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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #45 on: January 26, 2012, 10:38:02 pm »
Love it mate ,followed the build on ED38,gonna contact you soon to convert my k03 gti to k04 p.s love the pic with the boxer in it !

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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #46 on: January 27, 2012, 01:45:18 pm »
ah the boxer is my dog, roxy! shes proper scatty as hell and chases anything that rolls - most annoying of which is trolley jacks haha!  :stupid:

suns out today and the porsche came out of hiding, caught this snap!


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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #47 on: January 27, 2012, 02:01:08 pm »
Amazing looking car  :happy2:


Slowly progressing. . .

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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #48 on: January 30, 2012, 09:59:07 am »
thanks!  :drinking:




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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #49 on: January 30, 2012, 09:50:11 pm »
ah the boxer is my dog, roxy! shes proper scatty as hell and chases anything that rolls - most annoying of which is trolley jacks haha!  :stupid:

Nice one used to have a boxer my self ,best dogs ever,mental but extra funny !

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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #50 on: January 31, 2012, 10:01:50 am »
good news is that my cams are arriving this week, and ive got the RS4 fuel return valve to go on and i've also painted my spare rocker cover. good few changes before the weekend with any luck!




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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #51 on: January 31, 2012, 03:42:10 pm »
That looks ace, never thought about having the cover painted.

Lot of inspiration with this build thread! :wink: :happy2:

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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #52 on: January 31, 2012, 03:59:09 pm »
That looks ace, never thought about having the cover painted.

Lot of inspiration with this build thread! :wink: :happy2:

Make sure the torx bits are fully undone next time you remove the rocker cover Al  :grin:

Thinking about painting mine too

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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #53 on: January 31, 2012, 04:25:04 pm »
ive ordered some custom samcos for the catch and intake so will paint my other rocker to match those when they arrive. i allways have either pearl or metalflake rocker covers on my cars  :happy2:

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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #54 on: February 01, 2012, 10:04:17 am »
love this! doesnt help my wanting to sell my mk2 20v for a mk5!

your mk4 was mental to!

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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #55 on: February 01, 2012, 10:10:52 am »
love this! doesnt help my wanting to sell my mk2 20v for a mk5!

your mk4 was mental to!

You won't sell the mkII, You won't sell the mkII, You won't sell the mkII, You won't sell the mkII*

*until I have ££££ spare at least [/size.  :P

The mad Mk4 reminds me of my hankering for a biiig power Mk4 R32

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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #56 on: February 01, 2012, 07:43:39 pm »
i still hanker after mk4's every day haha... the mk4 24v is 'my' car... just wish i had the money to swap in all the mk5 interior to one and do another big build...

anywayssss  - so i was wondering how full my catch can was after just a week...



and this is the result!



mostly just just water in there for now, but you can see the oil and impurities gathering, so happy its not stuck to the back of my exhaust valves!!



look how sticky it is. nasty...



wished i fitted the PCV delete and catch sooner!!

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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #57 on: February 03, 2012, 11:55:37 am »
so, last night we began to strip the car ready for the new camshafts:



and they arrived this morning! this is the full Regal Autosport Cam Pack:



comes with, inlet and exhaust cam, fitting kit and vernier pulley - notice that two hardened and coated fuel pump lobes are included...



one is slightly higher lift than stock for road use and gives a higher rail pressure than a standard cam would, and an even higher lift lobe for motorsport use - so i should be able to retain full FSI when i go for really really big power later :D

the pump lobes themselves are specificially hardened and coated to work perfectly with the OEM update coated pump lobe follower (bucket) and reduce bucket wear over the stock setup. ALOT of effort has gone into this and currently we are the only cam supplier able to offer this improvement... you dont just get more power, but more protection too!!



stock cams out:



last week i had the car on the dyno and checked the health of the car and did some runs to give a baseline for improvement with the cams and i noticed a slight drop in power to 363bhp and an intermittant drop in sustained boost levels... i eventually tracked it down to be a fluctuation in delivered rail pressure, which was causing the car to pull back timing which in turn affected the boost...

and today we found the cause of the rail presure fluctuation i had been experiencing on the dyno....



the dreaded lobe wear!

now you all know why and what happens when this starts haha  :laugh:



as you know this is extremely common on all 2.0TFSi engines but the good news is the new cam pack we have put together includes a hardened fuel lobe and is specially coated to work perfectly with the updated OEM buckets, so this wear will be significantly reduced and i dont have to worry about checking for wear periodicially



will be a nice peace of mind!

im genuinely excited about this cam pack, because it is a genuinely better design than stock - and not only gives more power but addresses a common 2.0TFSi niggle, and that to me is absolutely what modifying is all about!

also going the mundane cambelt and water pump at the same time, and will aim to get the RS4 fuel return valve in too - with any luck i might have an idea of the power gains by tonight!

fingers x'd for me :D

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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #58 on: February 03, 2012, 12:24:22 pm »
This thread is BIG! Loving it  :happy2:
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Re: My KO4 MK5 GTi
« Reply #59 on: February 03, 2012, 01:22:48 pm »


as you know this is extremely common on all 2.0TFSi engines




I beg to differ, cam lobe wear is  not common at all. Hundreds and hundreds of tuned GTI's on here and very few problems. More common on the couple of aftermarket turbos and very common in America.  :smiley: