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Offline ROH ECHT

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #135 on: July 22, 2011, 05:11:43 am »
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Took half hour found some possible cause for concern  :sad1:
After 15k miles or thereabouts...


Looks like it's time to replace it. Once the coating is gone, the metal wears down super fast afterwards. Back when I was just checking my cf, I checked it at 55k miles, the coating was all there and it looked good. 6k miles later it had worn completely through destroying my apr hpfp, and intake cam. I replace mine every 10k miles now.
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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #136 on: July 23, 2011, 03:20:26 am »
Went to the dragstrip to do some runs on 92oct only to be disappointed. I did 12.82 and 12.90 in June on race fuel and file, but today on pump fuel and file I did 13.6 twice and a 14.0(mostly my fault due to an early 1st to 2nd shift). Is this normal for anyone? I didn't expect to run much slower than low 13's. I guess I'll need to do some logs to check my timing.
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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #137 on: July 23, 2011, 06:57:22 am »
Installed new cambucket,

Enabled high beam for my xenon's, daytime running lights as my spotlights, oh and flattened the battery. Lol

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #138 on: July 23, 2011, 05:24:55 pm »
Just gave it a wash and put my new engine cover in ready for the Meguilars open day tomorrow  :party:

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #139 on: July 23, 2011, 05:43:07 pm »

Ordered some snow foam and shampoo  :smiley:  Bringing the jet wash to Uk with me as she's been neglected lately :(

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #140 on: July 23, 2011, 07:17:38 pm »
Swapped the coilpacks over to the new ones. Oddly enough, the misfire error had cleared itself before I'd replaced them but given it was a little coarse, went ahead.

Yes - that means, rather incredibly that I managed to get the frikkin engine cover off!

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #141 on: July 24, 2011, 03:15:10 pm »
looked at it through my front room window while watching F1  :happy2:

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #142 on: July 24, 2011, 03:17:08 pm »
looked at it through my front room window while watching F1  :happy2:

Me too lol, and decided I might get some small spacers after seeing it on return from walking dog to the shop

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #143 on: July 24, 2011, 05:22:16 pm »
Gave it a real good clean yesterday, a found water coming in the boot so spent to day trying to work out where from!

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #144 on: July 24, 2011, 07:13:59 pm »
kicked its ass down the drag strip all day :)


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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #145 on: July 24, 2011, 09:48:52 pm »
spent most of the day cleaning it and removing tar spots  :jumping:


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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #146 on: July 25, 2011, 10:51:35 pm »
kicked its ass down the drag strip all day :)



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What time's was it pulling?

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #147 on: July 26, 2011, 11:04:36 am »
14.8 was the fastest i ran with a passenger and the heat!

up next week on my own hopefully itll be cooler see what difference it makes :)

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #148 on: July 26, 2011, 05:19:15 pm »

Did 3 of the under body aero mods  :smiley:

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #149 on: July 26, 2011, 09:42:43 pm »
Firstly i took it to the tyre fitters this morning to fit the 4 Vreds i bought off Camskill  :party:. I'll sell the 2 Avons it had on the front on fleabay as they are in decent nick. I went to the pains of asking the lad to forgive me for being a bit of an ass saying it but to please be very careful with my alloys. He was but then like a feckin charlie i went and scuffed one when i got home  :fighting:  :scared: :sad1:

it's not major and it was bound to happen at some point and sadly it probably won't be the last. It's about a centimetre max by less than 5 mil high but to see it makes me  :sick:  :ashamed:

I then cleaned my wheels as they were covered in lube - they're very nice and shiney now which is far more than can be said for the rest of the car - it desparately needs a wash but i cannae buy the kit i want until the end of the month  :confused:. I also went back to work on my tail pipes and little by little they are getting better, if i keep at them i'm confident they'll gleam by 2012  :grin:

Finally, I fitted a mod to the car, the only type of mod the Mrs will allow  :signLOL::




And then we went to the Town Hall to register our son's birth  :love: