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General => General discussion => Topic started by: martinb on 16 March 2006, 18:41
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I just picked up a new project on saturday (a 4dr mk2 8v for £50) and after driving that home and having had a troublesome couple of weeks with my car im really starting to consider putting my engine back to standard. It made a really nice change to be able to just thrash the hell out of it and not worry about it going wrong and the onboard computer was still reading over 30mpg.
I do love the performance of the turbo, it really can move but most of the time i am too worried about breaking it to really enjoy it, and even driving sensibly (well fairly :evil:) i rarely see better than 23mpg. That said the whoosh of the turbo is very addictive and i never get bored of the head turning ability of the dump valve!!
Really undecided so thought i would see what you all thought? :undecided:
Martin :smiley:
(will put some details up of my new project when i get some pics sorted!!)
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Drive the turbo like that until it does break then put the 8 valve in and all the turbo gubbins jobs a gud un! :laugh: why not keep both one as a daily driver and the other for shows and sunny weekends? that's a good compromise :)
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^^^ Sounds like a plan! keep the turbo for special occasions, then you wont have the chance to break it!
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the new one i bought is a bit of a long term project, i had bought it with the intention of breaking it for parts (it needs a bit of welding and an exhaust) but my girlfriend has decided that she wants another Golf so wants me to do it up for her (she wants it resprayed pink :sick:) so she will have that one. Will probably sell her mondeo as we cant really afford to run 3 cars. There's no way im gonna get rid of my car cos i love it, was just considering whether having cheaper insurance, better reliability and better fuel economy would be worth losing the turbo for? :smiley:
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was just considering whether having cheaper insurance, better reliability and better fuel economy would be worth losing the turbo for? :smiley:
no :tongue:
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was just considering whether having cheaper insurance, better reliability and better fuel economy would be worth losing the turbo for? :smiley:
no :tongue:
What he said don't be silly!!!! :tongue:
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:laugh: :laugh: Your probably right, every now and then when a few things go wrong i get in a turbo stress with it and either wanna sell it, rip out the engine, or give it a basil faulty style beating!! Suppose i could always buy a set of steelies :wink: and let my girlfreind use it during the day then use hers to commute (as long as she does not get it sprayed pink :grin:), then again just being used for the school run would probably be worse for it than commuting to work as wouldnt get time to warm up properly?
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Why not get one of those in-car boost adjusters :smiley: then you could turn the boost down for the cummute and back up when you don't mind breaking it :laugh:
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^^^ I think it has to be on proper turbo technics/or similar management to be able to do that with. So then the fueling is right for the amount of boost you adjust it to. :nerd:
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Neaty what bhp is ur turbo running? I just went from a mk4 gti T 180bhp to Gt Tdi 130, and I gotta say there aint much diff in performance. I was really worried about loosing all that power but the tdi feels just as quick, up untill about a ton which u dont do usually ne way. The the tdi dies out in revs towards 3500rpm (only goes up to 5000 tho) but the turbo at that point is whistling like a b!tch, sweet! Plus u get good economy. But its ur choice mate.
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^^^ I dnt have one mate, I wish I did :laugh:! do you mean a 20vt or a mark 2 turbo, its martinb that has the mark 2 8valve turbo.
I am yet to drive either the TDI 130 or the 20vt 150, i wouldnt mind have a dig tbh!