darrenjlobb's Project M-TDI Twin Turbo Supercharged Derv Bus

[darrenjlobb]

Well.....better get this thread up to date for any new users, but for all the long timers, most of this is old news....

Bought the car as a standard black ph1 D Turbo 3-4 years ago, with a blown head gasket, fooked rear beam and knackered clutch....

Started off something a little like this (was pre chavified)



Then came alot of tuning....which would take pages to explain, but basically engine 1 suffered a conrod failure, engine two made 213hp, and then suffered a conrod failure, engine 3 was forged up, compound blown with a charger / turbo and never got it on the dyno for a real power run, but was certainly up in the 200+ zone, but sadly cooked the head....

Some pictures of it at its best with the XUD motor in it:













And some pictures of things that I guess didn't go quite so well...












And some random build pictures from over the years:












But after the third engine, I decided it was time to let the XUD rest in peace...for now anyway, and move onto something new....Ive realised there is so much potential in the motor, but the inefficients of IDI were starting to cause me problem, mainly just the severe heat in the pre cups....Work to the cups would no doubt result in more power...but I had to draw the line at some point, as every extra HP at this point was costing to much money and being to unreliable...

So that's it for the XUD.....