It was 0'c outside so heaters at full blast we made our way at 6am in an attempt to beat the traffic and get the car off the ramps before the tuning specialist arrived
We stopped at the services about half way there for a bite to eat and a quick rest..
A quick check over the straps etc to make sure everything was still attached and off we went for the final leg of the journey.
Finally arriving at just before 10am we got the car off the trailer and started to get her ready.. turned the key - nothing, no life in this car.. looked at the fuel pressure and it was zero, it needed to be at least 3 bar pressure so bad wiring was diagnosed and repaired and fuel finally flowing to the rail.. then this happened
One of the Banjo bolts that feeds the turbo was leaking badly and while we had been trying to start the car - decided to piss the oil all over the floor. A quick change of bolt and 10 minutes later there was no more leaks :D but STILL it would not start , now the hunt began to find out why ( which would take almost 6 hours to discover! )
Eventually it was discovered that the injectors had been wired into the coilpack loom and vice versa , the problem with this is the injector loom goes thru a resistor pack and lowers the voltage - which when fed to coilpacks makes the voltage too low to create a spark which means car refusing to start. At this point i'm in the van trying to warm up and suddenly hear the car burst into life - crazy time ! it lives !! so now all hands on deck to get it to the rolling road to get a base map on it ready for tuning, and this is where it all went bad really quickly...
Laptop plugged in to install the base map
The car on the rolling road
It will suck you in if you get too close to this fan
L]THE only arty pic I took all day due to being freezing cold and busy helping to fix the car...
After a few rev range runs to get the base fueling he gave the throttle a poke and just as the turbo started spooling up - something went wrong , backfire and spluttering and we noticed a 'mist' around the engine bay - but by now we were all tired and cold and frustrated from the whole day and after a very brief look about the engine bay concluded that it was fuel being forced past the injectors.. oh how fucking wrong we were!! another short dyno run and we noticed the turbos 'cold side' wobbling about!! one immediate shut down of everything and we discovered this
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Moment of failure
thats one brand new Holset HX40 turbo less than one hours use , custom made , and very expensive, now rendered useless ( see jagged edges of the blades ) by a clip (2nd pic) coming undone on the back of the housing and being forced off by the boost.. so that was it , all of the day wasted , done , finished and sorta wasted.
The verdict was "fuck it lets get her on the trailer and go home" and in record time we were back on the road homeward bound, but no ! the problems didn't end there - about 70 miles from home some woman was along side us hanging out the window of the van shouting something about the back of the van, pulling over hoping it wasn't anything to do with the Supra we discovered this
DAMMIT , we got a blowout on the trailer and don't have a spare.. so the plan now was to take the back tyre off and move it to the front so we could at least get home albeit slowly then double disater !
The fucking jack broke !! so now we have a broken tyre, and a broken jack holding the trailer in the air with no way to get either off and we're stuck in a dark lane in the middle of fuck-knows-where and JC's phone battery dead and mine unable to ring the AA to come tow us.. So right about now I've gone 'fuck it' and got back in the van drove the damn van and trailer off the jack - sod the damage and proceeded to drive very slowly on 3 wheels to the next services which was about 14 miles away.
We finally arrive in the services where JC rings the AA - we're in luck ! a guy is coming back from london with a flatbed truck ( exactly what we needed ) and would be there within the hour so , a nice big juicy burger and drink later the nice nice man in a big yellow van arrives :D
With the trailer loaded we head home.. I finally got to my house just after 4 am - 24 hours straight of driving or fixing cars I was completed and utterly knackered.. :/
