1.8T GTi Swap into Bora

[governor22]

can you get 180kw in a 4mo (without doing forced induction.. ) ? or is 165 the limit ?

[Coralon]

Sure you can, if you have the $ to pull it off. A nice intake, exhaust, set of lumpy ass cams, a little headwork, bore the block out to 2.9 or so and chuck some whopping big pistons in there, get more fuel into the engine and then tune the hell out of it all. Would cost a fortune but anything is possible with enough money.

[goodfella]

need to dig up the build thread, but I beleive Lonewolf in Perth recorded ~200 atwkw in his Bora 4mo, TT cams, ECU tune and exhaust alone. Its still a heavy front end.

[peedman]

Are you sure thats not at the fly? The last dyno I went to (the one before last) a mk4 r32 with cams, exhaust, P&P, giac made 173kw at all four so 200kw from a 2.8 bora is hard to believe.

[goodfella]

Are you sure thats not at the fly? The last dyno I went to (the one before last) a mk4 r32 with cams, exhaust, P&P, giac made 173kw at all four so 200kw from a 2.8 bora is hard to believe.

by all accounts... it was at the front wheels -> http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/foru...ult-49861.html

[peedman]

It was HP not KW as well..

[goodfella]

My bad... HP it is, so about 150kw, thus almost inline with the 175kw result of the R32. With just a CC flash +CAI , I got 127fwkw at a previous Dyno Day, TT claim their cams release 20kw.

Lets not get off topic... the transplant is a lot more interesting to discuss than claimed outputs!!!

Congrats and great effort!

[Dyldo]

loving he sound of a 1.8T into a Bora 4Mo