Hello
It`s been a long time since I`ve posted something so i figured that I might as well update this forum as I have done on the Norwegian one.
This post will be a long summary of what`s been going on with the car for the last one and a half year followed by a selection of pictures that I`ve taken during the build progress and up to today's date.
The hybrid build was finished may last year and the car felt incredible, since my last post I`ve put together a fully forged bottom end with 81,5mm JE pistons, Scat rods and all new main and rod bearings, I also redid the head with new guides, stem seals and polished the valves and seats. The DMF got replaced with a Single mass from 034 Motorsport as the DMF was finished...
In april 2015 the engine finally found it`s way in to the engine bay so I could start making the intercooler piping, here I used 2,5" aluminum piping kits that I bought of Ebay. I were lucky enough to get my dad (who`s an earlier welder, now works in fish-farming) to weld the pipes, and the result turned out great in my opinion! In may it was all done, at that time the car still used the original MAF which ment limp mode was a big factor (only happened once) but a tune got sorted later that month and the car turned in to an absolute animal...
I dynoed it in the middle of august and it made 291 horse power to the front wheels and 383 nm, so i missed my goal by 9 horse power which I`ll accept.
But in september the car started acting up, on an eight hour drive from the vest coast to the east I had no boost for the entire trip, the car drove like a bucket filled with cr... minus the bucket
when I got back from the trip I checked for boost leaks but none was found... It was not before I took the turbo out that I found the wastegate lid had unscrewed itself and all the boost escaped trough there. The turbo is now fixed, and the setup is sold to a nice S3 owner here in Norway
As per day the car has turned in to a big turbo project and is slowly getting completed, the setup now consists of a Borg Warner EFR 7163, 830cc deka injectors, vipec i88, arp head studs, homemade tubular manifold and a FP34 fuel pump with surge tank from 034 motorsport. That is all I can think of for now, but there is probably more. My new goal now is 500hp (crank) and keeping my plates
Heads up for more updates!