Hey Geoff,
Sorry for the late reply, I didn’t set notify.
Well it’s all fresh bronze bushes and lubricated with Lanolin grease, tacky stuff! I suppose it will show in time.
I spent a lot of time getting clearance between power steering and exhaust, moved the attachment point on the Z bar and a bend here and there.
It showed need to adjust very quickly, idle could be a bit high and getting into reverse the only indicator, suppose everything has settled in now.
I jacked up one side of the car the other day and 9/16” open end spanner, a few twists out with the pushrod, no problem.
Yes I’ve got the old T5 design.
I’m still mucking around with the water / air intercooler, you get heat soak stopping and starting around town and the heat exchangers do effect radiator cooling, I’m a bit over cautious about engine temperature, if it gets up to 200F the ECU doesn’t like it, and there is an adverse effect air flowing through the cooler, I’ve got a new pipe made ready for fitting and I’m going to slow down my supercharger with a bigger supercharger pulley, just to lower the torque a bit? It’s getting a lot of air at around 4000rpm and loses efficiency at 5300rpm. This in theory should lower the maximum torque and raise the Torque peak 500 or so rpm (guessing).
705Nm is a bit harsh on the T5.
The four link and AVO coil overs are doing a treat on acceleration from start, I roll a bit and clutch out before I hit it.
Cheers Phil.