and my car's ready

fuck me i'm like a kid at christmas. i cant wait until saturday.

not cheap but he's done me a right deal seeing as i was dropping it up for a setup and it blew up on the way the list of work is as long as your arm to quote the convo " well we've had to do alot of work as you know, but it goes alright now you should have some fun with it "

i REALLY! cant wait

woohoo!

 

Ah so it's you thats kept them busy whilst me head was sposed to being done!!! LOL
I got the call yesterday saying my head is ready for collection, wasnt cheap either but it's a damn good head

Bet you cant wait mate, I know just how you feel cant wait to get up and running again myself!!
What power are you making now then?

 

do you know ive never had a call back from a 'specialist' to say my cars ready. everytime ive got to chase and harass them for weeks to get them to finish it eventually.

 

poor Karl........everything that gets dropped off at the mo seems to have problems.....still a good job done

 

lol This is very true! My local engineering company are the worst!! Months to do the simplest job!

Your right, even my head they found 3 cracks in it and had to be scraped!

 

oh dont worry i've been hassling them lol. every week i've rang and asked for an update. its been there for a month now (cos i went on my hols in between and he said he'd do it in between other jobs to save me trailering it back and forth)

karlos i think i've got the same head as you then, he said he's just done one identical to mine yesterday. i said pretty much "sod it, do the work as i want it back reliable"

my old head was scrap too. number 3 port went and took the bore with it it had to be honed and he said its not the best but it should hold out until i want to go more power. i have no idea about power output yet. off the top of my head its had new chip, icooler, water pump, HG, completly reworked head (dont know the full details yet, just the bloody price )
fuel pump has been rewired, its also been tracked up he said the roll bar was loose and that had pulled the track way out

and he commented on my shell, its the cleanest he's seen for a while lol. kinda glad i didnt' scrap it then

 

how u collectin jo?u got a new cooler?

 

Sounds like you've spent some money mate! My head alone was Ł647!
But as we all say, it will be worth it in the end when we have a nice 'reliable' RS to roar about in this summer!
Fingers crossed i'll be up and running by the weekend, although I need TAX and it's only a week until May........... do I wait?!

 

err, i need a lift?
and my old one is in the boot, fooked lol. it had a hole in it

karlos, thats the same one.
and i got to get insurance again, MORE money

it really doesn't ever end lol

 

he still wont keep up with me tho carlo pmfsl

 

jo my clutch blew i wont be able to help fella

 

really? fuck.

is dins ready?

 

WTF?!
and in the very next post you admit to being off the road

i'll be vroom vroom vroom tish past you mate

 

 

collectin a full ap paddle clutch tomorro sonny jim
but wont be done till saturday afternoon at the earliest dins is no where near ready mine with the clutch screwed is still more ready than dins

 

Good choice! I run their organic clutch (CP2000-8 IIRC), heavy pedal but will take the power i'm going to be running and thats the main thing!

 

so long as it hacks 200 at 15psi ill be happy

 

cool ok.

its 30 fucking quid on the train to get there! yes, seriously. i'd rather pay you that for petrol and get there in half the time too

 

so it`s your fault my s1 was`nt ready for pod last week

hope your happy with it mate can`t wait till mines done

 

Mines off the road at the mo. Its driveable but need the head doing as its tappety and signs of headgasket failure are showing.

Hopefully get done in the next few wks. Shame as just got some cossie brakes to go on it too and its been nice and hot all week!

 

i will be over there later ill give it the ass dyno lol

 

jo drop us a bell 2moro afternoon if u want a lift and ill see if andys done the clutch shud of by then tho tbh.

 

Lol thats very true. Mark RS car was due to go over there at the start of the week for some small tweeks and new front adjustable TCA and we took it out last friday and blew the head gasket so now its over there getting that fixed now too.

Good thing it was going over there anyway

 

No wonder they are so busy, all us RS boys blowing up our motors and sending them NMS's way to get fixed!

 

bet theyre pulling the money in every way they look lol

 

so? what do you think?

i'm really fit to burst! cant bloody wait.

 

waaaay to late for me mate, i want to get up there and back tbh.

 

Got my head today! Really nice job, very pleased!
Although they did forget to helicoil one of the exhaust manifold stud threads which is a bit annoying when you've paid Ł647
Fitted it today but still have the ancillaries to plumb back in etc.... so should be running tomorrow!

 

stop it stop it STOP IT!!!!!

 

hehehehehe just a taste of what you have to come tomorrow mate!

 

Very nice!!

 

collected it toady ahd WOOHOO!

the thing is mental. The nms boys really are genius's
had a steady run back in to birmingham but took it out after a quick wash and just got back. wow is all ican say, completly different car. it even made it back under its own steam this time

i cant praise them enough.

 

Cool, what exactly did karl do to it in the end mate, did he give you any estimates as to what sort of power it might be??!!

 

nice sleeper

 

Superb mate!
Comon' then whats the full spec, give us the run down?!

 

its now stage 2 or as good as. its had everything except the larger intercooler.
new head - not 100% on the spec tbh, he said it was stage 2 but i dont know exactly what that means.
new plugs
water pump
oil filter and oil
-31 actuator
standard intercooler fitted cos my double one was crap (had a hole in it )
chip
set the boost to 1 bar via a bleed valve instead of amal.
he rebuilt the metering unit cos he said mine was so far out i wouldn't believe - his actual words lol.
rewired the fuel pump
took the dumpvalve off (i didn't like the thing anyway)
tracked it
and set it all up.
a rough estimate to power would be 170 hp to quote the website. ollie also said when we were chatting about where to go in the future, that if i had one of their front mount intercoolers i could see another 20hp happy days but i'm well happy for the minute, it really feels solid and together for the first time ever. i took a nice steady run back in but then took it out again later and had a blast. its put together lovely, everything feels tight and together. i cant recommend them enough.



Cheers. were you there yesterday? was that your grey one in the car park? my dad wanted to get back but i was kinda trying to chat for abit! lol. never mind. he was very sceptical of you guys with him having been a hgv fitter most of his life but even he is converted and cant believe the difference.

 

sorry mate, my last one was a long reply

its all up there (i think) but he said there was loads of little bits that didn't even make it onto the invoice. like for example he sorted my annoying cutting out problem, he said there was a break in the alternator wiring making it intermittent.

 

well i drove it back on saturday on my dads traders policy. (which i'm part of)

it then sat until wednesday evening until after work when i got some proper insurance for it as its modified. went out wed night for a spin, lovely, thurs, took it to work and not a prob. fri. took it to work, washed it there, coming home from the scrappy and no gears at the lights. bugger, recovered home and now my gearbox if fucked.

i just want to torch it. 2 full days of normal driving and now the gearbox has gone.

 

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