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Offline mankymic

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Diesel Power
« on: 24 November 2004, 15:41 »
been looking at returning to volkswagen but thinking about a diesel this time
saw on a few websites that the 150bhp can be chipped to 200bhp. is there any ways to get this more like a new turbo, intercooler etc, and does amyone know where this can br done, how much etc

and can you get a loud dump valve for the diesel
cheers
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Offline topher

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Re: Diesel Power
« Reply #1 on: 24 November 2004, 16:32 »
AmD would be the people to talk to, they had a play around with different turbos on one of their guys fabia vrs (130pd). That gave a little over 200bhp. Remapping alone will see about 185-190bhp from a 150PD golf.
Can't get dump valves for diesel engines, since they dont have a throttle like petrol engines do. Only thing you could do is stick one of those fake "wooosh" thingies on, but then you might aswell wear a burberry cap and have a 12 year old girlfriend called Mercedes-Chardonnay. ;)
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Offline S11EPS

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Re: Diesel Power
« Reply #2 on: 25 November 2004, 07:57 »
Quote from: topher on 24 November 2004, 16:32
Remapping alone will see about 185-190bhp from a 150PD golf.

Some of us got that as standard, eh top  ;)
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Re: Diesel Power
« Reply #3 on: 28 January 2005, 17:42 »
My 150 tdi went to 223bhp with a revo upgrade, dump valves available from the derv doctor at WWW.thedervdoctor.co.uk
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Offline frosticles

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Re: Diesel Power
« Reply #4 on: 02 February 2005, 22:33 »
Allard do a conversion that takes the PD150 up to 245bhp. Costs a whopping 5 grand and you get:- New Turbo, Intercooler, Exhaust, Savage re-map plus some other things. Turned off the attention span after I heard the price................ Derv Doctor does do a dump valve conversion but to be honest, Don't see the point in it as it has no benefits whatsoever apart from the "Whoosh" which is pure boy racer.
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Re: Diesel Power
« Reply #5 on: 03 February 2005, 08:25 »
Have any of you had clutch problems after your upgrades? Assumning you haven't had that upgraded, I would have thought that for those of you above the 200bhp mark, if the torque increased by a similar proportion, it would destroy that poor little clutch after a while.  I imagine the torque-steer is mental as well!
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Re: Diesel Power
« Reply #6 on: 04 February 2005, 02:07 »
Nimrod you are quie right my Revo chipped Tdi (223bh 325lbstorque) has after 20,000 miles of hard driving has started to suffer slight clutch slip  :cry: , only when on a charge between 2500rpm and 3000rpm in third & forth gear nothing that a replcement presure plate did not cure  :smiley:
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Re: Diesel Power
« Reply #7 on: 04 February 2005, 02:09 »
forgot to add torque steer no problem as esp takes care of that, but can understeer badly in the wet, untill esp intervens and cuts power.
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