Diablo 306 HDi Project

[dhdcdarchy]

Okay, so I had a few hours to spend on the car today as it was my day off work.
I finally decided to get a boost gauge fitted and turn it up a bit!
I wasn’t looking forwards to this job and put it off for far too long, after doing it I have no idea why It was a simple task and everything went well (Despite fighting with my strut brace)



Removed the C5 elbow, drilled and tapped the conveniently placed flat face of it.




I then posted my vac hose through the bulkhead into the cabin.



I decided to simply dash mount the gauge for the time being, I have no interest in converting the blower. Ideally I would like a pillar pod, but this is fine for now. I have yet to wire any form of live to the gauge but will do this weekend.



I then wound in my manual boost controller until I was seeing about 20psi J
Please excuse the dirty engine bay.



This then revealed yet again my hoses are shit and leaky.
The next few weeks will be tidy up work making sure everything is solid readying the car for full fat stage 2 not only this but tidying up so that it is as good as it can be. Starting this weekend I plan to rid the car of General Motors hosing which is currently running all of the lower joins to my intercooler (not very well I might add) the joins are very thin and one is starting to split and leaking slightly. I will overhaul all of the piping to make it more secure replacing the hosing with appropriately sized Samco ones. I will also be servicing and potentially replacing the crankshaft pulley as it is starting to become noisy yet again. I will give the bay a good going over, getting rid of tie wraps etc and cleaning everything up.

Next on the list I will be getting an R70 pump and another more aggressive remap.

Thanks for reading