Another random kids pointless VR6 thread

[Ben J]

Cheers. I drove it again tonight and wow, it seriously feels so much nicer to drive, a very noticeable gain. Even my brother who thinks im nuts when i say it feels slow with a full tank compared to an empty tank said he could feel it a little, haha.

If I could get my hands on a cheap head and convince dad to invest in an air compressor, id buy a real die grinder (instead of using sandpaper taped to a screw in a dremel lol) and have a crack. Wouldnt get the results a 5 grand head job (sorry, i giggled) would, but i cant justify that money for a few kw, when i could start to piece together a turbo kit for that and make 500kw or something stupid haha

[ryana89]

It would be interesting if your got your hand's on a wideband Oxygen Sensor and Meter to see the what the AFR is doing.
Hmmm

[KI11Z]

Cheers. I drove it again tonight and wow, it seriously feels so much nicer to drive, a very noticeable gain. Even my brother who thinks im nuts when i say it feels slow with a full tank compared to an empty tank said he could feel it a little, haha.

If I could get my hands on a cheap head and convince dad to invest in an air compressor, id buy a real die grinder (instead of using sandpaper taped to a screw in a dremel lol) and have a crack. Wouldnt get the results a 5 grand head job (sorry, i giggled) would, but i cant justify that money for a few kw, when i could start to piece together a turbo kit for that and make 500kw or something stupid haha

wicked results, I love how gung ho you are! haha, awesome.... and don't giggle please, hopefully i'll have the last "giggle" on you my friend...... lol, and that spongey thing is just a dampener so that the throttle doesn't "snap" shut when you let go of the accelerator, I don't think its bad....

[Ben J]

oh i was giggling at the concept of paying 5k for a "head job" cuase im an immature bastard haha. trust me id love to build an insane NA vr6 like yours >=]

And yeah, figured that was all that thing did, and I cant feel any difference without it, so im happy to have it gone


Basically finished up the porting of the intake today, but its going to have to wait till I have a spare cent to buy a new bit of aluminium for the back and get someone to weld it up, which at this rate is atleast a few weeks away unless I find a new job haha. I guess i have to polish up the outside of it too, to match the other little bits I polished when doing the old intake manifold, and since you can never have to much aluminum dust in your lungs maybe ill get started on that.


Oh and the like couple week old euro lip has gone to low vw heaven. haha. It was fun while it lasted, RIP buddy.

[KI11Z]

lol, kk :p

[mk3pete]

nice man
here are some useful threads
VWVortex.com - Ultimate 2.9 clone build
VWVortex.com - 2.9 clone gains?

[Ben J]

thanks pete have been through those threads before, along with basically every other one involving 2.9 clone in the title on vortex theres mixed opinions on them, I guess ill see what it does for myself soon enough Im not just cutting it up and banging a new plate on the back, but porting out the inlet thing and trying to get everything as smooth as possible. Have spent a stupid amount of time doing it and still not quite happy yet. haha. if only i had real tools...

I'm doubting that with the stock head I'm going to get much power out of the clone though cuase im sure it flows better then the head already. Mmmmm head work. one day. Might call some places up tomorow and see what they want to charge me to seal this thing back up

[Ben J]

attacked the fenders with a hammer and then lowered it some today

[rayray086]

****in' dope, you comin' to the Nats ?

[Ben J]

coming from you that means alot ray thanks. haha. also read through your little diy for cutting the inner fender liner thing before i went at it, not there was much too it when i think about it half of what ive done is with your diy's haha

I'd love to make the nats, but its looking unlikely unless I find another job really soon. And even then it still might not be possible. Next year im determined to make nats or sedf for sure though if i cant get to anything big this year