Mine ought to hit a good 200 bhp at the wheels in the nearish future, although I can't run propane for a while
To tell the truth you never notice any lag as the power band is so smooth. You can realy feel the turbo pulling by 2500rpm and by 3700rpm i have 300+bhp which holds all the way to 5700rpm.is the lag big? at what rpm the turbo begins to pull
great car, congrats
after the pm I just missed this thread, anyway, glad to see things are this good with the car mickey,,,
VT5 can hold 2.2 constant and 2.6 peak??????
I wouldn't like to see the intake temps tho,,, pay attention to them if you raise the boost, with such sky high pressures guess you can start thinking of a charge cooler.
btw, on normal daily driving do you use just diesel, diesel+lpg, diesel+nos, coal+nos,,, or what?
btw mate, how many gauges you got in that car? do you still have space for your missus in there????
I want a pic of the interior,,,
Devonmikeyboy. Your project is really fascinating. I live very near Honiton and regularly compete at Wiscombe. Looking at the regs I could run a TDI in the up to 1400 cc production class provided that the fuel is 100% diesel. I am looking at either a Leon FR TDI or even waiting for the TT when it comes out.
What sort of power do you reckon is realistic staying on just diesel fuel.
Presumably the DSG version could not stand too much tuning?
Pardon me if I missed the info, but did you have to change the inter-cooler?
Would be interested to talk to you directly to hear your thoughts on tuning for hill climbing.
Regards
Devonmikeyboy. Your project is really fascinating. I live very near Honiton and regularly compete at Wiscombe. Looking at the regs I could run a TDI in the up to 1400 cc production class provided that the fuel is 100% diesel. I am looking at either a Leon FR TDI or even waiting for the TT when it comes out.
What sort of power do you reckon is realistic staying on just diesel fuel.
Presumably the DSG version could not stand too much tuning?
Pardon me if I missed the info, but did you have to change the inter-cooler?
Would be interested to talk to you directly to hear your thoughts on tuning for hill climbing.
Regards
How do you run a 1896cc TDI in the up to 1400cc category?
it's all to do with multipliers for tdi's & turbo's
For a Diesel turbo you multiply by 0.7 (though this might change with reg's)
Devonmikeyboy - Thanks for your info - I would be running the 2.0 litre 170 bhp DPF engine. Would be useful to talk to you directly some time as you are so near - what's the best way to get in contact - if you do not mind?
For the others - the hillclimb regs for the SW championship are that the diesel capacity is multiplied by 0.7 - but must be straight diesel.
BTW the attraction of the new TT i(when and if it goes diesel) s that it is lighter, better balanced and has a lower CoG.
Regards to all
Until somebody finds a way to remove the DPF without the ECU going into limp mode you are basically screwed when it comes to getting serious power from that engine other then having a 200bhp-ish remap. There are no uprated injectors on the market yet for that engine and believe me it`s a real pain in the ass and bloody expensive to try and get a set of custom injectors made when nobody has ever done them before.