Daniels Blue 182

[faboka vrs]

When they were on the car I couldnt detect any play at all.

The method I used for removal meat they were fooked so couldn't say lol

Not fad time to play with the rstuner yet. How you finding yours?

[Dann2707]

The car no longer Pulls side to side

But now I need a new clutch :(

[Toxicvrs]

The car no longer Pulls side to side

But now I need a new clutch :(

Uprated?

[Sparkly]

Still loving the threads Dan, always a great read

If you fancy helping with some tinkering on a 1.8tsi Superb ever I am happy to pay/return the favour with detailing samples and services.

Drop me a PM if you are heading to any Yorkshire meets or fancy a mini meet up.

[Toxicvrs]

Still loving the threads Dan, always a great read

If you fancy helping with some tinkering on a 1.8tsi Superb ever I am happy to pay/return the favour with detailing samples and services.

Drop me a PM if you are heading to any Yorkshire meets or fancy a mini meet up.

I would offer to help you but it would take 3 years before your superb would be ready :P

[Dann2707]

 

New parts

 

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Powerflex dogbone bush kit

 

 

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This is the old one in situ

 

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Removed with 2 x 16mm nuts that came out fairly easy with a bit of leverage.

 

 

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Then to remove the old bush at the gearbox end I pressed it out using two sockets, one the same dia as the bush and a larger one for it to push into

 

 

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The other one came out with a few hits with the persuader

 

 

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New one fitted and put in Sorry for how dirty it looks there, flash is way too bright haha

 

 

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I then went for a drive, apart from the remap I would say hands down it is the best mod i've done so far. Absolutely love it!! 

 

When you put your foot down now the power is just instantly there, you get more road / engine noise and it feels and sounds ******* amazing when all 182 horses are alive Everything feels so much tighter.

 

It vibrates a tad bit more at idle but as before when I did my last car, it just feels like a more eager vibration like it just wants to go. So so happy with it.

 

Anyway heres some pics I took. Needs lowering so bad I know

 

 

 

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This last pic is fairly comparable to when I first got the car.

 

 

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Edited 21 September, 2014 by Dann2707

[Dann2707]

Still loving the threads Dan, always a great read

If you fancy helping with some tinkering on a 1.8tsi Superb ever I am happy to pay/return the favour with detailing samples and services.

Drop me a PM if you are heading to any Yorkshire meets or fancy a mini meet up.

 

What sort of stuff were you planning on doing mate? Always up for helping someone!!

[Toxicvrs]

You're not helping me stop wanting one

[DanHarper]

Dan, slightly OT but posting it here instead of PM in case its useful to any other Yorkshire folk...

 

The exhaust place you used in Cross Hills (?), why did you use that one and do they do full systems? Also, what was it called :P

[Dann2707]

Dan, slightly OT but posting it here instead of PM in case its useful to any other Yorkshire folk...

 

The exhaust place you used in Cross Hills (?), why did you use that one and do they do full systems? Also, what was it called :p

 

Cross hills? Was this for my Seat Ibiza when I mufflerectomied it? It was called MD exhausts and it was near shipley / bingley area if that's what you mean?

 

Cheers

[DanHarper]

Yeah that's the one.

 

Its Cross Hills, Keighley technically :P

 

That's why I thought you were more north Leeds based.

 

Thanks.

[Sparkly]

What sort of stuff were you planning on doing mate? Always up for helping someone!!

 

That's TBC lol, I'll keep you posted.

 

BTW I uprated the dogbone mount on my Fabia vRS and it transformed the feel of the car, such an underrated mod, I know a lot of the diesel boys have had bad experiences with these rattling their teeth out, but on a circa 200bhp+ petrol car it seems to make the world of difference.

 

And on my Fabia I gained a few MPG too because there was no torque wastage through the spongey oem mount.

[Dann2707]

Okay so this update can either be seen as ghetto as **** or awesome. You can all decide haha.

 

But basically, I wanted to clean out my injectors properly! The redex crap is exactly that and I think the only way to clean them properly is to leave them in an ultrasonic bath.

 

I researched into it whilst on my lunch breaks at work and saw that simply leaving them in an ultrasonic bath wouldn't do that much in comparison to with them being pulsed like they would be in a real life situation. So I had a search, and bought an ultra sonic cleaning bath!

 

 

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It had loads of great reviews online so went for that one.

 

 

 

I had a spare injector from when I replaced mine a month ago as it was giving me hassle.

 

 

 

 

 

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I then bought a petrol injector pulser. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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However this gave me a bit of a problem (known to me already). It only worked on the car battery as in 12v, which wasn't ideal as everytime i'd want to do this i'd have to be in stupidly close proximity to my battery in the freezing cold = not comfortable at all.

 

 

 

 

 

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So a bit of googling returned results that I could actually use a spare computer PSU to get a 12V feed by simply crimping the yellow wires together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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So I did just that, crimping the blacks together for the earth and the yellows for the 12V. I can actually use the reds for another feed, think it might be 5v or something

 

 

 

 

 

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I can then (crudely) hook up the injector tester to my PSU and voila, it powers up. I do intend on making it more secure in the future as now it is simply crocodile clipped onto the wires of the PSU as shown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I then needed to test the injector using the pulser however I obviously need to get some pressure behind the injector. This was really just to see how it was looking prior to cleaning. As said, it was giving me some issues that's why I changed it. I then found some pipe that it would fit into snugly!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I then hooked up a squeezy bottle to the other end, again this was air tight so my intentions were to fill the pipe with fluid through the blue bit and screw the bottle on and then squeeze that to apply pressure to the injector.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I then hooked up the terminals to the injector

 

 

 

 

 

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And now I can squeeze the bottle whilst pulsing the injector.

 

 

 

 

 

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When doing this test I noticed that the injector only appeared to be spraying out of two parts and hitting the glass in two clear parts, much like a car windscreen washer. I couldn't get a picture of this as I don't have three hands.

 

 

I then filled the bath with near boiling water and all purpose cleaner (actually got some proper cleaner waiting for me to collect at work)

 

 

 

 

 

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I then turned the pulser to constantly pulse and turned the bath on for 480 seconds.

 

 

 

 

 

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I could see the dirt coming off, not as much as what I expected however.

 

Hooking up the injector back to my homebrew pressure tester lead to some interesting results. I thought I had completely broken it as it wasn't spraying any fluid...

 

or what I thought anyway, I just couldn't see anything?? So I got my torch shining on the injector and it turned out it was actually spraying but instead of clear droplets that I could see before it was more of a mist and that's why I couldn't see it! I also noticed that instead of it spraying out of two nozzles like before it was actually spraying out of all 4 of the micro holes in the end.

 

This is proven that it worked as the injector should ideally be spraying in a mist rather than like a hose pipe like it was before!

 

Glad my little ghetto testing and cleaning rig worked Going to be doing my actual ones at the weekend with the proper cleaning fluid.

 

Thanks for reading, it's been a long one haha

Edited 25 September, 2014 by Dann2707

[Toxicvrs]

Wow top work there mate

[Dann2707]

Thanks dude! Forgot to say, if anyone wants theirs doing for beer tokens and can send me them i'll happily do them (petrol only i'm afraid!!)

[ChrisRs]

:clap:  :clap:  Is there no end to your talent Dan ?

[Sparkly]

Maximum Nerdage

 

Just fab work Dan!

[Dann2707]

 

Haven't done much to the clio lately apart from just getting back from a 300 mile round trip going to the lake district with the mrs.

 

Ended up averaging a nice 42mpg too which was cool despite enjoying some of the roads..

 

However i'm getting a horrible feeling when driving, clunking when accelerating and changing gear, pulling to the right when accelerating, steering pulling left and right when braking. So far I have...

 

New track rod ends and inner tracks

new lower wishbone ball joints

lower polybushed engine mount

fully tracked using hunter system

new upper gearbox mount

new bearings at the rear, tightened up to 175nm etc

new nearside bearing  

 

Still feels horrible. 

 

Anyway, some pics.

 

 

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[Toxicvrs]

Your photos of it aren't helping! Maybe next year or the year after ...... looking a great car as usual

[faboka vrs]

Springs snapped or top mounts gone?

[Dann2707]

Springs snapped or top mounts gone?

 

Springs seem to be fine and not so sure about the top mounts, when stationary and me moving the wheel they appear to twist quite a bit, but is this normal?

 

I kind of had a spontaneous purchase in my lunch break today and ordered some pure solid top mounts anyway

[faboka vrs]

Not sure. Be interested in what you think of them.

[Sparkly]

Is the lack of posts down to a broken spine Dan?

 

Hows 'em top mounts treating you?

[Dann2707]

Hahah!! Just work mate, can't slack off like I did when I was at Uni :P

 

Today is girlfriend day, tomorrow is car day :D

 

Fitting these bad boys, can't get over how sexy they look. Might just use them as paperweights haha

 

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Along with new wishbone bushes

 

Why do I spend so much on my cars :( haha

[Dann2707]

Today I got them all on

 

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Haven't had a proper chance to go for a decent blast yet but so far so good!