olly elworthy

yeah i will have a play with that spare loom i have,,

i see from vehicle wiring products you can buy the terminals,, so i may do that, and put new wiring and terminals heat protected into my original connector blocks,, just happens i have a spare digi harness lying about to rob bits from,,

thanks for the info stevo29 :thumb right:

no,, did have K star on one of them for a while but removed it after the warm up regulator mod was done,,

also you know the linkage on the throttle body on a G60 that joins the main butterflys to the boost return butterfly,, are the plastic connections available seperately?!?!

yeap,, has one connector from the ECU then one plug to each injector,, mine looks a bit brittle for my liking,,

does anyone know if this part is available as a complete piece new from VAG? and if so what is the part number,, as i want to replace mine,, Thanks

and a tubular exhaust manifold,,

anyone explain this? whats it all about?

all good, done 220 miles so far not boosting,, even so its noticibly more eager to rev and more responsive, only been up to 4k revs,, now i have to sort my fuelling out and all will be good,, think i am gonna be busy with my wideband this weekend!!! :wink:

yeah also we were running a magnex back box on the golf with a twin tail exit,, there is a metal plate in the exhaust with 2 holes in it when you go from 1 pipe to two within the box,, the gasses come out of the one pipe and smack straigt into this plate before exiting,, the silencers buckle with the heat at this point and eventually crack,, yeah as aposegil says you do need the 2 1/2 inch system for decent power

I only write of my experiences,, and your car is very impressive with the torque figures and the 1/4 mile times,, chris mc has the throttle bodied car now and ill get him to put a post or two up on here,, what i meant about the holding back was that when we changed from a magnex exhaust to a supersprint 60mm system we gained 10 brake with another re map,, the air could get into the engine but not out aswell as it should of been able to,,

give it a go :thumbleft:

even on a std KR you can run 9-11 degrees, i say try a bit mopre timing you might be surprised,, :wink: it will not neccessarily make loads more power but will improve the responsiveness no end,,

Mine is a 9A with KR cams, I've tidied up the ports and matched the manifolds, basically I have done my best at a DIY gas flowed head and manifolds. It has a magnex cat back system and still has a cat, beleive it or not I prefer it's power with the cat - I've swapped between cat and cat bypass several times. Mine made 162bhp and 152Ibft with the ignition timing at 6 deg BTDC, I've since advanced it to 8 deg and noticed an improvement, particularly in mid range power. From what you are saying I could gain more by advancing to 11-13 deg. I will have a go over the next week or so. Do you reckon there is more power to be gained from mine, or do you think the timing advance you mention is only really right with Schricks? By the way I had Schrick 268/276 cams in it for a month or so, got nowhere with them, coincedently I was doing this at the same time as GVK on club GTI, who also gave up on them. magnex exhaust held are throrttle bodied car back 10 brake,, the back box design is appauling, i have a thread on here somehwere about it,, GVK didn`t give those cams a chance and he did not have a 4 branched manifold to work with them,,,,,,,

APOSEGIL the one on throttle bodies makes 199.7 ATF on steaths rollers , IMOH its not the injection that holds these cars back for this very reason,, same day Ian b`s made 201,,, the new one should be ready after christmas then i will post up full figures etc for all to see and we will be at inters for 1/4 miles too,, Nice spec on your engine there,, what cams were you using? the shricks really are the icing on the cake on these engines,, your torque figure all the same though is very impressive :wink:

9A,, brand new short block from VW £950 exchange,, I then fitted raceware con rod bolts, doing another one for my mate at the mo but on a rebuilt bottom end,, and that will be 200 bhp too,, also ian b`s engine is just the same,, (a rebuilt bottom end with arp con rod bolts, shrick cams, 4 branch 2 1/2 inch exhaust flowed inlet manifold,,) as for ignition tuning on all the cars of similar spec the ignition is not remapped just the base timing value increaced to around 11 - 13 degrees,, you will find it hard to get a 9a to pink,, power in fact starts dropping off before this happens,, anything you want to know just ask as i will know,, :D

why would you ever want to do this, (change from K jet to digi?) I have built cars with 200 BHP (2ltr flowed head, shrick 268 276`s and all the trimmings) on K jet,, and costs nothing apart from adjusting the system control pressure to 48 psi on a warm engine by adjusting the screw under the cap on the back of the warm up regulator,, and then a good tune,, easy peasy

yeap the old do it once do it properly strategy never fails :D

hey mike did you get your car set up yesterday then? :D

autometer guages from e-gauges.com get my vote

had an old mk1 gti (my bros) with 160 thousand miles on the clock that used to do this and that was valve guides,,

valve guide seals? iol seeping in the bores overnight!?!?!

40 NM then 60NM then 90 degrees then 90 degrees again

just thought i`d tell you all that i have fitted my big valve head and cam :D just doing some gentle running in at the mo :wink: