What have you done to your car today?

Acme I wish someone would just get a grip of you put your head in a vice pop your eye out and tell you "no" this is not the way to buy cars. :)
 
Acme said:
I will try and take pictures but it's more of a get it out and in in a day sort of thing so I probably won't have time. I could stick a drift Cam to the side of my head I guess...
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Like-for-like swaps on cars take naff all time!

This took me about two to three hours and that included having to press the button on the camera for every picture and stopping for 30mins in the heaviest bit of rain. If you look, everything is fully connected at the start.



Just man up, get it done and take pics and videos as you go so you can learn again from them.
 
Switched from one nondescript Bluetooth module to another.

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This one is SYNC1.1, which allows track information! :D

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Diagro said:
Results:
Idle seems to be hovering around 700-740 now. Still lumpy, possible misfire. - Might get some new plugs for it when I do a service in summer.
Less "wooosh" noise from the engine bay when accelerating.
No DTC Code from ECU after a 10 miles drive about. <- Most important thing.
Vacuum was 17 before and now its 20.4 on idle.

I will see if the error is now gone tomorrow after my 25mile trip to work. Hopefully, it was simply due to the intake clamp missing.

I have a feeling the previous owner removed an expensive intake prior to selling.
He then must have just stuck it all back together without giving a crap.

I also made a note of the "2015 turbo" that was supposedly fitted to this car... in actual fact, I very much doubt that it has ever had a new one in its life. The metal discolouration is the exact same as the rest of the engine metalwork. If it indeed did have a turbo less than 2 years ago then it would not.
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Sounds like a bad MAF or MAF calibration. If they had a bigger intake on previously which increased the MAF housing diameter the map would have been tuned for it. Could be the reason it's lumpy. Mine needed to be revved when started from cold when I had a 3" MAF cal instead of 3.5".

Post up the reg and I'll see if my tuner tuned that car also and he'll be able to provide a lot more info. He's tuned most of them in the UK via accessport/versatuner.
 
ck88 said:
Sounds like a bad MAF or MAF calibration. If they had a bigger intake on previously which increased the MAF housing diameter the map would have been tuned for it. Could be the reason it's lumpy. Mine needed to be revved when started from cold when I had a 3" MAF cal instead of 3.5".

Post up the reg and I'll see if my tuner tuned that car also and he'll be able to provide a lot more info. He's tuned most of them in the UK via accessport/versatuner.
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Today I found that the BoV was missing its Oring. So fitted a new one.

Sent off some logs to Justin over on MPSOC and he said it looks like stock map on the car.

I wont know for 100% until i plug the accessport in.
 
If its a stock map then that accesport won't be married to it surely? Maybe it's a stage 1 OTS map but if Justin says it's stock then it probably is. Check the hose from intake manifold to bpv too, that'll cause a lumpy idle if there's a split.
 
Acme said:
I think they must have been bored...
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That's harsh - I got pulled in Shoreham by a very friendly WPC for having a sticker for a front plate that was probably 60% the size it should have been and just got a warning.

A few weeks later i got pulled by a very grumpy biker PC who still then only gave me a producer.

Still had lots of fun trying to convince the local garage that the import-sized plate (Shown in sig) I replaced it with was legal - even though I'd printed the legislation.
 
Got 90% of the way through removing the vanos yesterday only to be stopped by some little plastic caps!

Got a proper set of long bent nose pliers coming today as I have the day off, so of course its chucking it down!
 
Gayjin said:
That's harsh - I got pulled in Shoreham by a very friendly WPC for having a sticker for a front plate that was probably 60% the size it should have been and just got a warning.

A few weeks later i got pulled by a very grumpy biker PC who still then only gave me a producer.

Still had lots of fun trying to convince the local garage that the import-sized plate (Shown in sig) I replaced it with was legal - even though I'd printed the legislation.
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I was hoping I would just get some kind of warning, but they just ticketed me on the spot... They pointed out loads of other faults that aren't faults with the car and tried to use them to justify their decision to ticket me and "let me off" on the other "offences"... Such as my tyres being stretched (now, I don't even like the stretched look, but last time I checked there wasn't a law against that?) and the fact that my front tyres poked out from the arches (I pointed out that the tread was inside the arch, and so they complied with the law. They said that the whole tyre has to be inside the arch. It doesn't.) etc... Their parting shot was "If you drive a car like that you are looking for the wrong kind of attention aren't you?" No officer, when the car is perfectly legal aside from one fault which you kindly ticketed me for, I expect you to mind your own business.

What size are those legal import plates? They are what I'll be getting. Since it is an import anyway.
 
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To be fair Acme the DVSA are really cracking down on stretch and it is now a fail on an MOT if the tester deems the tyre size incorrect for the wheel width. Anything narrower than 215 on an 8J or 195 on a 7J is below minimum width
 
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