wow, this... kicked off a little since i was last on here!
I did look at your electronic controller ages ago. Still have it saved in my bookmarks. the main turn-off was not understanding it anywhere near enough to be confident in making it. To someone with very little electrical knowledge it seems a bit mind blowing! all these electric gidget-gadgets and it's not really a step by step build for beginners kinda thing, so settled on mech setup. with my design i'm happy with how it'll work, just needs building, and the engine re-assembling. am going to make myself a bias pedal box too and throw away the servo, so will have both (maybe) accelerator cables mounted on that for any necessary tweaking.
also have my 300TDi fuel pump for like £40, bit grubby though. any advice on cleaning it up, the thought of stripping it scares me a bit but i'd like it to look tidy, paint it up a bit. will be gov-modding it too, somehow. that should be interesting
Edit, another question. Now that i have my turbo, how do i split it? i've undone the bolts on the hot side, but it doesn't seem to want to come apart at all. 90% sure i'll have to re-clock it to get the oil lines vertical-ish, as the exhaust manifold is ~45deg, with a homebrew adaptor. cold side can be turbed around the 'core' part too i think?
Calm down now y'all
The beautiful engine comment was tongue in cheek.
Do anyone know of an inexpensive source for the smart vane actuators? The least I've seen them new so far is $240 from IDparts and they're hard to find used.
isnt that YOUR vanagon engine compartment that he posted?!
lol...
Yes.
thats what i thought..
i knew it was your engine setup based on the linkage setup, and the placement of the blackstone intercooler.