I always thought there was only 1 catalytic converter in the 4 cylinder engines with an O2 sensor before and after it. I've heard of guys in Europe drilling out the cat in the 1.4 TSI and using the stage 2 file catless (which is obviously illegal here). As Lucas suggested you could install a 200cel cat further down the pipe in the central channel (tonnes of space in there). It'd be some exhaust shop fabrication and you'd need to relocate the O2 sensors but there's no reason i can think of why it couldn't work. It would be much cheaper and it avoids the need to worry about insulating a new downpipe.
The Milltek TBE I have for the 1.4 twincharger is 2.5" which isn't much wider than stock in the downpipe where it counts.
EDIT: Here's the technique: Any 1.4TSI Pre-cat empty'ing experiences? - VW GTI Forum / VW Rabbit Forum / VW R32 Forum / VW Golf Forum - Golfmkv.com
Last edited by Mk R; 12-08-2016 at 01:19 PM.
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It does some serious breathing for a 1.4 though. I regularly get peak boost over 20 PSI and 17-18 in the turbo range. Smaller displacement but higher pressure than many 2.0 litre and up turbo engines. Stage 2+ maps can take peak boost up to 25 PSI and revlimit boost to 18 PSI up to 7000 RPM.
Wossner forged pistons are actually 10 grams heavier (250g vs 240g for stock - this is just the piston, the wrist pins are the same weight..(340 total vs 330g)
More material has been removed in areas on the backside of the piston to try and get the weight down closer to stock - forged pistons being denser aluminium are usually heavier.
Last edited by blower; 13-08-2016 at 04:01 AM.
Nope, standard rods going back into mine. Most people I have spoken to reckon that they are plenty strong enough for as much as you could possibly squeeze out of our engine. They are pretty thick. I was holding a GTI rod and one of mine and there really isn't a massive difference in size and thickness. Although some of us almost run stock GTI power the GTI rods are good for a hell of a lot of power so ours can't be that far behind in my opinion.
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So another couple of weeks have gone by without my car. Bit of an update on how things are going. I should be picking it up tomorrow at some stage which I am excited but weirdly quite nervous about.
Once the pistons arrived, the block, rods and pistons were sent off to a local engineering company to be bored and have all the clearances checked. I didn't have much to do with this and didn't see the engine after it had been bored, but here are a few pictures that the garage sent me. We had a bit of an issue with the top ring. Seems like Wossner sent the correct lower rings but the top ring was way to big. Luckily Wossner in Australia had a spare which was sent up
Wossner Pistons in the fresh block
New Pistons, Stock Rods
After everything arrived, things started to move pretty quickly. As I said before the only parts that were updated on my engine was the timing chain assembly which was updated to the revision that went in the CTHD engine. Other than that nothing else was changed. I did put a new set of BKR7EIX plugs in it.
Top End back on
Supercharger and Turbo back on
A common issue with cars these days is carbon on the intake and exhaust valves. I was expecting a lot more carbon on my valves but I think that due to the way I drive the car it wasn't as bad as expected. My next mod once I get the car back will be to fit an oil catch can to reduce this build up in the future. The garage has a walnut blaster that connects up to the intake port to blast away all the carbon.
Before
After
The engine has been started and is apparently running very smooth. Tomorrow they will be taking it for a drive about 20kms and reading engine outputs and looking for any fault codes. Assuming that all goes well I will be pick it up around lunch. The only thing that wasn't installed was the S3 intercooler which they didn't do because they didn't want to cut the stock pipes. Personally I would prefer them to cut the stock pipes and install it but I will see what they say when I get there. They have agreed to install it at no cost. I will post once I have taken it for a drive to let you know how it goes.
Thanks for the update mate!
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