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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - Pistons have gone tits up
« Reply #450 on: December 12, 2012, 11:58:20 pm »
I feel your pain dude  :happy2:

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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - Pistons have gone tits up
« Reply #451 on: December 13, 2012, 12:03:05 am »
I feel your pain dude  :happy2:
well i should have been jetting off to Sharm el Sheik on the 15th December, but that, errr, got dropped, and is now on hold until i get another time.  Next time im able to go, wont be until June.  Luckily i found out about the pistons before we had settled on a resort, otherwsie i would have lost out on even more cash.

You cant imagine the pain of dealing with my wife when i broke that one to her.

Although i think your car met a more painful demise than mine.  :scared:  id have cried  :grin:
« Last Edit: December 13, 2012, 04:04:14 pm by Janner_Sy »

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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - Pistons have gone tits up
« Reply #452 on: December 17, 2012, 09:21:46 pm »
Attempt #4 at getting my car back tomorrow  :star:  They say 4th time lucky dont they?

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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - Pistons have gone tits up
« Reply #453 on: December 17, 2012, 09:25:59 pm »
They don't usually say that Sy but fingers crossed for you being reunited with the Homomobile.  :wink:

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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - Pistons have gone tits up
« Reply #454 on: December 17, 2012, 09:34:28 pm »
Attempt #4 at getting my car back tomorrow  :star:  They say 4th time lucky dont they?

So are you keeping the Fabia or buying a 4x4 for the Scottish weather?
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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - Pistons have gone tits up
« Reply #455 on: December 17, 2012, 10:00:35 pm »
Attempt #4 at getting my car back tomorrow  :star:  They say 4th time lucky dont they?

So are you keeping the Fabia or buying a 4x4 for the Scottish weather?

4x4s are for loosers  :innocent:  FWD with winters are for winners  :wink:

I wont be selling the fabia straight away, it will be going, just not yet.  I have another busy year out ad about coming up so it might last another 6 months or so yet.

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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - Pistons have gone tits up
« Reply #456 on: December 17, 2012, 10:13:06 pm »

4x4s are for loosers  :innocent:  FWD with winters are for winners  :wink:

I wont be selling the fabia straight away, it will be going, just not yet.  I have another busy year out ad about coming up so it might last another 6 months or so yet.

 :sad1:

 :P

You know the lure of the dark side (4x4) is calling Sy. Resistance is futile! :evilgrin:
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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - Pistons have gone tits up
« Reply #457 on: December 17, 2012, 10:28:48 pm »
You know the lure of the dark side (4x4) is calling Sy. Resistance is futile! :evilgrin:

Im waiting for Alex to convert his vRS Estate to haldex then im buying it off of him  :party:
« Last Edit: December 17, 2012, 10:31:20 pm by Janner_Sy »

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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - Pistons have gone tits up
« Reply #458 on: December 17, 2012, 11:03:28 pm »
You might be waiting a while mate, don't think he's gonna do it.

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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - The car is back home finally!!
« Reply #459 on: December 18, 2012, 09:54:43 pm »
Great news  :pomppomp: I have the car back and its quick, handles very very well and feels lovely and taut.

Bad news  :sad1: There is still a high boost misfire, as a result, were still not even close to pushing the turbo anywhere near its potential.  All plug/coilpack and software solutions have been explored and haven't made a difference.  The next route is to try the valve springs, to see if this is a result of weak springs.  This was a known issue/cure for the 2.0TFSI and 2.0TSI. Hopefully this works and we'll be running a peach of a setup very soon.  

Annoying news.:fighting:  New front pads required pretty very soon, which Alex being the good egg that he is, has sourced for me.  

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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - The car is back home finally!!
« Reply #460 on: December 19, 2012, 06:55:35 pm »
This is what the failed piston (No1) looked like when it came out




The hair line cracks when given a bit of a wiggle by the tech's resulted in this bit coming off







Its very lucky they noticed the loss of power when they did, another run on the dyno could have dislodged that piece of piston and trashed the bore and potentially the engine.

The good news is the car not only has very good compression now, but the cylinder compressions are also within 1% of each other.  From what i gather, OEM tolerances of upto 10% is acceptable  :surprised: That would be 19psi difference!!

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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - The car is back home finally!!
« Reply #461 on: December 19, 2012, 11:26:55 pm »
That isn't a normal failure surely?

The rings are the issue on the 1.4, not the pistons themselves!
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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - The car is back home finally!!
« Reply #462 on: December 19, 2012, 11:38:08 pm »
That isn't a normal failure surely?

The rings are the issue on the 1.4, not the pistons themselves!

No idea.  Its fixed now though.

Not really familiar with broken pistons tbh, so i personally wouldnt know if it was as expected.  Looking at typical images of failed pistons they tend to look alot worse than that.
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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - The car is back home finally!!
« Reply #463 on: December 20, 2012, 01:20:12 am »
Did you get any pics of the bore of the cylinder?

You are right though, the damage is bad, but not as bad as being burnt through like I've seen. Probably the strength of the OEM piston for the level of tune, rather than the tune itself.
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Re: Sy's vRS APR/LOBA Hybrid - The car is back home finally!!
« Reply #464 on: December 20, 2012, 12:04:35 pm »
Did you get any pics of the bore of the cylinder?

that was my first thought, how can it be damaged like that with no damage to the bore.  No photos though. The Compression is really high and consistent across the cylinders as well with less than 1% deviation between the highest and lowest readings, so it cant be bad.