Nialls supercharged GTi6 - project tidy up

[Niall]

Well Pugfest has been and gone and what a weekend! Great to see some old faces and meet new ones.
Got to take the 6 up the hill which was great fun. Was only going fairly easily into the corners as its the first time I've driven the car in anger since the engine change (except for in a straight line anyway!). Was quite impressed with everything tbh.
It didn't go without its issues though. When my first charger was destroyed, i bought this one and found it wasn't the healthiest so the plan was to rebuild it eventually but it seems its a little late for that to be financially viable. Ive had a knock from this for a while now and commonly its the drive coupler so i replaced that for a new uprated one but when i did that, i found the rotor gears were rather chewed. It seems the reason why is because the rotor bearings are shot allowing some slop in them but the bad news is when you have coated rotors spinning at 15k with shot bearings, they rub together eventually taking the coating off...

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Picture doesn't do the damage justice unfortunately.
Im pretty sure this could also be the cause of my charge temperature issues as looking back at the dyno graph, it would happily sit at 24 degrees air temp yet now on a steady run I'm struggling to stay below 40. Its now not viable to refurbish the charger as recoating the rotors is horrendously expensive so i will just buy a good quality replacement in the next few months.

Also somehow, one of the outlet bolts has taken the thread and its self out along the M4 somewhere and part of the gasket. Brilliant.

Other than that though, the car was great and drew a lot of attention driving through towns lol. It seems with the new recirc valve on, its even louder now Also, the whole weekend i did 240 miles not really hanging about and still have 1/3 of a tank left so I'm well happy with that lol

http://youtu.be/RfK8f5Q3sd0