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Pffft, amateurs - I get a senior partner in the firm to do my conveyancing and have her direct dial mobile number too.

Kind of helps that I have the most senior partner’s mobile number in my phone listed under "Dad” [:D]
 
Just to update, still not got around to fitting the turbosmart...Tom sent me details today of his new instruction manual for fitting this particular WG. Tonight I followed them in as far as fitting the adaptor plates and valve seat which on this wastegate is a replaceable item. If all goes well I hope to fit the WG tomorrow evening. On a positive note, I managed to test the WG tonight per Paul Smith's suggestion...yep...both exhaust and wastegate outlet where hot. Car had only run for long enough to reverse onto a brick for extra height and then switched off.

Pete
 
We have boost...I tell you I have no idea how anyone can drive an N/A car...boy are thry boring....????

Prognosis was a broken valve spring, surpringly the seat was still in one piece, well just, the cracks are, of course, still there.

I'll have to report back later on performance, tonight was just a short drive home from my son's...no fast roads involved...??

Pete
 
PSH said:
We have boost...I tell you I have no idea how anyone can drive an N/A car...boy are thry boring....????

Prognosis was a broken valve spring, surpringly the seat was still in one piece, well just, the cracks are, of course, still there.

I'll have to report back later on performance, tonight was just a short drive home from my son's...no fast roads involved...??

Pete
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Great to hear Pete - must be satisfying that it was such a simple fix [:D]
 
dlknight said:
PSH said:
We have boost...I tell you I have no idea how anyone can drive an N/A car...boy are thry boring....????

Prognosis was a broken valve spring, surpringly the seat was still in one piece, well just, the cracks are, of course, still there.

I'll have to report back later on performance, tonight was just a short drive home from my son's...no fast roads involved...??

Pete
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Great to hear Pete - must be satisfying that it was such a simple fix [:D]
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Very...it's like getting a long lost friend back....??
 
I have to admit to employing plenty of man maths when buying parts. But £600 or whatever it was for a new wastegate, instead of a new valve spring would make me cough. I guess you can stick a new spring in the old wastegate and sell it though.
 
blade7 said:
I have to admit to employing plenty of man maths when buying parts. But £600 or whatever it was for a new wastegate, instead of a new valve spring would make me cough. I guess you can stick a new spring in the old wastegate and sell it though.
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Could do Paul but not sure if I can be bothered.. I'll keep it for now just in case I get the urge. Things heve moved on since the lindsey DPW which is basically an original Porsche WD with an added DP chamber.
The Turbosmart unit is a nice piece of kit which works differently to the original, for a start it works backwards with the valve outlet connected to the crossover pipe rather than the exhaust.

The car is now running better then ever, i had developed an issue where if too much throttle was used in the higher gears the car would pull back as if it had hit the rev limiter with a pop/bang.
That is now cured, I can now plant my foot in any gear even from low tevs and it pulls like a train with no hesitation. I'm not sure why it did this, clearly it was due to the WG failing before the spring finally gave wsy. Funnily now that I look back the pop/bang was the same noise generated when the WG gave it's last gasp?

One for the techs out there to analyse perhaps.


Pete



 
Jon Mitchell gave me a good deal on a barely used Lindsey wastegate years ago. I don't think there would be much difference between a Tial/Lindsey/Turbosmart wastegate in good working condition. Especially when using an old school Lindsey turbo.
 
blade7 said:
Jon Mitchell gave me a good deal on a barely used Lindsey wastegate years ago. I don't think there would be much difference between a Tial/Lindsey/Turbosmart wastegate in good working condition. Especially when using an old school Lindsey turbo.
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I used to think that Paul....????
 
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