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 Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:33 pm |
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Joined: Sep 21, 2014
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finally got the billet bottom pulley fitted to the car  also changed the back discs and pads and did a fluid change, much better now thats for sure.
up next is the mot on the 26th jan then a visit to my mate at gt motorsport on 23rd feb to fit the supersprint manifold and uprated engine/gearbox mounts.
i have also managed to get hold of a de cat for the car and will be fitting a sportex centre section at the same time the manifold is fitted
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 1:30 am |
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| andy83 wrote: |
i have also managed to get hold of a de cat for the car and will be fitting a sportex centre section at the same time the manifold is fitted |
I would honestly avoid the sportex stuff if you could mate, had my full cat back system on all of maybe 6-8 months and it was already starting to corrode.
You would be better having one made up or sourcing elsewhere in some better material.
Coming along nicely though Andy considering you've had it all of what? 5mins  no honestly, good to see you making solid progress it's gonna be awesome once you finish!
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 2:19 am |
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Hi mate cheers for that i had a sportex many moons ago 13 years to be exact and that was pretty robust.
but i will always take on board previous expwriences from fellow owners. I was originally toying with the idea of a supersprint centre section so maybe i should go for that instead.
Haha yeah there is a method to my madness dont you worry about that
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 2:51 am |
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Perhaps it was just poor luck with mine then or poor build quality, who knows! but if your looking for guaranteed longevity then the supersprint centre section is where it's at in my opinion.
Up to you though mate was just my 2cents on recent experiences with the sportex brand
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 2:53 am |
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No i will defo take your advice as your experience is far more recent than mine.
I will keep the sportex back box on for now and keep an eye on things.
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 1:38 am |
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| andy83 wrote: |
finally got the billet bottom pulley fitted to the car also changed the back discs and pads and did a fluid change, much better now thats for sure.
up next is the mot on the 26th jan then a visit to my mate at gt motorsport on 23rd feb to fit the supersprint manifold and uprated engine/gearbox mounts.
i have also managed to get hold of a de cat for the car and will be fitting a sportex centre section at the same time the manifold is fitted |
Fit manifold ? Its forsale ? Hoffmans middle section is good . Cheep but does the job & aint no skinny black painted pipe ready to rott out
. Dont spend ££ on a middle section . What Size pipe comes off the supersprint flange ?
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:28 am |
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right then people got quite a few updates for you
first of all i have purchased a billet flywheel from pug1off, looking forward to fitting this should work well combined with the crank pulley.
i have purchased a new k&n filter and water sock for my k&n typhoon, the ones on atm are well past there best especially the water sock.
iv scrapped the idea of sportex centre section and de cat, im not at all happy with the quality of the sportex back box which is already corroding.
so iv been on to my old mates at top gear stockport who did an amazing job of my old r5gtt turbo back 2.5" system to make me a full custom manifold back decatted longlife system.
and finally engine wise i have got a pair of cat cams fast road sport profiles that will be fitted in around march time with fingers crossed a fast road spec head from ctm performance, and of course finished off with a remap
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 10:30 am |
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 10:50 am |
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got a few updates that i forgot to add on here so ill put them all into one and date them
30/12/2014
so i decided to drop the wife off at work today so that i could fit the k&n typhoon induction kit which i got a great deal on and fit a new pair of bulbs in the rear numberplate lights.
induction kit was a doddle to fit didnt take long at all
29/01/2015
new k&n filter fitted with new water sock arrived today, will be fitted onto the typhoon this sunday
03/02/2015
so had a bit of a setback with the car, the wife informed me it had starting making some kind of noise sunday morning so when we went out that evening i heard it for myself and narrowed it down to 1 of 2 things.
i got onto my mate at gt motorsport to see if he could have it in yesterday which he kindly did, i couldnt do it myself due to being at work from 7am until 5.30pm.
anyway it turned out to be the waterpump was shot and looks like it had been bodged on sometime in the past but it finally give us chance to fit the new cam belt kit and also new alternator belt so every cloud and all that.
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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:01 am |
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bit of a better update for you all, today i received a couple of pics of the fast road head iv had done by charlie at ctm performance looks spot on and iv already had it port matched for a 180 inlet manifold, just waiting on the catcams to arrive and then we can get on with fitting the lot all in one go and getting it mapped up.
most importantly i have to say a massive thank you to fellow forum member macj who has been nothing short of a legend in helping me out with various things including the cams and this fast road head, this forum is very lucky to have such a member and long may it continue
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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:00 pm |
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Many thanks Andy for the kind words. I look forward to seeing it mapped
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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:12 pm |
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| macj wrote: |
| Many thanks Andy for the kind words. I look forward to seeing it mapped |
Going to be very interesting to see what it brings should certainly add to it in all the right places without taking away the original characteristics of the engine.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:14 am |
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i received a few more pics of the fast road head last night also on macs gas flowed head thread
this combined with the cams /inlet and gti6 tb should transform the flow of this engine
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 4:40 am |
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Very interested in this thread great progress look forward to seeing the results
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 5:25 am |
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Glad you're interested matey.
If i had the time/resources etc then i would dyno the car one mod at a time to see how it does.
I will pop it on the rolling road after fitting the 4-2-1 manifold to see where were at before fitting the head cams and inlet
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