Well folks, it's been a while since I've started my own post, so what better way than with a whole host of issues I've had/got going on.
A couple of weeks back I was replacing my top and bottom exhaust gaskets on the turbo, when I decided it would be a good idea to shear one of the exhaust pipe mounting studs off /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif This all happened because I was too bone idle to do the work under the car and thought I'd do it from the top, which meant I didn't get proper leverage on the nut and put excessive bending motion on the stud. Well luckily the stud still had a reasonable portion sticking out from the threaded section in the turbo, but a set of mole grips would not budge it, so it needed a nut welding on to it and taking out that way.....In all of this I also managed to take a large chunk out of my little finger!
The lesson on this one is first if you're going to remove the downpipe section from the turbo do it from underneath the car! Secondly add some WD40 to the protruding threaded section! And lastly take your time doing things!
Moving on from the above I got bored and decided the MAF needed cleaning due to a few running problems, well it was all going to plan it was clearly dirty but also it was broken (not that I knew at this point). So out came a cotton bud to wipe the actual sensor down...mistake! The sensor board had previously fractured and my cleaning it caused the fractured piece to completely separate from the board....opps /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Well at least now the car was running very smoothly albeit with about 100hp less than I wanted. First quote for a MAF was 273 Euros, but then the dealer looked a bit further and found the service exchange part which came through at a far better 99 Euros, although nobody had it in stock. After a weekend of lethargic driving the MAF turned up on Monday morning and all was good again...well even better in fact.
So whilst I was laying under my car looking dreamily up at my turbo I dreamt a dream that my turbo housing was cracked.......which in fact it does appear to be, or at least it's leaking, so that means a turbo off job to inspect it!
So I have learnt that being blind is blissful, and whilst all of these jobs needed doing the end of the day made me wish I hadn't woken up!
On the flip side to this all, is that today I have my front wishbone powerflex mount arrive /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beerchug.gif
And more importantly due to my problem with the turbo I decided I would do some digging into my possibilities.....Well I looked on e-bay to see what was on offer, as I knew I couldn't justify the massive wonga of the normal turbo upgrades offered by Jabba, Oettinger, AmD and the like, so thought I'd look a little closer to home... By closer to home I mean work which for me is looking within the world of Mitsubishi, who happen to make very good turbos /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
So a couple of calls later to some friends of friends, and it seems I may have a free turbo on the way and can pick up the manifold, oil and water feed pipes and inlet pipe for around the 1000 Euro mark from an Italian contact, all I then need is a remap.
So it may be that out of the problems something good may come out of it.
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beerchug.gif
A couple of weeks back I was replacing my top and bottom exhaust gaskets on the turbo, when I decided it would be a good idea to shear one of the exhaust pipe mounting studs off /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif This all happened because I was too bone idle to do the work under the car and thought I'd do it from the top, which meant I didn't get proper leverage on the nut and put excessive bending motion on the stud. Well luckily the stud still had a reasonable portion sticking out from the threaded section in the turbo, but a set of mole grips would not budge it, so it needed a nut welding on to it and taking out that way.....In all of this I also managed to take a large chunk out of my little finger!
The lesson on this one is first if you're going to remove the downpipe section from the turbo do it from underneath the car! Secondly add some WD40 to the protruding threaded section! And lastly take your time doing things!
Moving on from the above I got bored and decided the MAF needed cleaning due to a few running problems, well it was all going to plan it was clearly dirty but also it was broken (not that I knew at this point). So out came a cotton bud to wipe the actual sensor down...mistake! The sensor board had previously fractured and my cleaning it caused the fractured piece to completely separate from the board....opps /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Well at least now the car was running very smoothly albeit with about 100hp less than I wanted. First quote for a MAF was 273 Euros, but then the dealer looked a bit further and found the service exchange part which came through at a far better 99 Euros, although nobody had it in stock. After a weekend of lethargic driving the MAF turned up on Monday morning and all was good again...well even better in fact.
So whilst I was laying under my car looking dreamily up at my turbo I dreamt a dream that my turbo housing was cracked.......which in fact it does appear to be, or at least it's leaking, so that means a turbo off job to inspect it!
So I have learnt that being blind is blissful, and whilst all of these jobs needed doing the end of the day made me wish I hadn't woken up!
On the flip side to this all, is that today I have my front wishbone powerflex mount arrive /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beerchug.gif
And more importantly due to my problem with the turbo I decided I would do some digging into my possibilities.....Well I looked on e-bay to see what was on offer, as I knew I couldn't justify the massive wonga of the normal turbo upgrades offered by Jabba, Oettinger, AmD and the like, so thought I'd look a little closer to home... By closer to home I mean work which for me is looking within the world of Mitsubishi, who happen to make very good turbos /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
So a couple of calls later to some friends of friends, and it seems I may have a free turbo on the way and can pick up the manifold, oil and water feed pipes and inlet pipe for around the 1000 Euro mark from an Italian contact, all I then need is a remap.
So it may be that out of the problems something good may come out of it.
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beerchug.gif
