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The fitment looks good though, a bit tight to the charge pipe maybe, but the wrap will help that.
Plenty of clearance around the gear linkages. TIP looks like it'll line up nice.
I've been puzzling the dp until I scrolled back and realised it has a separate wastegate tube.
Manifold looks "cast" now
Plenty of clearance around the gear linkages. TIP looks like it'll line up nice.
I've been puzzling the dp until I scrolled back and realised it has a separate wastegate tube.
Manifold looks "cast" now 
didn't think their rollers could calculate power at the flywheel on 4wd cars?as i'm guessing that can't be at the wheels? if it was that would be about 450-460bhp@the flywheel
The figures are at the flywheel yes, we pulled the haldex fuse for the run to get the figure as far as i know.
Will do Rob..thanks....don't know what Guy Harding coated the manifold with but I'll send him an e mail to find out.
In either case I will be taking the engine out when it goes 1900 towards end of the year hopefully. I'll be treating it with respect keeping an eye on temps etc...new I/C to be fitted then too.
Ian
There's a place very close to Awesome in Warrington called Camcoat, website below, excellent product, go for their 4 layer race-spec inside and outside coat - costs approx £150 for a turbo manifold and probably £80-90 for a DP - mate of mine has a 650hp 2.2L turbo valver and runs this on his car, also used on lemans cars etc so well tested
http://www.camcoat.u-net.com/
http://www.camcoat.u-net.com/
jet coat black ceramic coating already on the manifold.
wrapping everything in sight - lol (you been listening then)
I would'nt have done the flexi tho.
remember the heat has to go somewhere once wrapped, the rest of the system will have to dissipate.
Wrapping the compressor outlet to keep the heat in?????
wrapping everything in sight - lol (you been listening then)
I would'nt have done the flexi tho.
remember the heat has to go somewhere once wrapped, the rest of the system will have to dissipate.
Wrapping the compressor outlet to keep the heat in?????
Rob
Confirmation received today that manifold is coated in ceramic coating.
Still need to look at better I/C though
Ian
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Hey - hello from very warm (and very dry) tropical Australia.
Good to see the kits up & running in the UK now
- with a little more software tweaking from APR I'm sure you will find you can have a nice, smooth, driveable 400hp street car (as we do).
bit of history on the kit:
Visited APR about 3 years ago (APR dealer conference) - drove the stage 3+ TT and immediately had to have one (Having had a stage 3+ B6 A4 for some time).
Started work with Jim C from Awesome - Jim shipped some RHD front cuts to Alabama. We decided then & there that there was no way to get the LHD "reverse" plumbing to work with the RHD car.
Went back to OZ & Bought a TT225 (had over 170,000 miles on it).
Pulled it apart & built prototype manifold & plumbing, had APR work on the software. Tuning is a lot different to the LHD kit, we cut out about 5 foot of the excess piping needed to get it into a LHD car. Good result for us as we spool up quicker & make a lot more boost than the other design.
We race our TT - and it is constantly raced in 40 degree C heat (Seeing ambient track temps of beyond 46 C). It is super high mileage and the stock motor has handled all the abuse with ease - we will be building the motor now with stronger rods, an AEB big port head etc. The poor kit has had a really tough time in development
We broke several components and the sets you see the boys running are the
3rd generation components. Tall collector, ceramic coated manifold with lifetime warranty - twin tube downpipe gives us heaps more clearance as well as quicker spool up.
We have test fitted the kit to MKIV GTI's, new Polo GTI
(Yes, I'm serious - our Polo GTI is going to run this kit very shortly) & TT & S3 of course. plenty of firewall clearance in all these. We also use fully crimped production oil lines, and the transition of our intake pipe works extremely well! We run a stock airbox on our cars here - and under the hood, the cars can look dead stock - except for the big blue hose running up to the 3" MAF.
The software on our TT was tweaked with APR over a 4 month period, lots & lots of dynoing & road testing - and the results are supurb. Both Jim's TT (being a VVT - ours is not) & Ianb's GTI are both different code to ours so they will require a little work, but good results from an initial tune!
Shame they don't sell Seat's in Australia any more - but good news is they are bringing Skoda back at the end of the year!
Let me know if you have any questions
http://www.ozaudi.com/projectTT/gallery/
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Good to see the kits up & running in the UK now
- with a little more software tweaking from APR I'm sure you will find you can have a nice, smooth, driveable 400hp street car (as we do).bit of history on the kit:
Visited APR about 3 years ago (APR dealer conference) - drove the stage 3+ TT and immediately had to have one (Having had a stage 3+ B6 A4 for some time).
Started work with Jim C from Awesome - Jim shipped some RHD front cuts to Alabama. We decided then & there that there was no way to get the LHD "reverse" plumbing to work with the RHD car.
Went back to OZ & Bought a TT225 (had over 170,000 miles on it).
Pulled it apart & built prototype manifold & plumbing, had APR work on the software. Tuning is a lot different to the LHD kit, we cut out about 5 foot of the excess piping needed to get it into a LHD car. Good result for us as we spool up quicker & make a lot more boost than the other design.
We race our TT - and it is constantly raced in 40 degree C heat (Seeing ambient track temps of beyond 46 C). It is super high mileage and the stock motor has handled all the abuse with ease - we will be building the motor now with stronger rods, an AEB big port head etc. The poor kit has had a really tough time in development
We broke several components and the sets you see the boys running are the
3rd generation components. Tall collector, ceramic coated manifold with lifetime warranty - twin tube downpipe gives us heaps more clearance as well as quicker spool up.
We have test fitted the kit to MKIV GTI's, new Polo GTI
(Yes, I'm serious - our Polo GTI is going to run this kit very shortly) & TT & S3 of course. plenty of firewall clearance in all these. We also use fully crimped production oil lines, and the transition of our intake pipe works extremely well! We run a stock airbox on our cars here - and under the hood, the cars can look dead stock - except for the big blue hose running up to the 3" MAF.The software on our TT was tweaked with APR over a 4 month period, lots & lots of dynoing & road testing - and the results are supurb. Both Jim's TT (being a VVT - ours is not) & Ianb's GTI are both different code to ours so they will require a little work, but good results from an initial tune!
Shame they don't sell Seat's in Australia any more - but good news is they are bringing Skoda back at the end of the year!
Let me know if you have any questions
http://www.ozaudi.com/projectTT/gallery/
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manifold should be ok without wrapping then - no matter - maybe jim could get you the other bits done as exchange.....
Thanks for posting Guy... cant wait for the details from the Polo Have you guys fabricated all the stuff for the intercooler etc?
Have you guys fabricated all the stuff for the intercooler etc?
Hey Bill,
Had a word with Jeff about this. In an ideal word he would have wrapped the whole exhaust. The wrap is there not only to keep the heat in but also to keep the heat out from the exhaust manifold to charge pipe etc (its an insulator, not one directional). The hotter the exhaust gas the quicker it travels which in turn helps increase spool up time. Jeff wondered why you wouldnt do the flexi as he has used this method for years and never had a problem, cars like FKC (mk2 4x4 1.8T with 460bhp), BigDub (twin VR6 turbo MK3 Golf) and all of his S3 conversions have all been done in this way and never had an issue. Wrapping the flexi like this also helps keep the heat away from the steering rack pinion valve, which can cause the rack to go faulty as we have seen on many big turbo and engine conversion's.
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