Stanced XUD Estate (IT'S ALIVEEEEahahaha)

[cwspellowe]

ARGH YOU lady garden!

No don't worry, i've not killed another blower. But really struggled today with my usual redneck engineering. Turns out the transformer in the garage I use for my drill and angle grinder has been taken back to my brother in law's work. It had been there for 4 years but he decided to walk out of his job and handed all his tools in.

He's also handed in half of my tools too, needle nose pliers, couple of spanners and sockets.. raging.

Managed to make progress albeit not as fast as I'd hoped. Anything needing a grind had to be hacksawed, anything needing drilled had to be done with my 24v cordless. Still did the job but took AGES..

So completed today:

Degreased all the FMIC pipes and drained the intercooler
Ported the wastegate from 17mm to 20mm and gasket matched the turbine inlet
Stripped, checked, reassembled and clocked the turbo with the T2 actuator tested and fitted, opens at about 14psi which seems about right. Interestingly the CHRA parts have been balanced individually, so if I went to a 60mm compressor wheel one day it wouldn't need rebalanced if the new wheel was also balanced individually...
Mounted the turbo to the exhaust mani with a new EGT sender and new genuine gaskets for everything. They came free with the turbo so hey, i'm not complaining! No more cereal box gaskets
Refitted the manifolds and sat the engine back on its mounts
Refitted all the FMIC pipework

Not much left to do, need to plumb in the oil return now, change the oil and filter, wire up the new sender and we should be good to go. May even clean the car tomorrow for its first run.

Going to pay for car tax online and keep a receipt of it in the car, can't find my f*cking MOT certificate. Doh. Desperate to get driving again and tbh.. i'll take the hit on failing to display if I get stopped. Should be ok as Police round here never really check, it was parked on a main road for two weeks before I remembered it expired and nothing was ever said. Once it's taxed and shows up as taxed on ANPR i'll be even less likely to be stopped anyway. f*ck it.