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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by bam_bam » Mon Sep 12, 2016 10:43 am

IanH755 wrote:Image
Fail, missing dust cap.
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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by IanH755 » Mon Sep 12, 2016 10:51 am

Nope, it's a black metal dust cap which has had the paint worn of the edges showing the gold colour underneath.

I'll be going back to black plastic ones as the Halford specials currently fitted are all "damaged" like that, every single one!
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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by IanH755 » Sat Oct 15, 2016 12:03 am

Found a picture my garage took of my new AP 410mm discs vs the old AP 390mm ones they took off which had been cooked by a mix of several trackdays and then 5 months of 900hp - I don't think they are supposed to look like that :shock: :mrgreen:

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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by stevo55 » Sat Oct 15, 2016 2:16 pm

IanH755 wrote:Found a picture my garage took of my new AP 410mm discs vs the old AP 390mm ones they took off which had been cooked by a mix of several trackdays and then 5 months of 900hp - I don't think they are supposed to look like that :shock: :mrgreen:

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My old BMW M135i had the M Performance brakes fitted (around £2.5k but came with the car which was a bonus) and they also looked similar with tiny hairline cracks in the discs itself. I flagged this to BM who stated that it was due to increased thermal load and didn't affect the integrity of the disc in any way (or it could be them just wiggling out of paying out for new discs). They still worked well and were a step up from the (already good) OEM default brakes.
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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by IanH755 » Sat Oct 15, 2016 6:19 pm

The 390mm discs were filled with micro-cracks from the 1st trackday but the cracks had started to get big enough to feel with your nail which is "oh poop" territory :D
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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by chunky79 » Sat Oct 15, 2016 7:51 pm

IanH755 wrote:Busy day up at Unit20 in the Wirral -

10k Servicing
Gearbox Service
Rear Diff Oil re-fill
New engine undertray fitted
Front suspension arm noise located (to be dealt with next month)
DRC suspension leak found (to be dealt with next month)

Other than the servicing bits, we found that the creaking/clunking noise was from the suspension arms and that the DRC leak, which was a slight weep a month ago, has now stopped (yay) but the flexible pipes are very badly corroded and need replacing before it can be re-pressurised (boo) so, with 100k miles on them, it'd be rude not to replace the struts at the same time for a complete suspension refresh (yay-me/boo-wallet).
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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by chunky79 » Sat Oct 15, 2016 7:51 pm

Ps, your cars looks smart.
previous- Pug 205 gti, 306 gti, 309 gti Goodwood.
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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by IanH755 » Sat Oct 15, 2016 9:52 pm

Yeah I like Unit20, they still care about customer service and doing the job right the first time, although knowing Grizz he'd still be like that even if he had a 50 bay workshop earning millions!
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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by IanH755 » Sat Dec 24, 2016 1:50 pm

F**********************************************************************************CK!

As a "Happy Christmas" present my car has decided to do something catastrophic, involving the No1 Cylinder and a whole bunch of burnt oil! I'm in the process of stripping the intakes down and pulling the No1 plug out when my shitty luck continued.

Not only does my spark plug tool not fit, not only has the locking part of the coil-pack plug dropped somewhere into the engine bay (supposed to stay attached) but I've also somehow managed to drop a little spring from my pliers down the intake pipe past my blue-roll "blocker" (1 squillion to one shot!) and it's now sitting nicely infront of the turbo blades (hence the boroscope shot of the turbo), which should be fun getting out if it's not magnetic!

Once I get to Halfords for a new spark plug tool on boxing day I'll eventually take the plug out and boroscope the cylinder to see whats happening and see why the plug isn't firing properly. I did notice the Crankcase Vent pipe line from the oil separator to the turbo's is dripping with fresh oil when it should only have vapour residue, not good!

Anyway Happy Christmas Everyone :D

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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by bam_bam » Sat Dec 24, 2016 3:10 pm

Oh dear. Don't worry, you've still got 9 more cylinders, one more than us lowly V8 drivers.
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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by IanH755 » Sat Dec 24, 2016 3:35 pm

..............and a James Bond smoke screen to save me from speed cameras too! :D
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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by IanH755 » Thu Dec 29, 2016 6:05 pm

So got the spring out yesterday

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and got my 16mm spark plug socket today and whipped the plug out (extremely surprised to see an OEM plug too!). It looks OK with no damage, it's just coated in oil stopping it firing -

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And the boroscope, despite being producing an absolutely awful pic, doesn't show any obvious signs of damage, just more oil burning, so the oil doesn't look to be coming past the rings so it must be coming coming down through the heads which makes me think Valve Stem Oil Seal but the boroscope pics aren't clear enough to be absolutely sure -

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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by bam_bam » Thu Dec 29, 2016 11:19 pm

Kinda good news, innit? What are the implications of having to work on the heads, since they're off would you have them flowed or sommit?
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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by IanH755 » Fri Dec 30, 2016 11:44 am

There's a few options for some CNC head work (NG Motorsport, CNC Heads, PPR Motorsport) but they're all a minimum of £2k and until I get a rough idea of how bankrupt fixing this will make me I can't commit to anything yet, but I'm still doing research anyway ;)
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Re: IanH's C6 RS6 900+ spec

Post by bam_bam » Fri Dec 30, 2016 8:11 pm

The mental manual had the heads ported and flowed. It wasn't cheap but the results were pretty hard to dismiss. Seems like the thing to do if one side is off.
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