Something for the summer

[vinp182]

Lovely looking car mate After a set of those Rota's for mine too at some point, suit the m2 perfectly imo.

Thanks mate

The sizes and offsets aren't perfect on this set unfortunately but they are still great for now, until I get my Enkeis refurbed... The set on my gf's V6 in the pic are a much better spec

[GeorgeL]

Yeah Ryan did a few checks to test the engine out and all seems healthy

And yeah mate I went to Wales over the weekend with the mids mr2 lot and stretched its legs I'm only running it at low boost (0.9bar) and it pops a boost pipe off on high boost lol.. I need to replace one of my pipes but to be honest its fast on low boost

Also one of the adjusters on the koni inserts has seized and snapped set on hard so the car doesn't handle great, especially in the wet so I'll be ordering 2 new rear inserts shortly too

Yeah ill bet.. It's a strong engine in that one for sure.

Aww nice one mate, that would have been a great weekend and yeah the infamous teething issues after mapping. Mine did the exact same thing mate. Pain in the ass lol!

Sounds good though really glad it's going and you are enjoying it... Better than the mk3 turbo of old?

[Magic Beans]

300bhp is a nice power level in a Mk2

[vinp182]

Completely different mate. The mk3 handles much better than the mk2 but the power of the mk2 is awesome. I doubt ill want any more power tho as I don't wanna lose the driveability. Sunday morning blast around the twistie welsh roads is my thing and the power is just about right at the mo

[vinp182]

300bhp is a nice power level in a Mk2

Feels just about right for the car IMO I'm a very happy bunny

[Magic Beans]

Now go and enjoy the car and don't meddle with it.

It's an easy trap to fall into, trust me

[GeorgeL]

Now go and enjoy the car and don't meddle with it.

It's an easy trap to fall into, trust me

Haha.... What Phil says :p

[vinp182]

I fully intend to enjoy it

Roll on JAE

[vinp182]

Not driven the car much lately. My gf drove it to JAE and back for me as I took my race car on the trailer

Fitted some puddle lights yesterday. Wasn't sure while I was fitting them but tested them out properly in the dark last night and I quite like them

[GeorgeL]

They are pretty cool Vinny, I ain't seen those before... At all!

[vinp182]

Had a bit of spare time yesterday so I decided to finally get rid of the red paintwork on the strut braces I already had some blue paint which I'd bought months ago for a spare set of race car wheels but never used it so I gave that a go and its turned out pretty nice IMO... Its not perfect but much better than red

Before (only pic I have)


After


Just got to lacquer the front one and get it back on the car on Monday

[Magic Beans]

Much better

[craig]

Brace looks loads better!

[vinp182]

Thanks guys

Couple of pics of the front one

[GeorgeL]

lovely colour mate, much nicer for sure!

[biohazardnico]

does the ko racing engine fan lid is really interesting on cooling engine ?

[vinp182]

Disaster

Went to Silverstone yesterday and lost boost on the last lap.. Checked it over this morning and its the turbo Gonna get it off the car later and assess the damage and try and work out the cause

[synXero]

Was it the original turbo?

Just a thought...
http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic. ... 6&start=80

[GeorgeL]

You are kidding dude?

That's unreal... It should no way be gubbed anyways. You won't have done any more than 1k on it and I did about 2miles lol!

Let me know what you find mate.. Really gutted to hear it has caused a problem. Hopefully it's something silly.

[vinp182]

No dude it's a Garrett GT3071. If it can't be rebuilt (which I'm sure it can) I'll just buy a new one the same