looking good.!

Bloody rain.

jon - keep dreaming mate

dale - cheers bud as ever, agreed rubbish weather is a pita

Olly

no progress, it's pretty much all money and waiting for parts at the moment.

ordered a variety of double eared O clips to replace the jubilee clips, only because they look neater.

my heatwrap came through today so wrapped my DP

went to the motor factors and picked up a couple of metres of fuel line and using my new clips fitted it to the clip on parts for the hard lines

very neatly layed out clips you have there, what a joy it must have been to have used them on the fuel line... "i have just the thing to connect this pipe to this plug!"

The Jubilee Clip looks a bit of a loner on his todd...

When you going to try get her ready by?

haha - they were an ebay purchase Dale, so after spuzzing just over £60 on clips i wanted to make sure i got everything i ordered, and after spending that much i wanted to see how well they worked.

the plan is to have it back on the road for the start of august, there's not a great deal of work left it's mainly money and parts now.

love what u have done with the engine mate tidying it up etc :)

where did u get the carbon cover for the dipstick thing :)

thanks Simmy, i knocked the cover up myself.

do you have s3 (passenger side throttle body) on yours?

THIS is what a build thread is meant to look like. Loved reading through it mate, good work.

OCD on the DEO Clips olly!

THIS is what a build thread is meant to look like. Loved reading through it mate, good work.

x2, detailed with plenty of pictures, thumbs up from me!

Even the pointless post like the 60clips is made intresting by assorting them into a nice shape

hahahaha yea man!

thanks Matt, Matty and Dale :-D

as i mentioned earlier in the thread part of the reason i removed my lump was because of the gearbox swap and my k04 was getting smokey. i'd put some funds away and sent off a spare dead unit i got off James (j33grn) that was bought from audi new and died after a very short time due to a knackered oil line.

i wanted to make sure i could send it off without getting the 'your housings cracked, you need a new one' call from the recon company as i suspected my old k04 probably was.

here's what the unit i got off James looked like before i sent it off

knackered impeller due to the bearings dying through oil starvation

box delivered today

new tubby

k06 billet compressor wheel

turbo spec;

Standard Turbine housing machined internally

K04 Turbine wheel (RS6 Type) 50mm Inducer 44.5mm Exducer.

Uprated large pad 360 type thrust bearing

Stepped gap piston rings

Standard compressor cover machined larger internally

K06 (Billett aluminium Type) Compressor wheel 46mm Inducer 61mm Exducer

i'm not expecting massive gains at all, i just thought while i was having a recon it wasn't much more for hybrid so went for that.

the company say it's rated to 330bhp but i think realistically 290bhp would be optimistic.

also ordered a couple of tins of black thanks to a link from Dele [Y] - going to shoot down the shed and test out the finish on some scrap metal.

Haha we will see

lovin the progress tho gay boy

thanks Jon.

after doing everyone else's cars all weekend i finally got a chance to test out the wrinkle finish paint. i thought i'd go for something small so went for my TB as i had to get rid off the white paint. once it was bare metal again i applied thtree coats as instucted and it seems to have worked well.

i think it looks quite good and is what i was aiming for.

thanks Simmy, i knocked the cover up myself.

do you have s3 (passenger side throttle body) on yours?

yes mate i do

you can have it if you want it bud.

got my new coupling pipe in 76mm to link my 3" maf to the new carbonio and a small pack of pipe clips to secure a pipe that has been bothering me.

fitted to the maf / carbonio

painted my spare starter for the 6 speed with the wrinkle paint but it was still wet and hadn't had a chance to wrinkle much yet

also painted my cold side custom steel pipe in wrinkle but that's still drying / wrinkling.

the best bit of the day is the legend that is lil_sham dropped the 6 speed box / shafts / gear linkage and flywheel off to me so i can get that bolted up to block soon.

been through your thread on here and uk-mivs also,one of the best builds I've seen

very impressed :-)

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thanks for taking the time to read bud, glad you like it.

i took the day off work as i had to do alot of running around, mainly to collect my merc rims from the polisher so they can be sold on to raise some much needed funds.

from there i went to pay my engineer mate a visit, he'd milled down my brake caliper spacers to perfect size

and shortened my custom ally crank case breather outlet

then onto pirtek to pick up somke pipes, got 1m of 8mm high pressure rubber hose, 3m 0f 8mm braided hose, 1m of 19mm oil breather hose and 1m of 19mm braided breather hose

i fitted up the spacers for the calipers

and got a better pic of the starter

also a pic of the six speed box just because

getting there, the wrinkle paint is diffrent.

Got the box at last, let the fun begin!

Getting there Dale....

after work i did a little job that has been on the list since i put the lupo P/S tank in, i'd decided i wanted to run the pipe a different route and now i'd got my pipe from Pirtek i could make a start.

i'd decided i wanted to run it through a hole in the chassis leg to the rack, so i picked a pre formed hole near the rack to run the pipe, unfortunately it was double skinned

so after i'd drilled it at the best angle i could manage it looked like this

i test fitted the pipe and it was pretty spot on

so i hoovered the shavings from the drill, took the burrs off the edges and put a bit of paint on it

while that dried i refitted the subframe and went and got a suitable grommet

now i could fit the pipe in place, unfortunately my banjo union did not arrive from Pirtek today so couldn't complete installation.

i just got a phone call saying i could go and collect some parts i'd been waiting on, i've been making an effort to reduce the amount of joins in my boost path so i ordered some ally bends from viper, cut to size and sleeved them over my old couplings and dropped them into be welded.

he'd also given my other bit of treatment but forgot to put the bead on the end (something about rushing prodrive's work through) so he took it back in.

looks like a good job he done on the rad, dont look like yo will e loosing much pressre there anyomre.

also the smaller things like running your pipe throgh the chassis going to make the world of diffrence to the final presentation

Well done mate.

never fail to amaze me olly. incredible work.

Cant believe i haven't seen your car about, what a beautiful Bora!!

Loved the whole thread aswell, have been getting bored of build thread's lately but this one was worth the read.

Keep up the good work n hope to see this car one day!!

Dale - as ever, i thank you. :-)

Scott - thanks mate

raf89 - thanks bud, i'm sure i'll see you 'around town' do you go to berkshire dubbers meets or reading vag meet?

Olly