what have you done to your car today ?

Bigjohn84 said:
Stuart what's the different in springs on the 007 as I have the same one but think it still has the standard spring in it?
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I believe the difference in springs is how strong the spring is. Green is for your standard car. Yellow is for a mapped one.

EDIT: just read apparently green is good usually but people change them for yellow if they start dropping boost (spring being too soft to hold the piston closed)
 
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mattyholmz89 said:
I believe the difference in springs is how strong the spring is. Green is for your standard car. Yellow is for a mapped one.

EDIT: just read apparently green is good usually but people change them for yellow if they start dropping boost (spring being too soft to hold the piston closed)
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Yep, that's right! I bought the DV off ebay a few months back. It was supposed to have a yellow spring included, but when I serviced it before installing I found it was very much green!!!!

Didn't really have any problems with the green as such, just had a bit of what sounded like surging once or twice in 4th onwards from low rpm and I read changing the spring to yellow solves it. Not noticed it since so it seems to have worked.

TBH I very rarely boot it under 3k rpm as I like to give the turbo enough time to spool up ...
 
Get you now mate thanks, I cleaned mine last week can't mind the colour tho lol, I made sure the valve didn't have a leak, put my finger on the top nipple and pushed the piston up, it should stay up as ur fingers on the nipple, if it drops down there's a leak, mines was perfect. Just wondered if I changed the sprig would it make a difference.
 
Stuart83 said:
Yep, that's right! I bought the DV off ebay a few months back. It was supposed to have a yellow spring included, but when I serviced it before installing I found it was very much green!!!!

Didn't really have any problems with the green as such, just had a bit of what sounded like surging once or twice in 4th onwards from low rpm and I read changing the spring to yellow solves it. Not noticed it since so it seems to have worked.

TBH I very rarely boot it under 3k rpm as I like to give the turbo enough time to spool up ...
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Well I took my mate out last night for a spin and I took its all the way up to 5/6rpm befour changing gear, tell u wat it flies, turbo just pulls and pulls, these cars are amazing, can't wait to spend some car getting more power.
 
Bigjohn84 said:
Get you now mate thanks, I cleaned mine last week can't mind the colour tho lol, I made sure the valve didn't have a leak, put my finger on the top nipple and pushed the piston up, it should stay up as ur fingers on the nipple, if it drops down there's a leak, mines was perfect. Just wondered if I changed the sprig would it make a difference.
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You'll only really notice when you're giving it some ... if you've had it mapped and the DV starts dumping when you're on full throttle then it's worth doing. Cost me £13 delivered from eBay.
 
Stuart83 said:
Yes! Got them on mine at the moment - paid about the same. Quite impressed with them tbh. I have noticed fuel economy's dropped a fair bit since I've had them on; around 3-4 mpg.
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Not good mate, if it's not broken don't fix it lol I'll stick by that.
 
It's supposed to drop a little when you push the piston in it drops a little but then should stay still. I would just stick with the green one if you aren't having any problems with it as I don't think there's anything to gain from changing it out mate
 
Stuart83 said:
You'll only really notice when you're giving it some ... if you've had it mapped and the DV starts dumping when you're on full throttle then it's worth doing. Cost me £13 delivered from eBay.
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Cool mate thanks, think I bought my car from a sensible owner, runs sweet, only had to change a few things, turbo is perfect pulls in every gear, once the foot is down take prob half a second for the tubrbo to kick in.
 
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mattyholmz89 said:
It's supposed to drop a little when you push the piston in it drops a little but then should stay still. I would just stick with the green one if you aren't having any problems with it as I don't think there's anything to gain from changing it out mate
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I don't think it's to drop atol mate, that means you have a leak on a seal somewhere, u maybe right but what I've been reading there should be no drop.
 
Mm mm I see, it may have dropped 5mm cause he had gloves on lol, mines didn't drop abit.
 
Anyone got advice on insurance, I've had one of those black boxes in my car for a year (stupid I know), but knocked a couple quid off, this year it makes my premium £200 cheaper, but I just hate the idea of being "monitored" all the time.

I haven't made any mods, wouldn't mind having the scope to do simple things like put rims on it though and have heard there are insurers that offer like a "window" of upgrades that you can have before having to declare it to them, like a bank overdraft or something..

I remember reading about Insurance on this forum somewhere and this thread showed up in my search.
 
Luke_88 said:
Anyone got advice on insurance, I've had one of those black boxes in my car for a year (stupid I know), but knocked a couple quid off, this year it makes my premium £200 cheaper, but I just hate the idea of being "monitored" all the time.

I haven't made any mods, wouldn't mind having the scope to do simple things like put rims on it though and have heard there are insurers that offer like a "window" of upgrades that you can have before having to declare it to them, like a bank overdraft or something..

I remember reading about Insurance on this forum somewhere and this thread showed up in my search.
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Wrong thread mate make a new one up.
 
Michelin Primacy 3 Off, Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2 On :funk:

67 pound per tyre + 46 for fitting and balance

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And I cant figure out what is this:

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