Chris Wilson

Probably the air sealant foam from around the heater matrix breaking down, wouldn't worry about it if the heater blows hot.

I'm still here, with two Supra TT's in for work, but I am tied up with stuff, partly due to the Chinese Virus and other things, so I have been negligent with forum posts. i haven't deviated over to Facebook however. I hope all are staying well and bering up in these trying times.

Thanks for taking the trouble to post that. It is where one would expect it to be entering the loom, but on this car it's certainly not there. I have offered to do a centre off switch and 2 relays to manually control the thing, I am not wanting to get into a loom change, that's for sure Thanks again, very kind of you, cheers.

There's a multi pin socket on about 2 inches of free loom factory taped up behind where the clock is, with a factory looking blanking cap on it, but no way would it reach the ecu, and connector is wrong anyway. Can't find anything else. Is there a short loom missing perhaps from this white socket to the spoiler ecu? Of course it also has a rat's nest of alarm and fancy stereo wiring hanging by insulting tape and hope to navigate through....

No, factory J Spec TT auto, will look again when I have calmed down.... Thanks Keron!

I have a Jap spec TT auto car in and the owner wants an active spoiler, that he's supplied, fitted. The spolier is on, and the plug under the right hand head lamp was there and is now plugged in, but I am damned if I can find the plug behind the centre console for the little spoiler ECU. Has anyone come across a car where it was missing? Thanks.

Thanks, I have sent you a PM

Surviving on bottled beers, but missing the social side. I usually take one or two dogs when I go to the pub, and they were young ones, so i am hoping when I venture back (soon....) they have maintained their good behaviour, adolescents can soon revert to being badly behaved in public places. The dogs certainly miss going out as much, I was talking on the phone to my pal and I asked if he had been to the pub yet. as soon as the P word was uttered they were wagging their tails and heading for the place their leads are kept. So I am not the only one here gasping Glad all is well and understand your concern for your wife. Stay safe. Seems China are already issuing vaccines to officials over there, if I were to don my tinfoil hat I would wonder if they intend beating everyone with a commercial product and what inside data they have on the Chinese Virus to be pretty sure they have a viable one.... This country, as well as many others, need to become more commercially independent again, even if costs rise. but I doubt once this is over if we / they will have learnt their lessons. It could even be like the previous coronavirus whereby it fizzles out making the commercial development costs unviable before the world sees a safe vaccine... the whole affair has been as much political as medical. And the statisticians have once again shown that they talk a lot of bull, like when they predicted election and referendum results

Yes, I am still around, avoiding the Chinese Virus and disappointing Shropshire landlords with my stay away from the pub philosophy at the moment You and yours OK Frank?

Thanks Frank, just let me know if you find it and we can sort something out, cheers and take care,.

I am looking for all the mounting brackets and rubber grommets for a stock SMIC and a stock plastic duct. I can arrange collection by courier after completed payment. Thanks. Please e-mail me at [email protected] if you have anything.

Remember folks, it's also the ducting. Toyota ducted it fully and exited the air into the very low pressure wheel arch region. 90% plus FMIC installations are not ducted, over half have a portion of the core useless and out of the frontal air stream. Air will flow the path of least resistance, if it can go around, instead of THROUGH the core, it will...

He needs two on the sides (intercoolers) then I can flog him another

Thanks Andrew, I am pleased it's still giving good service. I have one customer who had one sat on his desk as a talking point for six months, he said it was at least as beautiful as his wife. (I haven't met his wife though.... )

well, I can't go to the pub as it's shut, so I thought I'd see who is still about here

I have customers running well over 500 BHP and two over 600BHP, in Oz and the USA.

I never comment on other trader's products, it opens a can of worms. Suffice to say the cores are to the same spec as used on F1 turbos, and the build quality is the same, and done in the same place, by the same people that build F1 intercoolers.I hope the photos speak for themselves.

I have just sent some IC's abroad and have received tentative enquiries for two more, so if you are thinking of replacing that ratty stock mount IC with a state of the art new one with a modern core with current tech air to tube surface area enhancements, now is the time. Circa £995 depending on quantity. All replies by direct e-mail only please, or here, no PM's!! [email protected] Photos of one of those just shipped here: http://www.chriswilson.tv/intercooler.zip

Thanks for the kind words. There is an "unofficial" way of helping fit the dust boots on the UK spec calipers, told to me by someone who rebuilds a hundred times more calipers than i do. It is to use a bit of Super Glue on the seals where they sit on the bodies where the round clips go over. the boots and the caliper bodies need to be totally clean and dry, like you seem to have done so well in the photos. It dries, as you probably know, in seconds, and greatly helps stop the dust boots slipping off. The other issues is the calipers corrode and what was a true square shouldered, albeit low height, section where the seals sit becomes angled. Looks like you took cleanliness as seriuysly as you need to for these jobs and the results look superb, thanks again, glad to have helped. Take care and all the best.

I can do seals no problem, from stock, pistons too, but would need a sample. If the pistons are two different sizes I would need a sample of one of each. I can return them undamaged, (or at least in the same state they arrive... ). PM sent.

Whitworth is one of the best thread forms ever invented for soft materials, there are plenty of odd ball metric threads around Renault used to like M7 in transmissions, I must be the only person in the UK with an M7 Helicoil kit. My engineering merchant reckoned they had never ever sold one until I came along and it was special order only. Only 24 out of 25 inserts left to use...

Now what is it they say a bad workman blames? To be truthful there's not a tool in my arsenal I haven't cussed at a few times! Some just don't want to come out of their box these days, such is their fear. Yes I am talking about you, the metric calipers, damned foreigners with their funny system. Metric indeed.

Yep, it's amazing what someone who knows what they are doing can create on one. (I am not one of those elevated souls... )

They only do what you punch in to the key pad

I won't mention some of things I found my Bridgeport universal milling machine could do (but shouldn't), that weren't on the YouTube videos.... "Speed, feed and correct tooling, cooling and cutting fluid" are now something I ask myself before even starting The dead cutting tool box was impressively full back when I first got it!