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The one at the front of the filler neck near the top? I think you're after the coolant level sensor. N3A1-15-610

Another bump for Dojo It\'s fantastic stuff and the car just smell <3 after it! Opie were doing a discount on it a while ago, not sure if its still on :mmmm

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

3 times! Im lucky then that i\'ve only beenable to drive the car for 3months :Hammer It\'s going to be uneconomical to repair the old housing so ill need a new downpipe anyway as its got the wrong flange on and looks like chewinggum! I\'m just really supprised that the cracks happend in the runin miles.

Love the rotor hate the motor. :p

This has been one of those months that what ever I touch goes wrong.

I just got off the phone to AET and added another thing to the list of .... hitting the fan, a simple chop a V-band off and weld another one on has turned into a mare of a job :reallymad

The exhaust housing is cracked. Guy could not tell me if it was on the inside or outside oddly though... This is a turbo that was rebuilt in the middle of last year with no signs of fatigue. So now the chances of me driving it this weekend are 0%

All these simple jobs and royal fail deliverys going missing are turning out to be expensive and are starting to wear me down, two new tyre valves ended up costing me two front tyres as the rubber was fubared due to a runflat situation. Various V-bands that assured would fit, did not. To top it all off, trying to be used as a scape goat at work while not even in the office! All I need now is a suicide threat from a frie... wait already happend.

I thought about selling the 7 but that would just be STUPID at this point ive already dumped too much money into the car and not driven it enough. This turbo stands me over 2k alone now. Now it looks like its going to go higher, I need to get myself a new exhaust hosuing to suit and a downpipe. May as well get the manifold remade too as its a ugly mess! And then all this will mean a new tune too~

FML

Ahh yeah i agree with giving some form of 3rd party cover as standard that would make things a lot easier :Thumbs-up the cynic in me thinks that the insurance companies would still cry foul at the loss of those lovely new driver premiums. Speaking of taxes what\'s with the price of LPG recently anyway it seems to have gone up a LOT faster than the other fuels.

I think putting the price of fuel up only solves one issue and raises many more. The obvious one I see is the price of haulage (sea,air,land) will go up and that will put up the price of everything else up, supermarkets etc are not going to take the hit on cost. They will just pass it down to the customer.

Smaller MOTs every 6 months could be a good idea! If it was literally a small test to confirm the basics as I know how much of a bind passing a 7 can be!

Killing the insurance industry is also a BAD thing for the UK a lot of business are built around supporting that industry, killing the insurance industry would also kill these smaller independents. Alarm companies for example won’t be as profitable as any old flashing LED is a deterrent against thief’s and since there would be no push to have an expensive system from insurance companies less of these alarms would be sold.

And a revolt.. Yeah right :3 my favourite thing about this was some graffiti I saw in a public toilet... "ANARCHY RULES!" underneath was written "No it doesn’t that’s the point."

I hate economics! And I hate pointless bureaucracy we have in this country.

If you\'ve made it to the bottom of my rant congratulations, Ill be sat in the corner rocking backwards and forwards singing god save the queen.

May be worth checking the error codes on the ECU, Its a simple task on the standard ECU, Sounds like boost cut but if you are hitting it, your hitting it for a reason. Things with cars don\'t just happen.

Do you have a boost gauge?

http://www.fd3s.net/engine_codes.html

Radiator falling out while 40km away from my destination, Magdeburg in Germany.. Woops!

sorry x3 was a smile face. I am running 2 pumps on the car at the moment they have not missed a beat yet.

The pumps are fine from Driven2Automotive, I drove to germany and back on two of them! Ill report back in a year or two on the reliability x3

Your pressure should not be dropping that much when off boost! Mine used to drop only to about 30-35psi from memory when I reved the engine while static.

From memory the rising rate fuel pump ratio works as follows for every psi of bost you gain it will increase the psi of the fuel pressure in acordance so 1:1 = every 1 psi you go in boost the pressure goes up 1 psi.

1:2 should be fine but you will get a high fuel pressure very quickly if your running big boost. 10psi would = 20 psi of extra fuel pressure using the above..

if im wrong with this stament please sombody correct me

Are you saying your fuel pressure drops to 20psi when your at low RPM? It should be static at 40psi when out of boost if this is what you set it to.

Mmmm I suppose your right. If everything else is a constant you will be able to see a "norm" from the gauge. Don\'t think i\'m going to use it to do any serious ignition timing tweaks with it being post turbo though.

A little OT. Would you say running an EGT post turbo is about as usfull as peeing onto a bomfire to try put it out? Or does it have some use as a rough gauge?