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[Barbbachello]

Parents don't know yet. Mum has seen the engine bay a few times and hasn't said anything.

Replaced the spark plug wires the other day

[allpaw4]

In other words they know but haven't said anything. Once your old man sees it I guarantee you'll either get asked straight out or get some raised eyebrows

[CRUISN]

If its anything like my parents they would have no clue.

My wife didn't even notice for two weeks when I swapped her wheels from silver to black!

[Barbbachello]

Pretty much. If they find the engine they'll definitely know something is up haha

Opened the maf housing up today and found all the solder joints in perfect condition, so ruling that out. The maf code did go away at some point so going to double double check the wiring since one of the wires broke as it was a tiny bit too short

[Adam]

I have a spare MAF if yoh need to borrow one for troubleshooting

[Barbbachello]

I have a spare MAF if yoh need to borrow one for troubleshooting

I can borrow Tys as he had the same sfb as me thankfully but I'll keep it in mind

[Barbbachello]

Quick update: put Tys maf in. Car works, mine's dead

[andrew_k]

Booya.

[Barbbachello]

Annoying but at least i know the cause now. Plan of attack is to get Ty a Z32 MAF for use with his PFC and ill take his orange maf

[El_Freddo]

Ooh yeah!

Now, no parking at the train station again without an immobiliser right!

Cheers

Bennie

[Barbbachello]

Ooh yeah!

Now, no parking at the train station again without an immobiliser right!

Cheers

Bennie

haha thats the plan. Going to rig up a kill switch as well in the mean time

[Barbbachello]

Quick update.

• Have rerun all the wiring for the boost bits using single lengths of wire. Previous had joins and shit and was no good.
• Plumbed in the boost solenoid and finally got a 1.5mm restrictor pill. 
• Car is basically ready to go bar MAF sensor. Ty has had some issues putting his car back together so waiting for him to give the all clear on his new fuel line mods and stuff before he changes to the Z32. Aiming to have the car at the BBQ for mad spools

Cheers cubts

Also parents still dont know lel

[Barbbachello]

Ok so last night we wired the Z32 into Tys car. Apart from getting a tiny bit of the shielding into the joint which was grounding out the MAF everything went well. Tys car still hauls ass with an entirely different AFM. Hats of to Apexi on that one.

This morning i put Tys orange maf into my car. She works an absolute treat now and my god boost is addictive. Havent gone WOT yet as its still the NA fuel pump so am taking it easy but its 100000000000000x better than 25D powah even at only 0.5-1 bar. Also considering its entirely stock apart from the intake pipe it makes amazing choo choo noises 

So i believe some thanks are in order

• Ty for answering all my stupid questions, for taking your car apart and giving me bits, for being the majority of the brains behind the operation
• Michael, Ash, Callum, Joss, OMR, Chris, Steve for helping in the early days to get it all moving
• Will for helping me trouble shoot the wiring/everything
• Jordan from clublib/facebook for being my wiring diagram lel
• Anyone who helped with my questions on facebook
   

Now its time to learn how to drive it and then to race Ty for purely scientific comparison of V4 vs V3 lel   im probably going to get chopped

[El_Freddo]

Awesome. When are you giving the parentals notice of change to your ride?

Boost is great, I haven't had a lot of it but occasionally driving the RS always makes it more and more appealing!

Enjoy the ride, watch out for speed cameras!!

Cheers

Bennie

[Jimbo]

A job nicely executed good sir. It all appeared to go down without too much hassle and I think it's one of the quickest time frame conversions I have seen documented.  Well done and to all involved!

Boooooooooooooost.

[Barbbachello]

Cheers guys. I showed dad the turbo and so on today. Couldn't care less haha. Was a reasonablly quick and hassle free conversion except for the maf malarky but can't win them all. As for time frame Tys was quicker at 2 weeks but still pretty quick at 6 or so weeks.

Can't complain considering its still under 3k for everything

[Adam]

Winning


Come fix my car

[Cam.]

Good work mate.

For the love of god put a fuel pump and wideband in it. Playing with fire!

[Barbbachello]

Good work mate.

For the love of god put a fuel pump and wideband in it. Playing with fire!

Fuel pump is in the mail and wideband is next

[Barbbachello]

So the mexican Christmas bbq was today. Car worked like a dream. Never over heated, nothing broke and no leaks. Worst thing to happen was some smokey headers from some spilled fluids during the conversion. Great day and was nice to have some power on the twisties lel