Car returns home
Posted by on 10th August , 2010I got the car back today after various delays. It was almost to the point of picking up a new car it has been so long, happy none the less. Updated power figure I’m given is 160fwkw, 2kw less than it had before any work was done – but this is just on the run in map.
Car starts well, it’s still a little warm from tuning / testing, idles well. First thing I needed was fuel as it was getting low. The tuner had made a comment about this when driving it around the complex that it sounded like the fuel was low. While driving out the complex first thing I notice is the gearbox whine from the new gears in first & second. I’m really impressed with how they sound, almost making the strength of them a side show.
Going into third the gearset whine is all but gone, same with fourth. I had thought the whine would be audible though all the straight cut cogs, but apparently not. Not far from home I lent on it a little coming onto the highway while getting up to speed, it was hosing a bit of smoke still but I wrote it off to the run in tune it had.
Got home and the car is now hosing out smoke just as it did before the rebuild was done.
Looking around under the bonnet and over the car I notice:
- No intake pipe fitted as discussed
- Air filter is not the brand or size that was discussed
- Intercooler piping is not aluminium & has been made up of different sizes and old pieces I supplied as examples
- Incorrect gearbox mount has been customised to fit instead of sourcing factory Exa item (original was lost during rebuild)
- The intercooler is not centered and sits to one side
- There are a couple of small random grinder marks on the bar from the cutting work performed
- Brake lines and pulleys have not been fitted as discussed
- Oil breather is still has smoke coming from it
- Radiator hoses are incorrect – top hose is on bottom & vice versa
I’ll call them tomorrow.