Clarification: 1 of 16 in NA. In 1995 there were only 500 FDs shipped to NA, 52 were R2s; 16 of them were Silver.
I figured you meant in NA, but damn I didn't realize how few R2s came here out of 500. Makes sense, good find then!
Clarification: 1 of 16 in NA. In 1995 there were only 500 FDs shipped to NA, 52 were R2s; 16 of them were Silver.
Ed, i just recently received my turbo looks great! packaged perfectly as well. had a question about the wastegate. i do not know much about turbos, but noticed that when it is closed (metal to metal seal) the actual metal round "door" that closes has play in it and will rattle. meaning, when the arm moves so the wastegate is asked to be opened, the first few mm's are loose, after those few mm's the round "door" will then move. was thinking it needs a split spacer or something in between so that there is not rattle and no play. I dont think there should be ANY play in that wastegate "door" to arm movements. any suggestions? thanks..
I asked the same question a few pages back (no I don't expect you to read every page of this thread) and Ed said that's normal. I was concerned too but it's supposed to be that way he said.
sorry must have missed it. probably didn't pay enough attention or even knew anything since i didn't have the turbo in my hands. ok then if he thinks it's ok. i don't think it should be that way though. then small fractions of an actuator arm would not produce a perfect corresponding desired movement of the door. i will look for your post. thanks.
edit: yes i see Ed's response:
Yes the disk should have some wiggle and spin to it.
-- Ed
very odd. spin ok. amount of wiggle on mine seems alot. i guess i'm being a bit picky
There shouldn’t be a ton of play and when it’s fully closed it shouldn’t rattle or anything like that. Not sure exactly what you mean.
— Ed
Should be like this https://youtu.be/sne8-9svmN0
Ed, I do not mean when it is fully closed. I mean when the actuator asks for the door to open, there is a few mm of travel before the actual door will open. but looking at the vid i can see that there is going to be exhaust pressure pressing up on that door which will be pushing up against the door from the exhaust side rendering what i am talking about not important. I think it's ok. sorry for the confusion. i am all new to this stuff!
Thanks for that vid!
I just had one of our early Vortex customers come in to upgrade to our DSG tune. He was running an APR DSG tune previously because Cobb hadn’t released support when we did his install and tune.
I installed the DSG tune and the customer was curious about 0-60 and 1/4 times. I was going to test drive the car anyway, so I grabbed my draggy to see what it would do.
This is a 2015 Golf R with the basic intake/downpipe/intercooler along with our Vortex turbo and HPFP. It’s tuned on Cali 91 octane and primarily used for road course, so the tune is not aggressive. The car is on stock Bridgestone tires, and is full weight plus some junk in the trunk [emoji6]. I wasn’t going for any records, so I only did one run with an easy launch at 3400rpm.
Very happy with the results, especially considering it’s a full trim street car, stock tires, crap gas, and sub-optimal street surface conditions.
10s or bust!! [emoji854]
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10's are coming as soon as the weather cooperates out here! This car is making about 100whp less than mine
-- Ed
That was supposed to be my record, demz be fightin words.
Better get on it!