After 22 days, the car is back by my house!
Make yourself comfortable. It's quite a long read.
It's not 100% healthy unfortunately, but I'll get round to that in a minute.
2 exhaust clamps have been fitted.
Jubilee clips fitted to the TIP and that's sorted.
The oil leak that was causing a bit of an issue was located. It was the oil feed restrictor, despite being up very tight it was leaking a fair amount. Re tightened it, went to the petrol station and it was still leaking. A washer or two was added and it seems to have solved the issue.
As the car was not making quite the 1 bar at actuator pressure, the actuator was wound out a tiny bit. Seemed to have made a bit of a difference and the car goes pretty well. Got back to mine and loaded the boosty map on, idle was instantly better. Opened it up on the bypass and the needle on the boost gauge shot up to and past the stop on the boost gauge (30psi) so i quickly shut off..
As it had done once on the k04, the hose linked to brakes popped off so as we pulled into the petrol station to wind the actuator down and sort the boost leak, the car had very little in the way of brakes. Not ideal. Ben has said that a one way valve can be put in place so it should stop it from happening again in the future..
Actuator slackened right off, we set off again. Car was still making late 20's psi so I'll be speaking to Dan about lowering the load. I have rods and the turbo could probably take 30psi as it pulled that all the way to the redline, but it isn't really necessary. I'll post the vcds logs that were done earlier, but it involved maxing out the MAF
Decided to take a couple of drive by videos. Car sounds epic, especially when it comes on boost, also makes large pops on overrun which is pretty cool. Left without getting a video though as the exhaust is making a horrible noise. Hoping that it's just the gasket for the blanking plate that is on the manifold, failing that it is possibly the clamp that joins the decat to the downpipe..
When trying to see if the car still drove O.K despite the noise, the same hose popped off again which is *** annoying. Popped back on yet again, N75 unplugged and I drove the car home. Drives fine, just sounds horrible. Over a 12 miles journey with the odd burst of boost but generally keeping with traffic, it averaged (supposedly) 37mpg, and before anyone says it: the dis is calibrated as it was running very early 20's when boosting and not boosting.