Diesel Perf: 1.9 Litre T.D.I. Volkswagen Beetle

[milehighassassin]

Gee, the wrong place totally, you need to dig a little deeper on the TEX. TDiclub is great too. http://forums.vwvortex.com/zeroforum?id=22
Kerma TDi is the forum sponsor and answers alot of questions on there.

Yes, I've been there. I frequent that site often but rarely post. I am aware that Kerma TDI is the sponsor but read into the threads. I bet that 30% of them refer people to TDI CLUB.

Kerma has been a sponsor on TDI Club for a long time. Paul and Charlie are both stand up guys. Paul is in Vail and Charlie in Toole, UT.


That forum (TDI Diesel) has 9 threads for the day. Go to TDI Club and I bet they have over 200 active threads for the day.

Three of those threads are vendors selling stuff as well.

Threads referencing TDI CLUB:
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4141209
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4168814

(that was from me looking at 5 threads)

Again, the Tex is a great place for gas info, but if you want real Diesel info, just go to TDI Club. FAR more and better information.


Here is the fabrication forum I was talking about:
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zeroforum?id=715

I am sure there are better places but I enjoy watching some of the projects, some great welding on some of those.

 

[phatty]

I would also recommend Kermi TDI to you. Have them do injectors and tune for you.

I have the bully dog programmer on my 2003 jetta TDI.

I drive 90 miles a day for work alone, not to mention road trips, pulling sleds, and bikes, and all over town errands.

I was really impressed with the BD programmer. The car felt like a new beast with the extra 25 horsepower. It really helped out with pulling bikes and sleds.
The downside is my mileage actually went down 1-2 mpg (down from 45 to 43.5/44) I dont know if thats because the car is funner to drive now and i cant stay out of the pedal or just uses that much more fuel.

If you want to go the BD programmer way i dont think you can go wrong, but i think you would be smarter to go with Kerma TDI injectors and tune for serious performance...

 

[harrysmith500]

hey mile hi... what are your plans for your exhaust.. I really haven't looked at my under carriage yet... but I just plan on cutting out my muffler..... running a strait pipe in its place, and then unblolting the cat and pounding it out... but leaving it in its place.......... I wanna say there are 2 mufflers on the Bettle.....

 

[milehighassassin]

hey mile hi... what are your plans for your exhaust.. I really haven't looked at my under carriage yet... but I just plan on cutting out my muffler..... running a strait pipe in its place, and then unblolting the cat and pounding it out... but leaving it in its place.......... I wanna say there are 2 mufflers on the Bettle.....

Short-term: At least doing the muffler delete.

I would really like to do a 3" DP from stainless. Right now no one makes a 3" DP for the MK IV PD. 2.5" is as large as you can get.

I also have plans to make my own catback out of stainless, 3", no muffler. I really don't have the skill to make a downpipe.

On the TDI there is only 1 muffler. On the 1.8t and the 2.0 there is a midpipe as well. Exhaust bends are pretty straight forward.