Saturday: Clocked, built up and fitted a new IHI turbo charger. (IHI VF22 hot side, IHI VF34 cold side)
On the way home from this years inters the old turbo blew its oil seals and shortly after destroyed its bearings which resulted in one jammed turbo, lots of smoke and oil dripping from the tail pipe, luckily i was only 19 miles from home. On closer inspection of the turbo last week it turns out that when Jabbasport did the conversion they did not fit an oil feed restrictor which is requir
Fitted some brand new late front indicators.
So now i finally have the full set, mint late head lights, mint late fog lights, and mint late indicators. :dance:
Past few days:
Dropped the subframe and gave it a damn good clean.
Fitted some powerflexed wishbones.
I stripped down my leaking steering rack and rebuilt it with all new seals, greased it up and fitted new genuine vw rack boots and uj boot (no vw specific tools were required for the rebuild!)
Also fitted a powerflex steering rack mount.
Flushed steering system out with new vw fluid and filled up with new vw steering fluid.
Re-fitted subframe, rack and wishbones. (car on axle sta
Did some prep work on my new summer wheels to get them ready for a refurb on Monday.
BBS RC, 17" x 7", 4 x 100, custom spigot rings, 15mm front spacers, 20mm rear spacers, 4 new genuine center rings, nuts and badges. 4 new tyres.
I also have some extra badges on order that have the bbs logo in silver with the carbon background and also some bbs short stainless valves.
I had the old tyres removed so i could then sand and file the curb rash out that was done by the previous owner.
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Today i removed my Jabbasport turbo exhaust manifold due to it blowing and the car being down on power.
This is what i found...
6 years of abuse lol. Apparently the first manifolds that they made were low nickel content and prone to cracking.
Anyway, I bought a new manifold from Jabba (£505! ouch) It has higher nickel content and an updated design, Oh and i have a few other parts to go on while im at it.
Piper 260/260 cam. (BP270H)
Piper vernier pulley.
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