Mona Lisa - progress thread by onezero

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in the past few weeks i did following: i cleaned: intercooler, turbo, egr, intake pipes, modified my air intake and relocated the horns. and added 2 stickers to add more HP. each sticker gave me 5 HP.

and i added a few things a chip and high performance air filter. so theoretically, i'm around 130 HP with the sticker 140 HP to my 1.6d volvo 

well it would bother me if i'd have a 1.8 and have the mpg of a 2.4 or 2.5. maybe there are some things uncleaned or something like that. i had 9L\100 km[dunno in mpg] and i did some tweaks and now i have around 3L or 4L on 100 km on highways and in the city i get max. 7L\100km. and it's a 1.6d engine, known as the ford 1.6d engine. not a good engine as others say but i'm happy with it, when i have to go like fast, really fast, it can go, i almost killed a stock 320 beemer, too bad the other driver gave up. i'm not going to sell my s40, it has those lines that not any car has them and their unique, not like vw, mercedes or bmw, they all have somehow the same lines, my opinion. 

i broke today an oil tube, had to weld it and repainted it. i had some paint left and i painted my intake tube the same color.

and this is the tube i've broken. in this picture it's already fixed and painted