Big thanks goes out to Piggie for slaving over my car all day!
06-18-2005, 05:15 PM
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Big thanks goes out to Piggie for slaving over my car all day!
First order of business was making me a Piggie MBC #000 with bleed hole and installing it in place of my JoeP MBC, which was in parallel with the N75. I now have no N75 in the loop, much happier with this setup. Part throttle is still great, no matter what people say about MBC only negatively affecting it, and I taper less up top.
After that, Piggie welded my entire Milltek 3" single cat-back to try and eliminate the awful shreiking sounds I experience at WOT above ~4,500 RPM. Unforunately, this didn't solve the problem. However, it did eliminate a lot of clamps and makes fitment much easier. We still aren't able to pinpoint the cause of said noise at WOT, but we're starting to think it's just a fact of life with a restrictive Milltek 3" exhaust. Several others are experiencing this sound with the same cat-back when chipped or beyond. However, Mike2KS4 is making serious power and has not documented any odd noises at WOT. Who knows!? I wish I could eliminate this noise. Maybe I'll have to modify my exhaust or get a different one eventually.
Next, Piggie attempted to fix my oil leak (somewhere around driver's side turbo) for at least an hour. It's still leaking and nobody can seem to figure out where it is coming from. Next step might be pulling the engine to take a closer look :-/
Then, Piggie adjusted my short shifter becuase it was a tad too notchy. Pretty easy, but worth mentioning. ;-)
Finally, Piggie resurfaced my front rotors and pads. I FUBAR'd them pretty good at my last track event, was having some serious vibrations under any braking ever since. It's much improved now!
After that, Piggie welded my entire Milltek 3" single cat-back to try and eliminate the awful shreiking sounds I experience at WOT above ~4,500 RPM. Unforunately, this didn't solve the problem. However, it did eliminate a lot of clamps and makes fitment much easier. We still aren't able to pinpoint the cause of said noise at WOT, but we're starting to think it's just a fact of life with a restrictive Milltek 3" exhaust. Several others are experiencing this sound with the same cat-back when chipped or beyond. However, Mike2KS4 is making serious power and has not documented any odd noises at WOT. Who knows!? I wish I could eliminate this noise. Maybe I'll have to modify my exhaust or get a different one eventually.
Next, Piggie attempted to fix my oil leak (somewhere around driver's side turbo) for at least an hour. It's still leaking and nobody can seem to figure out where it is coming from. Next step might be pulling the engine to take a closer look :-/
Then, Piggie adjusted my short shifter becuase it was a tad too notchy. Pretty easy, but worth mentioning. ;-)
Finally, Piggie resurfaced my front rotors and pads. I FUBAR'd them pretty good at my last track event, was having some serious vibrations under any braking ever since. It's much improved now!
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06-18-2005, 08:03 PM
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Dammit, want mine to go away. Maybe they changed design at some point or something?
I can't figure out any other explanation. <shrug>
I might throw on a stock exhaust and see what hapepns to test.
I might throw on a stock exhaust and see what hapepns to test.