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What did you and your MK2 do today?

AndyG_TSi

Active Member
Nov 1, 2011
1,174
6
East Manchester
What are these like when fitted?

Notice any difference?

they look good, plus you can open your windows a little bit without getting blown about in the cabin

only thing I found was that they didn't stop water dripping into the cabin if you had your window slightly open;

EG it's been raining & your roof has lots of beading...you get in the car, open the window.....set off driving...beads of water still drip into the cabin all over your door card :lol:
 

AndyG_TSi

Active Member
Nov 1, 2011
1,174
6
East Manchester
had a day off, so did a full valet today

2 bucket method wash, then played with my new toy.......a dual action polisher

did a full machine polish to remove some swirling I'd picked up, polished with Autoglym SRP, then applied Autoglym HD wax by hand to seal it

very impressed with the machine polisher

also went online and bought some poorboys black hole glaze











 
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Sockdog

Guest
Yeah I'm fine, thanks. Rear bumper rear quarter panel wheel arch and a brake light :(
 

Crafoo

Crazy Fool!
Apr 30, 2005
5,498
4
At home
Exceptionally good mate, cracking gains too from the latest APR software.

Went from 265bhp to just over 330bhp and that was run on the 95 octane program, probably would have seen 340 on 98.

Feels a lot smoother in the power delivery and it's so much more potent, really gets up to speed with ease now, it was no slouch before but now it's great.
 

shnazzle

Glass-Half-Full Member
Sep 9, 2011
3,483
6
Northumberland
Exceptionally good mate, cracking gains too from the latest APR software.



Went from 265bhp to just over 330bhp and that was run on the 95 octane program, probably would have seen 340 on 98.



Feels a lot smoother in the power delivery and it's so much more potent, really gets up to speed with ease now, it was no slouch before but now it's great.


Woah!! 330?! That's just with your intake right? No other mods
 

Crafoo

Crazy Fool!
Apr 30, 2005
5,498
4
At home
Well a stage 1 uprated clutch as well but yeah no other mods that would make any increase to power, just the ceramic Revo intake.

I'd fear for the stock clutch if I'd had the map first lol
 

Crafoo

Crazy Fool!
Apr 30, 2005
5,498
4
At home
Sachs stage 1 and replaced the DMF because it was totally shot, if you're doing it I'd budget for both personally, seen a couple of people recently in the same boat.
 

shnazzle

Glass-Half-Full Member
Sep 9, 2011
3,483
6
Northumberland
Good info. Does put a spanner in the works for what I thought would be a mild 300hp tune with potential to run on stock clutch/fw
 
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Crafoo

Crazy Fool!
Apr 30, 2005
5,498
4
At home
I personally wouldn't do it fella, based on what I've seen.

If you did get it mapped I think you'd be living on borrowed time with the clutch/fly

If you're going to be in that position you may as well get the clutch/fly done first then the map, it's the sensible way to do it rather than getting the map and running into problems where you can't afford to replace the clutch.

Lets face it it's not a cheap do.
 

shnazzle

Glass-Half-Full Member
Sep 9, 2011
3,483
6
Northumberland
No indeed. But the idea was to map it and immediately start saving pennies for the inevitable clutch fail. But that'll have to turn into saving more pennies and then some more to do both...and the downpipe
 

Crafoo

Crazy Fool!
Apr 30, 2005
5,498
4
At home
You could map it straight away and have the clutch last for a good while, or on the flipside you could map it and it could start slipping immediately, you have to ask yourself if you'd be willing to stump up the £900+ fitting for the clutch/fly if (or indeed when) the clutch does give up.
 

betty_swollox

Richie
Feb 15, 2011
5,497
7
Washington
No indeed. But the idea was to map it and immediately start saving pennies for the inevitable clutch fail. But that'll have to turn into saving more pennies and then some more to do both...and the downpipe

Just do that mate, I'm running stage 2 with no clutch problems

Crafoo, yours died whilst it was standard, so not a good example lol
 

shnazzle

Glass-Half-Full Member
Sep 9, 2011
3,483
6
Northumberland
Haha. Well regardless it has to wait a good while as we're broke as **** and buying a new TV hasn't helped haha. Replacing the clutch is always going to have to be done. Question was when... :)
 
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