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looks lovely! now get those top engine mount bracket and airbox bolts painted up

I use a walbro 255lph pump in the mark 1 sender setup, works fine, just a little mod to the casing of the sender and solder the wires and done :-)

172 - nowt really, oil and filter and few other little niggly bits turbo - been a reasonable quiet year really, but since I bought it.......hate to think, 15k inc the car maybe?

:) I hate my phase 1, its pants ;)

that's the most utterly pointless load of tosh I think I've ever had the displeasure of seeing, that is not in anyway a car anymore

me? nope! never owned a coupe!lol!

cheers dave, me too! hence i still have the damn thing! Keiran, good to catch up mate this eve and the meggies a beauty in more powerful trim, loves it! Neil, i shall never never let it go! mk 1 till i die.....or more specifically, my mk 1 till i die! :)

driven it to work and not got any boost due to the rain = wheelspin conundrum! :)

the car has always been on the same/similar boost, 16psi peak, 14psi held and its pumped out rolling road results varying considerably from 253 to 285 and it ran the 12.3 at same boost. so I take the RR results with a pinch of salt if i'm honest :)

come over to Diddy's chippy in woodhouse tonight mate, i'll be there at about 6pm with Dan and big Ron :)

ah right, very interesting! will see what happens come renewal in November then :)

Right and that's it! Cars been running a dream for a while now, did Blyton park last month and it ran faultlessly all day bar boiling the brake fluid a lot! pulled 258bhp on the rollers on the same day, literally drove off track and onto the RR, so car was a tad warm and I think its an...

30th June 2012 - MOT!! 12 months ticket on it today tickeld boost on the way home too, including WOT......... good god i actually popped wood 8) :twisted: updates to come, perhaps vids etc depending how excited i get. teething issues so far after 8 months out of action: 1...

right, she lives! spent most of today running about acquiring the final bits i needed as somehow i misplaced my stat housing and some other bits, but Dan helped me out with the parts i needed :-) so after a run up to his i started about 3pm with actual work, cupla hours later she looked...

The Rain The Rain!!!! Since I MOT'd the car Saturday its done nothing but rain, so not even used it!!! :evil: not happy, 8 months of waiting and the Great British summertime scuppers me :-( as such I decided to look to the future.............and bought some more shiny stuff! :lol: :twisted:

and todays progress :-) am off out again so no time for waffle commentary but heres how she stands ;-) lots of niggle bits to do and all of the exhaust system also found out i've misplaced a load of parts, stat housing, dizzy, lifitng eye/acc cable carrier and spark plugs all gone...

Early June 2012 Right, quick update from last weekend progress before I crack on again today¡K¡K.. although this is mainly as its still drizzling and I cba going out and getting wet today!lol! Made some good progress over bank holiday¡K..well I say over, basically I got drunk a lot so...

Later in May 2012 So, the weather was acceptable and the hard work was behind me after last weekends scrap to get the....well scrap....out the bay ļ as such I spent the day ripping the parts out of the old lump that I needed, the rods and pistons, and sorting out the remaining components...

May 2012 - progress after a poor winter ight, it¡¦s been a rubbish winter and I achieved absolutely nothing at all but finally made some progress this weekend :D First job was to run up to big rons and liberate his engine crane to return it from retirement in his garage to active duty on...

Late November 2011 Right, update! Finally decided to crack on and get the car apart and see whats causing the over-pressurizing issue i've been seeing this season on track. So this is how the car is stood currently, looking a bit forlorn on the 'drive' and a bit unloved the damps...