Well thought it was about time for a little update as its been a while as its taken bit of a backseat lately due to all the baby stuff/scans going on & working obsence hours!
So since my last update I had been suffering with intermittent boost issues where one minute it would boost rather strongly but then the next you could hear the turbo spooling but there was no boost to be had.
After a bit of fiddling around tracked it down to a faulty N75 and the hose running from actuator to N75 had a tiny split in it which I guess got worse as the boost was piled on. So I replaced the hose and N75, although this now means I'm running a stock N75 at the mo not an ECS one like before, and when funds allow need to get another ECS one as love the extra spike these give.
Next as I polished my charge pipe some time ago I set about polishing my inlet manifold which kind of stood out like a sore thumb next to the nice shiney charge pipe.
Now I remember Skorchio telling me at one time at a meet how much of a mare it was to get rid of the seam along the front of manifold and boy was he right!
Took me a good few days of hard elbow grease to remove that seam and then sanded down with progessively finer grades of wet & dry until 2000g and then gave it a good going over with autosol.
I also thought that every one goes for the fully polished manifold if getting it done so thinking back my VR6 days I decided to polish the many body and then the stems running to the body I sprayed with a high temp matt black paint.
So here is the finished results, bear in mind all done by hand no machines involved at all, and I must say I pretty pleased and has an almost flawless mirror shine to it.
Also removed the extended oil filler cap neck as I'm never going to go back to an engine cover so this kind off stuck out and also reverted back to my Powertec regardless of the horror stories I had heard about filteration with them. Kind of like the 'Eating to many Polo's will give you Cancer' story from a few years back........
