Nialls supercharged GTi6 - project tidy up

[Niall]

Right, for now i have reverted back to a open filter in the bay. Im using my green cotton on the charger with a small heat shield as the enclosed filter was really cheap and letting through a surprising amount of shite. So i was expecting high air temps....



Well, been to ace tonight, had the laptop plugged in some of the way there and back. On the way there, the traffic was chronic. Stop start, not getting out of 1st gear and it was at 27 degrees. Not bad considering on the old IC, i would be seeing 45ish!
On the way home, i was moving much better and even after a bit of boosting about, i had 8 degrees. Ill take that! Also refitted my PTFE gasket now and it has made a substantial difference to the temperature of the manifold. It used to conduct heat ridiculously well due to the almost 1" thick mounting face. It got to the point where i couldn't touch the runners on the manifold because they were that hot. Now its just warm.

Issue now is, since moving my battery I'm having earth issues and i think this is what is causing my AFR issues. Although it will idle at the correct AFR, even when i was sitting cruising at a steady throttle, my AFRs occasionally jumped sometimes to 17! I also have a nice occasional whine (no, not the charger lol) from one of the speakers.
Time to break the multimeter out tomorrow me thinks!

Also, massive thumbs up to Stef for my beam. Can handles much better now. I just need to get some decent shocks on there and its sorted