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 Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:50 pm |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 7045
Trade Rating: +5
Location: In the garage
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I love messing with the car at the moment. I'm concentrating on the cooling system at the moment and next week I'll get my thermostat housing back from DP Engineering. The car isn't taxed so I'm in no rush. I'm going to buy it a new coolant reservoir and hose. Maybe some Samcos will be bought too...new stuff should mean total reliability - and confidence in the car.
If I can get a shortened alloy radiator of the quality below I'll be happy. Then I can have some longer trumpets on the bodies...hopefully to gain some torque.
There's one thing for sure, geting everything to a high standard isn't cheap.
I just think Ecosse need to raise their game a little. It was just the electrics that let the job down...
They did the absolute minimum to make the car go. No standalone loom, no air temp sensor and automotive grade connectors and old redundant plugs from the old throttle body loom left hanging in the engine bay.
They put the price up when I collected the car, my map sensor went missing from my original manifold, they took twice as long as expected, they charged £200 for pocketing pistons when everywhere else charges £100. As a goodwill jesture for taking so long and it costing me a fortune in hire car bills as a result, they knocked £100 off the piston pocketing price. That makes the original price of £200 sound a little fishy.
Nice wiring below.
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| 2001 GTi 138, Bilstein Sprint dampers, H&R springs, 21mm Peugeot Sport torsion bars, 22mm rear ARB, Peugeot Sport Group A wishbones, 283mm discs, Goodridge stainless hoses, Maniflow 304 grade 4-2-1 2.5" manifold and system, 200 cell cat, Richard Longman head, 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, 9.5mm TB spacers, 90mm air horns, Jenvey throttle linkage, Jenvey fuel rail, Aeromotive and Goodridge fuel fittings and braided hose, ITG sausage filter, Radtec custom radiator, Piper Ultimate Road cams, Piper vernier pulleys, Omex 600 ECU. Saxo electric PAS pump, Vibra Technics engine mounts. Samco coolant hoses, TTV steel flywheel, 4.76 final drive ratio, 307 CC 180 ratios. 2019 BMW 530i. 2017 Mercedes C300 convertible. | |
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:52 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 7093
Trade Rating: +11
Location: Suffolk
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Makes you sick dont it when you think you have spent so much time making your car prestine?
They dont need to pick it up a little, the need to complete review their game
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:54 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 3327
Trade Rating: +9
Location: Ring y0
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Disgusting to be honest, ever thought of taking it to a small claims court?
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:57 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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As a electrician that wiring makes me sick,, Don't know how the slept at night knowing what they have done!
Glad to see you will be getting bigger Trumpets that will be open,, Always thought that your current setup looks abit restricted imo.
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 3:59 am |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
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Location: In the garage
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| Jamie wrote: |
| Disgusting to be honest, ever thought of taking it to a small claims court? |
Not worth the hassle. I asked them to supply a semi assembled Omex loom and a coolant temperature sensor which they did. Making it work was down to me....which I did!
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| 2001 GTi 138, Bilstein Sprint dampers, H&R springs, 21mm Peugeot Sport torsion bars, 22mm rear ARB, Peugeot Sport Group A wishbones, 283mm discs, Goodridge stainless hoses, Maniflow 304 grade 4-2-1 2.5" manifold and system, 200 cell cat, Richard Longman head, 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, 9.5mm TB spacers, 90mm air horns, Jenvey throttle linkage, Jenvey fuel rail, Aeromotive and Goodridge fuel fittings and braided hose, ITG sausage filter, Radtec custom radiator, Piper Ultimate Road cams, Piper vernier pulleys, Omex 600 ECU. Saxo electric PAS pump, Vibra Technics engine mounts. Samco coolant hoses, TTV steel flywheel, 4.76 final drive ratio, 307 CC 180 ratios. 2019 BMW 530i. 2017 Mercedes C300 convertible. | |
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 6:47 pm |
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Joined: Jan 07, 2011
Posts: 16
Trade Rating: 0
Location: Bo,ness
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Hi paul nice clean car you have mate sorry to here of all the problems you have had with eccosse hope you get the car running right soon and keep up the hard work mate
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| Ive got a bad feeling about this | |
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:00 am |
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Joined: Feb 04, 2010
Posts: 1409
Trade Rating: +2
Location: Clipping the Apex!
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I've never rated Ecosse and this is testament to that. You've been much more amicable than I could have been about the situation. It's disgusting, surely bordering on not fit for purpose?
Good to see you're sorting yourself nonetheless, nothing quite like DIY engineering!
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:28 pm |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
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Trade Rating: +5
Location: In the garage
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Got my thermostat housing back today from DP Engineering. Now this is the best way of mounting an additional coolant sensor. It's much better than stuffing the sensor into the bleed screw hole. Cost €43 and about £13 to post it to them. So not cheap but well worth it.
Basically they've welded a plug of alloy into the housing, welded it in place then they drill and tap it.
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| 2001 GTi 138, Bilstein Sprint dampers, H&R springs, 21mm Peugeot Sport torsion bars, 22mm rear ARB, Peugeot Sport Group A wishbones, 283mm discs, Goodridge stainless hoses, Maniflow 304 grade 4-2-1 2.5" manifold and system, 200 cell cat, Richard Longman head, 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, 9.5mm TB spacers, 90mm air horns, Jenvey throttle linkage, Jenvey fuel rail, Aeromotive and Goodridge fuel fittings and braided hose, ITG sausage filter, Radtec custom radiator, Piper Ultimate Road cams, Piper vernier pulleys, Omex 600 ECU. Saxo electric PAS pump, Vibra Technics engine mounts. Samco coolant hoses, TTV steel flywheel, 4.76 final drive ratio, 307 CC 180 ratios. 2019 BMW 530i. 2017 Mercedes C300 convertible. | |
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:20 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 2505
Trade Rating: +19
Location: West mids
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looks like what pug1off did to mine mate, top job
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:28 pm |
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Joined: Feb 04, 2010
Posts: 1409
Trade Rating: +2
Location: Clipping the Apex!
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Could you straighten the plug? Would annoy me being at an angle like that.
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:33 pm |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
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Location: In the garage
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I just need to tighten it. Ideally it would be fitted with a sealing washer anyway. It will also be under the engine cover anyway.
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| 2001 GTi 138, Bilstein Sprint dampers, H&R springs, 21mm Peugeot Sport torsion bars, 22mm rear ARB, Peugeot Sport Group A wishbones, 283mm discs, Goodridge stainless hoses, Maniflow 304 grade 4-2-1 2.5" manifold and system, 200 cell cat, Richard Longman head, 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, 9.5mm TB spacers, 90mm air horns, Jenvey throttle linkage, Jenvey fuel rail, Aeromotive and Goodridge fuel fittings and braided hose, ITG sausage filter, Radtec custom radiator, Piper Ultimate Road cams, Piper vernier pulleys, Omex 600 ECU. Saxo electric PAS pump, Vibra Technics engine mounts. Samco coolant hoses, TTV steel flywheel, 4.76 final drive ratio, 307 CC 180 ratios. 2019 BMW 530i. 2017 Mercedes C300 convertible. | |
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:40 pm |
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Joined: Feb 04, 2010
Posts: 1409
Trade Rating: +2
Location: Clipping the Apex!
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Ah good, as long as it lines up! Whether its under cover or not is irrelevant, still needs to be right underneath. Especially with the detail in this car already (minus the sh*t Ecosse bodge efforts)
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| Daily Hack - 2013 Audi A3 Sport | |
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:51 pm |
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Joined: Jan 23, 2010
Posts: 655
Trade Rating: +1
Location: North West
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Positive progress there, looks like it's coming on a treat after Ecosse mistreated it somewhat.
Have you sorted the black scuff out on the offside front arch yet?
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:50 pm |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 7045
Trade Rating: +5
Location: In the garage
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Naah. the scratches on the arch are to stay!!!
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| 2001 GTi 138, Bilstein Sprint dampers, H&R springs, 21mm Peugeot Sport torsion bars, 22mm rear ARB, Peugeot Sport Group A wishbones, 283mm discs, Goodridge stainless hoses, Maniflow 304 grade 4-2-1 2.5" manifold and system, 200 cell cat, Richard Longman head, 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, 9.5mm TB spacers, 90mm air horns, Jenvey throttle linkage, Jenvey fuel rail, Aeromotive and Goodridge fuel fittings and braided hose, ITG sausage filter, Radtec custom radiator, Piper Ultimate Road cams, Piper vernier pulleys, Omex 600 ECU. Saxo electric PAS pump, Vibra Technics engine mounts. Samco coolant hoses, TTV steel flywheel, 4.76 final drive ratio, 307 CC 180 ratios. 2019 BMW 530i. 2017 Mercedes C300 convertible. | |
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:25 pm |
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Joined: Apr 30, 2010
Posts: 275
Trade Rating: +2
Location: Liverpool Drives: 206 GTi
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I just drilled and tapped mine without a boss. I'm using the standard pug position for the omex temp sender and the new one is an M10 fine thread sealed with an o-ring for the dash. cost nothing
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