Meet my Polo!

[Plautos]

Upgrade the intercooler is in my “will do” list.
But first I will try a new intake manifold. Should I expect any improvement?

I will try to get some time to post up the testing data - we did this to show to at least 5 of our customers that lost a significant amount of boost & power when swapping the stock intercooler to the Forge unit. We have flow bench testing data, dyno logs & road logs. But that's for another thread! Sorry, never tested the Seat one!

[Guy_H]

Upgrade the intercooler is in my “will do” list.
But first I will try a new intake manifold. Should I expect any improvement?

I think so, especially if you can get a larger throttle body diameter in there, it may work well with your larger turbocharger (and of course the correct tune to match!)

[instigator]

thx for the info Guy!

@Plautos, intake manifold does make a big diffrence.
noticed this at a friends Ibiza.
he has K04_001 charger on it and has 260Hp and it pulls like crazy.
it has more breath in higher RPM and a bit more torque compared to the stock manifold.
don't know exact wich intake it was, thought APR...
anyway, it will make a diffrence, specially on youre car with the GT28RS:-p

[Plautos]

More evolutions...

Ross Machine Racing intake manifold.

[instigator]

how is this going?? :-p

[Buller_Scott]

man, that vid of the hillclimb was awesome...

awesome little car!

[PeterHBne]

Plautos - I've followed this thread since day one. I won't be happy until you modify this thing to go inter-planetary and it be the first manned mission to Mars. Well done mate! What a car.

[Plautos]

I’m machining some parts... trying to solve the oil catch tank problem, my current catch tank spits oil everywhere.

I also removed the intercooler, I’m thinking in something different. Let’s see.

I hope in this weekend I can start assembling the new intake.

[Plautos]

I need more power for that!!! hahahahhaha

Plautos - I've followed this thread since day one. I won't be happy until you modify this thing to go inter-planetary and it be the first manned mission to Mars. Well done mate! What a car.

[Plautos]

Hello Gang!

I'm back!

After a long struggle I finally could finish the car.

The intake and my tuned intercooler are in place.

I had very good results by the way. More top end power. I’m not loosing boost anymore.
At my first run I had 1,8bar. Tuning the MBC I could reduce to 1,6bar. I’m happy with that.

I will try to go to a dyno in the next week.
Follow some pics.