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Ant
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Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:05 pm
He cant Fuzzy, I knobbled the whole shebang so completely its almost funny
Overboost, overtemp on EGT, Rev limits x 3
Soon Ben, real soon

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fuzzy
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Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:07 pm
Ant wrote:He cant Fuzzy, I knobbled the whole shebang so completely its almost funny
Overboost, overtemp on EGT, Rev limits x 3
Soon Ben, real soon

ha ha
sensible idea though

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fuzzy
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Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:10 pm
Ant wrote:He cant Fuzzy, I knobbled the whole shebang so completely its almost funny
Overboost, overtemp on EGT, Rev limits x 3
Soon Ben, real soon

thinking back to my first cossie conversion, the garage did a similar thing to me although they used a rather cruder simple method of a large block of rubber fixed to the underside of the accelerator pedal to stop the pedal being pressed down to hard.they didnt tell me obviously but i found it myself

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Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:58 pm
i know i know Ant its still annoying will get some pics up soon or you can read them yourselves in a mag feature soon enough.............................
I hope.
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Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:07 pm
Awesome!
fuzzy, to run an engine in properly you should be able to use a full load on the engine.
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Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:24 pm
Yep , building up to full load THEN OFF repeatedley so the rings bed in and do not glaze up the bors , ie they need a build of load to push then uut ans seal well , but do nt think Ben will have any trouble OTHER THAN A FEW EXTRA PIONTS
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Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:19 pm
I might do not really sure as its back in the workshop having more goodies attached to it it will be out very soon
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Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:24 pm
I may get a couple of sneaky shots tomorrow for you Ben.

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Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:34 pm
Jolly good
Ben - you're running how much boost? I assume the idea will be to spank anything and everything in sight come trackday / drag strip / traffic light GP?
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Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:55 pm
Glad to hear it's back up and running. Ben treat it nicley this time...
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Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:33 pm
its all about loads of power when needed to spank anything that costs more than 80 grand and wave while i am doing it LOL !!!
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:17 am
Right gentlemen its been a long time comming but it is back on the road needs to be finalised but its back
drove it home last night what fun !!!
Cheers again Ant could have not done it with out you !!!!!
But here goes running it in again dammm !!!
piccies will be going up when its been cleaned so after christmas will will have a complete
rundown for those parties interested in this monster
All Hail Project Fridge !!!!!
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:55 am
what do you mean by "running it in again" ?? what happened 1st time round?
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:14 am
technical failure of a bought in part which caused some big end issues so it has been rebuilt to a better standard with more goodies bolted on as in a 60mm extenal wastegate and a few other modifications full details after christmas period
once i have cleaned alll the crap off the body work.....
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:11 pm
At last! Well done!
Get it cleaned up and run in mate.
Which gaiters did you decide on in the end - white or black??
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:20 pm
black please toby
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:49 pm
Ben, im over in a week, we will have to meet up and take me for a spin, im bringin the E46 M3 though...

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Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:01 pm
cool dude drop me a call number is in my sig
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:08 pm
You at ace on the 29th?
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:10 pm
no mate got work white one still needs tax and running in miles will happily take you out in the 1.8 turbo daily
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:14 pm
sound, havin problems with the coils on mine now!!
might pop in and meet ant too.
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:15 pm
cool dude what date you over ????? coils as in ??? coil packs ?????
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:25 pm
Yeah msd coils, one of them fried...
Im over on the 28th till the 3rd, stayin with family in guildford, just need to find somethin to do for new year!!
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:33 pm
london mate best place find a pub and get drinking trains run til quite late to guilford too
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haha, looks like il be out drinkin on me own!!
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:51 pm
rossle if i hadnt had other plans i would have been out in guildford, its like 10 mintues from my place!
fowler i cannot wait to see this running espeically after you talking to me the other day about it too!
next year will be crazy with all the new turbos coming on the scene!
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 4:48 pm
defo mate should be a good year
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Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:20 pm
fowler wrote:black gaiters please toby
paypal? you shhhlaaag

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Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:32 am
not got it tobe's please can i do cold hard cash !!!!!
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Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:36 am
No probs Ben - I have some particularly nice Japanese black leather at the moment that would have been made into leather jackets at a thousand pounds each but it had several holes in it making the skin useless for anything but gaiters
Black stitching?
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Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:39 am
yes please sir you are a diamond !!!!!!!
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