Stage 2 China HDI daily

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So with with the weather last weekend I managed to get virtually nothing done except go outside and spend 5 minutes putting the ecu back on and a battery to see if she would fire ,
Fortunately after a bit of persuasion it did!!

Which brings me forward to this Saturday where the weather was nice fortunately. ( I was working hard so not many photos)

I went out to the car and decided to get everything underneath done first, so driveshafts in, 406 hdi lower boost pipe fitted engine mount on , gear linkages etc etc,

I then went onto tidying up the wiring and adding an extra earth strap as the stock one didn't look upto much so just a bit of insurance ,

I then fitted a joiner to the egr cooler pipe and matrix pipe, and got the radiator and slam panel installed which allowed me to run the car for a decent amount of time and bleed up the coolant etc

Which brought her to looking a bit more like a car


So with all that out of the way Saturday, Sunday I was left with just having to get the cooler mounted and the front end back on and in order



Now I had a lot of stock cooler pipes knocking around but nothing nice particularly so I decided to make do with what we had which we did






A few bits were made of old exhaust pipe which ofc wasn't ideal but the use of a vice, lump hammer and screwdriver, got a nice swage on them [emoji23][emoji23]


And she was left sitting like this, looks rather oem no matter how bodge it is imho, note the black tape round the old exhaust pipe [emoji23]



Also have this ready to go on to make it look a bit more oem.



All that was left at this point was to get the exhaust sorted so I drove the car about 10 miles to a friends unit where he repaired the stainless cat back I had been given (no photos unfortunately)

But the car surprised me on the drive down, I didn't have any issues at all but it was still slow as shit because of the stock map .

So after I'd put about 30-40 miles on her that evening I'd gotten incredibly bored and decided it was time to load the map on there,

So I gave the mbc a few turns and she's peaking about 2bar then settling to about 1.7bar

Down the street I go and Jesus! I wasnt expecting that [emoji23][emoji23], quite a lot nippier than I was anticipating, after a few niggles I had to sort (vac pipe popping off the boost guage) I decided to go for a good drive in her which resulted in me coming across a 330d at some traffic lights, launched it off the line, no traction in 1st or second but we were sat side by side to about 80 when I decided to shut off [emoji23][emoji23]. Unfortunately this then happened


Didn't notice the meat wagon behind me at the lights [emoji85]. Got a section 59 which imho is getting off pretty lightly so I just took it and got back in the car with my tail between my legs!

But all in all 2 days later and the car has genuinely not missed a beat at all and I've done a fair few miles in her too!

Keep tuned as next up is the bodywork as it's a shed and hopefully some interior mods

Thanks for reading
Matt


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