Unsure tbh as i havent seen it for myself, i think he was hoping to eliminate the play at the piston pin end with shims but not as much as planned.

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Still using the standard manifold aswell. But with 45mm tb's, hydraulic lifters im not going to expect too much more than 230 bhp. 200lb ft would be nice tho!

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cool, sounds like Sandy's a busy man

what spec did you get in the end?

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Bring on the Trumpets.

Which rods have you gone for?

Edit - Just read the above post. Excellent news. I'll be going for a set of them then!

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Hit the limiter in 6th gear at 169mph (GPS - TomTom on the German autobahn). Still pulling like a train too. Cheers

- Phase 3 GTi-6 (409hp 'charged weekend toy)
- Phase 2.5 Rallye (daily driver)

R.I.P Pete Sims

Have had a few more delays which now are hopefully all sorted. Main problem has been eliminating the float on the big end as the 92mm XU crank has 26mm width i believe where as the vast majority of XU conrods have a width on the big end of 24 mm. So having forked out on the forged rods of 24 mm width we opted to go for the 88mm steel crank which will make things more straight forward as the width is 24mm!

Have lost a small amount of cc from this though (2093 cc rather than 2188cc) however it seems the best way to get things back on the road more quickly and without spending too much more!

Anyway the block is now built and the head is being finished off at the moment so hopefully engine will be going back in this coming week if all goes to plan, finger crossed!

A few piccys of things built up.

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Lol, na apparently the flash has made it look much worse than it is, going to get dirty anyway!

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finally got round to reading this, looks a great project, cant wait to see the results

concerned with the premature wear on the catcams though, how long were they run for and are they made from quality billet steel?

i have a set of pt81s to fit and i think its more likely my followers will wear first before the cams do

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*R.I.P Pete Sims*

Small update!

Car would have been mapped and finished on friday but unfortunatly things havent gone to plan.

Spoke to Sandy friday morning, all was well. A few adjustments were being made and then in the afternoon if all went well the car was going to be driven to the rolling road. On the way to the rollers unfortunatly the car lost compression on cylinder number two. Got a phone call from Sandy explaining what had happened and that the head would have to be removed to see what had gone wrong. Upon removal of the head he found that one of the valve springs (bought at quite a cost from Catcams ) had snapped. The springs had only been bought from Catcams only 18 months ago, had only had about 9 months use and covered approx 5k miles!

In fairness this came as a bit of a relief as things could have been worse and Sandy was worried something that he had done may have gone wrong. I never really thought this could be the case as he never puts a foot wrong! He was also releived if a little dissapointed at the quality of the springs that had been supplied.

Now have a set of double springs being made / supplied by John Reed which should take a week to ten days to come. Maybe in 3 weeks it'll be there!!

So close!!

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Results!!!

Rolling roaded today. Peaked at 226 bhp at the fly. And a good spread of torque that is about 176 lb ft at its peak. See graph!



Im pleased with the results and apparently it drives really well.

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the torque and power figures seem a bit low for a 2.2 engine

alright then i stand corrected.

believe its a steel crank from a 1.9 td engine.

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230 hp 2.1 16v XU 205 rallye on jenveys Project thread here
309 3dr K20 Type R

226bhp from cams, throttle bodies and a 2.1 bottom end, sounds a very healthy gain there mate do you find that it is still willing to rev as freely?

mines at 214bhp at the moment with pt81 cams and a btcc inlet and the difference in responsiveness is staggering at the higher rev ranges, never imagined it would ever be this good the driveability low down is no different either

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*R.I.P Pete Sims*