Author Topic: How far to push a 1.6TD in a van?  (Read 14775 times)

Reply #30April 24, 2006, 02:30:41 pm

Baxter

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How far to push a 1.6TD in a van?
« Reply #30 on: April 24, 2006, 02:30:41 pm »
Me and the bird (2 and a quarter as she is up the duff!) and a van full of parts for the trade stall, ammo boxes full of shiney lights and poly bushes etc..

Reply #31April 26, 2006, 05:18:24 pm

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How far to push a 1.6TD in a van?
« Reply #31 on: April 26, 2006, 05:18:24 pm »
Bleed valve fitted, couldn't get it to work so I wound the screw on the waste gate right in!
Im only managing .8bar of boost at full tilt so I presume I need some more fuel  :shock:
Resolved oil pressure light flickering issue by fitting a t-piece and using the correct oil pressure switch for the JX rather tan use the switch contacts in the oil pressure guage sender.
Van pulls better, right up to about 4000 rpm when power seems to tail off.
Used a bit of sponge foam around the intercooler to ung up some of the gaps to try to get all the air possible over the cooler.

Up long drag oil temp is still only getting up to about 60 degrees C, winding boost pressure up made all the difference going up said long drag, nicer when changing up as there is more power instead of waitning to build it again, much easier to drive up hill!

Reply #32April 27, 2006, 06:19:08 pm

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« Reply #32 on: April 27, 2006, 06:19:08 pm »
Well, we'll see what the JX pump will do, the LDA runs out of go at .5 bar as per last weeks airline and regulator experiment.
Not got around to the GTD pump yet, too busy, yard full of broken T3's and the queue is getting bigger, booked up for a month solid. Interesting work though, a 16" syncro, a Bluestar, one of the tidiest Multivans your likely to see that got some Porsche classics bolted on today.. Nice Westy HiTop and the usual hearing aid beige campers and panel van conversions.

Im sponsoring the "Test Track" at this next weekend http://www.vanwest.net so I have a bit of stock to buy for the stall, and do 500 stickers for the show, sort the display out and get time to mess with the Stealth Bus! Theres me dicking around with the engine and it still has no interior lights! Priorities eh?! :lol:

Reply #33April 27, 2006, 07:43:16 pm

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How far to push a 1.6TD in a van?
« Reply #33 on: April 27, 2006, 07:43:16 pm »
your temps are excellent!  Congrats!  But isn't it good to have the coolant in the motor run as hot as 87C?  For efficiency?  or does this apply to this situation?


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Reply #34April 28, 2006, 01:24:14 pm

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« Reply #34 on: April 28, 2006, 01:24:14 pm »
Dunno whats going on with the temps, Im beggining to wonder if the gauge is faulty, sounds too good to be true, and when that happens it usually is!
Have you ever seen a T3 radiator though? they are massive! and weigh a ton! And then theres those front to rear coolant pipes!
I will check the output of the sender with a multimeter in the next few days, Im not convinced thats it's working right.

Reply #35May 07, 2006, 06:47:53 pm

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« Reply #35 on: May 07, 2006, 06:47:53 pm »
Well, I tightened my head down the other night, did my first 500 miles.

I then drove down to Devon and proceeded to hammer the van around a test track!

All went well until I pulled off the track and the van cut out! Bugger! Highly embaracing! Turns out that in the process of twatting around the track I have dragged all the *** and water from the bottom of the tank and filled my filter up with it. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts to drain it I decide to have a ring around and see if I can get a filter.
Couple of mates help out and a fresh filter is brought from Bristol. Result.

I fitted the filter and decided to get a bit of clear hose and prime the filter. It wouldn't prime, something is blocked. Bugger.
So, starts blowing down the pipe and suddenly blockage clears.
Fit the filter, had to bypass the pre heater as the new filter and the only one I could get doesn't have the pre heater bit.
Anyway van fired almost straight away and has run fine ever since.
Tank will be removed this week and flushed out with another frsh filter and the pre heater replaced.
I've now done 1000 miles on the fresh engine now, it feels really strong, it's just happy at 75mph, 80 is fine too, 75 is nicer and after I have done a few motorway miles, a few back roads and several hard laps of the test track it's returning 30 mpg which Im quite happy with considering the amount of stock I took with me to the show and how I drove it around the track, well impresed.
Why didn't VW, KKK  and Bosch do this in the first place!?

Reply #36May 17, 2006, 06:10:43 pm

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How far to push a 1.6TD in a van?
« Reply #36 on: May 17, 2006, 06:10:43 pm »
EEEkk, after all this I put it up for sale as I want a Westy and have my first kid on the way, I didn't think anyone would want it!
Seems they do!
Guy is coming up from London this weekend so I have been doing all those little jobs that didn't bother me!
Van is driving the best it ever has done, I took all my camping gear out of it, man that stuff weighs a ton, the van really flies now!
I went up a couple of clicks on the shock absorbers too and had a blast on the moors, don't know if I can sell it! it's ace, it flies and returns 30MPG, what more could you want?!

Still, I have a GTD lump sat in the corner with a passenger performance downpipe ready for the Caddy.... you ain't got rid of me yet!