A possible nudge for the VR engine

[Jarred]

I often wondered if you could custom build your own gear box with shorter Gears 1 to 3 for that extra punch, but normal (or longer) 4th and 5th for economy. Is something like that possible or more importantly practicle?

I reckon that's start to get very expesnsive if you started fiddling round with gearbox's, incl. custom/aftermarket gears. esp, if you pay some one to do it all!

If you went too short 3-4 would be a really big jump, and make for poor driving experience imo. & eventually get annoying. let alone resale and having to shift 3 times to get to 40kph in regular driving.

There are plenty of small mods you can do mickey. Things like cleaning up of the throttle body/plates and cleaning the intake mani are good ideas mickey, imo

[Mrk_Mickey]

Yeah I quite like the idea of cleaning.... I'm doing a bit of an engine overhaul with my next service too; engine flush, coolant system flush and injector/fuel cleaning. Hopefully it'll run nice and smooth and then I'll have a look at the possible cleaning/DIY options.

[Golf Houso]

I'm quite liking this 2.9 clone manifold idea, I have a friend who could probably make it for me as well hmnn...........................

[Shteifen]

this makes me even more sad that my vr only made 90.4KW at the wheels

-steve

[KI11Z]

this makes me even more sad that my vr only made 90.4KW at the wheels

-steve

wat?! something is up there

[Shteifen]

yeah pretty sure its the fact that cylinders 1, 2, 3, 5 are getting around 180psi compression and the 4th is getting around 105psi and the 6th is getting a measly 80ish psi. so my problem is bad compression.

-steve