Right its been a while since i updated this, a lot has happened since my last update, where to start first, ok Ron has now covered 1750 miles since the rebuild, i trip to Dewsbury for my Aunts Funeral, the drive was problem free (about the only good thing from that day
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its also been back to R-Tech, now when Ron burnt a valve Niki facebooked me telling me once it was rebuilt to book in as he wanted to check the power, and do some logging work, all FOC, which is a great service imho
Now i Think is the time to let you all in to a very BIG secret
Dan (beachbuggy) messaged me about 6 weeks ago saying he had a way of getting a stock Ko4 to make better power, he wanted to use a turbo he knew was fine and knew what power it was making, so i sent my turbo to him for some hotside work, porting i would of thought, Dan asked me not to make it common knowledge until we had figures, so Ron was booked in at R-tech for tuesday just gone, i got there and Niki wasnt happy, my pikey MAP housing that he told me to change in feb is still on there, he should me the loss from the smoke machine, it was alot
anyway he ran the car up, played around with it and then said, 303BHP at 22psi boost, he then went on to say, If i fit a proper MAP housing and fit a proper exhaust (im running a stock S3 system from the decat back) he would get 320BHP easy, the Ko4 is flowing better than he has ever seen and whatever Dan done to the turbo has made a massive difference, and has raised the bar for stock Ko4 turbo'd cars
When talking to Niki he said with the housing and exhaust done i will be in hybrid power range, to say im happy is a massive understatement, its insane, off boost its perfect, on boost its like a druggie on speed, No lift shift is so much fun and full on Launch control is epic, althought the pops and bangs is great i think to many full boost launches would kill the clutch/DMF/box/Driveshafts
Also ive since found out S3daves S3 was there, i didnt get to see him, if id have known i would have hung around
so anyone who has ever laughed at ron....whos laughing now
an exhaust and it will be the most powerful stock turbo'd Ko4 on the roads by a long way, and lets face it, who really maps a car with a stock exhaust, and for that reason it makes Ron even more of an Awesome build