SIMBADS TREAD

[HI PSI]

I agree. Similar design, but significantly reduced capacity, compared to the PW unit.

[JETURBO]

Ouch yeh that’s a fleebay knock off unfortunately, watch out it doesn’t bow and leak on the welds which is common with that style knock off  

[SIMBAD]

Ah fark aye. Well I’ll inspect the quality and have it touched up if needed. If it leaks I’ll replace it when the time comes.

 

I have personally experienced a genuine PW surge tank do as you described jet to my brothers old fg xr turbo. However PW paid to have it returned and sent back their upgraded twin internal pump set up for free. 

[SIMBAD]

Sale fell through and was refunded which is fine. Probably got offered more and took that rather than selling to me.

Blessing in disguise I guess.

 

In other news I bought a cheap samsung galaxy tab 3, Ford soecific elm327, obd2 extension cable and downloaded the torque pro app to play around with. 

[Puffwagon]

1 hour ago, SIMBAD said:

Sale fell through and was refunded

 

Seems to be your luck mate, how many times is that now?

[SIMBAD]

Lol Too many times. Living rural I guess contributes to it.

Definitely would be easier to jump on bargains living in the the cities that’s for sure

[SIMBAD]

Finally got around to getting much needed window tinting done. Stoked with how it turned out!

 

[SIMBAD]

Some comparison pics:

 

and some water beads on the bonnet looked cool the way the sun was shining on the car:

[SIMBAD]

Been a while since I’ve updated my thread. Not a lot has happened. But here it goes:

I’ll start with the ceramic coating. It is holding up exceptionally well. Washing is a breeze just using carpro reset. Stuff smells sweet and cleans the car fantastically. The duragloss does just as good a job but since carpro states that their formula is suited for for their coatings durability etc etc (no surprises there for their marketing) but thought I’d try using it and have found it to be a awesome product. I’ve bought another bottle to use so I don’t run out.

 

Now going back to early December I pulled the trigger on a Intercooler kit. 
Got sick of trying to find something decent second hand that wasn’t too far away that I could go and pick up and pay with cash I got stuck at looking at Jonny Tigs intercoolers.

Went the whole hog and got the turboside and battery relo. 
But this is where things made me go quiet for quite some time. 
I managed to snap my distal biceps tendon on my dominant arm at work.

Didn’t know it at the time but this lump turned out to be the tendon..

took about 3 weeks to get a proper diagnosis (holiday period) as the initial diagnosis was multiple tears picked up by a ultrasound machine. Went back to doctors with further complaints that my arm just didn’t feel right. After a appointment with another specialist I got ordered to go have a CT scan. 
results came in the next day while I was back at work being ordered to go in through emergency to have it repaired ASAP as it’s already been longer than they were happy with to do the reattachment surgery and didn’t want to have me being stuffed around any longer with waiting times that could be involved with workers comp.

Bicep retracting up my arm:

Bolted back together:

That whole adventure kept me off work for almost 3 months and on salary continuance which left me with no spare money. Mortgage/bills/daycare costs/living expenses had the back account jammed in a corner with mike Tyson’s prime time left hook going to town on it.

 

Anyways, during that time I received a pretty nice package. The Mrs wasn’t aware of the purchase and was less than pleased. But she got over it (I think). Kids thought it was great though! 😁

[SIMBAD]

Now back at work and on full duties, spent a few months getting back on top of all the bills I thought next up I should look at the oil feed line to the turbo. So went ahead and bought the kit from Aeroflow which I thought was a nice bit of kit. I liked that it uses the 200 series Teflon braid lines. Stainless fittings and no crimp fits and a decent size filter.
Also came across what I though was a decent surge tank this time. Brand new and delivered for $250 from Albury from a guy that was going to fit it to his r34.

Surge tank info:

Also during this time I thought I’d buy a new bov to go with the new Intercooler kit. Went with a turbosmart raceport genV from longboost who have me what I thought was a great price delivered for $350. Probably overkill but meh. I like the way it looked.

Then a DAY before I received the oil feed line kit in the mail the turbo started to make a god awful screeching noise at certain engine loads 😑

figured the screeching was from the impeller coming into contact with the compressor housing..

When I bought the car off my mums partner he had the core replaced with a genuine Garrett core around 15k ago (almost 2 years from the little driving he was doing in it)

 

Now this left me in a bit of a debacle. What do I do about the turbo? Send it to get repaired? Buy something else? High mount manifold and new Borg Warner? Bigger turbo? Find a second hand replacement? Chinese turbo? How do I get this one past the Mrs?  Fark.

more to come.