I haven’t measured to see if they are equal length or not. I was more concerned with making it fit in the available space than with making the runners equal length. Being a divided manifold, only the pulses for 2 cylinders ever merge before the turbo and they are opposite each other in the firing order. I’m sure it is much more bene f icial on an N/A engine than a turbo engine anyway.
Good point with it split like that you dont really need it to merge so much as its just two into one. Those longer runners should really help tho with the top end and over all flow.
What is your current turbo and what are you stepping it up to. It would be interesting to see what the spool difference wouldbe using the same turbo but with just the different manifold
The current turbo is basically just a K04 with a modified K03 compressor housing so it bolts up like stock. It has an integrated exhaust housing and manifold, so I can’t run it on the new one. The new turbo is probably double the current one in terms of air flow so it will be a huge step up. Currently, I reach 19-20 psi around 3k rpm and max boost (22psi) by 3100-3200 rpm. I’m hoping to at least be in the double digits by 3k rpm with the new turbo, but we’ll see. I honestly have no idea what to expect, since as far as I can tell, no one has run this turbo with this housing on the 2.0 FSI engine yet. There aren’t really any twin scroll setups to speak of that I have seen for this platform to get useful data from.
Well its fun and exciting to see this coming along. I know this section is a little on the quite side but that is actually a good thing when you have builds like this. Too much chatter and opinion posting can just get in the way. It will be interesting to see how it fairs against what you currently have. one of the killers on the turbo projects is getting the wrong turbo on the car. The twin scroll sounds like it allowes you to run a bigger turbo with a little less draw back
I have no idea what the exact differences are but if the new turbo is that much bigger then you would expect a little lag. but if your getting double digit boost at 3k that isnt all that bad
Small update: I crashed the car and the insurance company totaled it.
So I bought another B7 and bought my wrecked car back from State Farm to combine them into a super B7 lol.
Old car:
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New car:
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The EFR build will continue and the built motor will be swapped to the new car. I just sent the manifold and turbo exhaust housing to Swain Tech to get White Lightning coated. It should look good in the engine bay of a white car, all the while keeping underhood temps down.
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Looks much better after swapping the wheels.
The new white looks really nice. Sucks about the crash but it didnt look too bad. I assume you were ok.
Also for me. This definitly says something about your comitment to the 2.0t platform. The crash would have been a good opertunity to move on and no one would have blamed you. To see your sticking with the 2.0 is nice to see.
Nice!
I had too much time and money into the old one to just drop the platform altogether. I also have the EFR and manifold that were ready to go on. I considered an avant, but none of the ones I found checked all the right boxes. To be fair, this one didn’t either because I wanted a black interior. That will be corrected by doing an interior swap with the old car since I have to move all the stereo and meth wiring anyway.
Looking forward to that efr! Nice to know you stuck with it
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Things are happening. I should have the engine in in a couple days once the new motor mounts arrive. Then comes downpipe and charge pipe fabrication.
The attention to detail looks great. Looks like a very well built set up.
Quick question. were you able to pull the motor and not have to open the AC system… It looks like the entire AC system just was able to move out of the way. So no need to re fill the system with a motor pull
You are 100% correct. You just drop the evaporator from the core support, unbolt and disconnect the wiring from the compressor and swing the whole shebang off to the passenger side and out of the way.
I decided to take a day off of work to work on the car. Exhaust is now complete (until I decide to redo the Y-pipe).
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Currently ongoing projects are the headlights (in pieces in my basement awaiting a part) and the refinishing of the trunk and front lip spoilers. They will be getting painted black, but I haven’t yet decided on gloss or satin.
Turbosmart dual port actuator required some chopping and welding to get it to fit, but it’s on.
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All lines finished and covered with fire sleeve.
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Coil harness moved out of the danger zone. I’ll redo the heat wrap with the snap kind down the road but this should work for now.
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Are you sticking with maestro again for tuning?
Nope, it was a good run but I wasn’t paying another $500 to use Maestro on the new car. I’m going with doTuning for the new setup.
Oh, gotcha! Hope that works out!
Flashing the base file.
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First start
http://youtu.be/xXpnwvK7mc4