WA Spotted & Chit Chat Thread

[Guest]

I use mine for the storage it offers on the 80Gb HDD. Holds thousands of songs & music videos as well as movies. Never even thought of playing games on it as the screen's waaaaaay too small... That's what the Plazma's for

Good work Mike :o

I'll have my turbo off tomorrow so mite get stuck into the compressor housing with some Autosol just to make life more difficult!

[chikt]

no wonder I didnt see ya haha, u shooda waved

[bluute]

any of you guys fitted the "sandwich plate" set up for oil pressure/temp guages gonna fit mine when I get home if the oil temp arrives(jeff sent two oil pressures by mistake doh...) and was wandering if its a bit of a mission? or if there are any special hints/tricks/tools ive read the how too's but they all seem to miss this bit

[Guest]

I've only heard bad things about these sandwich plates on T's. They leak apparently with no proper fix

If you can, try return the plate & get one of those oil pressure switches with a threaded hole to screw your sender into... There was a topic on this a few weeks ago & that seemed to be the easiest way around the leaking

[bluute]

bugger

ill look into that

cheers dean

I might just fit up the guages anyway and feed the wiring into the bay im keen as to get them in and lit up at least

Edited 02/10/08 04:05 PM by bluute

[Guest]

Sorry it was bad news mate but better to find out before fitting it up

Where did you get the sw plate from? Now I think about it, Jeff supplies his own doesn't he??

The ones that were being trash talked about were from Ebay iirc so may be different... I'll try dig up the thread tomorrow

Edited 02/10/08 04:12 PM by 03XR6T

[bluute]

no worries

I got it with the guages from pole position inthe group buy looks fairly well made ill look for some info not much else to do on nighshift up here

[Guest]

It may well be fine then as everything else Jeff supplies is great

Maybe give him a call tomorrow & see if he's had any negative feedback so far or if there's a special trick to avoid leaking??

Good luck

[bluute]

yeh good thinking

ill swing him a pm as im on nightshift and by the time I wake up he will have left work ive got access to some of the best "dont leak anymore you little fu@#er" gear at work

[XF Falcon]

I think if u use the wrong one (BA on a BF or vice versa) then it can leak, but yeah I went for the method that Dean mentioned above with the adapter.

For the adapter method its an absolute *beep* of a job to reach it, manual cars may have more room but us auto fellas are in for a bit of fun.

any good auto shop should have it, its a VDO brass fitting, part number 230.032 I got mine from Odin Autos.

this screws into where the stock pressure sensor is, and has a hole in the side for the aftermarket oil sender.

only problem I can see is that there is only a spot for one aftermarket sensor, so this may not be the best option for u.

The sandwich plate however shouldnt be too hard to fit, the oil filter is in an easy to get to place so no worries with fitting that up can see it from under the car real easy! or even from the top kinda.

In other news, the car is basically ready to fire up, I just need to put on the radiator expansion tank in and top it back up with coolant. But I almost cbf putting it on, as I'm waiting for that PWR one to arrive and I want to just put that straight on.

If something else is wrong with this turbo when it gets tuned on Tuesday, I think I'd rather sell the car than have to rip off the turbo for a third time!!