Evening Chaps, hope your all doing well
Thought it was about time I started posting some useful input here for the many I do know and the few I haven't had the pleasure to meet yet.
Regards the Loba 4XX (Darius's Loba's little baby) the idea behind the unit was a safe 400 plus hp on a totally standard K04 power head with no more lag than say a stock K04. As we all know this power level has been reached and plenty surpassed many years ago with the legendary Garrett GT & GTX series turbo's but came at the cost of turbo lag and a turbo lag that we have now become unaccustomed too.
I do have the turbo fitted to our demo car now as a few of you already know and I can assure you that 400hp is totally real world possible as the turbo is virtually asleep at this level.
Our car is still on standard internals and I'm trying to keep it that way as to keep costs down to the end user but all importantly keep costs down and be safe & reliable.
Like most VW tuning indies we've seen a lot of Hard worked K04 motors (some very hard worked ones Mr Hurditch!) and have yet to see one detonate, I'm not assuming at all this isn't possible as we may well soon find out it is, but that would be on my own demo car which I can repair with ease and not one of my poor old customers.
I would agree headlift is the main issue which will have to be resovled, I have discussed this with a few already.
We have seen pistons let go on poorly tuned cars in the past that probably never got set up right in the first place due to lack of knowledge or maybe budget.
I can tell you one thing for sure this hybrid is of the likes you've never seen before, I know Mr Loba is keeping it a close guarded secret for now but I assure you this design could not be replicated easily or cheaply.
We have a 2WD DSG demo car and a 4WD DSG demo car, we will run this set up on both now , the 2WD & 4WD tunes will be very different I can guarantee that for sure!
We will develop tunes for Giac and Revo so customers can go with their preferred supplier
Tuning and specific live road mapping will be commencing shortly.
So now we have it for the first time ever More power than a GT28RS with no more lag than a stock K04 !
I'll keep everyone up to speed as much as I can here when I have the time that is!
Remember we undertake these new and exciting projects to eventually offer them to you guys, these new tuning options are all for you to choose what is right personally for you I'm not saying one is better than any other.
After all were all in this together !!
