Recent content by griffindai

Yep pretty big update :( I think it's thrown a rod. Best case scenario is the turbos just blown, could feel/hear it shooting down the exhaust! But the amount of oil it's lost I think it's terminal. Might break it over summer and keep all the mods for a newer 9-3 or Vec VXR. Gutted :(

Yeah it's not bad, throws a fair bit shorter and looks nicer than the standard stick, just a shame with all the instal problems. Just couldn't get it to work/fit unless the shifter cover was cut. Took ages!!

Sort of! All gears are engaging but shifting fast from 2nd to 3rd is a right pain and doesn't always go in. Need to adjust the cable again when I get home.

Short shifters finally sorted!! What a pain this was!!!!!!! Long story short was the shifter itself is too thick to get the plastic shifter cover back over it, so had to file/shave/trim the inside of the cover to slide it back over rotate it 90degs until it cleared then rotate back to get it to...

Billet Pro Shop Shortshifter fitted Bit of a faff to fit this (looks like it's my fault!) whatever I did I couldn't select 1st & 2nd without slacking the shifter cover right off but then couldn't get 5th & 6th. So ended up shaving off a load of the plastic cover to get 1st but meant I had to...

So..back to the dyno and it didn't go well :( I did ask them to do a pull from 3k in 3rd or 3.5k in 4th where the cars happy but they didn't and did a run from around 2k in 4th and the car ran like *#*#*#*#, hit throttle cut, then had traction problems when it sorted itself out and made low power...

Yep that's what I'm thinking. I'll see how it runs tomorrow then I'd like to go back next month with the new actuator and try a couple runs with the different springs fitted. Max boost pressure I'm not sure on until tomorrow, I think it's peaking over 30psi here (seems pretty high that for such...

Thanks Os :) Will have to give the credit to he local Polish guys though!! Car cleaning does my head in! It's 50 quid well spent! Bodywork needs attention though, now it's nice & clean the rusty arches & stone chips on the bonnet really show up. Needs a respray, I've found a couple local guys...

Dyno day tomorrow :) Had a look at some logs from last year to get a rough idea how much power to expect. John's said not to get too disappointed if I come in lower than expected as his cars are dyno'd on dynojet dynos and I think the one tomorrow is more like a mustang dyno so will read...

Has anyone used Halfords track day oil? http://www.halfords.com/motoring/engine-oils-fluids/engine-oil/halfords-5w50-fully-synthetic-track-day-oil-5l

Takes me back!!! A mate had a white one that had a few quid spent on it with Power Engineering, wasn't running any mental power (I think it was 180bhp?) but was a very very quick car....and scary!!! Used to just pin you into the seat :) Awesome!!!

Maptun 4 pots & sticky tyres :) And £5 flowers to smooth things over with 'er indoors....

No update as such here (we're going to NYC next month so no more spending on the SAAB for a while!!) But it's booked in for a dyno run on a rolling road day I'm organising over on Pistonheads in March. Any South Wales guys (or anybody else who fancies it!) more than welcome to come :) After...

Quite a lot when I was young & stupid .V( I think the funniest (but not at the time as we had a major telling off!!) was pulling up at the lights opposite a dark grey escort, I had my seat belt on, my mate didn't in the passenger seat and the driver of the escort started pointing at us rapidly...

Plugs & coils swapped, definitely did the right thing here and take it to the garage!! Looked a right faff! Running slightly smoother now, misfire seems to have gone but still has a slight boost issue like before, just dumps it early again, the 3.5bar map sensor helped (a lot) but it's still...