turbo transit time

[redeemer]

Then let us know how you get on with the welding. Becase I didnt knew mig could do the job, but have bought welding rods adaptet for cast iron, but after a month using it it cracked again, on the side of the weld. I even warmed it up before welding , and even after welding . and imersed it in sand too cool slowly.

[nokites]

Problems you will encounter are the compression ratio will be to high. The turbo motor runs @18.3:1.
The nat asp runs @20.8:1 which could result in DET/game over

[MinorMatt]

I have a turbo head on mine, which drops the CR a bit (how much I am not sure because the turbos have different pistons too!)

[nokites]

Yes its in the piston crowns

[redeemer]

Mine is an 89 di, at least the head!
Its been a year since turboed, and still starts first time and running smooth. fingers crossed!
I have always kept it to the max with the oil level, or even higher, so the splashes by the crank would cool off a little the pistons.

[danSankey]

well the turbo we used is off of an RS turbo and my reasoning was yeah the RST revs higher but the DI has a bigger displacement so it should work but now i can see why diesels use really small exhaust housings, the T3 works really good and its got loads more power buti think if i can get a T3 compressor on a smaller exhaust turbine it'll boost it up a load

[mrepson]

keep the updates coming,and get some photos up of your mk5 recovery project.

[Finn_Timo]

Is there any progress in this? It would be interesting to know, how did this actually work...

[reaper]

keeping an eye on this myself some better pics would be good