{"id":140,"date":"2010-08-10T14:40:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T03:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2011-02-16T17:52:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T06:52:51","slug":"car-returns-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Car returns home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I 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.\u00a0Updated power figure I&#8217;m given is 160fwkw, 2kw less than it had before any work was done &#8211; but this is just on the run in map.<\/p>\n<p>Car starts well, it&#8217;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 &amp; second. I&#8217;m really impressed with how they sound, almost making the strength of them a side show.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Got home and the car is now hosing out smoke just as it did before the rebuild was done.<\/p>\n<p>Looking around under the bonnet and over the car I notice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No intake pipe fitted as discussed<\/li>\n<li>Air filter is not the brand or size that was discussed<\/li>\n<li>Intercooler piping is not aluminium &amp; has been made up of different sizes and old pieces I supplied as examples<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect gearbox mount has been customised to fit instead of sourcing factory Exa item (original was lost during rebuild)<\/li>\n<li>The intercooler is not centered and sits to one side<\/li>\n<li>There are a couple of small random grinder marks on the bar from the cutting work performed<\/li>\n<li>Brake lines and pulleys have not been fitted as discussed<\/li>\n<li>Oil breather is still has smoke coming from it<\/li>\n<li>Radiator hoses are incorrect &#8211; top hose is on bottom &amp; vice versa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll call them tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I 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.\u00a0Updated power figure I&#8217;m given is 160fwkw, 2kw less than it had before any work was done &#8211; but this is just on the run in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}