Awesome stuff Paul!
Glad the track days are going well for you
You get any videos?
Tuition paul!!
So much more important than most mods.
Glad to see your having fun man. Whats next on the track front?
Hmmm
Actually me and prawn found the s3 was dead out back. Not wanting to consistantly/controllably turn at all. Whats your rear toe?
If you want this as a track car i will say this once and its FANTASTIC advice.
DO NOT BUY BC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ds3000 minimum mate. Seriously.
Its pointless having ASN stig if you dont follow his advice.
If he says they are poop for track.
They are poop!!!
One thing i learned from nick (in the cery small time we had) was how early you need to turn in. Felt odd to me. I remember a few corners at bedford being miles different than how i would have taken them.
Maybe he was wrong and i was right
Had a quick chat with Bill about going 064 but its too tight on a S3.
I'm waiting on replies from @sambryant
I just want the car sorted to get back on track, I ****** love this car but it tests you EVERY step of the way.
Ahhhhh man, tell me about it... Glad it's not just me!
I took my head-lights out to do a "quick job" to neaten up the front end a bit, and even that's been a catastrophic nightmare!... Cars been off the road over 2 months for that "quick job" now
How many miles you get out the Pro4 out of interest?... If/when my manifold goes, I'll reckon I'll be taking the opportunity to go badger k380. . . . So long as there's no other major issues at the time!!!
head cracked? you mean v4 relentless?
Another owner of a Pro4 that has cracked repeatedly. Came on the car, currently a small fracture, debating still on what to do about it. As DAZ said, either going to go with a bigger, appropriately sized turbo (nothing that requires a major top end rebuild/restructuring) or just replacing it with a proper high flow K04 manifold from Bartek (only vendor I found who'd sell it without making me buy a hybrid along with it).
Like Daz said, it gets too hot. I've got an FMIC, downpipe, TIP, and the aforementioned V4 along with meth and my exhaust temps still hit over 900c on a hot day after 5-6 minutes of hard abuse. To be fair, I do live in the Middle East, so... Intake temps never go over 35c at WOT so at least I have that.
Sorry it the mani at fault, not the turbo
Your blaming the wrong item of hardware
Sorry it the mani at fault, not the turbo
Your blaming the wrong item of hardware
Sounded like a tank
Why are people so scared of buying a China fold and porting it out themselves?
Also, have we any material scientists in the house who could comment on the failure of these welds. Relentless need to know why in order to improve.
Who's blaming the turbo like ?
Makes 2 of us then lol
Not scared at all Karl, but watching Facebook posts the Chinafold quality at present is absolutely horrendous, porous, miss shaped, needs bits ground off it left right and centre to get it to fit without fouling anywhere. I think this is why Bill knocked it on the head as a mass thing as their quality went downhill and it was taking him ages to get each one right.
The ones he does sell now with his kit take hours of tweaking, and then need porting !
Ive been advised JNL racing are busy porting one at the moment so I'm going to watch the progress on that.
I just want a manifold that works
All this hassle for a poxy hybrid
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I've not seen many accounts of them and certainly not handled one myself. Just what bill puts out there, and Doug and Marcus in the US have also had good success with them that's all.
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you have few options.Second you last post Scotty, I took delivery of the latest cast chinafold in the last two weeks and I'm hearing horror stories from the guy about to do my full rebuild that there are real issues even after porting that are stopping there currently being a decent option. Now I've got no idea if this is a different cast (this is off aliexpress) which differed from the unit that badger 5 has been so successfully using. I can only assume it is because the results or inability to dial in any power at all suggests that the things is of a completely different standard and quality to the ones that have been used to date.
There's so much effort involved in putting the thing back together that my guy doesn't want to use what I've bought ported or not as the potential inability to achieve any power would mean hours and hours more labour, let alone costs..before then having to find an alternative.
you have few options.
ported chinafolds do work... BUT, the hybrids are VERY sensitive to their surroundings...
Not all setups will work. I see it frequently.
They can work, and sometimes it feels a little bit like the dark arts.... so for bigger powers, larger framed garrett units are far more predictable.
So if you put a 'big turbo' on a mani made to relentless/pro4 who/whatever standards its going to be fine ?
Its about quality of manifold, not size of turbo