due to the problems with the site thought I would update this with the last years updates
March 2012 car went into garage to sort an oil leak....to cut a long story short due to the way it was built in 2011 it was stripped down and sent to Paul Finch motorsport to correct, whilst there problems were found with the wrong compression ratio, 3 valves were bent and a grit loike substance was found in the sump which had caused scoring at the top of the bores hence the strip down. also all four cams were either worn or incorrect, luckily just a rebore was needed with fresh gaskets/cam belt etc along with new cams, valves replaced and the engine put back in.
it was at this point I decided to change the turbo and bought Angers gt30.
Obviously with this was needed a rotated kit from RCM with a big inlet hose and filter, an external wastegate fitted from lateral and the intercooler pipes to the aps 725 needed adapting so these were ordered from ebay and modified by Brent at SMD. The middle box on the exhaust was also removed and welded with 3inch pipe.
Many other things were done in the rebuild back into the engine bay eg heat shrink, fuel pipes relocated and sleeves fitted.....many hours went into this process and I cant thank Brent and Luke enough for they handy work.
I just managed to get the car MOT'd and mapped to go to germany in May with only 1 bar of boost as there was a problem with the ext w/gate, this was still around 350bhp and ran very well. Thanks to Simon for mapping last minute as well.
On my return it went back on the rollers and is now making at 1.8 bar 475hp and 435lb torque and is still running very sweet. It may return to be upped to 2bar
I have also installed the harness bar and harnesses bought off Tomma on here
and just recently I ugraded the rear discs and pads with orangestuff pads
and today the the front discs replaced with AP 355mm and orangestuff pads
it basically brings it up to date, next on list is to get the rear ast's rebuilt at powerstation, and I fancy getting rid of the gauges in the car and getting the toucan screen fitted with the Simtek ecu upgrade via Simon again....other than that its quick enough and reliable!