Test fit in the car. It fits beautifully!
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Plenty of downpipe room.
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Better view of the frame and mount clearance
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Really all looks very well done. Keep the updates coming.
Started to pull the old engine apart tonight. It appears to have just been a bad ring seal on cylinders 2 and 3. After removing the rod caps, they quite literally fell out of the cylinder into my hand. Cyl 1 and 4 needed a few taps with the handle of my deadblow.
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Cyl 1
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Cyl 2
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Cyl 3
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Cyl 4
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Cylinder 3 isn’t very pretty, but it doesn’t catch my fingernail. It should be fine after honing the block. The interesting thing is that it didn’t look like that when I had the head off the last time. Here’s the piston skirt from that cylinder.
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It looks the worst out of all of them, but still nothing I’m worried about. These pistons will get a skirt coating before getting re-ringed and reinstalled.
That piston is totally ok when you put the coating on it you will never know.
It has been a long journey to get here.Now its good you know why there were the issues and why the results were what they were. Not an easy fix as it takes lots of work to get to this point but nice to see its a stright forward fix
Still need to perfect my timing tables for the new engine since it has lower compression than the last one, but I went to the track last night and improved on my previous best time by ~.3 sec and ~2 mph.
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I believe your 60ft has significantly improved since last time.
What clutch were you using prior to our stage 1?
I was using a Drake’s (VAST) stage 4 with a Clutchmasters SMFW before I installed the JHM stage 3 clutch and LWFW. Huge improvement in high rpm shifting.
Sweet! I am glad you liking it!
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Finished the manifold yesterday. My head flange warped a little when I was welding the inside of the exhaust ports. I bolted it to my purge block and baked it at 550 degrees for about an hour and a half and it seems to have taken care of most of it. I’ll probably still get it milled perfectly flat though. The oven is what turned the turbo flange black since it is mild steel and the rest of the manifold is stainless.
wow it really shows. A good clutch makes a big big difference. With all the power your putting down you need it
Looks nice. are they close to equal length.
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.