Hey, I'm looking at buying a 2l 8v conversion of someone i know. i know it has the following- -Vento bottom end -4 branch ashley manifold -Full magnex system -Piper cam -Lightened fly wheel - pipercross induction kit -Harder aftermarket engine mounts -Some mention of adt fuel system but to be honest not sure what it is exactly!? Just short of 160bhp but what could be done for a few more ponies!?!? Thanks, Aaron
16v warm up reg and the large ?2.2? or 2.5?? audi throttle body cant remember what model its of though.. thats if its on kjet for the 16v wur
mount the throttle body on the front of the intake manifold like this ... my old 2.0 8v producing 180 ish bhp at flywheel
How much money have you got? You can go for a cross flow head off a new Beetle (ported and polished with big valves), ITBs, etc. Or go forced induction.
my god we've been through this before, do i have to put the RR print out up for a 4th time???? and please note that wasnt all i had done to it.
that was a kick ass manifold. after seeing yours, i can remember having a look at the next normal one i saw and then thinking 'holy crap a lot of work went into that'
What engine management are you running? More fuel pressure is worth doing if it's digifant, or consider a mappable aftermarket system. If you want more power, then more compression is the way to go, but it needs to run cool enough and rich enough to avoid pinking. That power figure looks a bit optimistic, but it depends on the exact spec - e.g. which cam, what CR?
The head was P+P, gas flowed and skimmed with big valves. kent 285 deg cam + pulley, 4 branch manifold with OMP grp N exh. system, heavily modified inlet manifold with ported throttle body, induction kit and cold air feed, Chipped and mapped ECU, FSE fuel pressure reg Fitting just the manifold to a std 2E engine, on the SAME rollers produced 21 bhp.
forgot about that manifold!! surely that would only work with a mk3 head??? 160 from those mods seems a tad optimistic,
You should start making and selling those manifolds... bound to be worth a few quid - look at the money people spend on exhausts for very doubtful HP gains!!
i did consider it at the time, its such a simple principle where there are absolutely no bottlenecks to 'trap' air so u get everything flowing straight down to the head. VRWill used the x-flow head as discussed in previos threads and it needed lots of work to achieve big power. i spent less than 1000 on my engine to achive the power i got.
I don't see why it wouldn't work on a Mk1 or Mk2 manifold, as long as you've got enough clearance under the bonnet. Steve - fancy making me one for a scirocco... doesn't even have the problem of the ISV connection!! I have a spare manifold and TB you can chop up!
