I would hope you'd get better than that. With a 17/22 and RC6/PP502s I was getting 43-45 commuting, 46-48 on trips.With a VNT17 and supporting mods you should still be able to get around 40mpg as a daily driver. Ask me how I know ...
I agree should get mid 40’s easily. Drive it like you stole in city is what I was thinking.
With a VNT17 and supporting mods you should still be able to get around 40mpg as a daily driver. Ask me how I know ...
I am not quite sure yet whether I will end up with a new VNT17 or rebuild the Rotomaster turbo that came along with this car. I know I can use Garrett parts for the rebuild.
Love those C30's. Older Volvo's are my other love. I had quite a few with the T5's & T6's
No, 0.32-0.36mm.
No. You won´t need girdle, IP mods, rods, and 3 grands into trans. Pistons could be also grinded on their place
I needed 4000-5000$
Yes there are.
No. I wouldn´t use tiny 250-300hp turbo for 400hp build if it´s not smaller one for compound.
BRM manifold.
Use stock rods and pistons.
I do 40-50mpg with ~400hp 1Z all the time.
Zero benefits. Using BHW lower end with ALH gasket, you will get head gasket problems more easily. Use ALH stock bottom.
Head porting and good cam (not synonym for big) which works fine with turbo(s) choosen for the project is the key, polishing cams is not. I´ve used AFN manifolds with welded new flange, and they are OK. You could have bit benefits from tubular or other OEM models though depending turbo and cam.
Exactly. Always custom tune whether you change anything. Always.
No. Absolutely use meth and water for gaining power and engine life!
No. That´s the point where costs vs rewards takes a huge leap after tossing VNT17 to trash.
This is quite much 100% crap. After 200hp ALH is yet coming street friendly. For example 2060/2260 sized turbo is so small that there are hardly difference for alh stock on low end. IF there would be all power after 3000rpm is not bad when you rev up to 6500-7000rpm, but it does not need to be like that. Although, i can´t get why to idealize 1000-3000rpm when you can have real power after 3000 or 5000rpm when talking tuned (or daily, as me) engine. I just can´t get it. I would not EVER change my HX35 single turbo engine to VNT17 engine on street car.
Why people always want waste money for all cam polishings and stuff where are zero benefits for real performance? You need only necessary. Port head and grind cam, put it on place, weld new flange to exhaust manifold and install turbo, make pipings and install injectors and pump. Tune it properly that EGT, EMP, torque and rpm will be on safe side and send it. Don´t think it too complicated. Don´t repair things which works.
Sometime is quite opinionated and likes to spout those opinions with some numbers that seem to be very inflated... 40-50 mpg with a 400 hp 1z? Do you have actual proof of that? (Eg fuelly records or any other similar things) anybody from anywhere can say that their vehicle has x amount of power and gets x fuel economy. Without real probable numbers, nobody will believe you. Trust me, I run into that a lot working on diesels daily. People say so much rubbish it's not even funny. I live in Missouri, our state motto is the show me state. I need more proof that some internet dude shooting out numbers, show me.
I want to dyno my car, but none of the local ones (actually there's only one that I know of and he specializes in semi trucks... I asked about fwd cars, he said he did it once, but it was too hard to set up for that.) have the ability to do fwd cars that I know of. I think there's a car show that normally has a dyno that I'll probably go to this summer. Calculating it, I think it would be between 150-200 hp, but I don't know.
Well, i drove 4 years with this one as a daily so i have calculated it yes quite much every time i fill up, but i don´t take any notes from it. I´ve build or tuned many 300hp+ tdi´s too. Bigger turbo and injectors does not affect for effeciency quite much anything if everything is done properly. For example there are much lower EMP raising effeciency when turbo is bigger.
Wow, that Audi looks like it would beat everything in it's class from a 30 mph roll
That's my guess as well, and probably uk mpg which would be more believable 40-50 mpg/uk would be 33-41 mpg/us. Seems to be possibly a classical apples to oranges comparison.
Well that was the whole point when I wanted a car with two personalities and looks like the diesel can make a great daily driver (+mpg) and weekend track runner.
show me ONE instance of main bearing or crankshaft problems in a TDI that hasn't had a hole punched in its oil pan from a rock
everyone refuses to understand that it is torque (cylinder pressure) that breaks parts
Any news on finding new manufacture nozzles of reasonable size, or is the old hiflo-x .341 that is no longer made still the best?
Know roughly how much power you were making?
I wouldn't worry about stressing the turbo. VNT-17s are incredibly robust. If I were looking for a setup like that I'd stick with your stock turbo (or a new VNT-15 if yours is done) and run a Stage 3 or 3+ tune, but with smaller nozzles. Right now I'm running a VNT-15, 11mm pump, PowerPlus .357s, and RC3+ (19.5 PSI). I've had this setup for the past 130K miles with a Mahle turbo and it's doing fine. Setup makes about 140/250, no smoke, and FE in the high 40s/low 50s. The low rev response of the VNT-15 is far superior to the 17, in my experience. That's why I like it better. Besides it whistles.
Nice. Then there is that part that convinces myself that if I am going to do a complete overhaul of the motor, might as well purchase aftermarket rods/pistons.
