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| Boost Member Since: 17 Oct 2014 Location: Gloucestershire Posts: 203   
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I'd be up for that, maybe we could see if more people would be interested.
Have you got Quaife LSD's front and rear or was that someone else? Any other drivetrain upgrades, will you be using a paddle clutch for example? I'm thinking my 'heavy duty' Valeo clutch is going to take a hammering if I go much beyond 18psi and install the water/meth and nitrous. |
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23rd Dec 2016 8:32pm |
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| L110CDL Member Since: 31 Oct 2015 Location: Devon Posts: 10891 
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Agree This is a great thread, always on the edge of my seat when reading your Q & A
I'm hooked  Clayton.
1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up. Keeper. |
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23rd Dec 2016 8:34pm |
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| Defendermatt Member Since: 15 Sep 2016 Location: Derbyshire Posts: 313 
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Uprated pistons sounds interesting
http://www.totaloffroad.co.uk/vehicles/spe...e-changes/ This one I'll try get some prices for a set or 2. Yeah I have quaife rear. Ashcroft atb front and centre. And a hd ceramic paddle clutch. |
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23rd Dec 2016 8:42pm |
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| Boost Member Since: 17 Oct 2014 Location: Gloucestershire Posts: 203
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This was the one!
http://www.totaloffroad.co.uk/vehicles/spe...nd-goings/ "The first of the bits was a Range Rover chassis and the next bit was that 200Tdi engine. But, again, not any old engine. He acquired a Bowler engine with no intercooler, which is reckoned to produce nearly 180bhp. This went into the 100-inch chassis, mated to an R380 gearbox and a Discovery transfer case. All this was done in a couple of days." "The chassis was simply clean and stock, and that Bowler engine was an ex-race unit with uprated pistons and rings, crank and head gasket, plus a reworked injector pump. Power, he’s been told, could go up from 180bhp to 230bhp if he adds an intercooler and hybrid turbo. Tasty."  |
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23rd Dec 2016 9:13pm |
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| Defendermatt Member Since: 15 Sep 2016 Location: Derbyshire Posts: 313
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I need these uprated pistons and rings!
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23rd Dec 2016 9:15pm |
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| Boost Member Since: 17 Oct 2014 Location: Gloucestershire Posts: 203
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Make your own, ceramic coat DIY style
Will you be lightening the flywheel? |
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23rd Dec 2016 9:48pm |
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| L110CDL Member Since: 31 Oct 2015 Location: Devon Posts: 10891
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I think you need them Matt as well
Clayton.
1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up. Keeper. |
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23rd Dec 2016 9:49pm |
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| Defendermatt Member Since: 15 Sep 2016 Location: Derbyshire Posts: 313
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Pistons are being professionally coated along with the manifold.
No. Lightening seriously reduces the low end torque which I don't want to sacrifice. |
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23rd Dec 2016 9:50pm |
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| Boost Member Since: 17 Oct 2014 Location: Gloucestershire Posts: 203
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Excellent!
 I looked into Zircotec and a few other companies to do the same thing, fantastic until I saw the price 
Your engine will make mine look like a knackered Briggs and Stratton once it's finished!! Don't blame you though, why not? |
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23rd Dec 2016 9:58pm |
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| Defendermatt Member Since: 15 Sep 2016 Location: Derbyshire Posts: 313
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Yeah I looked at zircotec
then decided that it's not an F1 engine so went elsewhere.
Haha. Well I want it to last a long time so anything I can do now to increase reliability....or power |
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23rd Dec 2016 10:03pm |
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| Boost Member Since: 17 Oct 2014 Location: Gloucestershire Posts: 203
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Merry Christmas everyone
I think fully synthetic oil promotes leaks |
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26th Dec 2016 11:03pm |
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| Defendermatt Member Since: 15 Sep 2016 Location: Derbyshire Posts: 313
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Perhaps switch to semi
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26th Dec 2016 11:04pm |
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| L110CDL Member Since: 31 Oct 2015 Location: Devon Posts: 10891
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Merry Christmas to you
In the articale, about the Bowler Tdi race engine are they reliable to use for day in and out or have they got a limited shelf life ? Clayton.
1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up. Keeper. |
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27th Dec 2016 8:02pm |
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| Boost Member Since: 17 Oct 2014 Location: Gloucestershire Posts: 203
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I've never heard of that Bowler engine outside of the article, bet they're hens teeth!
Turns out the cause of oil leaking may be more to do with a loose oil return line rather than fully synthetic oil  |
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28th Dec 2016 9:22pm |
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