D.Pavely

69 miles from me unfortunately

Too far for me that's near stevenage and St Albans

Welcome

Gambit were you nursing a semi when talking about the fezzy

Painting the intercooler can reduce heat soak. Apart from that water/meth spray on intercooler or into turbo this is the cheaper route than front mount and more efficient air intake temperature reduction and the kit can be made for diy. Currently building mine will be switched to start with but will make it activate by boost pressure

Today have fitted my intercooler and offside front suspension strut all newly painted and waxoyled

Sort of DIY special

It's not as expensive as I thought it would be. Cheaper than my 306 gti 6

From all the top fins bent over and flaky paint to this 6 hours of adjusting intercooler fins and a bit of paint

If there's no demand for them then the value will drop

Depends on pipe diameter for front mount if your using drain pipe like you on quater mile cars you will lag but if the gets small out of the intercooler this increase air velocity and reduces lag it really is swings and roundabouts and personal preference

Insurance shouldnt be too bad on a wagon. My p1 is cheaper than my peugeot 206 hdi

Actuall mot law states if it isn't fitted it can't be tested so if main beam has been fully removed it would be classed as a modification

There shouldn't be no problem the floor plan is the same

Sounds about right for a Gb 270 only thing is that the 2.5 litre engine is not as strong as the 2.0 litre STI blue print engine. The 2.5 tends to suffer with loss of compression by turning the bores oval as block is semi closed deck and no forged pistons and some have variable timing problems but they should be sorted by now

Put me on the list please

Yeah wait for a few more members. Car still in bits at moment

Nice to see another fellow P1 owner, I have just joined this week

Spent the afternoon cleaning and painting/stone chipping wheel arches and removing intercooler to paint

Afternoon would be good. Suppose I better put the P1 back together lol

Would be good I'm in Oxfordshire so not too far for me

If you are referring to the post cat o2 sensor you could remove sensor from the exhaust and plug the hole with a bolt and secure the sensor so that it reads the atmosphere. The eml is caused by the second sensor reading the same as the first sensor so the ecu thinks the cat is knackered. This has worked in the past for me when decatting my mates cars. As long as the second sensor is reading different you shouldn't have a problem

On a serious note the reason you use more fuel is that as mentioned cold air is more dense so the engine will run richer (more fuel delivery) to compensate as well as more electrical load heated screen etc as all mentioned above

As I found when overhauling suspension check inner rear arches suspension turret area. I believe all classics will be corrodeing around this area not fallible on mot due to visibility in this area but it's within 3-4 inches of suspension mounting and 8 inches of seat belt mounting. Just finished fabricating and welding new panels in mine.

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