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  1. FishWick
    Oh dear... I'm afraid that's poly for you mate. Poly is about as forgiving as a rozza that's rumbled you doing 110mph. The front VF mount you can get away with as the cross member it sits on is isolated by 4 rubber bushes....but the rear and gearbox ones will transmit mucho vibration as they're directly bolted to the subframe, which is in turn directly bolted to the floor with no noise suppression medium. This is why VW used such soft mounts on the VR because it's not the smoothest of engines when pushed. Unfortunately, just uprating the front puts too much load on the rear standard mount
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    £200 I'm sorry to say will barely touch a VR! Stealth have found that a BMC CDA filter liberated 7hp on a Golf VR once, and it costs about £160ish IIRC.
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    It won't show up as a gain on the rollers but it will improve throttle response and top end vigour.
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    I remember the article fourmotion linked. He did exhaustive back-to-back testing of standard v Shrek v EIP and the shrek won by miles....mainly because the Shrek is designed to improve torque and the EIP one is just to improve air flow rate, which will only improve the top end. As binliner says, EIP's is just a copy of our 2.9 manifold.....they cut up and plate 2.8 mannies and make em pretty...
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    That is one very well prepared MK2! Well done. That's what I like about turbos.... they're quieter and the torque usually matches, or exceeds, the power.
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    The figures speak for themselves regarding dropping the MAF. The ECU can obviously run the engine without a MAF easily enough, I mean they die often enough don't they? It seems that Vince's software allows him to circumvent the MAF tables altogether and just focus on the low, mid and high fuel tables alone, which seemed to work in this case......but I spoke to him yesterday when he was working on another Stage 3 Golf and the MAF'less map wasn't working......bum holes....:-(
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    Actually, I forgot..... to get the 'true' mpg if you're stage 2 and higher, take 40% off the reading as the injector duty cycles are 40% shorter than standard. So my 57mpg at 70mph is actually 35....so fun me....it's about the same if not better than a standard 2.9 :-)
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    I use my Supercharged VR daily and it's quite the drinker, but mainly because I can't resist squeezing the throttle. The only snag with bigger injectors (stage 2 and higher) is the duty cycles are reduced, which totally throws the MFA mpg reading, for example, I get 57 mpg sat at 70 :-) So it needs to be worked out the old fashioned away. I'd say mine averages about 20mpg, but then I do drive it hard and it has a shorter final drive. Doesn't bother me, may aswell enjoy it whilst we still can, eh?
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    Yeah I think Pimp Cat meant Turbo AND Supercharger, as per VW's new 1.4 engine. I'm not aware of anyone running a Vortech (or other) charger and turbo on a VR6. Would be quite difficult space wise. Personally I'd just go biturbo instead, using a small one for low rpm funkiness and a bigger one for 911 whooping zone :-)
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    Excellent and you make it look so easy! Don't fancy developing a UK kit for Golfs and Corrados do you? You certainly have the skill and you'd make a killing!!
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    Wahay!!! Absolutely top dollar Jake, just the answer I've been waiting for! Tom, Jakes engine must be OBD2 (4 wire) as Vince hasn't mapped an OBD1 charged VR yet. Belt slip - not good. Just ordered the 10psi pulley! I'll hunt through Continental's belt application list and find a 7 rib one of the right size I think.
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    Unconfirmed - the needle rests on the stop past 160 at 7000rpm in 5th. I used Quaife's gear calc application and with my 3.68 diff, 7000rpm gives 157.3mph. The standard 3.39 diff would give 171mph at 7000rpm.
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    The stage 2 VF Engineering (Bosch red tops) are 310cc, so the C2s will be around that. Drop them an email, they'll soon tell you.
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    FK Konigsports ride better than the Koni coilovers in my opinion, slightly softer springs. If you want the ultimate in damping, body control and ride comfort, check out H&R's coilovers. The regular ones, not PCS or RSS ones.
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    Standard squirters are 260cc IIRC and standard cams, lift or duration? I think they're around 220 duration as standard, not sure on the lift tho.
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    Ah what the heck, you probably won't see me in real life, but here's me (on the left obviously!) looking worse for wear after umpteen Jack Daniels :-)
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    Yeah, it was a Chimera by the look of it. Rear dampers only good for about 20K on those, and they're expensive (£250 each) Bilsteins....
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    These Vortech blowers are good for 20 psi (maybe more on the older V1/V2?) so go for it!! :-) I think VF have launched a 12V 15psi kit which is good for 400hp apparently. Since the charger delivery is linear, there is no sudden gob of torque to wreck the drivetrain like with a turbo. The peak torque is much higher up (around 5000rpm) by which time the car will already be rolling at a fair lick, so should be fine. I suspect a regularly tracked Stage 3 or higher might impose some gearbox issues, but on the road you should be OK. Something else that's worth noting, more than 12psi will probabl
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    I doubt it needs NOS tbh! It's in a stripped out shell, so the power to weight must be immense. That TVR didn't look to clever handling wise!
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    heh.... funny you should say that Glad I'm not the only paranoid one' date=' LOL! The engine just sounds a bit thrashy sometimes. The creamy rumble seems to have gone over the past couple of years, so I just blame the block as it's the only part of the engine not done yet. [b']Eat this, yeah the later 2.8 24V has variable timing and inlet, dual lambdas, OBD2 v 2 (or 3, can't remember), drive by wire, more flow, and it's a heck of a lot torquier and smoother too, and you can barely hear it at idle!!
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    It is, providing you source the relevant pipe work and brackets etc to fit it to 24V. They're not cheap. The charger itself costs about £1000 new on it's own, so the other parts and development costs represent the remainder of the kit prices. Some 24Vs (Audi and MK5 R32) for example can only have the charger mounted on the nearside, in which case you'd need a charger that blows in the opposite direction. Might be better to get the 4 motion or whatever first and then charge it?
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    Just like to add that my Corrado 2.9 was converted to OBD2 and it pulls MUCH better low down than it did when it was OBD1. That's with a charger in both instances. OBD2 is better, period :-) The 2.9 in the Rado never was a torque monster low down, mainly because VW mucked about with the induction (different throttle and inlet manny) to give it more Horsepower at the top end and the squish area of the larger 82mm pistons changes the combustion characteristics too, but OBD2 on a 2.9 with the 2.8 intake and throttle is a winning combination ;-) I think my block could do with a rebuild tbh. It'
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    Great result! Vince transformed my charged VR also. Jake, what's the drivability like when cold with no MAF? If it's as per stock then I'll be dumping the MAF too!
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    Jake, what's she been like in the mornings from cold and during warm up? Vince told me about your car on Friday night and what he did but was waiting for feedback from you as to it's cold start running, and then I'll be doing the same :-) Defo tempted by a smaller pulley now!!
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