The journey of one man and his Mule(s)

[Magic Beans]

Ey up Phil, want me to show you how to use these:

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How's the polishing going?

You checked ebay yet, see if you can get an air line for your garage? More compressed air being blown over the engine than through it, I hear?

Shut it you or I'll tell you how much of a ball ache it will be to fit your chargecooler

Hey, I'll save an hour as my front bumper has already been changed and is all stainless steel fasteners

Uh huh, you keep that in mind when you're doing it

[craig]

Shut it you or I'll tell you how much of a ball ache it will be to fit your chargecooler

Hey, I'll save an hour as my front bumper has already been changed and is all stainless steel fasteners

Uh huh, you keep that in mind when you're doing it

p1$$ taking aside, awesome car though. Mapping in Surrey, that's a hell of a treck! I had my old car mapped in Cov by Thor.

[Magic Beans]

It's a completely different animal now, even when only going as high a 5 PSI! Well, 10 PSI accidentally, just before it spa a vac hose and went mad

All sorted now though and worth all the effort.

[Peter Gidden]

Well, 10 PSI accidentally

[Magic Beans]

Well, 10 PSI accidentally

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Lesson learnt. I'll wait for Monday return journey

[ashley]

Glad it's coming together mate- you all ready for mapping now?

[Magic Beans]

Glad it's coming together mate- you all ready for mapping now?

So long as nothing else pops up before then, yes

I'll be doing a pre visit health check, to ensure hoses etc are still connected etc. Loving the screamer pipe, even though!

[Peter Gidden]

Loving the screamer pipe, even though!

Oi! Thought you were keeping boost down 'til you had mapping done!

How do you know what the screamer pipe sounds like?

[ashley]

[Magic Beans]

Loving the screamer pipe, even though!

Oi! Thought you were keeping boost down 'til you had mapping done!

How do you know what the screamer pipe sounds like?

Well it all started when i was driving back *queue a story*

I was using some boost (no more than 10 PSI for sure ) and found it was making a chuffing type sound through the screamer. So in the name of ensuring all was working correctly, I felt I had to switch the EVC on to check it was an issue with the wastegate etc It does work, however too much and it causes the car to sit it's vac hoses off.

[Magic Beans]

*Yawn* Morning all.

Right then, part two of the fun and frolics. The photos aren't the best and there's not too many, as we really just wanted to focus on getting it finished.

Day 2 kicked off with running the hoses to the pre rad


Th current state at the bum end of the car


Bumper bar back on, after a bit of a tidy up


Half the bolts broke when removing the bumper, so they had to be dealt with


Bumper back on


The chargecooler core could now be mounted. Much easier than fitting an IC, but still a fighter


The swirl pot was being mounted in the boot, so holes for the hoses had to be cut and grommets fitted




Standard ECU, with a couple of HKS bolt-ons (SLD and FCD)




Starting to plumb in the CC core


The bracket we fabbed for mounting the swirl pot


Front end fully assembled




Under trays back on. Not a job I'd rush to do again


Front end back on the ground


Hole and grommet on the other side


Swirl pot mounted. Needs a polish again




All CC plumbing completed, time to bleed the system


Bleeding was going fairly well, until Peter spotted the car had had an accident at the front end


Both joints were leaking. My fault for not checking them properly

The left side was an easy fix, as it was accessible from the front


The right was was more tricky, however luckily I managed to access the clamp front the top of the frunk (over the rad) and rotate the clamp before adjusting it


*Cut to some time later*

CC was bled, everything installed, wired in etc etc, time for the first fire up

It lives!


The idle was high, due to the existing map from Rob's car


All done. Well, for now..






Went out for a test drive and it ran like a champ. Felt quicker than the old set-up straight off and only going as far as 5-6 PSI The noise is fantastic, with the sound of the turbo spooling away all the time.

I managed to blow off a vac hose on the way home, however a quick clamp later and it's all good, ready for a trip to see Ryan on Monday for mapping.

All in all it was an epic 3 days. A huge amount of work was done, but that first drive made it all worthwhile. My thanks to Peter for his efforts and putting up with my somewhat relentless pace (until my brain crashed about 6pm each day )

[craig]

Awesome stuff mate, looks a tidy install. Just mapping now!

I notice you conveniently left out the picture of the boot carpet where you'd attempted to cut the holes for the swirl pot fixings and hoses

[stephano]

me like
looks lovely
what sort of power are you looking for?

[Magic Beans]

Awesome stuff mate, looks a tidy install. Just mapping now!

I notice you conveniently left out the picture of the boot carpet where you'd attempted to cut the holes for the swirl pot fixings and hoses

You and Peter are like a couple of housewives, with all your gossiping

It got to the time of day when my hands didn't listen to the brain, which ends in carpet with non-round holes in Even worse was that fact I was doing fully aware I wanted to take the carpet out altogether

[Magic Beans]

me like
looks lovely
what sort of power are you looking for?

Thanks

Hoping to get somewhere around 450 bhp, although a good safe, reliable map is more important than absolute power. No point spending all this time and effort, to blow the thing up a month down the line.

[stephano]

me like
looks lovely
what sort of power are you looking for?

Thanks

Hoping to get somewhere around 450 bhp, although a good safe, reliable map is more important than absolute power. No point spending all this time and effort, to blow the thing up a month down the line.

slightly different philosophy to me but prob the better one

[Magic Beans]

me like
looks lovely
what sort of power are you looking for?

Thanks

Hoping to get somewhere around 450 bhp, although a good safe, reliable map is more important than absolute power. No point spending all this time and effort, to blow the thing up a month down the line.

slightly different philosophy to me but prob the better one

Possibly

[Jasonb123]

Looking good matey!! All that time and effort you may aswell see what it can do ;0)

[Magic Beans]

Looking good matey!! All that time and effort you may aswell see what it can do ;0)

Well, I'll know for sure in about 4 hours time, when Ryan gets his hands on it.

[slipping clutch]

Good work Phil - much respect too you and Peter. hope it all goes well with Ryan (bet you keep ramping it up on the way home just to listen to the wastegate - I did when I had mine done and Ryan had mapped it for me )