The mk3 1.9L TD power-quest

[gldgti]

thanks guys,

hiho, the 210mm flywheel is from a SEAT.... i actually pulled this one out of the red mk1 i bought recently, which had a new 210mm clutch installed.... happened to have a nicely refurbed flywheel on it - and only been used to drive up my driveway (still had machining marks on the friction surface)

[hiho]

Nice! I have a 210mm flywheel/clutch from a toledo. Nice to know that its lighter than the diesel flywheel! WHen i finally get some time to commission the 1.6td I will be picking your brain on the pump/turbo tuning tricks.

[gldgti]

I cant help myself....

Swapped turbo on saturday arvo to a k14 i recently rebuilt.... having never driven on a k14 I wanted to see how it goes and assess its appropriateness for my sequential turbo project, which is now in the works.

The k14 is about smack in the middle of the T3 and say, a T2. its got a really nice quick spool almost to rival the T2 but flows much better. Anyway, it has certainly shut down the top end compared with the T3 but the bottom end/midrange is really good, so I'm happy.

My plan is to run the K14 as the primary, and have the wastegate set to open at around 10psi. The T3 will be the secondary and its wastegate will be set to open at about 14 psi, getting me to 24psi... but I should be able to have atleast 16-17 psi by 2000rpm, and then 24 from 2500 all hte way to redline. This will keep the bottom end of the engine happy (so not too much boost at very low revs) and hopefully it will sing. It'll be running excess air all the time too which will really make it a clean tune. Best of all, both turbo's will be happily working away at about 50-60% of max capacity, so they wont be too stessed out.

If i ever need to rebuild the bottom end, then I will have the setup to boost up in the 30's easily, too

[Greg Roles]

Sequential turbo's, holy cr#p!!!

I'm very jealous!

Happy plumbing matey....

[GoLfMan]

holy mother of god!

get on it... pics pics pics!

[Preen59]

Sounds great, dude!

[gldgti]

Happy plumbing matey....

too true

[Jarred]

:O

NICE! can't wait for this!

[gldgti]

hey diesel heads - heres a little heads up update -

after a bit of a gearbox saga, I will this weekend be doing an 02a conversion to an ASD code gearbox (mk3 TDI box, longest ratios they made. 2500rpm at 120km/h on 195/50/15's). No more 020 for me

[gldgti]

Massive weekend, but its in and running! woot for 228mm clutch!