AP Tuning
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:08 am
Big Thanks to Chris Gary and Christian for digging me out of a hole on Saturday :thumb:
Went to them for a helicoil job on my stripped sump plug - this all went swimmingly (to be expected with pros like these fellas)
Job done, I headed for home - 3 miles down the road BANG - cough splutter - the engine konks out
I parked up and checked car over as I was expecting it to be an inlet hose (which I'd stripped off and refitted the previous weekend) nothing visible 
A quick call to Christain sort of confirmed it to be an intercooler connection somewhere - he kindly said that they'd have a look at it for me if I could get it back to them - a very long 30mph crawl (accompanied by billowing clouds of black smoke) later, I was back at APT.
Chris (bless im) promptly dropped what he was doing - jacked the car up and refitted the offending pipe - I went out for a quick test drive before heading home again - hit 1.2 bar BANG :oops: Thankfully only a hundred yards away this time
This was obviously not as straight forward as it first appeared - this time it was back on the ramps strip everything out - which revealed rather too much oil on the inside of the intercooler piping, this had worked its way into the seal between hard pipe and the hose - basically no jubilee clip on earth was going to hold a joint under those conditions - Chris cleaned everything in site (and few bits that were well hidden) - reassembed it and it all worked again perfectly.
:woohoo:
When all is said and done these guys made time on a busy Saturday to do an inpromptu job - (which they were in no way responsible for) and got me home for a nominal fee.
With tuners around like the APT guys we're in good hands :-D
Went to them for a helicoil job on my stripped sump plug - this all went swimmingly (to be expected with pros like these fellas)
Job done, I headed for home - 3 miles down the road BANG - cough splutter - the engine konks out
I parked up and checked car over as I was expecting it to be an inlet hose (which I'd stripped off and refitted the previous weekend) nothing visible 
A quick call to Christain sort of confirmed it to be an intercooler connection somewhere - he kindly said that they'd have a look at it for me if I could get it back to them - a very long 30mph crawl (accompanied by billowing clouds of black smoke) later, I was back at APT.
Chris (bless im) promptly dropped what he was doing - jacked the car up and refitted the offending pipe - I went out for a quick test drive before heading home again - hit 1.2 bar BANG :oops: Thankfully only a hundred yards away this time
This was obviously not as straight forward as it first appeared - this time it was back on the ramps strip everything out - which revealed rather too much oil on the inside of the intercooler piping, this had worked its way into the seal between hard pipe and the hose - basically no jubilee clip on earth was going to hold a joint under those conditions - Chris cleaned everything in site (and few bits that were well hidden) - reassembed it and it all worked again perfectly.
:woohoo:
When all is said and done these guys made time on a busy Saturday to do an inpromptu job - (which they were in no way responsible for) and got me home for a nominal fee.
With tuners around like the APT guys we're in good hands :-D
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