well subframe is a piece of piss on a ramp.... Cheers for looking, feel sorry for me!
