13-12-2012, 08:50 PM
Nah a stage 2 XUD is never going to be on the cards. I've driven it now with so must BOOSTZ it spins up in 4th given half a chance, and reek pours out the side of the car in a very armageddon-esque way. Could never go back to a "stage 2" now.
Dan? Just no. I know what you're saying though, I got bored of the GTI not because I was bored of the car, but because it got to the stage there were that many things niggling at me that I cut my losses and moved on.
The money from breaking it has paid for the majority of the estate, so it doesn't owe me THAT much. But it's like when you break a limb, years down the line you know you've broken it and it takes a lot to get past the mentality of "it's going to break again".
Thinking about it, I don't think any rods have made a bid for freedom. The engine still ran, it still seemed to make an amount of boost too. Oil is f*cking everywhere so at the minute i'm wondering if maybe i've got my oil setup wrong or something, if an oil line has popped, maybe the return got kinked and i didn't realise and pressure has blown the hose off. It lost about 4-5L of oil in the space of 10 seconds, which is quicker than you could get it out of the bottle tbh. But when the turbo shat itself it emptied the oil just as quickly into the intercooler and that was at low rpm, this was at about 3.5-4krpm so i'm surprised there was any left at all.
The inlet is clear, so the compressor side of the turbo is still good. The exhaust side however, I don't know. There's oil in the exhaust and inside the rear bumper. Smoke was coming from everywhere, engine bay, under car and I assume exhaust as well. There's every chance i've bricked another turbo and this one isn't as apparent.
If it's the turbo, the car can sit until the weather's a bit warmer and i'll decide what to do from there, hate to say it but a bolt on TD04 looks very appealing at this moment in time, maybe the GT2056S just isn't a good fit? It was hitting 30+psi, maybe they really don't like that kind of boost? If it's an oil line, i'll spend the extra dollah, get a proper return made up with no expense spared and go again.
It's not so much the poor reliability that's annoying me though, it's all the other fixes that it needs. I need to redo the interior as some of the suede is pulling off. I need to sort the washers out as they're leaking and fluid doesn't stay in the tank for long. It's slghtly higher on one side than the other at the back. I need to get a proper exhaust made up, not my homebrew lashup. I need to redo the front bumper, and a new rear bumper. The paint on the roof is, to be honest, pretty shit.
That's just a small list and after spending so long last year racing to get it ready for FCS, blowing the HG and then fighting ever since for what feels like no real gain.. I dunno, i can't repeat that next year. I had money to burn this year, next year with the new home I don't. Not only that, i've spent more than 50% of my days off this last 8 months working on the car. I need to get out more.
And tax? Gav has moved house, so any tax disc will be sent to his old house, where he left no forwarding address. So for that to work i'd have to tax it, get him to check at his old house for any mail after a couple of weeks, then get him to post it up to me. It's going to be easier to just get my V62 sent away asking for a new V5c and tax it myself.
To top it off i've just had a call from the hospital, specialists have looked at xrays of my knee and decided they need to get me back in to take a proper look and an MR scan as they may need to operate to remove a piece of bone. Got to say this has been the worst couple of weeks i've had in a long time.
We'll see. Don't hold your breath though.
Dan? Just no. I know what you're saying though, I got bored of the GTI not because I was bored of the car, but because it got to the stage there were that many things niggling at me that I cut my losses and moved on.
The money from breaking it has paid for the majority of the estate, so it doesn't owe me THAT much. But it's like when you break a limb, years down the line you know you've broken it and it takes a lot to get past the mentality of "it's going to break again".
Thinking about it, I don't think any rods have made a bid for freedom. The engine still ran, it still seemed to make an amount of boost too. Oil is f*cking everywhere so at the minute i'm wondering if maybe i've got my oil setup wrong or something, if an oil line has popped, maybe the return got kinked and i didn't realise and pressure has blown the hose off. It lost about 4-5L of oil in the space of 10 seconds, which is quicker than you could get it out of the bottle tbh. But when the turbo shat itself it emptied the oil just as quickly into the intercooler and that was at low rpm, this was at about 3.5-4krpm so i'm surprised there was any left at all.
The inlet is clear, so the compressor side of the turbo is still good. The exhaust side however, I don't know. There's oil in the exhaust and inside the rear bumper. Smoke was coming from everywhere, engine bay, under car and I assume exhaust as well. There's every chance i've bricked another turbo and this one isn't as apparent.
If it's the turbo, the car can sit until the weather's a bit warmer and i'll decide what to do from there, hate to say it but a bolt on TD04 looks very appealing at this moment in time, maybe the GT2056S just isn't a good fit? It was hitting 30+psi, maybe they really don't like that kind of boost? If it's an oil line, i'll spend the extra dollah, get a proper return made up with no expense spared and go again.
It's not so much the poor reliability that's annoying me though, it's all the other fixes that it needs. I need to redo the interior as some of the suede is pulling off. I need to sort the washers out as they're leaking and fluid doesn't stay in the tank for long. It's slghtly higher on one side than the other at the back. I need to get a proper exhaust made up, not my homebrew lashup. I need to redo the front bumper, and a new rear bumper. The paint on the roof is, to be honest, pretty shit.
That's just a small list and after spending so long last year racing to get it ready for FCS, blowing the HG and then fighting ever since for what feels like no real gain.. I dunno, i can't repeat that next year. I had money to burn this year, next year with the new home I don't. Not only that, i've spent more than 50% of my days off this last 8 months working on the car. I need to get out more.
And tax? Gav has moved house, so any tax disc will be sent to his old house, where he left no forwarding address. So for that to work i'd have to tax it, get him to check at his old house for any mail after a couple of weeks, then get him to post it up to me. It's going to be easier to just get my V62 sent away asking for a new V5c and tax it myself.
To top it off i've just had a call from the hospital, specialists have looked at xrays of my knee and decided they need to get me back in to take a proper look and an MR scan as they may need to operate to remove a piece of bone. Got to say this has been the worst couple of weeks i've had in a long time.
We'll see. Don't hold your breath though.
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