Hahah yeah, Dan did his usual - turned up for an hour, hung on to the biggest hammer he could find and took the piss, then got bored and wandered off again. Although tbf i think he did hand me a spanner at one point...
Cheers, for putting those up dude, love your description of the available work-force - two cripples and a Steve...
I think you did by far the majority of the work tbh mate, motivation between Chris and I was fairly non-existant.
Aw i forgot about the parcel-taped top pipe, don't think we got a picture before i fixed it.
Taken some more so you can actually see the install:
Top pipes:
Cooler:
Bottom pipes:
Necessary bonnet adjustment, one in the middle looks fairly awful from the outside, but i guess that's just further motivation to get a shift on with my grp plans:
Need to sort out the boost gauge now, got a feeling i've got a couple of minor leaks, just seems a bit too hissy. Also popped a pipe the other day, was on the motorway pulling out off the slip road when it went, obviously the rush hour traffic was enormously impressed at the chronic coal that resulted lol. Luckily the Rownhams services were all of 500 yards away, so pulled in and put it back together in 30 seconds - was the top pipe, should have left that parcel tape on.
Also meant to mention the resuming of my mpg experiments, figured it was due now i'm back on a vaguely economical set-up. Have been averaging around 44mpg with the heavy stage 1 map, my first £90 (@137.7ppl) did 715 miles, which works out as ~49.5mpg. That was doing the commute to work and a trip up to Chris' and back at somewhat uneconomical speeds lol. I have been enjoying the extra power a bit, so hopefully see some improvements on that soon, especially once i start doing something other than the 5 mile trip to work lol.
Cheers, for putting those up dude, love your description of the available work-force - two cripples and a Steve...
I think you did by far the majority of the work tbh mate, motivation between Chris and I was fairly non-existant.Aw i forgot about the parcel-taped top pipe, don't think we got a picture before i fixed it.
Taken some more so you can actually see the install:
Top pipes:
Cooler:
Bottom pipes:
Necessary bonnet adjustment, one in the middle looks fairly awful from the outside, but i guess that's just further motivation to get a shift on with my grp plans:
Need to sort out the boost gauge now, got a feeling i've got a couple of minor leaks, just seems a bit too hissy. Also popped a pipe the other day, was on the motorway pulling out off the slip road when it went, obviously the rush hour traffic was enormously impressed at the chronic coal that resulted lol. Luckily the Rownhams services were all of 500 yards away, so pulled in and put it back together in 30 seconds - was the top pipe, should have left that parcel tape on.
Also meant to mention the resuming of my mpg experiments, figured it was due now i'm back on a vaguely economical set-up. Have been averaging around 44mpg with the heavy stage 1 map, my first £90 (@137.7ppl) did 715 miles, which works out as ~49.5mpg. That was doing the commute to work and a trip up to Chris' and back at somewhat uneconomical speeds lol. I have been enjoying the extra power a bit, so hopefully see some improvements on that soon, especially once i start doing something other than the 5 mile trip to work lol.