The Racetractor. The End.

[darrenjlobb]

Quite a neat little bolt on actually that is, looks to be a good little upgrade for the XUD, if I hadn't gone DI id be tempted myself as XUD is a never ending heat pump!

Don't think id have plumbed it quite like you have, but either way nice upgrade.

[Piggy]

Lots of options plumbing wise were considered and I took advice from those offering it and looked over lots of service box diagrams.
What would you have done chap??

[Piggy]

https://youtu.be/fVHIciYVAXg

[Piggy]

And by the way a "radfiator" is so much better than a boring "radiator"


Fail.

[ADV_93]

Bought a GT2056S the other week, only to find it was the one you originally fitted to this...

[Piggy]

Bought a GT2056S the other week, only to find it was the one you originally fitted to this...

That wants a cartridge/full rebuild!

[bashbarnard]

I had one of piggys turbos at one point his gt2259 seems like youre a turbo pimp man.

[Piggy]

You should have kept that 2259 bash!!!

[bashbarnard]

I know. sadly i had to sell it if not the 2.1 would still be in the workshop and not in my car. Saying that im after another one. I think its what i want to crack the 200 mark.

[ADV_93]

I know. sadly i had to sell it if not the 2.1 would still be in the workshop and not in my car. Saying that im after another one. I think its what i want to crack the 200 mark.

I have a GT2256V sitting around, unless you really need a 59 mate

[bashbarnard]

Ive goy to save for a clutch first. Just started slipping with current setup a bigger turbo and it may just disintegrate

[Dum-Dum]

Defo go for a 59 on the 2.1, big boys turbo.

[Piggy]

https://youtu.be/Kivmdh9oHMc

[ozpug]

What you guys do to these engines is absolutely ridiculous. In the best way possible. Love the colour coding in the engine bay.

[Piggy]

What you guys do to these engines is absolutely ridiculous. In the best way possible. Love the colour coding in the engine bay.

Thank chap

[bashbarnard]

Ita true though. I dont know another car community out there where this many things get tried. Its like hey theres this turbo i fancy it doesn't fit but let weld something up make it fit and see what happens

[Dum-Dum]

Ita true though. I dont know another car community out there where this many things get tried. Its like hey theres this turbo i fancy it doesn't fit but let weld something up make it fit and see what happens

Can you imagine what would happen if corsa owners were like hey that ebay turbo is at 99p with 2mins left, what's the worst that could happen"

[bashbarnard]

Yeah i mean who has 1.5 turbo diesels aside from corsa owners.. ......... Lol

Seriously though probably the wealth of info on here helps.

[ADV_93]

Ita true though. I dont know another car community out there where this many things get tried. Its like hey theres this turbo i fancy it doesn't fit but let weld something up make it fit and see what happens

This is what drew me to 306's in the first place. There's no end to what can be done to them. And what some people do to these old IDI engine is epic.

[DemonDriverDan]

Good job! I've been thinking putting a smaller rad on the race car for better airflow to the ITBs but haven't decided yet

[highwayman306]

With regards to your grille Piggy, have you looked at other options? I have a meshed grille on my car shown in sig below...just an option, although you may have already looked into that

[Piggy]

Not a fan of the max power mesh I'm afraid.

Updates coming soon

[highwayman306]

I didn't think you were...im not a fan of mine lol...my next question would have been do you wanna buy it hahaha

Your cars looking sweet btw, rad route and pipes are looking neat

[Piggy]

https://youtu.be/rfPxNTOyQs0

[Dum-Dum]

Videos are good as ever mate, you did make me laugh with the 3 important things of working indoors, 1) the missus is out, 2) slippers, 3) arms reach of the kettle

[HDi--Power]

Two things you did wrong, no water and you forgot heat. You cant use soapy water on modern day vinyls like that, they go on dry and thats it. And its a cast vinyl so you use a heat gun to stretch it and then you heat it to the temp specified by the manufacturer to release the vinyl memory and it wont peel off. A bit of 3m vinyl primer on the edges will ensure it never comes off

[1616six]

As mentioned, you only need heat, plenty of it. Don't need any form of water/soap solution.

These vinyls you can literally screw up, heat up and bring it back to perfectly fine again.

Why didn't you remove the mirror caps to wrap them? I've wrapped countless body panels and mirror caps, never once had the sun shrink it down.

[Piggy]

As mentioned, you only need heat, plenty of it. Don't need any form of water/soap solution.

These vinyls you can literally screw up, heat up and bring it back to perfectly fine again.

Why didn't you remove the mirror caps to wrap them? I've wrapped countless body panels and mirror caps, never once had the sun shrink it down.

I did use heat?!

No one see the heatgun!?

I did remove them. Hence why one is good and the other isnt. The one that wasnt just didnt have enough to wrap it right round!

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Two things you did wrong, no water and you forgot heat. You cant use soapy water on modern day vinyls like that, they go on dry and thats it. And its a cast vinyl so you use a heat gun to stretch it and then you heat it to the temp specified by the manufacturer to release the vinyl memory and it wont peel off. A bit of 3m vinyl primer on the edges will ensure it never comes off

Yeah the primer for edges maybe a good idea next time.

I did use heat though, but late on. A few guides online were like "NO HEAT" and others were like "USE HEAT"... I did use it, just late on!  (the heat gun was there, part 1 shows bits I used)

and the soapy water is from the last time I did vinyl/stickers on rally cars about 7 years ago!

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Videos are good as ever mate, you did make me laugh with the 3 important things of working indoors, 1) the missus is out, 2) slippers, 3) arms reach of the kettle

haha, glad I made you giggle... the most honest things are often the funniest!

[HDi--Power]

Did you set the vinyl though with the heat gun once all fitted? Sadly the use of water may make it all peel off or have little bubbles appear over the next few months :/

[welshpug]

I've used water without any issues, only ever used heat if it needed stretching a little bit though I left that to the boss.