Author Topic: help me reach 100! - update! GTI HEAD BOUGHT!  (Read 30154 times)

Offline Diamond Hell

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Re: help me reach 100!
« Reply #30 on: 06 October 2008, 22:34 »
SCHTOP!  This tuning is not ready.  Don't be so hasty, go buy a car with a sealed bonnet, you clearly don't know what you're talking about.  Put down the spanners and back away from the Golf.

I think the man does know how much he's running - figures just here.  If you're going to come in being even more negative and miserable than me then at least do a little research and read up on the guy you're trying to pull apart.

It's like you've not bothered reading the considerable spread of information that's available on this forum - if the guy wants advice he'll ask and we'll probably help him out.

The hedgehog is there for a variety of reasons, to ensure good and consistent fuel vapourisation as well as helping to keep the intake temperatures within range.  I took mine down a reasonable distance and with a PB head and cam, with the injector ports blocked off with pennies under the injector collets it went like a proper fun little tool.  A LOT better than standard.  

If I'd had the advice and support that's on here when I did mine I would have gone down the port-matching route too and liberated a bit more power.

Although there are many reasons to go injection, keeping with a simple Weber 32/34 DTML carb (appropriately jetted) and a suite of engine mods is going to get some cheap gains, as well as a whole load of education for the person doing the mods - if you don't try, you won't learn.

You *could* fit a GTI motor and run it on your DTML - fit up your inlet manifold and fueling systems to the motor and the pennies to the injector ports and away you go - GT motor - it's just missing the I, innit (and all the boring wiring 'n' stuff).

Haterz, eh?

£20 delivered for the dizzi and it has the 3 pin connector on the side of it.
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Re: help me reach 100!
« Reply #31 on: 06 October 2008, 22:40 »
aye- think your Increase over  standard :afro: was the big shock ( apart from the shortfalls bhp of course  :shocked: ) on satdee
was happy with 6hp increase over standard, but now hopefully, with the work im gonna do to the car, my target is gonna be 100hp. RR session again sometime soon guys? :wink:

dont do yourself down man its not 6

82.2 minus 74 = 8.2  :wink:

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Re: help me reach 100!
« Reply #32 on: 06 October 2008, 22:50 »


dont do yourself down man its not 6

82.2 minus 74 = 8.2  :wink:


 :shocked: thank god i didnt take up maths for A-level!!!

my god, now im shoked at how cr@p my maths are :undecided:
i think im gonna pull out the old mental arithematic book and start going over it :nerd:

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Re: help me reach 100!
« Reply #33 on: 06 October 2008, 22:51 »
tuning a driver can be cool, carbs ect but i think youll struggle for £100. just to throw another one into the pot, i know someone who recently bagged an ABF lump on ebay for £70.. 150bhp...
as said before, if i fit an ABF or gti lump, i have to claim it cos tehres a big difference. and being 17 with a gti insurance will rape me.
But if i stick a gti manifold, and head...well, it doesnt look much different than on the driver, so if something ahppens, the insruance man, unless hee's well into his mk2's, he wont be able to tell the difference.

Have you been keeping a list of everything u have bought.

i do it to all my cars, just so i know where i stand, and its also a usefull thing to do for reference if u do something similar in the future!

Id be really intrested to see the exact figure you spend. and also a rough estimation of time whenits all done.

Its always nice i think when doing something like this to be able to know your MONEY:BHP INCREASE ratio!

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Re: help me reach 100!
« Reply #34 on: 06 October 2008, 22:55 »
Its always nice i think when doing something like this to be able to know your MONEY:BHP INCREASE ratio!

Money:% BHP increase would be more useful.

Kharekatoh - have you stripped out any excess weight from your car?  Sound deadening etc.  Losing that will make a big difference to your performance (rather than just the naked figures).
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Re: help me reach 100!
« Reply #35 on: 06 October 2008, 22:59 »
cheers for all the support DH :wink: top lad.
As for the dizzie, £20 sounds very very very very good mate :cool:
Although, i was told on the golf mk2 forums that i need dizzie from the PB engine :undecided:
if your right, and the scirocco dizzie will fit 100% guaranteed, then i'l be able to send you the money later this week. Just need confirmation of the dizzie workin g100% though :wink:


Id be really intrested to see the exact figure you spend. and also a rough estimation of time whenits all done.

Its always nice i think when doing something like this to be able to know your MONEY:BHP INCREASE ratio!

i'l create my own topic here or in dub projects when works starts taking place mate. i'l make sure i take plenty of pics too.

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Re: help me reach 100!
« Reply #36 on: 06 October 2008, 23:01 »
Kharekatoh - have you stripped out any excess weight from your car?  Sound deadening etc.  Losing that will make a big difference to your performance (rather than just the naked figures).
i did have the rear of the car fully stripped a couple of months back, but it was very very noisey, and very unconvenient. I rather keep the rear seats, trim and carpeting. All in all it weighs no more than 25-30kg, and the gain was so little it wasnt worth the noise and inconvenience.

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Re: help me reach 100!
« Reply #37 on: 06 October 2008, 23:06 »
cheers for all the support DH :wink: top lad.
As for the dizzie, £20 sounds very very very very good mate :cool:
Although, i was told on the golf mk2 forums that i need dizzie from the PB engine :undecided:
if your right, and the scirocco dizzie will fit 100% guaranteed, then i'l be able to send you the money later this week. Just need confirmation of the dizzie workin g100% though :wink:



Might be wrong here, but i'm pretty sure the PB dizzy won't have the vacuum advance that you need

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Re: help me reach 100!
« Reply #38 on: 06 October 2008, 23:13 »
The dizzi out of the Scirocco motor will fit and does have the vacuum advance that you crave - it fitted right up to my GU (1.8 carb) motor.

I'm not bored of my 130bhp yet - it's about what you do with it, remember  :wink:
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Re: help me reach 100!
« Reply #39 on: 06 October 2008, 23:18 »
The dizzi out of the Scirocco motor will fit and does have the vacuum advance that you crave - it fitted right up to my GU (1.8 carb) motor.

I'm not bored of my 130bhp yet - it's about what you do with it, remember  :wink:

in that case, we have a deal mate. you have PM.