Darkside Developments

Hi there, everyone.

I just joined the forum, like yesterday, and I have a question for you all.
I drive a Skoda Octavia TDI, with a 1.9 PD 105 BXE engine. I was thinking of upgrading a few components and getting it tuned. I was thinking of getting one of these babies:

http://www.darksidedevelopments.co.uk/product_prototypeturbo.htm,

Has anyone on this forum bought a Darkside Developments GTB Turbo kit?

Thanks.

dominic

That is this:
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=307222
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=313001

Jon

Thanks for the heads up, Jon.

dominic

I was just looking at the site and their boost numbers - they list 26psi boost @ 1800rpm. I thought with a 1749vb the max boost was 24psi. Either way Dominic you'll enjoy your mods ...

Yeah, they seem a little bloated. I'm sure you can run it that high and get it to boost that quickly but probably shouldn't.
I personally think all of those numbers are about 2psi high or so.

Jon

We do need to go through some of our quoted numbers and alter them, 26psi is not unknown on a VB

whats the largest GTB turbo on the market? and what kind of flow figures does it produce? as in CFM/psi

ryanp said:

We do need to go through some of our quoted numbers and alter them, 26psi is not unknown on a VB

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+1 been running ~26psi on the last 60.000km no problem, other then broken map sensor.
no abuse when cold and cooldown after boosting sessions.
15000km oil change with castrol LL 3 oil.

This guy must be googling "TDI upgrades" as I've seen him join every TDI forum I'm a member of and post the same thing in the past 2 or 3 days Sure doing some serious market research!