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3-29-2009
Intake manifold
As you all know all performance car has either the valve cover or intake manifold painted in wrinkle paint and
their logo in printed on the detail. So why not do it on ours performance car to?
I polish the intake manifold where the Peugeot lion is placed. My friend did the stickers with the Peugeot lion, then I painted whole intake manifold with wrinkle paint. After the paint have dried I remove the Peugeot lion sticker.
6-27-2009
Long time since I updated... I have been quite busy with my new job and only got 2 weeks of vacation this year. Its only 4 days left to I get my vacation and during the vacation I will spend a lot of time working with the car.
I will write more about the car project progress the next weekend.
8-12-2009
Update
Project car 1 - I'm working with the front spoiler. Think its about 2-4 work hour left on it and we can start to paint it. My father have painted the side skirts and some details on the car. Today we roll out the car from the tent and I think the side skirts turn out really good!
Well its some details that have been fixed to get it perfect, but this is just a test before we paint the whole car.
The engine is almost assembled, we are waiting for starter engine (we gonna get them delivered next week) then we can put in the engine in the car.
Project car 2 - Today we did some test driving (tested a new BOV). But we have some problem
At high RPM and when boost is at it maximum peek the engine sounded like it was only 3 cylinders that was working. But when slowing down it starts to work normal. We think it was the BOV so we replaced with the one that was installed earlier. But same result. We also tested to install a recirculated dump valve, but same problem.
We haven't drive so much with the car during the summer. Under the winter and summer we have have started up the car under and let it
idle for a while. This have been done regular.
We gonna check the spark plugs and do a compression test tomorrow. Any more suggestion what we can check or upgrade?
8-13-2009
Project Car 1 - To day we mounted the rear bumper. Think it look pretty okay, but have to do some more modification to get it better.
Or Is just me that only notices the small details that look wrong. So this is not the final result. But we are close
Project Car 2 - We suspected that was something wrong with the ignition. And Bean you have absolute right it was the spark plugs
and the coil. So today we did a compression test, and the result was fine. We mounted Platinum spark plugs and we had a other coil home that have slightly more output energy compared to the stock one. After the part have been mounted we did a test run... and now I can't stop smiling
The car run absolute fantastic, even under high RPM and boost pressure at 1.0Bar. The car have never run this good (since all the modifications) !
It's a good learning experience to modify cars and a big thanks to you Bean!
Pictures shows the modification of the expansion bottle, the last modification we have done on the project car 2.