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Sleiper

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put car in to SW Motorsport for the colder grade plugs and decat downpipe to be fitted then straight down to Andy Forrest on friday for remap,(Great Fun) car made 360bhp & 353lbft. torque, i'm well chuffed!

However Sat dropped Leslie off at work went for a wee blast down the road to GP Autos in dalkeith and the fun began, had a rattly heatshield for few weeks but didnt think it was that serious! but it was. OH ****, i said as the steering locked on a tight left hander (thats the mild toned down version for the post by the way). So i stopped chain smoked a few fags to calm my nerves and set off on my way home.

Lost confidence in it since then so just pottered around until i could get up to SW Motorsport so Steve could have a look at it and found that the front of uppipe heatshield had seperated from back part and was rattling around at the steering rack causing it to lock up the steering and vibrate occasionally, Steve said he had never seen this before it was a first! So he dropped what he was doing put it on ramp and ten minutes later all is fine again! Big Thanks to SW Motorsport!!! :) Top Man, i can now go and play!!!!

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scooby222

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good result with the remap and top marks to steve for sorting the heatshield on the spot - did you ditch your undies when you stopped for the chainsmoke too? :)

lucky escape,never heard of this before either - off to check mine now....

Sleiper

Sleiper

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did you ditch your undies when you stopped for the chainsmoke too? :)

Haha yes you could say that probably the most scary moment since i nearly skied off a cliff in france many years ago!!

cullenmin

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good result with the remap and top marks to steve for sorting the heatshield on the spot - did you ditch your undies when you stopped for the chainsmoke too? :)

lucky escape,never heard of this before either - off to check mine now....

I've read a post about this happening before, was a while ago, cant remember which year/model it happened to.

Great figures and a lucky escape with the steering locking up

Rich

sti pretender

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Might have been me Rich.

Happened to me on the newage couple of years ago, jammed the steering as I turned left. Wasn't going fast but still got the heart racing.

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C_WRX

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Reply to paragraph 1 - nice one, excellent figures made, enjoy.

Reply to paragraph 2 - sounds like well saved in the situation, nightmare scenario, but on the bright side you'll be half a stone lighter after it :) . Could've been a lot worse !!

Reply to paragraph 3 - nice one that it's okay now and you can get back to the enjoy bit.

Sleiper

Sleiper

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Might have been me Rich.

Happened to me on the newage couple of years ago, jammed the steering as I turned left. Wasn't going fast but still got the heart racing.

howdy long time how are you?

How did you remedy it, did you heatwrap or just disguard it?

braveheart

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Well well lucky lad Stu glad you and the car are ok, great results there indeed now be carefull and enjoy the car best of luck.. Those extra ponies are always nice to have not be long untill it's back into Sw for a few mods tho lol enjoy

sti pretender

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howdy long time how are you?

How did you remedy it, did you heatwrap or just disguard it?

Not bad, was going to come over and talk to you and Lesley at the Wheel meet but never got a chance.

Ian Greive gave me the option of getting them replaced or removed, having it happen once I opted to get them removed, temp wise I was told it wouldn't make a massive difference to underbonnet temperatures so never wrapped the up-pipe. Might be worth it when going down the modding route but as my car is only PPP I didn't bother.

They did a geometry setup to check steering was alright. Wasn't until I took the car to Kenny Brown's in Hillington a while later that I found out I have a very slight curve in the rack (had to force the steering to make the turn), doesn't affect the car at all just has to be factored in when the setup is done.

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Sleiper

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Well well lucky lad Stu glad you and the car are ok, great results there indeed now be carefull and enjoy the car best of luck.. Those extra ponies are always nice to have not be long untill it's back into Sw for a few mods tho lol enjoy

Hi chris cheers, sorry didnt reply sooner, yep defo gonna be back to sw for more mods, got a wee plan for over the winter looks like our car is gonna be sleeping in with yours for the winter!!

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Nice one STU good to hear once that mod bug bites it bites deep ha ha SW just about to sort my fueling issue and misfire fingers crossed the car runs great on low boost 620bhp not to bad but it's time to see what it's like on high boost long time waiting roll on the 20th

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