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Hi,

I got it mounted right now and it is fitting like a beauty

looks lke this mounted:



Now I´m courious how it is when drinving ... think I´m going to do a little test ride tomorrow

Cheers

Tobi

Hi, is the gap in the strut a 'tensioner'?... so you can tighten/slacken etc? good idea.....good job! rgrds rob Thx :) Yes at the gap it is a tensioner where you can tighten/slacken the strut, it´s just a thread at each end of the strut ( one left handed and the other one right handed ) where bolt ...

Hi again,

And now the brace in it´s final version



Think it´s looking quite good so far ... now it only needs to be mounted in the car

Cheers

Tobi

Hi Folks, I had again been a little bit busy today .. and the result is that I now have a nice strut brace for my 480 :) It´s hard to find a fitting one for a 480 here in german so I took a A3 one and did some cutting an welding ;) So that´s the result: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/tobi4...

Hi Martin,

hope you´re going to get it fixed quickly !

Cheers

Tobi

Hi,

there are only two relays behind the glove box, one is for the fuel pump and the other one is fot the lambda heating. So at both relays should be 12V when the car is running.

Cheers

Tobi

At the end you see then engine temperature is at 116 degrees ... Is that not cause for concern ... or am i just too sensible?! No I don´t think that it´s too hot, when I´m driving longer time at the Motorway my Oil temp also gets this high ... sometimes even a little bit higher ;) Should be fine...

Hi Martin, The Lambda sensor normallyhas 3 wires as you wrote 2 for the heater and one for the signal, earth normally is given by the exhaust. About your propblem, did you chek if the Lambda sond gets power at the heater? probably the relais is stuck ( located behind the glove compartement ). I also...

Hi,

that´s how my 480 is looking now from the back ( isn´t the best pic )



Cheers

Tobi

Hi, I somewhere have a 2L flywheel lying arround .. but havent found it yet. I can imagine that the 2L flywheel has different teeth compared to the B18 one cause it was usng a Siemens ECU if I remember correctly. If I find the flywheel I´ll also have a look on how it looks ... but as far as I remem...

Hi, my first car was a Toyota Corolla SR12V which I hab quite a while ... after that I had switched / test drinving to the 480 but it had some faults and was quite expensive ... so I decided to change to a Nissan Sunny *gg* But after some time I had the chance to buy the 480 which I had been driving...

Hi,
Rich , my mods and the 2L Engine gave me arround 354Nm of tourque ^^

Cheers

Tobi

Ah ok ... I see ... so thumbs up that everything is going quite well now

Cheers

Tobi

Hi @ all :) Hi again :) Yes you´re surely right ... 300+bhp with only two wheels wouldn´t be that much fun ... only for your tire dealer *lol* so I´m curious how the 4 wheel drive cenvertion is going to work, but at first the engine must be uo and running I thin or am I wrong ;) Hi to you again! ...

Hi,

proably stupid question,
but why did you change the intercooler ? did you have any probs with the standart one or was is faulty ?

Cheers

Hi again :) Yes you´re surely right ... 300+bhp with only two wheels wouldn´t be that much fun ... only for your tire dealer *lol* so I´m curious how the 4 wheel drive cenvertion is going to work, but at first the engine must be uo and running I thin or am I wrong ;) I have resent the Emails to y...

Hi folks,

did a nice little pic this evening of how a turbocharger is looking after sometime of full throtteling ... would probably be good to do a litlle barbecue on it *LOL*



Cheers

Tobi

Hi! good to read that everything is about to go on fine :) It´s looking more and more like a little bit crazy project *LOL* with lot´s of work an things which have to be done and many things to think about before they can be done ;) Did I read correctly that you want to try to build a 4 wheel driv...

Ok,

so then I´ll give it a try ^^

if the wiring loom is going to start burning I might have done something wrong*LOL*

Cheers

And again learned something new about the 480 and it´s adjustements :D Think I´ll give it a try tomorrow ... and have a look if it´s working ;) normally there are two connectors hanging arround at the alternator ? is it the same to just connect this two wires like the two pins at the ECU ? Cheers...