once I was back from the honeymoon and recovered from the shock of being married I set back to work on the car, I eventually found that the tapping was due to air in the tappets due to a leak in the oil pickup pipe causing the oil pump to suck in air as well as oil hence filling the tappets with air bubbles and causing tapping, also probebly leading to the premature death of my turbo, however no other lasting damage was sustained, having checked the mains and big ends etc. The turbo was replaced with another t3 and the car completed the rest of the running in.

Not long after all this I started helping Rich (B9KOS) to do his car which had been out for a lot longer than mine! Most of my attention was spent doing this as he's to lazy to do it on his own, on the plus side as he was upping his spec I did get some good handmedowns although they werent free. I got a nice t34 turbo and various other little bits and bobs. I also opted to change my chip as I was always suspect that my previous one may have had a part to play in the meltdown so when me and rich visited Stu & Kenny @ MSD to get B9KOS live mapped I bought a new closed loop chip from stu. We also had a bit of a talk about voltage and fuel pumps. On my return I was all ready to fit the chip but first had to get a lambda boss welded into my downpipe, Rich had this done for me and also had an egt boss put in just in case. I also fitted an 044 pump and fully re wired it, I also noticed at this stage that my voltage was less than healthey at the ecu, this resulted in making myself a new engine loom and sorting out the wiring on the battery.

old loom


battery distribution fuse box


new loom