Nightmare S2

[DNA-S2]

Found the fault Brian
Broken signal wire for hall sensor!
Must have got trapped and stretched during
engine removal
It's runing now
Thanks for your help
it was good talking to you and will deffo
pop around for that cuppa

[Tonks4x4]

A few other pictures of my part home built downpipe




And after a 100 mile round trip yesterday with only the downpipe
I can report that all the work over the past two weeks has been more than worth it and she now runs quicker and smoother than it ever has

[jsws3]

A few other pictures of my part home built downpipe




And after a 100 mile round trip yesterday with only the downpipe
I can report that all the work over the past two weeks has been more than worth it and she now runs quicker and smoother than it ever has

Ill be the judge of that when I hammer the **** out of it down the road when I pop up lol .

[newsh]

100miles with only the downpipe! Bet it sounded awesome!

[Tonks4x4]

It does sound great at certain rev ranges, but 5th gear 60mph to 80mph feels like your ear drums have inverted!

[newsh]

Yes, 2000 to 3000RPM, the "drone frequency" bad enough with a single box 3" system!

[simons2]

That looks a cool dp mate , fancy knocking any up for us who are less blessed ?

[Tonks4x4]

Well now I have got the waves of work out the way I managed to do some stuff on my own car again... I have been driving around with half an exhaust for a month!

I have now managed to finish the exhaust. It's still loud but acceptable to me as its a toy.

As far as the running is concerned it was great for a few days and then it was down on boost again.

So after one evening until the early hours myself and Nemo did some boost leak testing it was found to hold great up to about 1.2 bar but above this it developed a leak from the intercooler cross member to inlet pipe.

So this was fixed and the boost was increased to 1.4 bar and there was the strangest noise I have heard from the engine bay of an S2!!!

As my partner described it was like a wookie being raped.... Lol

I gave up again at this point and made do for several weeks.

However tonight I have found it
Took off the wastgate and the wastgate piston valve guides must be non existent there is nearly 10mm of lateral play in the valve.

This will explain why sometimes it would seat and be great and others it was a piece of rubbish.

Anyway on with a spare wastgate and out for a test....

I am now pleased to report it's a constant 1.6 bar tailing off to 1.2 at red line.

Performance again is greatly improved but now I'm getting clutch slip

[Pat D]

Thats some awesome work there and thanks for posting pics up I'm doing my rear end at the moment as well including all the lines.

Did those black fuel fittings on the tank underneath bolt straight up or did you have to do some mods to get them on?

[Tonks4x4]

They bolt right up.

[Tonks4x4]

Had time for a spot of fettling today so painted the wiper arms as they were looking a little scabby



And as the sun is finally out, guessed it was time for summer wheels




And then a full wash and polish just to reveal how bad the paint work is

[AndyP]

Wheels look great, but we need a video of the exhaust

[Tonks4x4]

Wheels look great, but we need a video of the exhaust

I have no friends to film it
And I don't want to be one of these sad folks you see on YouTube propping the camera up, pressing record, scuttling off to the car, on the first start up the camera falls over and that's as much as you see until you hear footsteps running back to retrieve said camera

[gc77]

Excellent work Brian the car really dose look well. I really like those wheels. Atb Gary.

[Tonks4x4]

The poorly paint....


And just for you Andy

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plcp&v=i9FY09zR1Y4