Questions about VW1302RSis ride

[VW1302RSi]

Hi Jak

Originally Posted by jakriz

I was given the advice not to use a thermostate by someone who does conversions for a living but I also checked with my engine builder as well before doing so. My 2 mates that did their conversions at the same time are also not running thermostates either with no ill effects. It seems to make sense to me, but then alot of weird stuff does

With out trying to sound like a know it all prick I hope you didn't pay for that advise.

But seeing as I don't know everything (as my wife points out) I decided to ask a few professionals,
So I called a service manager of a Toyota dealership I know who is an A grade mechanic with over 40 years in the trade and playing with race cars, and he agreed with me but gave me some grief for asking him a question I knew the answer for. But as we both could be wrong I wanted to confirm so I wanted to asked a 3rd party. So I left the warmth of my office and went down to the workshop and asked some of the qualified mechanics there what they thought and they agreed with me, but I thought they would.

We just can’t see any reason why you wouldn’t run a thermostat, unless it was to overcome some other problem?

Originally Posted by jakriz

Have u had your car on the dyno yet Scott, would be interesting to see what the twin cam 2.5 puts out at the wheels.

Yes I have had my car on the dyno it’s a EJ25 SOHC not a DOHC and as I don’t like talking about power figures as it always end up sounding like fishing story’s, and it depends on the dyno and the correction methods used, sae, din, temp correction bla bla bla.
It has enough for the moment.


Scott

[jakriz]

Like I said Scott, 30'000k on the conversion, driven daily & flogged on the track with Porsches. if it aint broken, don't fix it.
Each to their own.
Just can't understand why u would ask your local toyota dealership advice about a wrx engine in the back of a 71 beetle?
Good luck with yours.
regards
Jak

[VW1302RSi]

Originally Posted by jakriz

Like I said Scott, 30'000k on the conversion, driven daily & flogged on the track with Porsches. if it aint broken, don't fix it.
Each to their own.
Just can't understand why u would ask your local toyota dealership advice about a wrx engine in the back of a 71 beetle?
Good luck with yours.
regards
Jak

Fair comment Jak if it isn’t broke don’t fix it.

It wasn’t the Toyota dealership I was asking, it was the man at the dealership I was asking, he’s raced every thing from Karts to Sprint cars including an old F1 Cooper Climax and a Subaru Speedway Saloon.

But hell all I was saying was I don’t understand why you wouldn’t fit one, that’s not knocking your car or how well it goes, I’ve heard lots and lots of good things about how well you car goes on the track and 30000 Ks speak for it’s self

No disrespect for you or your car, I guess I was just knocking the man who recommended you ran with out one.

Scott

[What-r-u-doing]

Hello

Under the orders of scott i deleted my post LOL, only cas hed tell my mum on me.

But Jack he is a good mechanic, but i'm better HAHA

Phil

[VW1302RSi]

Thanks for that Phil

I’m sure every body on this board wanted to know my history, well your inaccurate version anyway. How about you remove this post, I’ve pissed Jak off enough with out you helping.

Jak, sorry about Phil’s comments, he can’t help it he was born in Naenae, the biggest ghetto in Wellington and his mum didn’t love him.

Scott

[Rob]

Man, I envy you Super guys for the space you have up front

Scott, do you happen to have a pic or schematic of all the breather hoses ?
How did you hook al those up ? Especially the connections to the left of the throttle body ? I think these are the crankcase ventilation ?

See pic (Arrow 1 and 2).


Also how did you mount the MAF / air intake plumbing ?


Thanks!

Rob.

[VW1302RSi]

Originally Posted by Rob

Man, I envy you Super guys for the space you have up front

Scott, do you happen to have a pic or schematic of all the breather hoses ?
How did you hook al those up ? Especially the connections to the left of the throttle body ? I think these are the crankcase ventilation ?

See pic (Arrow 1 and 2).


Also how did you mount the MAF / air intake plumbing ?


Thanks!

Rob.

Hi Rob.

I reversed my inlet manifold and removed all the old vacuum and crankcase ventilation hoses and re-plumbed them.

I’ll try and describe how I have done the inlet, vacuum and ventilation plumbing.

I rotated the inlet manifold 180 deg and have an air filter mounted on the throttle body, I will be making an airbox that sits above the inlet manifold soon.
My map sensor is mounted in my aftermarket ECU this gets it vacuum via a rubber hose from the top of the manifold.

The only other small vacuum hose I have goes from the fuel pressure regulator to the manifold, this can be seen near the dipstick in this picture you could use this source of vacuum for your MAP signal (it would depend on what sort of EFI system you are using)

http://vw1302rsi.multiply.com/photos/photo/1/45

I have a Bugpack type oil breather box mounted on the fire wall (see pic above) this has one hose coming out each end and they run down to each cam/rocker cover vents, then the other vent in the breather box runs to the crankcase breather point. (Number 2 in your picture)

I will be making a modification to the crankcase breather system, once I have built my airbox, this will place another breather hose from the crankcase breather to the airbox, between the throttle body and airfilter, make sense?

If not tell me and have another go.

Scott