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#1 · (Edited)
Hi Folks,
Have/running a Eurospec head? Post up please!
best regards,
Peter T.
Current List of Eurospec Head owners:
Atoson
85spraybomb
voxwagen88
bahnblitz
avwg60
Andrew Stauffer
Peter Tong
MkIIRoc
Stock77
vwpieces
kenney83
Rage In The Machines
vwsnaps
gamblinfool
Prof315
chrisbmx68
victoreyestkt
Tinter
unconfirmed:
81dragrabbit1
honorary member with standard non custom cast rebuilt Eurospec head

dennis2society
bvillelounge
upoo2
MarkOne
 
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#52 ·
Re: (Peter Tong)

hmmm time to find a local dyno,and peter,you may actually remember the car,it belonged to Rocco_Phil from Virginia,thats who i bought it from.
he said he had originally planned on ordering one of your rotorcharger kits for this car,and to swap the motor in his nice 8v scirocco,but 700 bux exchanged hands,phil was on his way,and the car was mine,all mine.
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#53 ·
Re: (85spraybomb)

I think I sold him (rocco_phil) some stuff a while back. Does your car have an 80% kit in it? Might have been someone different.
So who has the balls to chop one of these open? I heard from a very reliable source that some of them had problems with the ports cracking from being too thin. If mine gets wrecked beyond repairable, I might chop it up. It's going to be hard to drop that bandsaw, though

Oh, I stole your car and ran it on one of peter tong's new dyno's...
 
#56 ·
Re: (kenney83)

Quote, originally posted by kenney83 »
$750 well that is how much i paid for my car and it has a eurospec head

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#57 ·
I KNEW someone would say something, but I'm in the middle of doing a computer backup on DVD and didn't feel like waiting an hour for paint to open up again
Need to shovel more coal in the ol 'puter.
HAhaha...watchu talkin 'bout...that dyno looks pretty good to me, at least now





Modified by MkIIRoc at 10:23 PM 7-31-2007
 
#59 ·
Re: (85spraybomb)

Quote, originally posted by 85spraybomb »
hmmm time to find a local dyno,and peter,you may actually remember the car,it belonged to Rocco_Phil from Virginia,thats who i bought it from.
he said he had originally planned on ordering one of your rotorcharger kits for this car,and to swap the motor in his nice 8v scirocco,but 700 bux exchanged hands,phil was on his way,and the car was mine,all mine.
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Ah... now I understand
For some reason or other quite a few folks with Eurospec heads run my A1 kits... I was hoping Phil's would join the stable, but you never know... sent you an IM with further details.
Peter T.
 
#60 ·
Re: (MkIIRoc)

Quote, originally posted by MkIIRoc »
So who has the balls to chop one of these open? I heard from a very reliable source that some of them had problems with the ports cracking from being too thin. If mine gets wrecked beyond repairable, I might chop it up. It's going to be hard to drop that bandsaw, though



Now THAT is one interesting dyno chart

I heard the same from a guy that worked at Eurospec. Esp if you overtorqued the head bolts. I've not experienced that myself. Frankly, I installed the ARP studs, torqued it down with ARP moly lube to 65lb feet and haven't had a problem since.
 
#61 ·
Re: (MkIIRoc)

Quote, originally posted by MkIIRoc »
I think I sold him (rocco_phil) some stuff a while back. Does your car have an 80% kit in it? Might have been someone different.
So who has the balls to chop one of these open? I heard from a very reliable source that some of them had problems with the ports cracking from being too thin. If mine gets wrecked beyond repairable, I might chop it up. It's going to be hard to drop that bandsaw, though

Oh, I stole your car and ran it on one of peter tong's new dyno's...


actually,im not sure if my car has an 80% or not,there might be some stuff in the car that im not aware of,but its a great auto-x car tho,i ran my 1st event 2 weeks ago,and now im hooked,its wayy too much fun.
now i was told from a friend in the scirocco forum to ditch the dual outlet mani and tt race downpipe,and order a header,he said that should net around 12hp,honestly,i think the exhaust flows well,but i wanted some other opinions,any ideas?
heres a video of it,camera wasnt picking up right for some reason,you'll see what i mean:
 
#63 ·
peter, how much boost are you running on your car that it only has 195 whp? and whats your compression ratio...?
just wondering because Im about to drop an 8.6:1 ABA into my car and put my "special" lysholm on it with my P&P head and larger valves, I would have expected at least 250 @ 15 psi, especially since I was running 215 bhp (190whp) before on 16 psi with a G60 with a cam and exhaust...
 
#64 ·
Re: (potatonet)

Hi Jonathan,
9:1 CR, about 12 psi in the midrange. On that dyno run it made 185 whp just past 5k rpm, and it only climbed another 10 whp from 5.2k to 6.5k rpm so there was a problem which has since been hopefully fixed (dyno will tell).
CIS probably lops about 5-7 whp off the top as well, as well as being a restriction in fueling up top (for now - until I eak more fuel out of it!).
190 whp with a G60 - thats a very good G-lader result - please by all means send me the dyno chart so I can add it to the G60 whp list!
best regards,
Peter T.
 
#68 ·
Re: (potatonet)

Quote, originally posted by potatonet »
boost diverter valve =-)
its really a 2.5" pool valve that I dremmeled the **** out of, more reliable than electronics =-)
also its only there because I didnt want 650 cfm's going into my engine, that thing helps me keep it at about 490

Wonderful. I knew it didn't belong on an engine.

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#72 ·
Re: (The_Hamster)

its a 2.5" pool valve that just constantly bleeds boost (really ****ty way of doing it becuase I lose boost from 0 rpms)
but the supercharger has so much boost coming from it that it doesnt matter =-).
Im going to install a 6" crank pulley to bring the boost quicker.
The ideal setup will be an electronic boost controller that just bleeds the rest of it off. the pool valve is only open about a crack right now, less area than a boost controller hose. If I close it I get boost way too fast and too much
 
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