Just won the set of 15" steelies on eGay, shall be collecting them within the next couple of days
Will need to swap 2 good tyres of the xmas trees and fit them to the steelies
Slap the steelies on, proper wheels FTW

Still waiting for the geez to sort out the 60mm springs for me

I'm now off outside to wash it and put some more paint on it!

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Just been to deepest darkest south yorkshire to a very *ahem*shit area
And came back with 4 15" steelies, 2 needing tyres

FYI, 195 50 R15 steels are spare wheels on Puma's for anyone wanting some scrapyard bargains

Will fit 2 on the front to get rid of the 13's tommorrow.

Had a blast down the A1 and realised my boost gauge has died and my turbo has too much boost when flat out So will turn that down a tad and turn up some more fuel tomorrow
Its fun playing around with it, because I havent got any tried and tested info hah

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lol poor bastard didnt see you coming hahaha


my mates R reg puma had a 14" steel, think its the later ones only, so Treg onwards

Yeah, Turbo is near enough dead now.

Last nights blast down the A1 was not a good idea, I didnt realise my pipe popped off the actuator, causing it to boost as it likes.. that added with "low" oil on the dipstick, has meant that my turbo has effectively eaten itself!

It now smokes more due to less power, and the turbo can be heard screaming its nackers!! (see.....)




Scrapyard run saturday morning, I remember buying one for £10 last time I had a TD, so hopefully find one - even better if its the bigger turbo version

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nicely done

haha, reminds me of when the turbo went on the van, it just wheezed everywhere with virtually no power lol

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haha oopsy, afternoons work each car and your alright though

does the pipe blow off due to the added psi?

probably where he's kept playing with it and its just fell off. one of those things. least its not run on its own oil and chucked a rod

Paul 'Boost it till it pops' Parker

I forgot to tie it on... and the daft boost I dialled in after the fuel increase popped it off without me paying attention.. serves me right for trying to hit mach 10 on the A1
Still runs like a dream apart from flucturating turbo

Will find one at the weekend, can't remember if the Mondeo TD's use the same manifold, I know they use the same turbo, so worst case scenario I will just have to swap the turbos around..

Like I said previously... fuck it, its a cheap shed
Still not got round to fitting the 15's on the front.. also decided that lowering it is a bad idea.. but I darent go round Ford Fair with standard suspension
Need a wheel bearing and a brake cylinder for the O/S Rear too, its pissing brake fluid and my bearing is wanked

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silverstone with std suspension is SUCH a giggle..its funny and scary all in the same second.

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Car went for a run twice on the way to work, so I need to borrow a car tomorrow and saturday, and hope I get a turbo saturday

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Scrote is sat in Shonkworx awaiting repair
Turbo proper shat its pants yesturday, spitting all my engine oil into the inlet, making my engine run on itself...
I made sure it didnt run away and at one point had to stall it at 35mph
It was ticking over nicely after that though, so it seems I havent done any damage to the engine itself

Removed intercooler, thats full of oil as expected, turbo is full of oil, engine is oily

Will be off to the scrapyard in the morning to rave off a turbo from either an Escort or Mondeo, I'm pretty sure that most of the Mondeo manifolds are the same.. if not I'll have to do some rebuilding and swap the turbos around.
My worst nightmare is the bolts on the downpipe from the turbo, because they'll be seized due to the heat that gets generated from the turbos!!

While I'm at it I'll be block off the EGR (which will only be full of oil anyway!) and will be bashing the CAT through

If I manage to find abit of exhaust pipe the right size, I will be poncing that from the scrapyard to make a backbox delete also for some wistle action

Fords, gotta love 'em... although to be fair, It was my fault it shat and died

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so oil is the flavour of the day

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very good point!!

Really really cannot be arsed to fix it, but hey ho.
Driving my uncles 1.1 saxo. God I miss the torque

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She runs!

Scrapyard No. 2 came up with a MK5 Scrote TD
Wasnt covered in oil so took it off, and noticed that the MK5's did not use CAT's so I took the downpipe to de-cat mine

MK5 vs MK6 (fucked!)


Oily much??


Check out the fucked turbo


One problem I have is, my exhaust was a cut and shut fix for the last MOT and therefore doesnt sit properly... I'm pretty sure the MK5 downpipe isnt the issue..
So it now sits on the piss and I cant get it on one of the hangers...
So I'll go get the rest of the MK5 exhaust next weekend to sort it


And here it sits.. on 15" steelies on the front which need balancing sooooo badly



Still in abit of smoke at the moment while it clears itself, and I'm only running standard boost!

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good work