Yellow Soot Monster - Ibiza FR Hybrid

Nice one, thanks for that.. I have been trying to find a copy of it everywhere, no backorder sites seem to have it

Paulie..

Cheers mate, it is very fun, a bit twitchy through roundabouts but that makes driving it even better

Paulie..

L5FLD said:

Sweet ride.

I may have a copy of the feature in my old magazine collection. I'll have a look tonight and get back to you

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Thanks mate, if you could find it that would be amazing. You will have to PM me with how much you want for it

knight85 said:

how much did that cost you? been looking at doing mine and cant find a local place!

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I used Rimtec UK, they're based just down the road from pristine in Woburn.

Paulie..

Cheers for the comments,
As for the boost pressure issue, I could get the needle to go off the end of my 30psi analogue gauge so went digital. Its been running like it for 50k+ miles and still going strong at that pressure.

I agree, but as longevity goes, was looking through the receipts the other day and the turbo was fitted at the beginning of 2008, so its done 3 years at the same boost pressure, admittedly I do have quite a big boost leak at the min, but the MAP is still reading 37psi..

Paulie..

ha ha thanks, they do look very similar its a nightmare to keep clean, not only do I have the normal 'yellow' issues (insects mistake it for a flower,dust seems to be magnetically attracted to it) but whenever I go near the go pedal, it throws out so much soot that the back is filthy within 10 seconds lol

Paulie..

Update time.. Been doing bits and bobs over the last few weeks and thought I'd get this updates as I have uploaded the pics,
So here goes;
Got busy a few weekends ago as I was sick of looking inside the engine bay and seeing the evidence of of the EGR valve blowing itself to pieces a long time ago, also as the bumper seemed to be not sitting correctly from the last time I removed it, that was the first thing to come off along with the headlights



Next up are a few 'in progress' shots of me slowly stripping bits off the car;







The whole boost run was eventually removed so I could take into work for cleaning.



The pure amount of filth that has built up over the cars short life;







Once all the bits were out of the way, I broke out the steam cleaner:

A quick couple of 'Before' shots, showing the extent of the dirt down the side of the engine bay;





After a lot of steam, Megs APC and elbow grease, I managed to achieve this. Far from perfect and will eventually need going over again. the second and third shots showing a bit of rust poking through from the seam welding that took place from where the engine mounting turret physically snapped off the chassis. This will be primed and resprayed in due course.







All the boost pipework off and ready for cleaning;





Also removed this pipe, its the Turbo outlet pip to FMIC inlet pipe, it is looking a bit messy and will be getting changed over the coming weeks too.

How it was left for a few days;







While all the pipework was off the car, I decided to get some of it powdercoated, The black pipework was done by Rimtec UK in Woburn and the yellow was done by Unit 51 Powdercoaters in Milton Keynes.







Now for a few 'Fitting/Fitted' Shots