Drop $8000 into your 1.6l and i bet it sings a pretty little number too!!! :twisted:
I believe Jake, FSPGTD, was making 250+HP if I remember right, but he never found a way to keep the head sealed as it kept lifting at those pressures. I think he tried o-ringing it, copper gaskets, the works at one point or another.
Quote from: "Jet A"Drop $8000 into your 1.6l and i bet it sings a pretty little number too!!! :twisted:the car as it sits has that much parts and work in it....almost
this is border line lunacy.I'm struggling to get my IP retimed let a lone 250+ hp. What do you plan to do with that?I'd suggest not running the motor "upped" at all until you get bigger exhaust + EGT. It's not uncommon to accidentally cook your head and turbo (as im sure you've been told) because of a little extra fuel/boost. I almost did and i haven't done any mods really. Just wastegate/blow off valve + fuel screw/boost pin/govenor mod
W/ 250 hp, its not just the motor your going to have to worry about. your gunna need motor mounts, at least some good new ones. and possible something to keep the motor from torquing hard and tearing itself around.I would say the three largest problems will be stock cooling system, stock oiling system and EGT'sHow are you doing your fueling system? bigger ip i assume? bigger head?Will our pumps even support than kind of HP?What did you ever decide to do on the pistons. I should have mine back end of these weeks, I will be sure to report my findings of quality.
I have seen literally melted all four ALH TDI pistons on an engine I built last year (the owner's kid drove the crap out of it before we even had a chance to dial in ANYTHING after initial startup). Believe me, the coatings can't hurt (we are using SwainTech now for the crowns, of course, the stock skirt coatings on PD 150 slugs). If you go anywhere NEAR what you want for power, you will be thermally loading the crown and rings to something near their limit. You might also consider a bigger oil pump and piston cooling nozzles (which is why we have the PD150 pistons...internal oil cooling passages for the piston crown).You might also re-think the VDO EGT choice. We were anything but impressed with VDO accuracy and response time, and have gone on to much better things (Doniol custom in-cluster gauge & 52mm McNally production stuff).
off the top of my head ... 250hp ........ !!!??!! the tranny is reliable up to around 150 hp .the rad alone will have to be at least 3 to 4 times bigger than the stock rad .the lsit of things that would need to be reengineered is almost endless , if 250 hp was possible for more than a few moments .
