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Hello chaps, I thought I'd update everyone with the cars progress so far 
, and then perhaps ask for some help before I fire her up...
Background: The car was bought off ebay for £320 with a split engine mount, and the owner had run out of patience / space for it. Was fun towing it home with an AW11...
First job of the day was to get the power window up, and as the battery currently in the car was completely bollocks, it was off to Pick-Up Spares for a new (ish) one. £10 later, and a 100% fully working battery, the windows were up, and we gave all the other electrics a quick test to see how they got on, no problems there.
Then it was time to give the car its first proper day-light going over.
Car all ready for going over. *
The ECU. Looking good as new.
The intercooler. May need a re-con, but it looks ok for now. I'll get it flow checked.
Yep, its still there 8)
Er... Hi Andrew...
Ah yes. The tempoary engine mount. At least THAT bit came out easily...
The circle represents the single least accessible bolt in the world. The CA18DET offside engine mount is apparently, an utter bastard to remove, this one took 7 hours.
The offending part removed!!
Put the new engine mount in, lowered the engine down, and bolted her up.
I also changed the bolts on the nearside for long-term prosperity!
Next was time to just check a few important parts were present, and seated correctly.
Coil packs all present and correct, looking happy.
Me hooking up some of the fiddly breather hoses...
All pipes seemed to be present and correct, save a couple of clips and the odd split breather hose. Starting to look more like a turbo-charged engine bay now. Here we see our glamourous model Andrew holding the utterly bollocks charcoal filter. I think we will leave that off*
*I cant work out where to put it anyway...
Cars back on its wheels now, which is always a nice sight. Had a quick peek in the cabin today to. Un-surprisingly, all the guages are not hooked up, so might look into that at some point. Not today though. ECU appears to be in as well, which makes 2 UK spec ECU's. This may mean I have slightly restricted performance with the 8 port head, but Im sure Escy can let me know if this is indeed the case or not. I didn't take the ECU's out to check, but I doubt there is a stage 1 chip in there.
The next job is to get an expert to give it a once over. I may be competant, but this is my first turbo charged engine, so I want to get someone who knows it to say 'yay' or 'nay' before we fire her up.
Then, once the cars running perfectly, I will strip it back to bare metal. Then I will look into a decent Boost guage (I hear TIM are poop, unsurprisingly) and a cheap FMIC.
Onwards, so they say!
*P.S (I have already been told by the SXOC that S13's cant be jacked there as they rust...) Good to know mines not rusted! Not bad for £320... if it starts...
, and then perhaps ask for some help before I fire her up... Background: The car was bought off ebay for £320 with a split engine mount, and the owner had run out of patience / space for it. Was fun towing it home with an AW11...
First job of the day was to get the power window up, and as the battery currently in the car was completely bollocks, it was off to Pick-Up Spares for a new (ish) one. £10 later, and a 100% fully working battery, the windows were up, and we gave all the other electrics a quick test to see how they got on, no problems there.
Then it was time to give the car its first proper day-light going over.
Car all ready for going over. *
The ECU. Looking good as new.
The intercooler. May need a re-con, but it looks ok for now. I'll get it flow checked.
Yep, its still there 8)
Er... Hi Andrew...
Ah yes. The tempoary engine mount. At least THAT bit came out easily...
The circle represents the single least accessible bolt in the world. The CA18DET offside engine mount is apparently, an utter bastard to remove, this one took 7 hours.
The offending part removed!!
Put the new engine mount in, lowered the engine down, and bolted her up.
I also changed the bolts on the nearside for long-term prosperity!
Next was time to just check a few important parts were present, and seated correctly.
Coil packs all present and correct, looking happy.
Me hooking up some of the fiddly breather hoses...
All pipes seemed to be present and correct, save a couple of clips and the odd split breather hose. Starting to look more like a turbo-charged engine bay now. Here we see our glamourous model Andrew holding the utterly bollocks charcoal filter. I think we will leave that off*
*I cant work out where to put it anyway...
Cars back on its wheels now, which is always a nice sight. Had a quick peek in the cabin today to. Un-surprisingly, all the guages are not hooked up, so might look into that at some point. Not today though. ECU appears to be in as well, which makes 2 UK spec ECU's. This may mean I have slightly restricted performance with the 8 port head, but Im sure Escy can let me know if this is indeed the case or not. I didn't take the ECU's out to check, but I doubt there is a stage 1 chip in there.
The next job is to get an expert to give it a once over. I may be competant, but this is my first turbo charged engine, so I want to get someone who knows it to say 'yay' or 'nay' before we fire her up.
Then, once the cars running perfectly, I will strip it back to bare metal. Then I will look into a decent Boost guage (I hear TIM are poop, unsurprisingly) and a cheap FMIC.
Onwards, so they say!
*P.S (I have already been told by the SXOC that S13's cant be jacked there as they rust...) Good to know mines not rusted! Not bad for £320... if it starts...
