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Remove the intercooler, it's only that jubilee clip and the two 12 or 14mm bolts on the sides of the i/c will give you loads of access

What's the skull for ? Haha Maybe the other boost gauges start at different readings so depending on who's driving, ooh look I'm boosting at 2 bar lol.

Viper performance based in the west midlands are good, half the price of Samco and hold loads in stock so your not having to wait for them to be made

The pic with the skull ?? In it is a sender unit for oil pressure at a guess, could be oil temp though, Is that an oil catch can located at the top of the bay with the yellow sticker? Injectors look like 380cc ones although don't hold me to it

Wow that looks like someone has had a right go at the loom ! There's a pair of crystal headlights up in the for sale section at the mo,

Contact somone like chips away, if your after a quick turn around, just done a bumper scuff 12" long and some car park dings on my old man's focus for £140 all Inc good colour match too being metallic, I'd say you'd get that done for under a ton

Sold original top mount [emoji51]

I've put a cosworth one in this time for the sake of 20 quid more at service time I thought it was more preferable than washing out a k&n

Check the millers website for stockists, I managed to get 5l locally even cheaper than opie

So will you be running down the strip at pod this year then Jay ? ☺

Cos worth one is a 'normal filter' and will need changing every service

Airbox off already ! Dunno about the green stuff, looks a bit more waxy than coolant staining ?

Could be, can you bypass the controller and plumb it back in correctly ? Looking at this http://www.enduringsolutions.com/ECUGuide.pdf there's every possibility that yours originally have a v5 ecu, with all the other mods yours has it must have been running some other engine management

Doesn't the acvr only work with the power fc ? If so methinks somone whipped out the ecu and repalced it with one from a breakers, hence the gc8 written in pink on the cover ? Just a thought

Yeah actuator pressure is around .5 bar, could the wast gate be sticking and working intermittently? It will go into limp mode too if somethings wrong but will only rev to 2.5k. Just post up anything you have issues with & wiring vac lines etc that don't look right, easiest. Don't suppose you've plugged the green and black connectors in beneath the steering wheel to see if you get any historic faults come up ?

Should be able to get them from most motor factors for a couple of quid

Hi mate welcome &sorry to hear about your troubles, easiest thing would be to get it on a dyno, that will give the best indication of what's happening or not as the case may be, If ecu is upgraded it's either a standalone apexi or has an els board or one has been put in from a later model, how many plugs does it have ? The boost issue could be anything from a split hose to more serious problems, best off taking loads of pics and posting it all up, we're all friendly here and will try to help out as much as we can

Yes you'll be fine to bung some vpower straight in, may be worth doing an ecu reset aftwr you've filled up as it will re learn for higher octane, as for oil depends if the car has many mods, check opie oils for recommendations. Most of us use millers oils

Worn engine/gearbox mounts can contribute to this

We just went to the timing hut last year and paid the 25 notes to go on strip

You on you tube ? You'll need to go to the padlock and make it viewable to the general public or for anyone with the link and just paste it in

https://youtu.be/gFewVlBfNtI This is mine sounds worse than it is but gives you an idea

Good news I'll post up a link to mine on start up

Every 5k for classics is generally the rule,

Mine slaps like crazy when cold and will disappear after a couple of miles, they are quite noisy engines as a rule, have a look for subaru rod knock on you tube for a reference to big end failure, If you let her warm up and open the bonnet rev to 3k and if it sounds like a bag of spanners then it's probably not good [emoji22]