Mk2 16v Turbo Full car rebuild

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Had to google "Oor Wullie" 

His trademarks are spiky hair, dungarees and an upturned bucket, which he often uses as a seat

[Neo Badness]

Had to google "Oor Wullie" 

Just as well you had the safe search on...

How's this progressing anyway?

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Had to google "Oor Wullie" 

Just as well you had the safe search on...

How's this progressing anyway?

That didn't even occur to me, but yeah, safe search was lucky! 

Not really been much progress lately, been stupidly busy at work so just haven't had the time to give the car much attention.

It will get done, but I am not in any real hurry so it will be ready when its ready...

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Put in a few hours on the Golf after work last night.

The back end has now all been sanded with 240 grit, still lots left to flat though, then onto 400, then finally wet and dry before it goes to the bodyshop.

Also got the turbo boost guage all wired in and connected up after some trick cable running through the box section in the bulkhead and out below the dash speaker so that all cables are hidden.

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The boost guage is not mounted properly yet but its in place and working.

I have ordered some decent double sided tape so I may cut the base down a bit and stick it here, or on the side of the instrument cluster, or possibly get a pillar pod.

I have left enough slack in the cables to fit it anywhere in this area.

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The New eeprom for my Kstar finally arrived and is soldered into the unit, I reconnected the kstar back into the car and tried to connect to it with the windows 95 laptop, it asked for a password so I typed in the original password and its not recognised. Tried all the ones that I know but no joy.

The plan now is to take the eeprom back out and copy the data off the original eeprom onto the new and see what happens...

[Sam]

I hope to f**k that mine hasnt gone wrong, sounds complex 

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Gonna have to make a circuit board to convert the original eeprom to a format that we can read, temporarily solder it onto this board to read the data, then save the data, unsolder eeprom and solder new one on, then write the data to the new eeprom, then unsolder and solder back into kstar unit!

Hopefully this will work, if not, I might be in the market for a different engine management system....

[Neo Badness]

Gonna have to make a circuit board to convert the original eeprom to a format that we can read, temporarily solder it onto this board to read the data, then save the data, unsolder eeprom and solder new one on, then write the data to the new eeprom, then unsolder and solder back into kstar unit!

Hopefully this will work, if not, I might be in the market for a different engine management system....

[tshirt2k]

The New eeprom for my Kstar finally arrived and is soldered into the unit, I reconnected the kstar back into the car and tried to connect to it with the windows 95 laptop, it asked for a password so I typed in the original password and its not recognised. Tried all the ones that I know but no joy.

The plan now is to take the eeprom back out and copy the data off the original eeprom onto the new and see what happens...

Go standalone. Kstar is old hat. You should be able to release alot more potential with an SEM