swallowtail goodness

[mollins]

haha question... where would one find a TDI?
i think you may have started something

I think Matt (Golf Loon) still has one of these exact engines.

[mollins]

Green Slip

[DVR68U]

good work , so it will be at the nats then

[mollins]

i hope so.. the nrma are screwing me round with the green slip.. They told me i could do it online and that isnt true for a new rego (as this car has been off the road for 2 years)

will have to try again for rego tomorrow morning.. of i get it i will give it a clean and a bit of a tune-by-ear..

the car drives ok.. the motor really needs tuning.. Its faster than a mk1 1.5 diesel and I haven't tuned it at all. It needs more fuel all the way through the rev range.

Its been a bit hectic.. aydan and I were working on it until 2:00am on wednesday night to get it ready for a blue slip...

updates soon

[Jarred]

glad to see that this baby made it to nats! would have loved to have gone for a spin even!

[mollins]

So as many of you saw on Sunday.. the TDI mk1 is alive and well! .. and registered!! Walked out of the RTA on saturday with my plates!!

Here are some pics from the last little while

no exhaust, high oil pressure and no boost, makes for leaky turbo..
oil smoke anyone??


homemade downpipe



it's awkward at the start so that it clears the linkage..



homemade exhaust in progress.. with a new mount near the fuel tank to stop that mk1 exhaust jiggle



at the nats .. thanks to Golf Houso for the photo (and thanks to Aydan for the lend of his BBS )



at work.. parked with the other diesels...



It's running well now, boost is limited to 10psi until i get the intercooler in. Still running with no smoke, even with the 1.6TD boost pin in the LDA.

Ive got a plan for trying to measure EGT so that I do not melt my turbo.

I will try to keep you all updated to some more progress. Will get some more pics of the interior reco and the other upgrades soon..

[GoLfMan]

cool matey, the home made exhaust looks the goods, are you going to remake the downpipe when you have more time? that tight bend my restrict flow?

how does it go? quick?

[gldgti]

cool matey, the home made exhaust looks the goods, are you going to remake the downpipe when you have more time? that tight bend my restrict flow?

how does it go? quick?

although it is a tight bend... we're going from 38mm turbine outlet to 60mm exhaust pipe, i dont think the downpipe is going to cause much if any performance problem (the whole exhaust is 2.5"). the problem with it is that in order for the linkage to work, we can't get the downpipe in any other way, there just no room. usually, this configuration is used in a mk3 body, where you dont have this interference problem. it would be easier and better to mount the turbo up the other way, with the manifold flipped upside down, to give heaps of room, but we couldnt forsee the linkage issue when we were building the engine on the stand

frankly, i reckon we're ahead anyway, because for a full turbo back system from a shop, they'd have charged at LEAST $1200bucks for the same thing... without the $300 hi flow washable cat.

[Golf Loon]

Inspirational stuff Mike.

Good to see you blokes getting stuck in and doing things with ingenuity and good engineering on a budget.

Not enough build threads on here I reckon.

Also great to see it at the Nats, sounded the goods as you drove off.

Can you bend the linkage bar up or down and cut a bit off. The setup I have on the rocco is pretty unique.

Now get out there and drive the thing

[DubSteve]

Thats soo cool well done man