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    maintaining PSI ....help

    This Home Depot pipe fitting guy is still hanging... (Thats how I did my boost guage, BTW and it cost all of $15 Cdn. and looks moderately slick.) I'd love to find out how to cut off those 20+ psi spikes. Then I can aim at increasing peak boost to 18 from 15. I guess the best option is to...
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    maintaining PSI ....help

    I'm Hanging. Seems I dropped by at just the right moment.
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    Best Diesel Fuel in Ontario and the Toronto area.

    Sunoco Gold Diesel is the best available up here. I've tried a variety of others from large volume stations and none run as well as the Gold. I'd give a pass on the Motomaster additives... Looking at them they are too expensive and to unclear on what they do. Get some real additive like PS or...
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    Am I getting hosed? (Timing Belt Job Quote)

    You're being hosed as was said. Belleville VW in Belleville ON does the TDI timing belt for $399 plus taxes (INCLUDING parts and labour). $900 pls is just a major MAJOR ripoff.
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    Alcohol injection: How to?

    You can still use the boost pressure to raise the ambient of the container, but you also need a small high pressure pump... I suggest a washer pump from a Chrysler 300, being made for use with washer fluid it can probably withstand the alcohol, and it's reasonably cheap and generates a decent...
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    Alcohol injection

    Anywhere... Most hardware stores/home improvement places sell it as Methyl Hydrate... Thats simply methyl alcohol with some (small) % of moisture in it. As opposed to chemically dried methyl alcohol... Used for solvent, fuel, gas line antifreeze...
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    whats a good boost gauge to get

    I put in a mechanical one for $15 total. Thanks to my local pool supply and some lawn sprinker bits.
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    Dump Valve anyone?

    However a small purge to limit boost peaks would be a possible addition but its more about relaibility than about "performance". Do a search on Oldman and pop-off valves [ June 25, 2002, 11:25: Message edited by: Rapt ]
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    Boost peaks

    Hmmm interesting... The onyl way I've been able to achieve even 20 is by flattening the pedal all the way at well over 2000 rpm in 2/3.... And yes I WAS trying to see what I could get to happen Didn't try with the cruise though.
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    Performance musing - air volume vs pressure

    I would think that its fairly obvious that the peak air "ingestion" should occur fairly close to the peak torque point... 1750-1900 rpm... Peak torque represents the most "efficient" operating rpm of the engine.
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    Boost peaks

    Those peaks are pretty high. I'd be looking to put a control on that much more urgently than I am for mine... Thats WAY high... What conditions are the "right" ones to hit 25psi?
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    Boost peaks

    You're Upsoluted right?
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    Boost peaks

    I installed my boost guage this weekend. Its on a completely stock 2002 Golf GLS TDI Having done some driving with it (of course I had to try it out.) I found some things I didn't expect. Specifically my highest pressure "spikes" occured not with lower RPM full throttle in top gear but in...
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    NB to A4 wheels

    When you say A4 do you mean Golf/Jetta or a true Audi A4. The Golf/Jetta use the same 5x100 bolt pattern as the NB but I believe the Audi's all use a 5x112 pattern like the new Passat. [ May 15, 2002, 09:48: Message edited by: Rapt ]
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    Shine suspension review (happy now?)

    Yeah finding out how abruptly a particualr suspension set-up transitions from under to oversteer on lift throttle at the limit during a test drive is NOT a good way to keep friends. I've spent some time at the track watching both bikes ands cars with drivers learning to run the track. The cars...
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    High RPM diesel performance

    We already have a highly UNDERsquare engine with long rods. The difficulty with this approach to getting more dwell time and thus mroe burn time is it increases the mass of the rods and accelerations that mass sees. Thus means the forces are higher and revving such an engine is asking to have...
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    will propan self ignite in turbo?

    Its HIGHLY unlikely that your turbo system will ever run pressures high enough to feed the air and propane back into the cylinder.... However the systems being sold MAY be calibrated for volume flow against ambient or near ambient.
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    Radar Detector Location, etc.

    TDI-Veedub, I'd suggest you get a V1 if you really want a detector up here. Also you might want to look at a Uniden product, I think its called the Bear Tracker, that monitors police data/radio frequencies and alerts you to activity on those bands. It would help warn you of "traps" without...
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    Shine suspension review (happy now?)

    I agree with you Lito, learning is good. As is learning enough to know what will and won't suit your driving style and attitude. It'd really suck to spend a LOT of cash on something that either is too harsh or puts you into scary slides far too often because of your particular driving style and...
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    Improving the Stock CCV System

    I haven't checked mine, but lets not forget that the brush still won't stop ALL the oil, partcularly if its being subjectd to a lot of flow at higher pressures. It also won't stop much in the way of true vapour. A remote, cool (relatively) collector would be more effective for that.
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