Adam's MK1 Octavia vRS

[Adamweal]

so car was taken over to work and whacked in the spare bit of the showroom out the way 

as you can see the floor is all horrid so perfect for me to work on

on saturday i put up on stands and got to work

i think this picture was taken when i had 3 pipes left on the turbo and then it was coming out and i decided that i was in no rush and really just couldn't be bothered to keep going especially as i was trying to work in between doing the turbo so i left it to Monday, went in Monday after work to finish it off got it straight out

few cracks found in the hot side

 

so now the plan is to drop of the turbo this weekend to to have a new hot side and be made hybrid i need a couple other bits to add to the car to make the power it should and also a few other changes i fancy doing

[bullitt vRS]

so an update..Fitted the new dipstick tube after i was a dipstick breaking it :giggle:this turned up today now to start with paint and still to finish off painting up the intercooler pipes cant wait to get it all together!

How easy/difficult is this to remove? I want to paint mine but wasn't sure how difficult it is to take off.

[Adamweal]

How easy/difficult is this to remove? I want to paint mine but wasn't sure how difficult it is to take off.

Its not too hard, having a ball end alan key set makes to easier to remove the main manifold bolts and remember the support bracket under the manifold. Where i have done all the deletes and simplifications it makes taking the manifold off a lot easier

[bullitt vRS]

Excellent and thanks for the tip!

Gonna have to put that one on hold as my front passenger door lock and window mechanism started playing up yesterday and the heated rear screen wouldn't work this morning

[Adamweal]

Got this picked up over the weekend

 

Was going to start fitting it through this week but have been ill, so finishing work and just going home rather than staying late, will get it on as soon as I am better!

[Adamweal]

i just realised i never did upload the video of the car on the rolling road so here it is
 

 
and here is the graph as you can see its rather strange and was put down the the turbo giving up haha

[Adamweal]

so started getting the turbo back in this week, need one more washer for one of the oil/coolant pipes as i didn't get enough haha

even though i looked over the exhaust manifold before i thought it was all good, i dont know what was wrong with me that day but i looked over it again on thursday to find 3 nice cracks in it, new manifold needed 

how i didn't notice these before i really dont know!

[Adamweal]

so Boss Fox came to the rescue with another exhaust manifold thanks Richard!! real life saver

 

went to do some more fitting up as i had also been waiting on a coolant line washer as i ordered one short in the first place, then found this

the thread doesn't seem to have a start to it and wont screw in, another ordered and should be here tomorrow but it was £17!!!! 

once thats here i can get it fully put together other than the turbo intake, i want an SFS oversized 70mm one but they only seem to do them in black :(

[OutlawKen]

Feel ya pain, I put 3 new bolts on mine the other day, cost £27!

[Adamweal]

Feel ya pain, I put 3 new bolts on mine the other day, cost £27!

Its more annoying as without this bolt i cant do anything more i hope the parts man at work did order it like i asked him to today or im gonna be fuming!

[OutlawKen]

Couldnt ya take 1mm off the end n restart the thread? Saying that dont be lazy. Your closer to motorpoint than I am

[OutlawKen]

O and dont r tech do a red over size inlet?

[Leeboy]

Think you should get a file out on that and flatten off that taper at the start of the thread. Ought to be rescueable, or best still have you an M10 dye to re-tap the thread.

[Adamweal]

O and dont r tech do a red over size inlet?

They do a red oversized but dont seem to do the 70mm oversized for the larger MAF in red but i have also emailed them so will see what they come back with

[Adamweal]

Think you should get a file out on that and flatten off that taper at the start of the thread. Ought to be rescueable, or best still have you an M10 dye to re-tap the thread.

I did think about grabbing a dye to re-tap it but i don't have an m10 dye :( if he hasn't ordered me one i will be getting the file out today i think lol

[Adamweal]

bolt came in today  :clap:  got it fitted so now to get on with and get it done ready for some good weather

[Adamweal]

so time for an update, 

turbo and manifold in 

 

while i was doing all this i got a little carried away and decided that it was time for a colour change under the bonnet

 

 

left it with the manifold still red to begin with

 

but as usual i had to wait for more parts so thought i might as paint that while i wait and also as i used a metalic black on the boost pipe and fuse box cover i needed to repaint the intake pipe and while i was doing this i thought i would try a bit of black on the injector rail 

 

 

 

 

all fitted

 

 

and then my new 3" oversized turbo intake with correct turbo fitting arrived which was surprisingly easy to fit

 

 

 

before anyone says its overfilled with coolant! it was fully drained and then only filled up before the picture and not been started yet! 

 

so now all im waiting on is the new map to be sent over to me from shark which will allow me to get round and put some miles on it before i take the trip up to shark to get it all mapped in properly

[veedubnoodle]

Good job mate, coming on really well and liking the change of colour! Paintwork on the manifold actually looks really good! 

 

Aaron

[Adamweal]

so i had the map sent over to me by shark on Monday 29th, got it straight on gave it a bit of a drive on trade plates drove fine, waited till the 1st to get some tax on it, once taxed i took it home put a fair few miles on it so thought it was time to put my foot down at least once and damn it was slow as it was only mapped to run actuator pressure! so straight on the phone to shark to get myself booked in for proper custom mapping, got it booked for 8th, only realised over the weekend that it was due a cambelt in march so quickly put a cambelt on it Monday after work which turned into a total mission as i was way too tired and still aching from go karting the day before! 

 

Anyway today (8th) came around so i got up at 5am got myself ready and headed up to shark got there at 9:30, the car wouldn't fit on the rollers so i grabbed some tools and pulled the front bumper off, once it was on Ben played around with the map but was struggling a little only to realise the actuator wasn't properly set up, so he had to get that set up properly and then continued, at the end of the day Ben managed to get 244bhp and 375nm of torque, which was quite low, was suffering from quite a bit of heat soak and back pressure through the boost system. I knew the whole time i was sorting the turbo that at some point i will need to fit a bigger cooler and get rid of the pancake boost pipe after looking into it, it looks like this is causing all my problems, so Ben has set the car up all i need to do is sort the cooler and pipework when i can and he thinks it will automatically make another 40bhp and then i just need him to tweak it a little more. finally left Shark at 5:10 this evening and wow is all i can say... even though the car isn't making any more power really, it is a whole different car to drive! absolutely loved it! cannot wait to sort the cooler and pipes now!!

 

Sorry for the long essay and no pictures! i do have a couple small videos but nothing amazing! and one picture below..

 

a picture to prove i was there 

[dubDEAN]

good work

 

quick cheeky question what size fuel hose did you use for the braided lines

[Adamweal]

good work

quick cheeky question what size fuel hose did you use for the braided lines

Honestly i cant remember its been so long haha, i do know i used the wrong size to begin with it was too big but i think in the end i used 8mm but really cant remember lol

[Adamweal]

Been a while. update time?  :clap: been a few changes since last time starting with a CV boot split

 

then on with the new cooler and pipes

the engine bay is sitting how i want it for now  :peek:

 

was really happy with how the car was for a while until it started throwing problems at me again like the window dropping whilst driving at 70mph!

 

but onward and upward!

next came some graphics as i have been working with Rob at W8 Performance carrying out Shark remaps as Rob is too busy with his normal job

 

 

My Range Rover got the same treatment 

 

 

a bit of fun with some friends at brands hatch for the last show/track time of 2015

 

 

 

then just some pictures while i was out one night with a mate and his 280bhp fiesta

 

 

the rear graphics are now off both cars awaiting my new company graphics

 

still a lot more to be done (when are project cars ever finished?!) currently needs a new CV boot on the opposite side to the last one and looking into a fault that i think is an air leak on the intake (will be buying a pressure tester when i get round to it) but its winter so it can just sit in the corner till i can be bothered to sort it

 

Will try to keep this a little bit more up to date and hopefully get to take it on track soon!

[dubDEAN]

:clap:

[group1rs]

Good work