Little Red Devil

[Jmac]

What kinda bolts are they? Heat doesn't just loosen the bolts they stretch with the heat even locked, hope it works ideas right . Would b locking all really only takes one loose one to cause dramas. Did my wire locking stand up all this time? Hair dryer looks nice
Cheers
Jmac

[h100vw]

What kinda bolts are they? Heat doesn't just loosen the bolts they stretch with the heat even locked, hope it works ideas right . Would b locking all really only takes one loose one to cause dramas. Did my wire locking stand up all this time? Hair dryer looks nice
Cheers
Jmac

The locking was good Jimmy. Although I did note that the bolts were slacker that I expected. Stretching due to heat I guess.

TBH I'd had such a fight getting the turbo and pipes in, I didn't really feel mad keen to get the last one.

The bolts are 12.9, came with the locking tab. Can't remember where Anthony got them from.

Will get the old blower to you soon. Which incidently is in mint nick. No play to speak of in any direction, unlike most of the other turbos I have had my hands on recently.

Gavin

[Jmac]

Good to hear the locking held up, glad its your call on the tabs, yeah cool on the turbo. Interested to see the results
Ta
Jmac

[h100vw]

It's back running again folks! Done about 10km round my local area, no fluids pissing out everywhere. Happy with that. The N75 is disconnected so it's got 6PSI to play with at the moment.




Turbo from underneath, cobbled together TIP, 90 degree reducer onto turbo, 3 inch aluminium tube with the evap line, then 3 inch silicon into the top of an ebay Forge-a-like Tip.

ANother shot of the bottom of the TIP.

Top of the ebay TIP

[vwthunder]

Well done gavin

And anthony lol, what is going to happen with a tune for it, oh and what injectors are you running

[h100vw]

Well done gavin

And anthony lol, what is going to happen with a tune for it, oh and what injectors are you running

The tune is pending Troy.

[VWindahouse]

Well done gavin

And anthony lol, what is going to happen with a tune for it, oh and what injectors are you running

Lol nice

Injectors are new Genesis II 500cc from USRT in the US. Have high hopes for these actually after seeing some comparative dyno plots on stage 2 & 3 1.8t's. With just injector changes nothing else they recorded decent ATW power increases but as always could just be creative marketing.

[Redliner]

Injectors are new Genesis II 500cc from USRT in the US.

Good choice mate.
Thats what I should have used. Can't wait to see the results of your combo.

[VWindahouse]

Thanks mate, I hope they're worth the extra coin. Do you think yours will be done soon?

[noone]

I keep going back to the photo of the turbo.

Must...resist...

Cool toys dude, jealous.

[Njay]

how do you find the lightened crank pulley? lot of people been telling me to remove it

[Redliner]

Do you think yours will be done soon?

Off to Westside tomorrow to do the exhaust and charge pipes. Ceramic coating will add a couple of days.
Then Seb just has to finish everything off. Late next week we should be starting it.

[9n3 Turbo]

Awesome updates. Looking forward to the videos and hearing you feedback.

[VWindahouse]

I keep going back to the photo of the turbo.

Must...resist...

Cool toys dude, jealous.

Lol yes I don't need a crystal ball to see one in your future Ben

how do you find the lightened crank pulley? lot of people been telling me to remove it

Yeah the lads on Vortex aren't a fan. I can't find any solid evidence and there are heaps of people that have been running one for over 100,000kms. I did find this though;

The R&D team at ECS tuning takes great pride in the design and quality of our products. We we carefully match all OEM critical dimensions such as belt groove offsets, timing marks, belt groove profile, hole diameters, while optimizing performance. Our pulleys are designed in-house utilizing the state of the art CMM, laser scanning, CAD and simulation techniques and are then made in the USA. All of our products are subject to meticulous in-house quality inspection with our Faro Edge CMM, test fitment, dyno testing, and road testing before they are release for sale to the public.

With any pulley, the overall outer width of the pulley is not critical to pulley fitment. In this case, stacking the OEM and ECS pulley on a table is not a relevant comparison as the crank mounting flange is concave and cannot be referenced without careful measurement. The technician made a good effort to do a comparison to the stock pulley, but did not have the proper equipment to measure the belt groove offset.

To ensure the quality of this product, we have carefully reviewed a pulley from the same production batch as the customer's pulley to the OEM pulley via laser scanning with our Faro edge arm. We have also compared our CAD model file to the OEM pulley (as a double check of our design) and CAD model file to current production sample (as a double check of the manufacturing quality). We have confirmed that our pulley meets factory specification for critical dimensions: belt groove profile, diameter, and offset.

There is a possibility that there is a quality defect with the customer's pulley. As soon as we receive this pulley and carefully measure and compare to the stock pulley, we will be able to determine if there is a manufacturing defect, or if the cause for belt failure is due to something else (installation error, or a worn or damaged accessory or idler pulley, or accessory misalignment).

Note that any pulley axis angle or offset misalignment greater than ¼ degree or 1.59mm per 12" of drive center distance (distance from shaft to shaft) will result in premature belt failure. Also be sure to inspect all accessories and tensioner for smooth, drag free operation and alignment. The link below may direct you toward possible solutions if you continue to have premature belt failure:

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We have received the customer's pulley and performed a careful CMM quality inspection to verify the pulley matches both our design and OEM pulley specifications. The offset of the returned pulley is within an acceptable tolerance compared to the OEM pulley. We have also carefully measured for any parallelity deviation between the crank mounting flange and belt groove profile to check for any damage that could have caused the customer's problem, and we found that our pulley belt groove profile on our used pulley still has a tighter parallelity measurement than the OEM pulley.

The rubber deposits on the pulley indicates that the belt was slipping, possibly due to a worn tensioner or due to excessive drag from another component in the serpentine system. Even if the belt grooves were misaligned, we would not expect to see the amount of debris that is present on this pulley.

Based on our analysis, we are confident that the returned pulley is fully functional and meets our design specification.

Regards,

ECS Tuning

It was from someone who had two shredded belts in a row who had a ECS pulley.

Off to Westside tomorrow to do the exhaust and charge pipes. Ceramic coating will add a couple of days.
Then Seb just has to finish everything off. Late next week we should be starting it.

Sweet what are you getting coated?

Awesome updates. Looking forward to the videos and hearing you feedback.

Cheers mate, base tune just arrived so pumped at the moment. Been waiting 4 years for this, since the ebay turbo fail.

[team_v]

I hope this is tuned and slightly road tested before Happy Laps next weekend!