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  1. It's not the power that kills gearboxes, it's the torque. 3rd is a weak gear where the VW box is concerned when turboing the engine. It's usually when the tyres find grip again after a slip that causes the teeth to strip off. 350-400 wheel torque is pushing the boundaries, but it's useable on a daily basis so long as you don't do too many traffic light grand prix and are sensible with throttle openings. If you go to 500 wheel torque and over, then you need to look at a stronger gear sets or the O2M gearbox and haldex 4WD :-)
  2. FishWick

    ITBs

    Throttle response will be quite insane compared to standard due to the throttles being so close to the head. The brakes might suffer too as there won't be a vacuum resevoir for the servo, which you normally get from the stock intake. Just means you might have to press the pedal harder :-) Another common complaint of ITBs is they shift the torque curve much further up the rev range, but some folk like that. And another thing, the induction pulses will be radically different to normal so the familiar VR6 warble will missing at low to medium revs.
  3. Yep, LOL! To answer some questions:- Throttle cable - It's just the standard one. Road legal - Well I can't drive it if it isn't! Exhaust is 3" from turbo to back axle, where it mates up with the 2.25" SuperSprint system. When the car is up and running, I will get a 2.5" exhaust and 3" cat made up. The Cat will be Vband for quick DIY removal/refit.
  4. Cheers Tom. Saturn 4, LOL! My aim is to not lift the bonnet much after it's done ;-) Is the flex bellows going to be OK under the car (same as yours basically) like that as someone said they should only be on the vertical section of pipe?... but I've seen other cars with it on the horizontal....such as your car and my Missus's Rover 25! My thinking was that as it's right at the bottom of the 'shaped' part of the downpipe (rather than half way down the exhaust system), it should still bend as the engine tilts back and forth?
  5. OK chaps, a few more updates.... The down pipe is almost done. Just the lambda bosses and wastegate pipes to do and that's pretty much it. With the Lambdas (one for ECU, one for Wideband A/F) I've moved them 20" away from the turbo to prevent them from overheating. 12" is the minimum really, but you can get lambda heatsinks if you can't move them away far enough. I've basically done one on each side of the pipe. To help my welder and keep the boss in the right place, I shaped the bosses to the pipe shape. More of the downpipe.... This was my original plan with the Lambdas, but the one
  6. Cheers Tom! That's all stuff I can play with in the future. Just looking forward to getting the darn thing running first, LOL!
  7. I spoke to Storm about their kit and they were extremely harsh towards Vortech, which I found very unprofessional and a bit below the belt, but there are reasons why they failed with the Vortech which I won't go into on here. The Rotrex C30 is VERY noisy. You think Vortechs are loud, you haven't heard anything yet! However, they deliver great boost, even in stage 1 form. Loads more boost low down than the Vortechs, but it keeps climbing and climbing which will be a big problem if you don't lower the comp - as one customer at stealth found out. It blew the head gasket at 15psi....was up to
  8. I would fit some uprated the valve springs, the Schrick 268 ones are perfect for the job. Rest of the head is fine as it is. When you're exceeding 25psi, then you'll need to start looking getting more air in with larger valves, cams and flowing etc....but generally most restrictions in the intake can simply be overcome by turning the boost up a little to compensate.
  9. Nice gauge Tom. Is EGT monitoring essential or just a nice to have? I guess any sudden rise in exhaust temp spells trouble? Where abouts would you plumb in the sensor? Might have to look into that. I found the spacer and engine mechanicals the easiest part so far, the other faffing about is proving time consuming and complicated....such is the way with custom stuff! RCF - should have a few more pics this weekend. Regarding Supers versus Turbos, all I'll say (having already tried the super already) is if you like midrange clout, a turbo is probably better for you. Just don't do what I di
  10. Yeah I will keep you abrest of any kit developments from Schimmel. It won't be anything like as cheap as £2210+VAT though unfortunately, but it will be Garrett GT based though for good power and quick spool up. It's nothing in concrete at this stage, just something he mentioned to me during conversation. The VR6 is a very tough engine, VW had diesel in mind when they designed it, so is relatively over-engineered to cope, but obviously the diesel VR never materialised. It can take a lot of boost so long as it doesn't see any detonation. Schimmel not only bores out his 2.8 blocks to 3.0 (th
  11. Horses for courses. Some people like the car to do everything for them :-) But I agree, you need to feel where the outer limits are to prepare for the consequences if you push your luck. With cars that do it all for you, there's a limit to what they can prevent from happening - it's physics after all - and when they go, they go, big style :-) I was going to say the MK5 R32 has nasty wheels and a horrid, tacky grille but you beat me to it! The thing with 'nose heavy' is that most people assume it automatically means more understeer, but it's not true. Take the Corrado VR6 for instance. Yo
  12. DP flexi pipe (aka "Flex bellows") I got from Schimmel for 35 bucks. There just weren't any at all in the UK when I needed one. V Band 'kit' I also got from Shcimmel for about $30 IIRC. Comes with the clamp and 2 weld on rings. AET turbos also sell them, but at £41+VAT a kit though. They're Clampco ones and very good quality. I got the Innovate LC-1 from Schimmel also and it was $199. I've also got the Innovate XD16 wideband A/F meter to go with it, but I bough that from the UK. Can't remember how much that was, but it wasn't cheap from the UK, that's for sure!! Yes the LC1 comes wit
  13. As for the R32, well they may be a rare sight on the road but I found them to be sluggish on turn in and way to nose heavy to be a "Hot Hatch" class vehicle and no disrespect intended but they are nice to sit in but boring to drive, sorry. The latest GTI however is great fun and feels nimble on its feet, maybe on paper performance isnt up to much but the real world drive feels great. The R32 shouldn't have a dull turn-in with the amount of caster it runs! Maybe the rack just isn't as quick as your Honda's? I found the CTR turned in a bit too quickly for my liking, making it very fidgety on ba
  14. Welcome aboard :-) The Innovate LCI is a digital wideband lambda controller. It's daisy chainable for connecting multiple innovate gadgets together (Wideband A/F meters etc) and it also has a 0-1V analogue output to feed the ECU with, so it's quite versatile.
  15. A chap on the Corrado forum has the EIP series 1 kit with a T70 turbo and the manifold flange was in completely the wrong place for it, so had to get it modified. Other than that, it went on with no major issues and made 360whp with the stock MAF etc etc. Plenty more to come from that as yet, once he decides what management to use - Stock remap or standalone. Schimmel will be branching out into the kit market soon and will be making some RHD specific kits. Yours truly will be helping out with the manifold development :-) So don't rush in and get the EIP is all I'm saying ;-) The quality o
  16. Cheers :-) I can't believe how long this is taking, LOL! Yeah my welder is tops, but he's quite elusive, so it's taking a while to piece together, but end to end, he only wants £50, can't grumble at that! I was speaking to Grant at AET about the blanket (he with the 2.75 second 0-60mph Green MK1 Golf!!) and he says it's good for 200-300rpm quicker spool and a 50-60% reduction in radiated heat. He knows his stuff so I wasn't going to question the bold claims!! The only downside is the cost, £135 :-( It's made of very exotic materials and considering no OE turbo engines are lagged what
  17. OK, a few more piccies to prove I haven't been sitting on my arse, LOL! In between brief flirtations of downpipe manufacture, I've fitted the chargecooler heat exchanger. This beasty was custom made by Setrab for the Corrado's lower bumper grille - the core is exactly the same width as the grille, awesome :-) This part was time consuming. Bumper on and off 20 times for alignment, a slight mod to the front panel and a little bit of cutting of the bumper iron with an angle grinder. All easy stuff, but time consuming! Here's what it looks like with the bumper on. It's totally invisible exter
  18. Cheers Tom. Yeah the FMU will get me to stealth or least until you sort me out with the OBD2 code :-) I love faffing about with different methods and gadgets and the BEGi is an absolutely stunning peice of kit. When I'm done with it, it will be mounted in a glass cabinet, LOL!
  19. OK I'll persevere with the 4 then. Next Q.... can the stock software run OK with a bigger MAF body or does it need remapping to suit?
  20. FishWick

    VR top speed ?

    Standard VR gearing will give 172mph at 7000rpm, if you've got the grunt ;-) Stock Corrados pull 146 (genuine) all day long as they're much better aerodynamically and when I had my schrick and cams on it, I had the needle resting on the stop past 160mph, which according to the GPS was 152mph.....Corrados have a higher rev limit. Golf VRs with healthy motors should see a genuine 140ish flat out.
  21. LOL! The downpipe is a complete f'cker to make lying on your back with the car 15 inches off the ground!! I wish I had a hydraulic lift! It's nearly there, got the angles right, just waiting for my welder to tig them together....he's bit of a part timer! The delay is also down to the UK having no 3" flex bellows (the Evo / Scoob boys keep buying them up), so one from the states will arrive on Thursday. In the meantime I've fitted the Schimmel heat exchanger to the front, which was also a lengthy task, but super neat and invisible :-) Question - My compressor inlet is 4", but the gap from eng
  22. The carbon tracks inside the throttle position sensor could be worn if the revs are sporadic, otherwise cable as mentioned already. The 2.9 cable quadrant is different to the 2.8 one, so you need to make sure the cable is set correctly with enough free slack. If you look at the TPS in VAG-COM's measuring blocks with the igntion on, the throttle angle should increase smoothly. If it jumps up in blocks, it's worn out. Also make sure you've got 90 degrees at full throttle and <14 at rest.
  23. Variable timing, variable intake, a bit more gas flow and a better ECU all add up! I still prefer the 12V though.
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