Right then, been slowly getting a few things done on this, more to come at the weekend but heres a small update.

Last weekend managed to get my oil cooler fitted, still needs plumbing in, but hopefully get that sorted this weekend.

It was a bit of a mission, but with the help of a friend with ideas and welding, we got it done easy enough. Decided the best place for it was to shift the intercooler over as far as it would go, then mount on its side (hopefully this is fine to do, seen it on some other cars).

Welded in a new bar between the bumper mounting bracket things, allowing us to move the cooler over, and give us something to weld a bracket to.

So here it is fitted up, no pics of during I'm afraid as was trying to get it all sorted as quickly as possible.




Cut the bumper bracket, and bent it round to make the other mounting bracket




Then had to make some minor adjustments to the inside of the bumper to get it to fit




Then I spent a bit of time doing some work on the bumper.

The bumper seems to be in two bits and slots together. Most of these locating tabs wouldnt locate and stay in, so decided to glue most of the bumper back together. I also had a part where the bumper had warped so it meant the bumper didnt fit properly, and left a nice gap. (anyone who has seen my car has probably noticed)

Like this...




So heated it gently, and then glued back into place, fingers crossed the glue holds out ok.




Then finally as I have now mounted an oil cooler directly behind the grille, I decided to give it some extra protection from stones etc, and put mesh behind it.

So bought some mesh and gave it a lick of black paint.



Then cut it to shape, and fitted with glue along bottom edge, and good ol' cable ties to keep it held on to the grille.



More to come soon....

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Chris
1999 China Gti6 Supercharged [Fun car] >>Project Thread<<
2000 Bianca 306 Diesel [Work runabout]

Your tow strap is upside down come one chris! whens the breaks going on?

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Bit of an update (not a good one though)

Car still looks like this...



Had the plan of changing the oil and plumbing in the oil cooler while I was there, and it turned into a nightmare as usual!

First of all, the lines were too long, so had to cut them down and re-do the ends. This is a complete and utter c**t, and I will not be using braided line again

After completing that and going to bolt it up, it seems one of the connectors wouldnt attach to the sandwich plate as the thread size was different No idea how thats happened, as I just bough AN10 fittings, never saw them state different thread sizes?

Luckily, I had another one in the shed that did fit, but connector was slightly different, but seemed to work all the same. So with all the lines on and tightened up (after a lot of faffing, swearing etc) I fired her up to find I had a pretty bad leak. Removed sandwich plate and ensured all were very tight, but also worrying in case these can be overtightened and ruined (like my high pressure power steering line).

Big leak from drivers side connector on sandwich plate sorted, but now a very slight leak on passenger side connector

I have decided to buy a new fitting and get it changed again, but if that doesnt work, not sure where to go, pretty fed up with it!

My other concern is it leaks now when 'stat isnt even properly open, and oil is cold. When warm (and thinner) and thermostat properly open, could leak from all sorts of places!

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Chris
1999 China Gti6 Supercharged [Fun car] >>Project Thread<<
2000 Bianca 306 Diesel [Work runabout]

Nice update there mate. Whens it going to be back up and running then? Any time this year?

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Where you got in mind for 1st track day this year?

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Looking good mate. Piece of p**s to fit the swirl pot up? I ran that on the high boost but have run one on an n/a engine too! We'll worth it just for piece of mind I think especially if you run under a 1/4 of a tank of fuel.

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Super high boost Completed, destroyer of gearboxes and 160mph club

No mate they run over your beam and to the fuel lines under the filler neck no need to go anywhere near the fuel tank? The main wire I ran the length of the car and direct to the battery?

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Super high boost Completed, destroyer of gearboxes and 160mph club

Replaced the oil line connector last night and all seems to be good.

Can now carry on with the other little issues and finishing bits off, then go abuse it on the track

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Chris
1999 China Gti6 Supercharged [Fun car] >>Project Thread<<
2000 Bianca 306 Diesel [Work runabout]

Yes mate! See yours is all good again now! You doing FCS or Pugfest this year?

Also, currently working on sorting out my garden to allow me to have extra space to work on the car, and investing in a marquee type thing. Cheap garage basically

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Chris
1999 China Gti6 Supercharged [Fun car] >>Project Thread<<
2000 Bianca 306 Diesel [Work runabout]

Looking good chris

Definitely taking you up on the offer of a trackday up your way and a cuppa

Looking into Rockingham as Donington is hellishly expensive though bedford sound like a good choice aswell

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Now you can get the brakes on stop p**sing about Chris

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I just like ro get the job done so I can move onto the next job.
Anyway how does it feel to drive now? All running well now I take it?

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