Adeyspec LCR now Badger 5 stage 2

[adeyspec]

Not much to post here really, got the car a week ago and booked it in with badger 5 straight away for belts and water pump (on the 24th). Have been going around the car sorting out little bits and bobs to get her all healthy and together. Fitted a brand new MAF sensor as it had a fault. Needed a spacer put on the ball joint as the hub was moving a fair bit, looks like its had a new wishbone fitted but it was forgotten to be put back on, this caused the car to get very scary in the wet! Fitted some re002 tires and had the tracking done, started to drive really well after that. Next up was new disks and pads from badger 5. Plain disks and ds2500 pads to hopefully give me some better stopping power. Then up to today, i pulled the sump and fitted a new pick up (again from badger 5), filled up with some fresh Titan Supersyn 5-40 and changed the oil filter.

In the next few days ill whip out the plugs and change the fuel filter.

Future plans are to fit a downpipe and decat along with a fresh remap. When i got the car it had an 80mm tip fitted, but fitted wrong and had a kink in it. Since fitting properly im getting a maf signal too high dtc, the car is mapped already but it looks like as its breathing better its causing the issue.

Cars belt is in getting fitted on the 24th along with a health check and smoke test, once thats done ill be happy to give her a little stick. Really starting to like the car now, seating position is a little high for me but its ok. The top mounts look like they have a little too much play in them so will hopefully fit some uprated suspension soon. The car is my new daily and transports my little one every so often but im also looking to have some fun on track with it after christmas. ill get some pics up soon but she looks like most other LCR's in black lol

 

[adeyspec]

this is how the old one looked, dont think its too bad?

 

[adeyspec]

ordered up a ebay special intercooler today, hopefully i can fit it up with relative ease. looked through plenty of threads and i think i got the one knows as a welly cooler, 600 x300 x76?? from toyosport uk. also got an s3 strut brace on the way too. fingers crossed i can get it on quickly and get the down pipe and decat sorted then itll be booked in for a remap with B5

 

[adeyspec]

as the cars due in with Badger 5 tomorrow i thought it would be a good idea to get the intercooler fitted, that way i can get a smoke check for leaks on my work. also picked up a 008 recirc just incase my 007 is causing issues of any sort. Easy enough to do, worst part was refitting the bumper.

only damage was caused when some hot plastic flicked onto my finger

initial drive she seems to like it, seems to pull harder but not much. alot less wooshing noise on initial build of boost, unsure if i did have a leak or its just the different cooler causing the change in noise. The only thing i might change from the list i found on the internet is swapping the 90 deg hose that goes to the map pipe for a slightly smaller one. a 63-60 looks like it would be better as the map pipe is slightly smaller than the quoted 63mm i found when searching welly cooler.

 

[adeyspec]

yesterday she went into badger 5 for a cambelt waterpump and health check. found a small leak that i need to address but no big issues bar the remap that was on there, bill offered his services to throw a base map on so it would be safe untill i get a full exhaust on and go back for a proper remap.

pic shows the before and after boost, original map in blue and B5 in red. you can see it falls on its face at just after 6k originally

Car drives lovely for a base map and i cant praise badger 5 enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CiGQBqNObo&feature=youtu.be

hopefully i should have my hands on a full 3 inch turbo back system next week, once thats on ill be booking back in for a proper map

 

[Short543]

I'm liking the inter cooler how much that set you back mate

 

[adeyspec]

£79 for the cooler delivered and £70 on the nose for the pipe work

 

[Short543]

Now that is a good price mate have they got them for mk5 ibizas aswel

 

[adeyspec]

what part are you on about? the intercooler is a universal type and the pipes are just whatever ones i asked for. found the parts i needed when searching "wellycooler fitting guide"

 

[adeyspec]

Picked up a 3 inch turbo back system this evening, looks to be a 3 inch cobra system including 3 inch down pipe, decat and a single back box. I think it may be a little loud lol. Either got to fit it, or book in for it to be fitted. I think that gives me all the available bolt ons so once its on ill be booking in with Badger 5 for a full remap to make the most of it.

Once this is done ill start looking at the handling side of things. ill probably go for some coilovers with rear anti roll bar to start with.

 

[Readie46]

how easy was it to get bumper on and off , how long did it take to complete the job , well done top job

 

[adeyspec]

bumper was pita!, about 4 hours i think.

Today saw a fully decated non res 3 inch cobra system fitted.err wow its loud lol. Alsoa pain in the ass to fit, lambda probe is in the wrong position and its tight in places. car seems to like it though, feels like shes pulling harder around 4k. Time too book in at badger 5 for a proper map.

 

[pigeon fancier]

Looks good.blimey that is a bargain price for the intercooler. Be interesting to see the results of your hard work.

 

[adeyspec]

shes just off 260bhp on a base map from badger 5, before the exhaust. so probably 265 ish with a proper map? i dont know really lol, dont think ive done too bad in a couple of weeks of ownership. got some coilovers sat here too, if the weathers not bad i might thrown them on tomorrow.

 

[pigeon fancier]

Sounds good.
Yes you ve done well,been busy. That reminds me,.I have to get round to raising my coilovers,
Touch too low for the poxy speed humps in the city.

 

[adeyspec]

this was one of my concerns from the cobra, note the position on the lambda, i had to split the heat shield to make space for it, is this normal?

 

[adeyspec]

and now booked in on the 13th of nov for a full map at Badger 5

 

[yellonvi-R]

4 hours to get the bumper off. Thats shocking

 

[adeyspec]

lol that was the whole job, probably took me an hour just for the bumper

 

[yellonvi-R]

Ahhh good lol