Thanks Ozz it was great to get the car from Dylan's, like picking it up for the first time again

I begged and borrowed some car's during the build, a Puma, a Suzuki Splash and a Clio ! all very different animals to our "Beasts" !!

Gratefull for the loans though

 

Hows the running in going si??

 

nice to feel a bit of power again then

 

Yeah Mate even off boost it seems quicker than them !!

 

Gotta be a bit braver with it I think Rich !!

 

Take your time though mate If I was you I would be out in it all the time racking the miles up

 

The trick is to let it rev but don't put it under load ie holding boost or heavy accelerating up hills and the like. As your milage increases, increase the revs too. It needs to rev to run in properly, don't baby it too much.

 

Aye most piston rings need revving to 5000 under hard load to seal (which seems wrong) lol but says on the pack lol.

Worst thing you can do is baby it, needs revving but not under boost (a little boost is good, a lot of boost early on is bad).

 

It's what i'll do more of now I think, scary business, as the "Blow up" is always in the back of your mind - and as you say being too gentle will not help things progress and bed it all in properly, I don't think the race bearings take much running in anyway (Dylan's good choice of bits !)

 

as you do more miles your faith in the car will get better and better so take your time you will be back in no time and flat out

are you running it on running in oil ?? or just cheap oil ?

 

A cheap mineral oil is good for running in two lots of that then up the quality!

 

He is using cheap mineral oil. Same as what I used in my red Wrx.

When you said you were trucking I was expecting you to be here for an oil change this weekend!!!

80 miles??? I'll see you next January at this rate lol. It's nice to see it on your drive and not in my garage Si.

 

LOl - Cheers Dylan, Breaking news: Now done 120 miles , going for a big effort from now on, so won't be long before I book back in with you

It's nice to have "Citty Bang Bang" back Mate - bet you get cold sweats when you pass it

 

Yeah won't be long now - the worrying bit is all the time, effort and money that's gone into it a couple of weeks and I'll be contacting Bob for the tweek.

 

My "Director of Technical Innovation" is in charge of that - AKA DYL 4N

 

LMFAO

 

 

wow now that is one very well done engine fair play.Wish i would of seen this thread earlier

 

Thanks Mate - Dylan did an excellent job - fair play

 

what it running at now m8

 

I'm still in the "running in" mode at the moment, I'll be back up to Bob Rawle for a map tweek soon - so I'll post up the new figures then, only problem is as it's an Automatic Bob could not do his "Delta Dash" figures for me - My first remap with the car as it was, was a Bob guesstimate of "knocking on the door of 300bhp" - will be interesting to see what he can with the new version