Recent content by m1tch

Ah ok, might go with a Devilsown kit when I do need to go with WMI, did you go with a single point injection or are you going to run 4 nozzles in the intake manifold?

What WMI are you running? Planning to just use the windscreen washer bottle for my WMI tank as its been done by many others - using the winter screenwash mix which has 30% meth in the blend, would just need a pump and not need to faff around fitting another tank!

Looking good :) Are you going to relocate the battery at all for more engine space?

Thanks for posting this up, I will be looking to get a B7 soonish so its good to know what I should look out for, basically go for the later B7 with no hint of silver on the top of the engine!

Is the sprocket not just behind the front cover behind the timing belt meaning you only need to drop the oil pan and remove the front cover to get access?

I am sure it will be worth the wait though - at least you have a car to wait for, I am currently commuting to work in a 1.4 TDCi Fiesta and no other cars at the moment *sigh*.

I would be interested to see what it would run though, plus there isn't really anywhere else where you can test acceleration to 100+ mph.

I believe most of the kit is OEM Audi apart from the problematic sprocket which seem to be solid in the aftermarket kits rather than refitting the spring loaded version which fails. I do miss the days you could fix a car with a spanner, hammer and screwdriver, seems that newer cars are simply...

I am currently in the 'planning to be a new owner boat' so I am doing as much research as I can, I am rather concerned about the oil pump issues, the HPFP follower issues and the piston ring oil consumption issues on this engine. I am actually as this very section looking at some electric oil...

Get the car running 100% perfectly stock before doing any modding.

Did you not look into the 1.8t oil pump conversion kits or the upgraded solid pulley upgrade for these engines when you had issues with your first car? Which engine codes were they?

Does the ECU automatically adjust the fuel trims on the stock map then? I would probably run the engine with the wastegate open so the engine never builds boost.

Injectors will go from standard to the uprated GM injectors which are equivalent to the APR stage 3 injectors so around 30% more flow, coupled with a higher pressure HPFP and higher pressure regulator.

Thanks for the input, I might still go with the 1.8t oil pump conversion, the project car won't be a daily driver so I would be ok with a bit of vibration etc, I have seen a failure of the balance shafts where one of the shafts seized which then damaged the sprocket and keyway on the crank.

Hmm, would just going with the 1.8t oil pump conversion be the better option, it would delete the balance shafts meaning it would have some additional secondary vibration (although I don't really know many 4 cylinders with balance shafts). I am slightly concerned owing to the large number of...