andysamland
Ready to race!
- Location
- Omaha, NE
- Car(s)
- 2008 VW GTI
Where to even start this. I have a 2008 VW GTI in the beautiful red color. When i bought the car it had a little over 50k miles and came with a 6 speed. BONE STOCK. The criticism we have recieved from people about this car has been epic. The car was originally just going to be a k04 car that was pulled off a Audi TTS when he went bigger and when that went on it was only right to support it with the S3 intercooler and a little more fueling utilizing the S3 injectors as well. As the shop around these parts was an APR dealer we also had the APR HPFP installed and flashed accordingly.
Then everything changed. The HPFP pump spring snapped in half and shoved all sorts of great stuff the engine as well as causing a whole bunch of issues. LET THE FUN BEGIN
As long as the whole engine is coming apart may as well build it right? IE rods and JE 10.5:1 pistons. replaced the HPFP with another APR pump (yes we had to buy another). Engine went back together and eurodyne was ordered.
Huge props to the guys at Eurodyne as the patience that they have had with me as ive learned the tuning of multiple platforms over the last couple months (mk5 gti, mk4 gti e85 F23, Mk2 TTS BT). Cant say enough good things about them. I digress.
We decide to keep swimming against the current and try to E85 the car with great success! we got it to full e85 on the Rs4 rail valve on 20 PSI on the K04 and made great power but decided to turn it down to a 50/50 Mix. E85 is very readily available here in omaha, NE so the mixing is very easy. The car sat at around 330 HP at the wheel (confirmed with races, NOT dynoed). The car sat that way for 6 ish months as the work on the TTS began.
Now enter today..... Custom built Aux LPFP setup run on a hobbs switch. Twin intercooler just installed today along with what we have began to call the ebay build. Its actually gotten pretty humorous. 62mm ball bearing Turbo, couplers, coolant and oil lines, wastegate and all associated aluminum charge pipes and intake were all ordered on Ebay. We realize this isnt going to be reliable. It will all go legit once this setup goes.
Once the turbo is all plumbed up tomorrow the 155 bar rail valve will be swapped into it to really push those S3 injectors as far as possible while we develop the arduino CAN fuel control box to control extra injectors.
I personally have a goal to not be reliant on water meth on this car so we will be starting to play with an e85 mix again after the aux injecotor controller is finished :thumbsup:
Thats about where we are now. Any questions feel free to comment. Love to answer questions i prolly forgot to cover above
Cheers!!!:headbang:
Then everything changed. The HPFP pump spring snapped in half and shoved all sorts of great stuff the engine as well as causing a whole bunch of issues. LET THE FUN BEGIN
As long as the whole engine is coming apart may as well build it right? IE rods and JE 10.5:1 pistons. replaced the HPFP with another APR pump (yes we had to buy another). Engine went back together and eurodyne was ordered.
Huge props to the guys at Eurodyne as the patience that they have had with me as ive learned the tuning of multiple platforms over the last couple months (mk5 gti, mk4 gti e85 F23, Mk2 TTS BT). Cant say enough good things about them. I digress.
We decide to keep swimming against the current and try to E85 the car with great success! we got it to full e85 on the Rs4 rail valve on 20 PSI on the K04 and made great power but decided to turn it down to a 50/50 Mix. E85 is very readily available here in omaha, NE so the mixing is very easy. The car sat at around 330 HP at the wheel (confirmed with races, NOT dynoed). The car sat that way for 6 ish months as the work on the TTS began.
Now enter today..... Custom built Aux LPFP setup run on a hobbs switch. Twin intercooler just installed today along with what we have began to call the ebay build. Its actually gotten pretty humorous. 62mm ball bearing Turbo, couplers, coolant and oil lines, wastegate and all associated aluminum charge pipes and intake were all ordered on Ebay. We realize this isnt going to be reliable. It will all go legit once this setup goes.
Once the turbo is all plumbed up tomorrow the 155 bar rail valve will be swapped into it to really push those S3 injectors as far as possible while we develop the arduino CAN fuel control box to control extra injectors.
I personally have a goal to not be reliant on water meth on this car so we will be starting to play with an e85 mix again after the aux injecotor controller is finished :thumbsup:
Thats about where we are now. Any questions feel free to comment. Love to answer questions i prolly forgot to cover above
Cheers!!!:headbang:
