Cleaned the side mount intercooler, got some ideas...

[GoLfMan]

here's a link for a vb:
garrett GT Turbolader GT1749VB ARL

not bad pricing, and a VERY feasible option instead of stock replacement.

but as for your turbo, josh, i think it should be fine- lots of people on tdi club reckon that their vnt15's are good for 100,000 MILES. and what with proper warming up and cooling down etc, no hard driving upon cold starts, etc, yours should be doing fine. it'd be the stock vnt's of peeps who use their cars as an A-B hack vehicle, no warm up, no cool down, that i'd be worried about.

cheers!

thats sweet!
So is that a bolt on replacement?
the 1749vb will be able to allow me to reach my 120fwkw goal I recon
I never thrash my TDI when its cold. But when its at operating temp, I flog the guts out of it

[GoLfMan]

if you remove hte flap itself, the egr wont work properly.... that would probably throw a code or two.

i plan to remove it with an Allard power pipe sometime in the future (when i pull my finger out and plumb up my front mount)

[Buller_Scott]

thats sweet!
So is that a bolt on replacement?
the 1749vb will be able to allow me to reach my 120fwkw goal I recon
I never thrash my TDI when its cold. But when its at operating temp, I flog the guts out of it

lol i know you do- the stuff i heard about the cruise in the hills, and you at the wheel- i was pretty stoked to hear the tdi giving it a go for sure!

not sure if its a direct bolt on. i've yet to get all the plastic crap under the car un-bolted and take pics of exactly what it all looks like re the turbo. hopefully it's bolt on, or minor mods!

and be it a vb or a vc.... just imagine, upwards of 400nm of torque in our little polos...

but i dont think i'll replace the stockie until it blows, which could be another couple years at least. in the mean time, though....

water meth! gotta read up on cog's threads