My GTi Progress Thread - Ring Trip

[liver]

car went on the rollers at awesome on sat

well it ran ****e lol

woke up to set off to awesome and exhaust light was on

got to awesome plugged bluefin for fault code, the car then had a paddy, immobilised itself, wouldnt start or turn over or anything

got the standard map uploaded and started, then got the stage 2 map on and took it out for half hour, was boosting as standard and boosting different in every gear, 1st and 2nd was struggling to boost at all, 3 was maxing out at 10psi, 4th 12 psi and 5th and 6th maxing out at about 16psi

had it out for a few miles with it obviosuly still been in learning mode but nothing was changing.

Decided to stick it on the rollers anyway but wasnt expecting good figures or anything near what i should have been getting, this was proved right when it went on

heres some pics





best run was 233.7 bhp and 333.48 ft/lb torque

was expecting between 250/260 but i knew it wasnt running right

spoke to awesome and they suggested it could be the pvc system as they are a known weak spot on these engines

so got back to r lasses engine cover off quick check to see if i cud see anything, nothing much tbh

few bits of debree in end tunnel so cleaned that out



so now i need to contact bluefine to double check the map, will send them the print out etc and ask why the boost is so unpredicatble

so the continues to give me grief lol

drives fine, smooth etc and no problems, just not producing the power it should be

[liver]

before



during




after





Took the car out to see how it was running, jst about to turn into my street saw my mum waved like a tool been silly, under cover traffic cop, looked at me strangely thought i was taking the pi** out of him, came after me, turned up my street, he followed with lights on, i carried on down road till i got to my drive and put can on it, then got out. was told to get in his car

did me for both number plates, front 3/4 and rear pressed plate even though they are dubmeister legal ones where i had to show documents, which he said he would follow them up as they have the BS numbers and postcodes etc that are necessary.

£60 fine and pics taken of both plates to send to the dvla so if im stopped again theres proof ive been told and they may take the plate off me

tool

not sure if it has sorted my problem fully yet, gonna put standard map on then re-map again after a couple of days on standard to see if that changes anything aswell, slowely gettin there i feel


Here's a pic of the broken PCV.
You can see the check valve inside is broken, the circular piece should be centred, but its broken a loose and never creates a seal.

[liver]

got the intake on friday morning and fitted it quickly before i set off for a weekend away with the missus

the goods



before



everything out and air box in




intake in




the sound will take some gettin used to, its like having darth vader in the engine bay, will try n get a good vid to show the sound, havnt really had chance to notice the gains as cars had a steady drive when i have used it over the weekend but not used much.

Still needs engine cover chopping up to fit and also heat shield fittings as didnt have time to fit this, any good pointers for getting engine cover mounts off to fit heatshield? had one out before but was a ball ache and was slightly loose.

also a mate let me know you could see my car in golf+, was a feature on awesome gti and must have been done when my car spent most of its time in there

[liver]

also considering this for the summer, just something a little different

[Rabbit]

Very nice,i've got an Evoms intake on order,what do you think to it?sound good?

[liver]

yeah really happy with the intake, sound takes some gettin used to but sounds very nice

wants to rev all the time, just need to fit the heat shield as i didnt have time to fit that

[MattPoss]

also considering this for the summer, just something a little different

I like that, as you say something new and different!

Matt

[liver]

yeah thats what i was thinking, something abit fresh, will probably return to the colour they are now after a while but just something new

[adamf]

Looks very nice! 

just wondering what profile your tyres are and if your wheels are 19's... i have the same wheels with 35 profile tyres and wanted to know if you had any scrubbing probs with it being lowered 50mm?.. i look at mine and cant see it working that low lol..

[liver]

cheers mate

think my tyres are either 35 or absolute tops 40, but pretty sure its 35, mine are only 18's but in fast corners i do sumtimes still get rubbing

[barratt]

A very nice car you've got there :) even better that it resides in wakey 

That's definitely a different way to go with the wheel colour! Would be pretty nice.

Also, never thought to use that business park as a photo place

[liver]

A very nice car you've got there :) even better that it resides in wakey 

That's definitely a different way to go with the wheel colour! Would be pretty nice.

Also, never thought to use that business park as a photo place

cheers, where abouts in wakefield are you? i live in durkar just up behind the new in, the wheel pic is of the car when it had just had the wheels fitted; bit of an old pic, but yeah a good place for pictures

think thats the way im going to go with the wheels was talking last night about it like a deep cherry redish colour

[barratt]

cheers, where abouts in wakefield are you? i live in durkar just up behind the new in, the wheel pic is of the car when it had just had the wheels fitted; bit of an old pic, but yeah a good place for pictures

think thats the way im going to go with the wheels was talking last night about it like a deep cherry redish colour

just in crofton mate, not so far! aye i thought i recognised the streets round there, got a few mates down your way.

you getting them powder coated by a place round here or just DIY painting? :)

[liver]

yeah not far at all used to play football up at nostells ground on a monday night

will be using a place in cas called midas touch

[barratt]

never heard of midas touch. what's their prices like? I had my monza's painted but the paint doesn't look like its going to last long :( a proper powdercoating is in order i think.