Sorry all... its been a very busy couple of weeks... obviously been working hard to get the car ready for the MOT last Saturday which thankfully she past with flying colours... I have also been recently made redundant from my day job so I have been busy dealing with recruiters, doing phone interviews, dusting off my suit and pinching the wifes 'hold in pants' so I can get into the suit trousers lol...
Been a little while since I have had to wear a suit and I think Saturdays traditional 'chip - o - clock' and my love of Dr Pepper may have taken its toll on my waistline a little
Anyhoo... I have been driving the car in to work this week... have racked up 190 miles so far and all seems well... suspect there will be another 60-100 miles on her by the weekend as I have interviews this week so will dump the oil at the weekend and top up with the good stuff..
Initial impressions are that the car drives very well considering its the old map (unchanged from its GT30 days)... throttle response in all gears is much better than before... the stroker certainly making a difference here... most notable is third gear... just seems to be ok with everything... pulls up hill from 2000rpm with no real issue...
I am using map 3 of the 5 I have... spools to 1bar then rises to 1.5bar essentially... LTFT's are at -16% so I don't appear to be running out of fuel yet but haven't really pushed the car too often as tbh I am happy to wait until we can get her on the dyno and plug in the emulator for mapping...
Will check her over again for leaks and stuff once I have her on the ramp for the oil change but have checked under the car a few times and nothing so far.. which at least is a good sign...
Issues I have had (as lets face it there are always going to be a few with a build like this)...
I REALLY need to sort out the catch can as the smell is getting right on my boobies... I have ordered some plastic elbows and some hose to sort this out
The back box hits the rear towing eye mount when it gets hot... this is because stainless expands like a mofo and makes the exhaust grow... will review the options when she is up on the ramp but this isn't a major issue and thankful this is all thats happened considering the amount of fabrication I have had to do...
Still the biggest disappointment is the boost creep... kicking myself that I didn't go 2" from the collector for the wastegate outlet... its not enough that it can't be mapped around though and confident its not going to be an issue in the long run... seeing as she has held 2bar of boost at 7k rpm on the highest boost map I have available then its all gravy...
Another thing I didn't expect was surge... on the highest boost map the boost hits about 1.5bar @4.5k and surges until around 5k and then all is good in the world... this is no biggy as it can be mapped around but shows how well my setup actually spools if getting surge with a 2ltr and GT35.. cams are on the cards too ;P
A proper mapping session will sort all these issues out though and thats not too far away hopefully subject to Bills workload but I am planning to take a few weeks after my leave date helping him get on top of his current bookings so would be nice to get her sorted for the dyno day in May
Few little jobs to do but nothing that will prevent me driving her at the moment...
Only other thing I am looking to do is buy another car as a daily... I am set on a 51 plate Audi A2 with the 1.4tdi engine... as much as I love my Mk2 Golf it looks like I will need to commute further for the current crop of jobs I am interviewing for so I realistically need something more suitable for that purpose...
...and look... a whole post with just writing, no pictures or no mention of me painting anything!!..
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