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Dont be scared to run any boost on running in. You can ruin a new engine running it in like a pussy.
Just dont rev the nutts off it or make it labour at low revs, You can actually fully run in an engine in a couple hours if you know how.
Its all about cylinder pressures & vacuum. Taking it to 3000rpm & closing the throttle & letting it overun is the way. Then take it to 3500, then 4000rpm & so on. Best to do it down a gradual hill.
dont use synthetic oil to start off with either.
a nice chewy x/50 oil from hellfrauds for the first 50-100 miles then a normal 10/40 mineral for the next stint and finally the semi/fully synth you want to run.
as craig said, run it in keenly as for a start i dont envisage many of these conversions to last much more than say 5-10K miles so do you really wnat to be running it in for a 1/5th of its life?
You can always fit a manual boost controller to limit the boost anyway.
I used one & it decreased the spool up time of the turbo, nice little mod.
Dont get a bleed valve but a MBC.
try; http://www.gb-ent.com/turbo.shtml
I used a mk1 controller & was very impressed. This is a mate of mines site.
tell him I sent you.
CG
cheers for the advice.
Got a phone call last night from the alarm place telling me his having probs with the door popper on the drivers door, i was ment to be picking the car up this morning to take for an MOT then tax and start running it in. but now there keeping it till monday lunch so im sitting here bored when i could have been out in the car!!!!!! DOING MY HEAD IN!!!!!
YEAH!!!! got car back from alarm place last night at 5pm so to late for mot, sorted last little jobs for the mot out and took it for a drive round the yard, it runs pretty well i must say we run i bit of boost to make sure everything works. got mot this morning so should be on the road this afternoon running it in and trying to get back my grill and boot handle from the painters.
top job mate!
More pics needed :D
Cracking thread Chris, and loverlee carNice meeting you (briefly) on Sunday..
nearly have craigs old engine fully fitted in my nova,should be out for a blast in it iver the weeknd,lookin at this thread just makes me even more impatient to get a blast in it
is it just the bigger turbo you have to get the expected 175??
stunning job mate fair play
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