Sorry, a bit of a long post so I’ll do it two parts
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. I spent most of last weekend flatting and polishing the paintwork in preparation for AITP. It’s still not perfect and could have done with another day on it really but the sun half killed me
Looks great in the sun though
Then spent the evenings last week sealing and waxing, I mainly like to use the EZ Car Care products. Started with Fusion to seal, then a coat of Granite, followed by Lucid ceramic wax. Once that’s cured gave it a coat of EZ Glaze. Even employed an extra labourer to help out
Time to sort some annoying niggles so off with the front bumper and out with the Araldite epoxy
These end trims are a little damaged and are a nightmare to fix if they get much worse
Gave both sides a good clean and then ran a small bead down each side and clamped in place for around 8hrs until cured. Good as new
The other little niggle needed the intercooler removing to give it a few coats of satin black. I think it looks much stealthier now and even prefer not having the fogs in too
I’ve been hunting for a boost leak/fault for weeks, it’s literally doing my head head in now. I’ve smoke tested it with a crude homemade smoke tester, traced and fixed one leak but couldn’t find anything else, Agrrr also replaced the N75 and carried out several tests to no avail. Can’t get more than 0.8bar boost
Sunday was Audis In The Park, love this event. This year I went on the S3 UK Owners group stand with some great people and amazing cars. Despite the short downpour of rain it was a great day
These two pics were taken by
@ToughlilT
before leaving I thought I’d found the source of my boost problem
As you can see the vac line to the wastegate had split and dropped away due to heat from the manifold so we carried out a temporary fix, put it back together thinking this was the cause of the problem but still no boost, Nooooooooo
In fact now there’s only 0.5bar of boost since that was fixed. How is this possible? So still no fun