MegatronUK
15-06-2005, 19:00
As promised....
Dad starting the car...
http://www.target-earth.net/static/mr2/MR2_starting.avi
A few revs...
http://www.target-earth.net/static/mr2/MR2_revving.avi
(low res 160x120 clips from my digital camera... sound isnt bad though. both about 750kb in size)
Almost filled my pants today (and not in a good way) when working on the car... we had connected up everything remaining (servo, couple of earths etc..) and had connected up and bled the coolant system. Car idling fine...
Revving the car up... 1krpm... 1500 .. nice... 2000... bit of crap and blue smoke for the first few minutes... after that nice and clear... 2500... bit lumpy... over 2500 bang.. bang... pop... pop... bang.... black smoke everywhere... ... thought that the turbo was spooling up (which it was!) and had blown the thing to smithereens....
Turns out the turbo was spooling up and had blown several parts of the IC pipework off! :lol: Suprisingly it was fine after tightening the pipes again! :wink: Them mkIII CT26A's are noisy beggers..... almost the same kind of turbine whine as the CT12's on my mkIV!
No idea of boost yet, as its not been out on the road (needs an MOT), certainly making some though as the boost gauge is registering an increase in pressure enough to move the needle from the vacuum side of the gauge
Oil pressure is good... stable at around 1/3 of the mk1 gauge at idle... rising to just over 1/2 at around 3000-3500rpm. Temperature is good too... not going beyond half way on the gauge.
Dad starting the car...
http://www.target-earth.net/static/mr2/MR2_starting.avi
A few revs...
http://www.target-earth.net/static/mr2/MR2_revving.avi
(low res 160x120 clips from my digital camera... sound isnt bad though. both about 750kb in size)
Almost filled my pants today (and not in a good way) when working on the car... we had connected up everything remaining (servo, couple of earths etc..) and had connected up and bled the coolant system. Car idling fine...
Revving the car up... 1krpm... 1500 .. nice... 2000... bit of crap and blue smoke for the first few minutes... after that nice and clear... 2500... bit lumpy... over 2500 bang.. bang... pop... pop... bang.... black smoke everywhere... ... thought that the turbo was spooling up (which it was!) and had blown the thing to smithereens....
Turns out the turbo was spooling up and had blown several parts of the IC pipework off! :lol: Suprisingly it was fine after tightening the pipes again! :wink: Them mkIII CT26A's are noisy beggers..... almost the same kind of turbine whine as the CT12's on my mkIV!
No idea of boost yet, as its not been out on the road (needs an MOT), certainly making some though as the boost gauge is registering an increase in pressure enough to move the needle from the vacuum side of the gauge
Oil pressure is good... stable at around 1/3 of the mk1 gauge at idle... rising to just over 1/2 at around 3000-3500rpm. Temperature is good too... not going beyond half way on the gauge.