Pashley26

I appear to have gotten through many mm of front tyre in the last 24 hours. It's my birthday today, so my present to myself is some new NS2R's.

There's a separate loom and relay for the engine and fuel pump which is behind the CE2 fusebox, so you have to pull that out before you can check the fuses in it.

Pheeeeeew. I've kept my no breakdown sheet clean, by the skin of my teeth! Went to play table tennis in Winchester, before I left the fuel pump wasn't priming. I couldn't work out why. Took my tool box out of the boot to get a screwdriver to drop the dash down and check the fuse box and relays, pulled the relay out and cleaned the contacts, checked there were no blown fuses and put it back together. Straight into life. The relay was looking mighty cruddy around the terminals, so I assumed this was the problem. Drove to table tennis, stopped off at the petrol station and the cash point on the way. Car started straight up both times. Played table tennis, left the hall at 10. Wouldn't start Relays out, fuses out, tapped the fuel pump, cycled the ignition. Nothing. I thought I'd check the rear fuel pump because the pump is connected to that to prime with the ignition. Checked under the car at the connector, all seemed fine. Moved inside the car, inspected where the wiring loom for the pump meets the factory pump, all seemed ok. Obviously I moved the wires around when I inspected them. Cycled the ignition again to see if I'd made any difference, pump primed and it went straight to life. So I'm assuming there's a poor connection in the boot where the loom for my uprated pump meets the original pump wiring. I'll have to strip it back and check. I'm guessing that it's been caused by my tool box in the boot upsetting the wires, and removing my tool box earlier was enough to get it going again. I did however get home without any sort of assistance, despite making attempts at calling Prawn haha. So technically, I don't think that classes as a break down.

f**king fuel pump relay.

Booooooooo. My uncle just bought an S5, it's so nice.

Something like that. Oh well, I'm sure we'll do a track day some time this year. In my 'road car'.

Hopefully picking up the carbon roof on Friday.

I literally can't remember the last time I saw you, when was it?

Today was a good day. Yesterday I went to see my mate Lewis, because he had a VCDS cable and I had given the VCDS laptop back to Andy (but it's actually Prawns.) Who can guess the connection to knowing Lewis. Chatting in his garage I just said to him 'You don't happen to have an AGU cable throttle body do you?' Bingo! Went home, swapped the throttle body over. Instantly the idle was perfect, a little higher than previous and when it was cold it was properly idling at 1100RPM and then dropping down to about 800 when cold. So happy with that! The old TB had oxidisation on the tracks, so it wasn't working very well at all and didn't know where it was a lot of the time. It also wasn't giving the ECU the correct signals for throttle position. Drove it to my mums this morning, still wasn't boosting BOOOO. Used her laptop (my old one) to reset the fault codes, everything seemed normal and there were no lingering codes. So I assumed I'd fixed it but it would still be in limp mode. Then these popped up on Club GTI. New lower arms, inner and outer track rods, polybushed with new bottom ball joints. £100 later I was on my way to Winchester to pick them up. Got onto the motorway and on the slip road some dodery old person in a Lexus was in the wrong lane, lorry in front of me and closing quickly, had to put my foot down to nip out. Fuuuuuucking hell. All the boost! Went straight up to 1.5 bar and stayed there, felt incredibly unsafe, wheels spinning at 80MPH and all over the place. I was however grinning like a school kid! Worried that I wasn't able to log it to check everything was being well behaved I stuck to half throttle for the rest of the trip. Seemed to be going well though, as I passed through he local airfield to give a top speed run... That's at half throttle. Full throttle it misfires a little, feels like plugs to me. And my later VCDS logging proved this to be the case. Picked up the lower arms, sprinted back to mum's to get the laptop and went out for some logging and checking. Everything seems perfectly in trim, happy indeed! Still going to get it mapped obviously, but I'm feeling happy about it all. Very smooth, loads of power, easy to drive. Unless you give it full throttle haha. This is half throttle, VCDS logged at 54% throttle. Boost is pretty constant, holds well. Really wants to go fast when the revs come up. So I washed it to make it feel good for behaving itself.

I don't piss it away, it's all going towards buying my grandparents business for my mum. This!!!

This is true. And I had to borrow £1500 off Luke to buy it :bow:

Yawn... Take it up with HMRC, I'm sure they'd love you telling them that they're wrong.

f**king hell. Changed the throttle body on the Mk2, ALLLLL THE BOOST now! It's stupid and utterly terrifying. Shit me, I really need that roll cage.

f**king right. If you can't get a job, you're a thicko. Don't give a f**k who that offends; the entire country is looking out for good quality, reliable and enthusiastic workers. Not our problem if your doll dossing jobless mates are worried about signing up for zero hour contracts incase they lose their benefits; they should have tried harder at school, got a job and started working for a living earlier. Because that's what they'll have to do now. Makes my f**king blood boil. I'm 24, earn 100K a year +, didn't come from a privileged background, was excluded from primary school twice, never went to secondary school, haven't got a useful qualification to my name. But I want to work, I want to earn, and I want things in life. If I can do that, these c**ts on benefits and zero hour contracts can get off their lazy arses and go do some f**king work. Because clearly having the time to do it isn't the issue. Literally, f**k them. Let them starve to death in their shitty council bedsits, they'll soon find a way to go and earn some money then. I had this exact discussion at work the other day, when I had the right arse ache because the GM had bought us all Domino's for lunch, on a Saturday. And I tried explaining to him that all he was doing was rewarding the people who WEREN'T actually working by buying them pizza, because those lazy fat c**ts went and ate all the pizza, and the people like me who were working their arse off and selling loads of cars and had probably earned a slice of pizza didn't actually have time to eat the treat that was bought for them because they were too busy earning it for the c**ts that hadn't earned it. And that's how I feel about paying taxes to be handed out to thick people on benefits. And don't even get me started on these super rich families who 'gift' all their assets to their children and family before they retire so they get their retirement and care paid for by the government. I'd happily go round and kill them all myself.

Some of you know AP, some of you don't. He's been very unfortunate with the rebuild of his S4. Last week I went and watched and helped with menial tasks as the engine went back in. Today he drove it out under it's own steam and I washed it. Next week I'll machine polish it for him and probably get it MOT'd again. Awesome car

Old people piss me off so much, their incomprehensible misery is just aggravating. I've just driven to the pub for lunch with my dad. Old people walking their dog through the village which is a 30 zone, about 50 yards before the 30 zone I was doing 45, so I knocked down to third to get down to 30. I was probably doing 35 as I came into the 30 zone. Certainly a lot slower than the Mercedes estate in front of me was going. Stupid old coffin dodging fanny starts waving his arms around at me shouting "SLOW DOWN ITS A f**kING 30." Thinking no more of it I drive the remaining mile to the pub through the 30 zone, at 30. Sat having my lunch and this stupid old fanny walks into the pub and starts giving me ear ache about driving responsibly and that it's a 30 limit not a race track. This annoyed me. So after listening to his barrage of bollocks for about 5 minutes I said. "Are you done yet? You doddery old f**k. Because you're ancient I would make allowances for the fact that your senses aren't what they once were, had you of not been a total bellend and following me into the pub just for a confrontation. I was doing incredibly close to 30 as I entered the 30 limit, and continued to do so through the duration of the 30 limit until I reached my destination. Just because something is not quiet, doesn't mean it is being driven too fast. As I said, I can make allowances for the fact that your dulled coffin dodger senses are not what they were, and that your vision and hearing maybe don't work quite like they used to. But your age should have at least bought you some wisdom. And following me into a pub to have a go at me wasn't the wisest thing you've done today. So f**k off and let me eat my dinner you stupid old c*nt." Then I came on here to post that after he'd left. And now I'm going to eat my dinner.

Hands up if you have spent all week looking forward to driving your car in the sun today. #winning

Going to the workshop tomorrow to fit the new engine mounts and change the CV joints. I am expecting a huge improvement.

I don't know if you've had the same as me. But all of my Golf fans have squeaked unless they've been on 3. I like it.

Luke, check that the N75 pins haven't pushed out of the connector. Happened to mine the other day. xXx

So. Went to Prawns, car was running so much smoother and generally lovely but only half a bar of BOOOOOOOOOST. (I think I know why now) The roof was surprisingly quiet, certainly less whistly than the glass sunroof with knackered seals was. I also took it to the jet wash, and can confirm that even without sealant it is pretty much water tight. When it's sealed it certainly will be. This made me happy. Got to Prawndog's picked up a spare N75, gave him his drill back and picked up the laptop for VCDS again because a few of us need it and he's away for the weekend. We went out to do some data yogging because I'm still getting a recurring N75 fault code. This whole one seat thing is a bit tricky. Don't worry, he didn't die. Only getting 5.1% duty cycle for the N75. Mmm. Got back, Prawn just quickly checked it over and after pulling the wiring back he found something that hadn't occurred to me but should have done, he had a hunch whilst we were out driving that the N75 wasn't plugged in, I assured him it was. Turns out one of the prongs in the plug had worked loose and when you clipped the plug in the connector was pushing out into the loom tape. Prawn fixed this for me, and I did some logs on the way back home but a bit more extensively. Whilst the timing, injectors and everything important seems to be spot on the ECU is only seeing 96G/S of airflow from the MAF and the N75 is still only giving 5.1% duty cycle. The two have got to be connected. I pulled the MAF off when I got home and it's new, but it's a cheap unbranded one. So I'm quite sure that the MAF is knackered, which is why the car is requesting such a small amount through the N75. So I've ordered a new VR6 MAF just now in the hope that a new MAF hopefully reading correctly will give me the right powwwaaaaah. And it's all tucked up and back home safe again As some bonus content, I fired loads of oil over it when I started my Mk2. Obnoxious little thing it is.

Ha. Give us details, let's troll him.

Yeah, it wasn't. As I said, the actuator was plumbed directly to the turbo outlet pipe through an MBC, the N75 was pushed into the TIP with a pipe joining where the actuator should go, and where the pipe from the turbo hot side/pre intercooler intake pipe should go. Utterly stupid. I think the N75 prawn gave me is duff, because I can only get half a bar boost now; HOWEVER the car is immeasurably smoother on and off the throttle, and there is no jerkiness or cutting out between gear changes. So I'm sat outside Prawns house now where I hope to return his drill, and Prawn permitting hopefully take a second to reset fault codes or maybe swap N75's with his other spare. The car was mapped by Jabba previously to apparently 270bhp/280lbft as a stage 2 K04 map. However I'm taking that with a pinch of salt, but it would explain why it hasn't blown up yet if it's just been running at 1bar boost on an MBC and in limp mode. Whilst you aren't fat any more, you have a very different frame to me. You're wide from the hips up with chicken legs. I'm very narrow top to bottom, so bollock adjustments are fine. And luckily all of the sand that falls out of my fanny gives me a scratching free drive naturally.

Just send me round to fit a sunroof in his car. So. I've plumbed in my N75 properly, I say mine, I stole Prawn's. Sometimes I wonder what the f**k people are doing! Long N75 pipe in the TIP, that's right. The top pipe was looped around to the middle pipe, and then the actuator was plumbed through an MBC to the pressurised turbo outlet pipe pre intercooler. And the N75 was still connected. No wonder it drove like a bag of spanners, I'm looking forward to seeing what happens now.

I've already got what I'd need out of a Leon Except for the gearbox, wouldn't mind one of those too.