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Old Jun 8, 2012 | 07:50 PM
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Another great day @FB Can't say that about the yesterdays weather thought

Object : Fridge II in silver

The car in general was ok for the age , but wanted to personalize it for my liking.
As i've bought it we have found a couple little things to sort out , but when mapping we've found a notorious turbo wining, so i've decided to go for TD05 16G with 1bar actuator as a replacement ..It felt ok and the map was very pleasant, very smooth on low gears , but after a while i was missing the VF spool and a bit of tourque. After research and what was on the market i decided to go for VF34/35/30. All 35's were cracked for the silly money, 34's were even more silly money as their very much desired ATM. So i've found myself a brand new vf30 for peanuts and went for it.



It feels great and gives me all that i was missing from 16g. The tourque band is very long , pulls hard to the red line ( well alomost, as i never rev it till there for known reasons )
While fitting the turbo the inlet pipe has split So i've changed it to the sillicone one i had from the Fridge I . Man, that was a hell of the job, Rich pulled his spanners out and i helped a bit to make it faster.




It took us good 3 hours to make this mess and put everything back. In the mean while Rich was doing the engine bay i've fitted my new pads , as i was making to fade my stock brembo ones in a couple good Middx ring sprints



I'm doing a test track eve @ Brands soon so it will be very interesting how it will perfom . Really looking forward to it .

Thank you for your time ....

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Old Jun 8, 2012 | 08:01 PM
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Nice work mantas, will be interested to see what you think of your brake combo as was thinking about using performance friction pads with stock discs as I only do fast road driving and never track days
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Old Jun 8, 2012 | 08:17 PM
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hi whats the best disc and pad set up for four and two pot brakes and there gone be used on the track but don't want anything with an outrageous price i was thinking ebc ultimax with green pads what do u think.
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Old Jun 8, 2012 | 08:17 PM
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PF pads on stock discs are good.

PF pads on PF discs are like having a proper brake upgrade.

Glad you are happy with the result Mantas
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Old Jun 8, 2012 | 08:20 PM
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do u know the best and cheapest place to purchase these from!
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Old Jun 8, 2012 | 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by scooby uk
do u know the best and cheapest place to purchase these from!
Aztec
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Old Jun 9, 2012 | 11:55 PM
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Good thread and project mate
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fridge mk2 is a very nice car
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Old Jun 10, 2012 | 08:59 PM
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Coming along very nicely mate
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