Muncie

The GFB has been Teed into the fuel pressure regulator line which is supposed to be a big No-No too Is it ass about face in my engine bay shot? just read this and got on GFB's website to read the install notes in bed now Saturdays job now. The solenoid for the factory boost control was installed so wrong.....the port that bleeds off pressure into the intake was connected to the intercooler pipe. Ordered some silicone 4mm hose will tidy it all up as everything has been hose clamped to death the vacuum tank thing is gone and there is 2 random stainless steel pipes staring at me, need to find out what those are for and hook them back up if they're important. A Barry has mucked around with thing. Literally the dude was 80 and owned it since it came into the country.

Rummaging around the plumbing today decided to clean the N75 valve which regulates boost as I popped off hoses and wiring became obvious it was installed wrong. Cleaned it fitted it again properly the right way round the weird boost surging has settled down. Going to get the battery tested. My Range Rover had all manner of electrical gremlins when I had it but a new battery they all went and didn't come back, the old battery showed no signs of being dodgy it started the car fine but when all the gizmos fired up pre start voltage got a bit low and would throw up various fault codes. Sucker for punishment......

These things are the European equivalent of a Corolla for reliability like anything though neglected eventually you'll get gremlins. Which I'm working on at the moment 1 at a time easy fixes. Americans love them so rockauto and summit list everything available for them (so cheap)and info online is pretty abundant. My last turbo car was a Z32 300zx 15 years ago so these are light years ahead getting my brain up to speed with how they work....... then can stop doing dumb shit and get into the making it faster. Its fast as fuck already to keep me motivated.

Want this ? It's quite big hand painted on canvas.

The factory GT 17s and slammed on the old one are really working for me I'm torn it also isn't harsh to drive on these.

Finally got the 19s on look ok at stock height hasn't ruined the lush ride either.

Bloody good question..... next drive I'll check it.

Ran it out of fuel deliberately yesterday I suspect I got a shitty batch from Gull in Te Rapa 10c cheaper so I went there instead of my usual, The gassy has only been open a few weeks the tanker was there filling the tanks and their 98 is E10. Filled up from my usual spot with 95 and and its happy again thank fuck for that! Will throw a new petrol filter at it continue to hope it was a one off. Think my bluetooth scanner is off by miles either that or I hit 26psi passing a truck today...it also told me my non turbo golf peaks at 18psi of boost haha.

This but use a shittier bike

Ok been doing some research this thing has been messed around with lots of little bits that add up. Still trying to figure out exactly what but so far everything you would do to a GTI golf for a healthy power gain without going crazy has been done, it shows it absolutely rips when its running good. So next plan is to pull out a few things control valves throttle body maf sensor and test them one at a time if good make sure they are clean internally and refit if not I'm going online shopping. Any shitty vacuum lines will get swapped out for new ones too. Some sensors on these cars were part of a recall so will make sure those have been swapped out in the past.

Radiator fan fuse hmm. This is Worrying my guess it was unrelated was right. But it runs well again my obd scanner sez its happy. When it was running rough it smelled like unburned fuel, that's why I went poking around the ignition wiring and had a look at the coils. I also added an extra earth to the head and to the rocker cover just to make sure everything electronic has a good feed of electrons. I almost called a mechanic haha.... Probably still will.

That bypass valves not stock neither is the K&N. Ok its running and not hitting low boost or surging, so will order a new fuse box and research what that fuse does that smoked itself. If I was religious I'd pray it's fixed.

Manufacturers date on coils 51/08 Guess those have been out.

Found this fuse was toast! Don't know what it does doubt it's related but cleaned up burnt contact fresh fuse it now runs and idles and revs. Ran a scan no faults. Checking earths on ignition and injectors can't hurt right? Found a coil earth that was crusty

I've come to the conclusion that unless it has pushrods I've got no fucking idea what I'm doing....... @Nominal I know that was meant to be dig but couldn't have said it better myself. Guess I better get some bloke in to clean my wallet out.

Yay Volkswagen New one has shit a cv and started running like a bag of dicks all within 600ks. Fan bloody tastic....

Jeez that's long you could fit a Toyota 4k in there.

That go-kart track at Hampton downs would be mint for this thing!

Main advantage I can see is if you fall off your only a few cm from the ground and already in the fetal position.

Needs the turbo from an XR6T Falcon that'll upset the purists and add smiles per gallon.

The police flick you a thumbs up in Hamilton....

The New golf Cornering at speed on a left hand turn had a wicked vibration and was hitting boost cut. Fed it some fresh 98 from sputtering empty and presto full boost again no doubt had a stale tank of 91 in it, owner was 80 years old so probably hasn't seen boost in a while. Zoomed around in it a bit today vibration has gone after doing nothing but check wheel nuts tyre pressures (22psi front right)and poke at things from outside the car. Must have just needed the cobwebs blowing out and general weekly car checks caught up on..... hopefully that's it.

6mm benchtop similar cost to Granite? looks mint and user friendly as well as blastproof.

What have I done.....

I decided it needed power as it's no 4AGE it goes ok if you stay in it and keep the revs up but otherwise it's a cruiser. So I started looking for a turbo wreck to part out. Looked for a while and found this a factory GT Wagon.... not a wreck already turbo and crucially stock I didn't even know such a thing existed. Its identical apart from everything deeper then the bodywork! Like leather heated seats 4wd cruise control oh and a TURBO! Plan is to swap wheels and sounds over to the GT leave it stock height and bang a towbar on for now while my back surgery comes right and enjoy it for a bit. Later who knows.... an exhaust and Ebay turbo and intercooler? is probably a given I love building exhausts so that may happen first sooner rather then later. If anyone wants a tidy mk4 wagon hit me up.