Author Topic: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!  (Read 60078 times)

Offline tshirt2k

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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #220 on: 15 January 2013, 15:01 »
No more than 12k ohms apparently.


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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #221 on: 15 January 2013, 19:28 »
Cool, I'll get right on this tomorrow! Had stuff to do today.

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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #222 on: 05 February 2013, 19:57 »
Finally some real progress made! The car is now idling, turns out dickhead here was counting the fuses from the wrong side so when I checked fuse 15 it wasn't actually 15! lol, 15 was blown, ISV started working again, hey presto! Idling again! Now though, I'm back to having juddering around 2500-4000 RPM :/ however, this time, with the Crank Sensor replaced and everything else I have done to the engine, I'm pretty sure its down to the crappy HT leads fitted by the previous owner! Hopefully a mate will pop down in the next few days to let me try the leads from his car so I know for sure before buying a set for myself :)

I also fitted my Joey Modded CL headlights I kept from my old MK3.

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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #223 on: 05 February 2013, 20:00 »
i love a simple 'duh' moment fix! looking good man, much better with the badge I think! I think you should go black with the dub badge tho :) black and red!

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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #224 on: 05 February 2013, 20:24 »
i love a simple 'duh' moment fix! looking good man, much better with the badge I think! I think you should go black with the dub badge tho :) black and red!

Yeah, I was over the moon when I fix the problem lol! And cheers man, I have a black badge lying around somewhere as well :)

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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #225 on: 05 February 2013, 20:25 »
The truth shall set you free!  :grin: :lipsrsealed:


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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #226 on: 05 February 2013, 21:18 »
So when is it gonna be back on the road the Dan?

I think you should joey the GTI headlights and stick them back on tbh. Look better than the CL lights imo.  :undecided:
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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #227 on: 05 February 2013, 21:29 »
So when is it gonna be back on the road the Dan?

I think you should joey the GTI headlights and stick them back on tbh. Look better than the CL lights imo.  :undecided:

+1 for gti joeys!

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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #228 on: 05 February 2013, 21:48 »
the CL's were already done so I just whacked them on for a change. I have two sets of GTI headlights, I have ideas lurking for both of them ;)

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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #229 on: 07 February 2013, 23:40 »
Fantastic work fella....

glad you got the thing started again.
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