Bens Mk3 GTi VR6, Twin Turbo build is starting

[Timberland]

those are very nice plans,
With the exhaust manifold, are you gonna make 2 manifolds? 3 pipes per turbo?
Or otherwise?

[benvictors]

Hello, been a while 
Timberland, yes I will be running 1 turbo per 3 cylinders but it wont be happening until the end of the summer now, my wedding is at the end of May so need to get that out of the way before I tackle this project 
I will be running 2 x K03 turbo's with twin side mounted intercoolers, i will be relocating the washer bottle to the opposite side of the bay (mk4 bottle) and running a cone filter a lal F17BAD.
The intercooler pipework is going to be fun to get looking right as I'm keeping the existing VR throttle body and intake/plenum, Im not going to use an aftermarket short intake, pipework aside, I want to keep the bay looking as oem as possible.

I have been busy over the last couple of weeks tho getting little bits an bats sorted
 
Pic heavy update to follow 

[benvictors]

Here goes

Took my splits off for the winter and decided I was bored of the red so set about stripping them


The joys of being an engineer






Snapped one of the titanium bolts when splitting 




Gone for a satin steel type look for the rim, no paint but not quite polished

[benvictors]

Had to drill out the smapped bolt and damaged the thread in the rim so came up with the idea of re-tapping bigger and making a bolt



Machined the head of a standard high tensile hex head bolt







Got myself a 2.9 intake for the princely sum of £10.50





Along with a spare throttle body for £5.00 which I boshed straight on the machine to port

[benvictors]

Port matched the OBD2 throttle body to the OBD1 2.9 intake,



However, the holes to mount them together are in different places so I set about making an adapter/spacer plate











Had to mark up the intake for the new holes


Drilled


Tapped



And plate fitted, used some super dooper gasket seal shizzle I had lying around





And the throttle body fitted





BEAUTIFUL

[benvictors]

The VR broke on me too the other night, coolant hose split clean in 2 pissing coolant all over my bay 
Had to get recoverd and ordered my new hose
Old


New


Fitting my new brakes, sorting a couple of rust patches, painting and fitting my new intake, all this weekend hopefully

Aaah, nearly forget

[SoundillusioN]

Rare to see a hose go like that. 

I had one blow in a similar fashion but that was caused by a faulty head gasket pressurising the system.   

[VR6_Wherry]

I just love the skillz that this man has

Going to be an epic build!

[SoundillusioN]

I just love the skillz that this man has

Going to be an epic build!

I didn't look high enough up the page.  just seen all the machining work. 

I want all that gear in my shed!

[Timberland]

that's very common place for that coolant hose to rupture.
I've personally changed every coolant hose for the black Samco's
The hoses on a vr6 will having a hard time.

BUT i LOVE the machinework!!
Very nice work mate