Today has been a successful day!
Quick shout out to beachbuggy (Dan) for the refurb, Ben (Parson Performance) for fitting and reesy for the enjoyable company.
Dan refurbed my turbo with new seals and gave it the once over. He had also supplied me with the gaskets and studs i needed.
Earlier in the week i also picked up some new nuts for the Turbo to Downpipe, 13 manifold nuts and the manifold gasket.
Met up reesy and Ben this morning for some McDonaldâs before we went to the garage. (Very nice chaps!)
Coolant was first drained and Ben nearly suffered from 1st degree burns lol luckily for him he was a very quick mover and dodged out the way...
Wasnât long before downpipe, turbo and manifold was out
Here is the old K03: There wasn't much play in the shaft but the housing had cracks all over it
Close up
Here is the new k03s turbo (Purchased from Reesy 80k â it had done about)
Dan really did a brilliant job cleaning it up for me!
All fitted in along with the new tip and 70mm Jetex cone filter. The heat shield isnât in yet as the cone kept slipping off the MAF.
In the earlier posts i mentioned that i have been suffering boost issues; intermittently it only boosted up to 5psi and no more.
Checked the pipes and replaced the breather pipes with the following:
I noticed that when the boost problem happens, it also cuts the engine out, turn ignition back on it works fine.. which got me thinking it could be electrical. Ben had a spare N75 valve to hand, so that went straight on. Not had an issue so far today!
Took it for a warm up lap before booting it to see how if there were any issues. Reesy kindly scanned the car and no error codes showed up.
Also pointed out is that i need to pick up two front tyres soon. Loads of tread left, but bold on the inside. I will need tracking sometime next week.
The k03s is a lot smoother than my k03 on this stage 1 map. It definitely pulls more and still has more to give. You can hear it just keep sucking in air.
Stage 2 Remap is definitely on the cards and very soon!