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e30_Turbo
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:05 am

It's alive!!

After a few months of trying, changing things and retrying the original holset powered e30 breathed once more on Sunday PM.

Big thanks to Ant for popping up to watch the event and after another quick check and testing the new systems the key was turned and the beast fired back into life for the first time in atleast 4 months.

Running without the turbo was a fun experience, popping and farting 8 foot flames from the turbo flange was not only loud but damn good fun too watch!

So now that's sorted it's time to get back out on the road and get it mapped for the summer and back out to some of these meets I've been missing over the last few months.

Can't explain how happy I am, having all that work sat in the garage doing nothing was eating at my soul and the need for boost has been getting worse over the last few weeks, all these other F/I e30's being born was making very jealous indeed.

I've got even more plans for stage 3 but budget will limit how quickly this happens and for now being back on the road will be enough for me!

If you need me I'll be on that cloud for the next few days!

Mark.
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:23 pm

Nice one dude, always good to get it back on the road, should be a beast once it's all mapped up :cool:
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:32 pm

:clap: :banana: :drive: :woohoo: :thumb: well done matey... i gues your feeling all on left??? :D
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:32 pm

know exactly how you were and are feeling--im having evil thoughts like cashing the lot in..

:mad:

glad its coming together for you now.
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:35 pm

Woo hoo!

Awesome dude, what was it stopping the sparks from working in the end?

Happy boostage :D
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:44 pm

:( graham did you get my PM? need your address, i lost it
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:17 pm

WillG wrote::( graham did you get my PM? need your address, i lost it
no i didnt-pm sent m8.
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:26 pm

Turbo-Brown wrote:Woo hoo!

Awesome dude, what was it stopping the sparks from working in the end?

Happy boostage :D
It was a wrong value resistor in the MS that prevented the sparks from working, that was diagnosed a few weeks back, only thing this time was getting the damn thing in firing order, so many wires!! 8O

It was dripping in fuel also having had a fair few attempts previously and that took a while to burn off, plenty of fire breathing momments then :twisted: I had the extinguisher to hand just in case :mad:

So it's all back together again, turbocharged once more but now I have developed a bad earth and the MS keeps resetting on cranking, which it's never done before! typical, does this ever end?????? Light ran out and so did the battery so I bailed for tonight, will check all wiring and earths as it's poss I pulled a wire when the downpipe went in.

So close.....but yet so far.......
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:33 pm

Quality mark. Keep up the good work, and remember vids for us mere mortals!

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Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:23 pm

Can't wait to finally see this car at a meet with any luck.

Ah days the of boost seem so long ago for me now too!
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:52 pm

Well done Mark :cool:
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