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AJP's Build - back in love with the GTI
Shoduchi:
--- Quote from: Pudding on April 20, 2017, 04:47:21 pm ---You two still run standard console bushes? :stupid: :grin:
Get a TTE420 :notworthy:
All this forging stuff is a nice idea, but it's not an infallible suit of armor. It just stops the engine from blowing quite as easily as it would with cast pistons and rods. There is a lot of scaremongery on the TFSI tuning group from members who push things too far by running standard KO4s at 2 bar, mapped in hard cut limiters, anti-lag flames and bangs........and they wonder why they get smoke from their exhausts and break their ring lands.
You don't need to run 400lbft. For one thing the manual box is only rated to 320lbft (by VW themselves) and secondly, sometimes less is more. More traction! 350lbft is mechanically safer but also gives less wheelspin than 400lbft. I've seen people blowing rear diffs on S3s on, surprise surprise, the TFSI group running that kind of torque. So I suppose what I'm rattling on about is, yeah, get a hybrid but don't run it flat out. Keep some headroom there. :smiley:
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Wise words in my opinion. :happy2:
Paradox1:
You cant go wrong with either tbh.
Im thinking Nicki or Unicorn motor developments.
Although NVM Motorsports have made a name for themselves aswell
AJP:
--- Quote from: Paradox1 on April 20, 2017, 05:20:20 pm ---You cant go wrong with either tbh.
Im thinking Nicki or Unicorn motor developments.
Although NVM Motorsports have made a name for themselves aswell
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Yeah it's Rick/Rich at Unicorn isn't it? Met a guy at Statller with a k04 Passat with a Unicorn map. Adam I think. He was on here a while ago. Seemed very happy with the car. Unfortunately he had a bump soon after that and as far as I know the project ended
Will look into NVM.
Pesky jones:
Glad to see how you're getting on with it, looks well! Be interesting to see where you go
I have a k04 on BWA at the moment which isn’t mapped yet. I was of the impression that approaching 400 ftlb is rod bending territory as well. Don’t think I’ll get close to that though off minimum 2+ hardware (k04 injectors, rs4 valve, intake, 3” decat, VIS hpfp). Would you need RFD and maybe water/meth and maybe a few other bits to get close to 400ftlb? Definitely need them to get close to 400bhp.
Paradox1:
--- Quote from: AJP on April 20, 2017, 05:43:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: Paradox1 on April 20, 2017, 05:20:20 pm ---You cant go wrong with either tbh.
Im thinking Nicki or Unicorn motor developments.
Although NVM Motorsports have made a name for themselves aswell
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Yeah it's Rick/Rich at Unicorn isn't it? Met a guy at Statller with a k04 Passat with a Unicorn map. Adam I think. He was on here a while ago. Seemed very happy with the car. Unfortunately he had a bump soon after that and as far as I know the project ended
Will look into NVM.
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Indeed.
Ive been to nicki several times and never had a bad thing to say. he could have easily slap a map on my previous car and told me to do 1 but instead he spend about another hour logging and tweaking the map. Props to him always.
Unicorn are well respected too and do alot of the RS audi model too.
NVM are in birningham and seem to be making a name for themselves too.
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