The Maroon Marauder failed it's MOT today, slightly gutted (put a fair bit of time in sorting ABS and Engine management light issues and replacing front quarter panel (rotted) and passeger front door (arguement with a bollard)) but not that surprised...she's getting a bit long in the tooth afterall.
Failed on:
Driver side repeater not working (have spare - 1 min job)
Handbrake need adjusting (oops! meant do that before putting it in)
CV gaitor split (have spare already)
All bits I can do myself this weekend. No Problem.
But here's the kicker(s)...Also Failed on:
Exhaust blowing from major hole in centre
Mix rich, unable to maintain steady fast idle (reported by MOT fella there's a slight misfire as well)
I think the rich mix is from a botched PCV replacement where I must have not seated the inlet manifold properly or goosed the gasket. Will get a new gasket and try re-seating it this week. Anyone think this could cause the unsteady fast idle? Or could this be a dodgy throttle link? (it's got a bit of slop, but has always been like that)...
Now for the fun bit... I've decided to finally give back the love and start uprating, well Everything! First step is the exhaust obviously. Best deal I've found so far is £365 delivered for a Scorpion system (EBay). I knows some of you have/had fitted the same. Any advice? I have a single exit zaust on at the mo - how difficult is it to fit a twin pipe system? Is there much difference between the two? Any places you know of selling these systems other than E-Bay? Any comments or feedback would be welcome.
Cheers.
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