The Meatwagon: Missing, presumed..?

[cwspellowe]

Right, what a lovely weekend that was with all you ugly bastards. Truly epic banter and well worth the long drive. Only issue I had was picking up a slow puncture over the weekend so need to sort out a new tyre, borrowed a 14" pov spec steel off Jonny and even with 45mm of spacers it still doesn't fill the arch

Was faultless all the way there and back engine-wise though, highly surprised as the 10mm pump I built was never really tested, only on short journeys round here, so a massive test of faith! EGT's stayed between 250-300deg on the motorway at cruising speeds with the LDA disconnected and a massive boost leak, still managed 45mpg combined for the weekend.

Came home, fixed the boost leak temporarily with a puncture repair kit and some duct tape, job jobbed. Figured I might as well reconnect the LDA, fill it with proper diesel and go for a spin, the results of which were thus:



From some very very rough timing with that video and a stopwatch, 30-60 in 3rd comes at around 5.lowsomething seconds and 30-70 is 6.highsomething seconds. Pretty happy with that, can feel it running out of puff between 60-70 though. Video was taken in the wet with epic camber so it felt a little skittish, could maybe get the times down by 0.5s or so in the dry.

Feels amazing to drive though, can hit 22psi before 2.5krpm and the 10mm pump has completely woken up the midrange. Just need to get a decent exhaust to keep EGT's down as it was hitting 700deg after a couple of long 3rd gear pulls.

Pretty happy with that though Can fair shift for a tank