Haha I'm pretty sure the entire population on OC would love to see that but like you say, it may ruin someones reputation (mind, one of the guys is in the army so I'm sure thats just normal for them lol)

Soooooo

Update time. Been meaning to do this for a while and as i am sofa bound today ( severe sun burn from fcs )
i thought i would get on with it.

So my low boost gave up and it was decision time.
Chuck another standard lump in and carry on or go high boost?
After a chat and a quote from rich i decided that i would go high boost and i needed to start saving.

So in the mean time i decided to pull my engine out and clean up the engine bay.
I did it a few years ago but not very well and it was rushed so this time i thought i would do it properly.

Now most of the engine bay clean up pics had been taken on my phone which i smashed up 48hours into giving up smoking so they are gone but i have a few from there on.

Before the engine started playing up i stumbled across some corbeau seats on ebay.
Now i had been looking for some recliners as my car is a road car but the standard seats were starting to look s**t.

Anyways i won these puppies on ebay for £70 and they were local. I had already got some sliding subframes that i won locally on ebay a few years before so in the went.

Seats look dirty in the pics but they look new in the flesh.


Had a bit of a brucie as the seats came with some mk1 golf subframes which i flogged to a mate for £40.

Then the engine problems started so i took the head off and lots of other bits and started cleaning up any areas i could.

Bare metaled most of the inner wings, rust treated. Then some acid etch, 4 coats of primmer and 4 coats of peugeot silver. Then 3 coats of lacquer.

Couldnt do much more as the engine was in the way so i went and bought a engine crane and whipped it out.

All pics to this point are gone so i now have pics from my work phone and digital camera.

So with the engine out i could finally get to all the bad places




You can really see here where i done the inner wings before i had got the engine out


Then i set about using every drill attachment wire brush i could buy and i went to work













Beer and coffee kept me going. Oh and makita battery's

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Did fcs make you realise f**k i best get cracking? it p**sed me off abit not being able to go on track

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What gave up in the end on your low boost mate?

Got some bad scoring on cylinder 1 so i can only assume it was that. Once i had pulled the head, i had pretty much decided i was changing the whole lot anyways.

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So i started putting some things back in and realised that i had f**ked my exhaust heat shield when i was getting the head out.

tried to get another one but the used ones are all s**t and no one had any stainless ones.

So i took inspiration from my mates clio turbo that has nimbus lite head shield.
Its right behind his turbo so it must do a good job. So i ordered a sheet for £27 from ebay, laid it over the o.e shield, bent it to shape and drew round it with a sharpie.
A Pair of tin snips later and here we have it

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So then after looking through the forum for some high boost bits, it dawned on me that midlife was selling up and he had built a new high boost lump. So a few phone calls later and a 700 miles round trip, i was home with his engine, hb intercooler, nissens rad and a big bag full of mikalor clamps.

Fitted my billet flywheel to it


Wayne is a proper nice bloke and was fun having a chat with him and his mate.

Anyways wayne had slapped some black paint over the block and he has previously painted it yellow but my brother wasnt having this and decided it should be silver so we got it wire brushed and painted.



Cant find the pics of it painted.

Then the gearbox looked s**t so it got the engine degrese treatment and a jet wash.

Then covered in silver paint to. Again no pics of this.

Then i started making some brackets for the fmic

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Did a few other tidy up bits to the engine, painted the front of the head and painted my rocker covers but since have decided these are to go steel gray so i will do that next weekend along with the fuel rail.



Then i started playing with oil cooler mounting positions. Decided it should go where the tow eye is so i cut my nicely painted tow eye off. But the discovered it would work better the other side of the rad. Now need a bolt on tow strap

So i made up some brackets that i have got my mate to tig on the fmic for me ( no pics of them welded on yet)





Then been running into some boost pipe problems i.e i cant fit the bloody stuff in.
If i go straight down from the charger to the fmic, it hits the take off pipe on the rad.
So i am going to order an xsi rad which is the same but no longer has the connections for the heat exchanger.

So i ordered the adapter from peugeot that allows the removal of that.
For running in purposes and until i get a xsi rad, i have put a curve in the boost pipe



Anyways it will do while its running in, not like i will be flat out.

Ordered loads of new black silicone pipe which of course now the big bag of mikalor clamps dont fit round so ive just had to buy a load more of them.

And thats how its sits now.

Hopefully the clamps will be here this week and i can put the rest of it together.

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Some work gone into this mate, fair play

How long before its all up and running properly then?

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Well its now taxed and mot'd and i've done 20 very careful miles.
It's stalling like a b**ch at every opportunity due to the boost pipe collapsing but its fine on tick over.

Once its run in and i know the engine is good, i will shell out and get the odds and sods done.

Going to do an oil and filter change tomorrow. Then should be good for a few hundred miles untill the next oil and filter change with royal purple.

Watch this space

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How user friendly is this clutch on the road?

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Make tea, not war.

If it ain't broke......fix it until it is.

Its running and driving but have not fitted the pump and swirl pot yet so i cant open it up. Cant bloody wait though.



What chris said
I wouldnt put one in my daily driver if thats what you mean.

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Top update Ben ....Any-chance at all of making PugFest in her ?
Keep the update coming




Where's that at Eddy