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And who can blame him? Turbos rule :-) Superchargers are around £3.5K for a good Rotrex setup but it sounds like your mate prefers the character and power delivery of a turbo. Stealth Racing do a drive in - drive out fitted kit for £4K. You get 360hp @ 9psi and scope for shed loads more :-)
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Without seeing the cam maps for both, it's hard to say which is best. The American cams are all very similar in terms of lift, lobe seperation and overlap though. I suspect the 268s will have a little more overlap, which is good for NA and turbo, but not so good for S/C.
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£307 delivered, for a proven cam is a very good price to be fair. Everyone who's used them has been please. Smoother idle than stock in nearly all cases, stronger bottom end and stronger top end. Defo worth 300 notes :-)
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Ah OK. Probably best to go chip then! Or if you fancy a very steep learning curve, you could go standalone and map it yourself!! I would help you though as I run a standalone on my VR6. Once you've learned it and got used to it, you will never look at Motronic again :-) But definitely the cheap option is a chip though. C2 or Stealth can both send you a chip and help tune it over email from your VAG-COM logs.
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That's just a generic link mate, the forum automatically links certain words, like group buy, stealth etc etc I imported around 70 sets I think, over 2 Group buys and from memory they were less than £200 posted. The original GB has been deleted on the forum I hosted it on. The dollar was weaker back then and we bought a lot, so got a good deal. Sadly, that was the last GB they would do for us.
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My bad, it wasn't the C30-74. It was an SP something or other, so even smaller!. Sorry for the confusion!
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LOL, what a thread! I ran one of these Geekotec valves 10 years ago on my 16V and all I noticed was a loud and irritating sucking noise. Nothing else. If you notice a big improvement running one of these things, then the engine wasn't running properly in the first place and an air leak in the intake is just band aiding it. And in actual fact, you're supposed to run 2 of these things on the VR6 because of it's capacity (double the power, whoo hoo!) so I wouldn't listen to any reviews where 1 was used. Pure Snake Oil. That is all :-)
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Yep, way too small. A mate had one on his and didn't last long at all.
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$150 for a 90 degree pipe and a few silicon bits?! They make absolutely zero difference :-)
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Make the engine runnable out of the car??? You mean run it on a bench? Yeah you'll need the items you listed, plus a fuel supply obviously. OBD2 is a lot nicer than OBD1. Cheaper and more reliable MAF, far better idle control, far better closed loop control and many more measuring blocks are available to monitor in VAG-COM, which if you are going to turbo this engine, is absolutely essential imo. A very useful tuning tool is the logging. It even dumps your chosen channels into a handy Excel spreadsheet which you can forward onto your tuner if you're having running problems.
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I can fully endorse keeping it reliable but why go to all that trouble for 250-300hp? You can get that from an R32 install, or a basic Supercharger setup. Going turbo, make no mistake, is NOT cheap to make reliable. And I mean reliable to OE standards, not just lasting a few months then going bang. If you're spending that much on it you may aswell go for 350-400 bhp and have some fun! Brussels are dead set on killing off all the fun petrol engines by 2020, so enjoy it whilst it lasts!! Ideally matched turbos are GT3582, T60-1 or any T04S style. On the smaller side we have the GT3076
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Most people start with the cheapest and easiest option, which is a chip. The standard ECU is fine with those mods. Probably not worth the hassle of standalone but it depends what your local mappers are like? Are they good with Bosch ECUs?
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3 or 4 standard Corrado VR6s saw over 20hp gains from the Schimmel cams I bought in on the last Group Buy.
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Hi mate, soz for the delay, been busy! Can't see the pics as I'm at work but it'll be a tight 90, 30 then a normal 90. Tight 90 is 2 halves welded together and the normal 90 is mandrel bend.
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If you're only seeing 96 now, I wouldn't worry too much about a Mocal if it's a predominantly a road car. Track cars benefit from oil coolers but modern synthetics are fine up to 130-140 deg C. I have a Mocal 13 row in mine, but only because it's in a Corrado and they run 114 deg C just cruising at 80 mph as standard!!!
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It was a Vortech V9-F mate, which is not as punchy as the Rotrex!
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I do. I can run as lean as Lambda 1.16 at 80mph and 750 deg C EGT.
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I ran 321hp with those on 12psi supercharged and 400hp 11psi turbocharged. 3 bar reg on the Supercharger, 4 bar reg on the Turbo.
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Wideband isn't just a gauge, it's a method to adjust fuelling "on the fly". All VAG cars from 2000 onwards run Wideband as standard with the very reliable and very common Bosch LSU4.2 probe. All aftermarket WB kits use the same probe, but the control and calibration circuity varies in quality and therefore the quality of information supplied to the ECU can vary. You get what you pay for in other words. With a standalone you can use wideband to properly fuel the engine more efficiently, rather than just going rich, then lean, rich, lean, rich, lean like the standard narrowband does and
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Some bloke on the Corrado forum ran a 4 Motion lump from his old 12V ECU. Obviously you have to convert to a cable throttle but I think he used an offboard controller to run the VVT. It ran pretty well by all accounts. But as well as the factory ECU? I suspect not.
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Been offered a low comp forged and rebuilt engine, should I buy it?
FishWick replied to ASHLEYG's topic in Engine Tuning
268s have worked with Superchargers before but it depends on the overlap etc. Unlike a turbo, you can lose boost if the cams are too wild. -
Cool, good to know. Cheers mate.
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The reality is you will get 0% more power but they'll spit the "Up to..." caveat back in your face if you complain. I did try that New South one ages ago but it's really crap, only about 4mm thick and just falls apart. No drop intake temp at all. This one though, does work - http://www.dgautotech.com/dgauto/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=99&Itemid=86 It's 8mm thick IIRC and uses a pair of OE gaskets aswell. The New south spacer is a gasket AND spacer. I saw an average 8 deg C drop in intake air temp with a short runner manifold. But to say that drop in temp gives yo
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They use and have always used high impedance injectors. No one use low impeadance anymore.
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That is a perfect turbo for the 6 pot
