mrbeige

Bringing one up might not be a bad idea dude :D

I think it needs to be a funk load lower than that :lol:

I think Bike carbs are the way forward. A mate of mine stuck GXR carbs on his 9A engine and saw 174bhp from a standard block with KR cams :D Dooooooo iiiiiittttt !!!

*Shudder* Good work Sukh :D

I think I've just cum :lol:

Lol. Cheers! going to try to get the paint cut back, then work out which panels need paint soon. Picked up some new wheels from Shaggy today (Cheers Fay). Mocked one up and quite like it... Going to touch the wheels up a bit before fitting them, but thy're a far better base than my old speedies. They look rather sexual! Mmmmm thinking black speelines on Mrs B's Golf would look rather good :wave:

I know that flusted had a modified exhaust cam for inlet, but not sure if he retained that when he went 16v G60??

Shit me, that's a funk load of boost. To be fair I'm not surprised it blew the welds running that :nuts:

Good work :)

Indeed :thumb right: And indeed again, but it all depends on your target horse power and ultimately your budget.

Well, you could use the standard inlet, as per the TT kit, but then why have long runners in a turbo application? This is the reason for 90% of 16vT builds I've seen use either fabricated alloy manifolds or modified S2/1.8T ones. Unless you are going down the the 500bhp+ route, a modified/welded manifold will be perfectly adequate. All you would be doing is totally over engineering one part of the system that doesn't really require it. Surely, you're money would be much better spent on pistons or rods or exhaust manifold

Well, in most 16vT applications you wont see anywhere near that! :cuckoo:

Erm, 2 bar is a funk load of boost! 29 psi which is LOADS :lol:

I think that wrapping the exhaust mani would make a huuuuge difference to under bonnet temps and exhaust scavenging. Indeed, it would further reduce any heat transfer to the inlet manifold. That coupled with thermal insulators could be the way forward. Also, surely the design/manufacture of a performance type modification like an exhaust manifold shouldn't suffer from failure if they are wrapped? Surely from a pure performance angle, wrapping should be encouraged?

No longer the student then?

When you say air box, do you mean the standard one? If so, having the box cut open would draw in more warm air from the bay, wouldn't it? I've seen some people put the air filter behind the liner in the wheel arch, with the pipe to it coming up through the hole where the carbon canister normally sits, do you think moving the air filter down there might help with lower intake air temps. Also, what about using one of those thermal manifold gaskets that stop heat being transferred through from exhaust manifold into the head then from the head into the inlet? I found a company called Ferriday Engineering that do them for around £45 each, for the PD block! :dorky: I mean for the sake of under £100, it must be worth a shot? Is you exhaust manifold heat wrapped as well?

If you find Crooksey's members gallery, he has a modded 1.8T inlet. Not too sure if he has a picture of it on its own. There is a guy on Ed38 with a Passat 16vT as well, with a 1.8T manifold, but I'm not sure if he welded on a fabricated flange or not..... Standard manifold (this is the one I have) Found a pic of his manifold....

Hmm, do you have any sort of cold air feed? Or is the Air filter in the normal position?

I'd check that the garage have re cambered that side. There will have had the bottom ball joint off the wishbone that mounts to it with three bolts in slotted holes, so the camber could be out, although not by a lot. (You may have a knackered steering rack to be fair, they are known to be quite bad for sloppiness)

See, that's exactly what I thought when reading the article about he 205 in PPC, but if it wheel spins when going into 3rd, I'd think that that isn't the case. They did say there was next to no lag.

I was reading an article in PPC the other week, about a 205 turbo'd in this way and it goes against all normal turbo 'thinking'.....but, in the 205, there was next to zero turbo lag. The exhaust system will always be pressurised, so there is no need to build up the pressure in the system. Also the exhaust gases have cooled quite a lot by the time they reach the turbo, and thus they run more efficiently, and as the inducted charge goes from the the compressor back to the engine, underneath the car, the air passing by cools it on route and thus there is no need for an intercooler. Therefore no pressure drop there. Plus the air inducted into the turbo isn't going to be at under bonnet temperatures! Makes perfect sense to me. :D

My pleasure to assist in lighting up your life, Mic :D :lol:

If it all goes wrong, I have one too :)

I don't know much about Schrick cams, but a mate of mine was running one of G-werks chargers, one that had had a LOT of work done porting it and found that when he was running a Piper cam it had good power, but when he went back to a standard cam, as the overlap was less it made a shed load more power. I think due to the over lap a lot of the boost was going straight out of the exhaust valves. What is the overlap like on those Schrick cams?

One word....PHAT 8)