Got Boost yo? Meet Valerie

Right, thought I may as well do my bit to add more depth to the forum and put my project thread on here. It will be a little muddled at the start as its just copy and paste jobbie but I will try make it all make sense....

Anyhow, this is an introduction to Valerie, the Turbocharged MK2 valver

This is the original Stealth Racing 16v turbo car as published in The Golf September 1998.

Interior.
Full Mk3 GTi Recaro interior with rear headrests.
Itolvolanti steering wheel.
Boost guage.

Body work.
Atlas Grey.
Fully blended in body kit with big bumpers all round.
Grey tinted rear lights to match the body colour.

Engine.
1.8 16v engine (KR code).
Compression lowered to 8:1.
Turbotechnics T25 turbo with TT cast manifold.
8 injectors, 4 standard for low boost and 4 extra injectors which become active when high boost mode is selected.
Engine completely rebuilt in May 2009.
Rolling roaded at Stealth Racing, making 221bhp on low boost, and 237bhp on high boost.

Chassis.
BBS CHs in 7J * 16 with Pirelli P-Zero Neros up front and Goodyear Eagle F1s on the rear.
Spax coilovers.
Fully polybushed all round.

SO! Thats the add when i bought it. Will continue with my story as and when

And it drops me in at the deep end, here are the posts from the beggining with problems and solutions. The first was its apparent complete failure!

September 13th 2009

Driving back from clee tonight i noticed that at around 3200revs the car made a strange noise, a kind of heavy gristly ticking noise. then coming up a hill it mada a fud and spluttered and i just ran it through the gears to get to the top to a garage forecourt.
Tried starting it a few times and it sounded very dry so i checked the oil and that was ok and no fluid comming out. The fuel pump does need replacing as it was getting more slow to start and reving strangly on startup..could this be my problem? Please also bear in mind it is turboed but when trying to start up it wasnt making any strange noises. Please get back to me asap! Muchoes apreciatoes...sam

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Just been back up to the car and there is no fuel comming out at the back so im not sure, again it almost started and didnt judder so was firing on all pistons i presume as it made a nice noise but then stopped and sounded dry again (no fuel)? Had an engine re-build 6 months ago so it shouldnt have messed up...i hope?
Any more info would be great!

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Ha Ha Ha fixed now! The pipe after the intercooler decided to fall out leaving a turbocharge mapped ecu to cope with normal air (not cool). Put it back on, started straight away! Job done  

I was told it would be simple....but not that simple!

October 1st 2009:

Welcome to hell! The mother of all f**kups begins!


I have a rattle from under my engine bay, i have put draft proof tape on everthing that could posibly move (just like numberplate pads) and its still there at about 3200 revs! Any ideas???

december 19th 2009

I think today when comming home from work one of the big end bearings finnally killed itself with a splurt cough and bangbangbangbangbangbang ect for the last half a mile... so anyhow. Any ideas on the price to fix at a local garage (friend of my dads) ? components shouldnt be more than £100 but how long should it take to do??

Many thanks, sam


WELCOME TO A WORLD OF PAIN!

01 March 2010

My Car didnt work... still

Well as many of you probably don't know/care, i blew the bottom end of my golf about 2 months ago and ITS STILL NOT SORTED! but is getting there. Basically engineering firms in Lincolnshire translates to 'farmers with 3 or more O levels' and have been fcucking about for 4 weeks!! Took 3 weeks for a re-grind crank and bearings and shells made up and now, been the observent farmers engineers that they are they didnt check the conrod length!? so my lower compression rod has now been sent back to have a little billet n fillet to drop the piston 2mm and its now been 5 days.... great!

Cant wait to get her back though! Gonna be sweeeeeeeeeeet. But 1000 miles of 'carefull' driving is needed to settle in the bearings (boohoo!)

Thanks for the time, sam

Right... fuck all this; just read this if your bothered

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=155317.0

Great to see you made it today, despite everything

Keep me posted on that RallyE interior mate, those seats you have atm look lovely...MK3 you say?

i like it. wheres the pictures samuel

lemski wrote:i like it. wheres the pictures samuel

all over the floor like his oil

tahts funny but its not good to make fun of such a serious problem with valorie.