Car Broke down! :/ after full revs Any help /advice?

[Chris5044]

Chris, have you driven on the Nurburgring before?
I would concentrate on reliability and safety. A standard car will have plenty of power, in any case you will get passed by locals in 150hp stripped out golfs and polos..
The last thing you want is to drop oil or coolant and get a huge bill for causing someone to crash.

I don’t know how heavy you are on the brakes but I would check everything over including hoses, change the discs and pads if worn and definitely change the brake fluid.

There’s no point fitting a bigger turbo to a stock manifold, the manifold is the bottle neck. You should find the car is more responsive and feels more powerful on the new ECU as long as everything else is working well and the tuner knows what he’s doing.

Boom!! thank you both guys!! Greg_S I will look into this now.. man ... more things. is there anywhere I can purchase these bits Greg you have mentioned?

Thank you,

[Greg_S]

Contact alex about the coil conversion loom and you can order the ignition coils yourself.

checkout the mgb GT oil cooler conversion. Also check out the guides on the forum on maintenance checks.

[bilko0795]

Greg Where do look to check out this oil cooler conversion?

[Tractor Dave]

Greg Where do look to check out this oil cooler conversion?

Here

https://www.s2forum.com/forum/technical/engine-and-turbo/62977-how-to-13-row-oil-cooler-4-sub-â£70

[bilko0795]

[gmac78]

Hey guys!! an update on all of this! My ECU is gone and unrepairable! so I am getting a new ECU from Emerald, The electrics are being sorted by a specialist also, so hopefully this will get the car running again. Then its tlc time again!

What was the problem with the ECU, was there more issues other than the blown diode as shown in your pics? I'm having an issue with fuse 27 blowing when turning the ignition on, however the same diode on my ECU is intact? Cheers

[Chris5044]

What was the problem with the ECU, was there more issues other than the blown diode as shown in your pics? I'm having an issue with fuse 27 blowing when turning the ignition on, however the same diode on my ECU is intact? Cheers

Hey dude! Im not sure what else was damaged on the original ECU, but the ECU specialists couldnt fix it and I could visibly see the diode had blown... there could have been more - I wasn't fully sure why.