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

[ginge191]

100psi?!

that is crazy... great work!

[declantg]

This is literally insane

[mark_airey]

Loving the train Gauge......................WIN for all the reasons you mentioned

So you have gone for the purposeful interior look now instead of the OEM idea, suppose there are only so many extra gauges and switches you can get it there while remaining anything like factory looking.

[Scott]

Loving the interior.

Darren I think you know what you need to do with that 100psi gauge...you need to max it out!

[silverzx]

That looks crazy!

[Rippthrough]

WRT heat shielding this stuff is superb:

http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/motorspor ... eat-shield

As being fairly rigid you can just bend it up into pretty much any shape you want and it'll hold it, and you can just cut it with snips, although not cheap.

[darrenjlobb]

WRT heat shielding this stuff is superb:

http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/motorspor ... eat-shield

As being fairly rigid you can just bend it up into pretty much any shape you want and it'll hold it, and you can just cut it with snips, although not cheap.

Thanks ripp for the advice, altho for my purpose, id have thought the cheaper stuff that James (atterz) posted would be ok? afterall this isnt a 1200whp petrol heh

Welcome to the thread btw, cant imagine you spend to much time in here haha!

[Tom]

Wow all those gauges are just WIN! Nearly got as many as a plane haha

[4WayDiablo]

thats a heck of a lot of guages! what are they all for? and the switches?

[darrenjlobb]

Top 3 are the boost gauges, so primary / secondry / manifold levels, far left is pump internal pressure and vent one is EGT's , so thats all the tuning ones, then the 3 in radio area are just engine safety ones, so oil presssure / temp / water temp.

Switchs are for electric pas, rad fans, lift pump and meths injection.

[4WayDiablo]

haha sweet! top work though dude!

[anto]

Darren what make or where did you get your ipp gauge and sensor?
Ive looked everywhere for one that is electric and goes to a high enough psi and i cant find one anywhere?!!?

[darrenjlobb]

Darren what make or where did you get your ipp gauge and sensor?
Ive looked everywhere for one that is electric and goes to a high enough psi and i cant find one anywhere?!!?

Mines not electric, but its got a diaphragm in the engine bay / cable, so no fuel enters the cabin / MOT friendly.

I found it on ebay, its a train fuel pressure gauge I think....Train bits are so win....

[Toby]

Darren what make or where did you get your ipp gauge and sensor?
Ive looked everywhere for one that is electric and goes to a high enough psi and i cant find one anywhere?!!?

Mines not electric, but its got a diaphragm in the engine bay / cable, so no fuel enters the cabin / MOT friendly.

I found it on ebay, its a train fuel pressure gauge I think....Train bits are so win....

Is this because your car looks like this when on the rollers/cruising/idling

[Rippthrough]

Welcome to the thread btw, cant imagine you spend to much time in here haha!

There's a cheaper copy available but I can't remember who makes it!
If you want something cheap that works - well, for the buggy manifold I made two thin ally heatsheilds and sandwiched some ceramic kiln blanket between them from the local glassworks
Awesome stuff, you can hold your hand on it with a gas torch on the other side....

I pop in for the odd look, so I can judge just how far the pistons are going to make it into space

[darrenjlobb]

Welcome to the thread btw, cant imagine you spend to much time in here haha!

There's a cheaper copy available but I can't remember who makes it!

I pop in for the odd look, so I can judge just how far the pistons are going to make it into space

You love it really, just to scared to admit it x

[Rippthrough]

It'd be great, if it ran on proper fuel. 600bhp then

[darrenjlobb]

Meh, people have already done that though, uber boring, and i like my 50mpg

[Rippthrough]

Chances of that getting 50mpg?

[darrenjlobb]

Old one did, FCS and back from cornwall on a tank and that was with screwed over pump.

[Rippthrough]

Well stop driving like a tart then and get yer foot down

[Dan!]

On a run - 50mpg
On boost - 10mpg?

Haha....

[Niall]

Darren love it!
Sorry To sound like a dumbass but my knowledge of dervs is very little! How is meths injection beneficial? How does it help?

[mark_airey]

On a run - 50mpg
On boost - 10mpg?

Haha....

It has to be into single figures on boost, I can get the Mrs's 307 HDi down to 11mpg

[Rippthrough]

Darren love it!
Sorry To sound like a dumbass but my knowledge of dervs is very little! How is meths injection beneficial? How does it help?

It's closer to running proper fuel so the engine goes better

[Dum-Dum]

Darren love it!
Sorry To sound like a dumbass but my knowledge of dervs is very little! How is meths injection beneficial? How does it help?

a very fine mist of methanol and water (about 50/50 but more water) is fired into the inlet above a certain boost threshold, evaporates and cools the inlet temps down further.

[darrenjlobb]

On a run - 50mpg
On boost - 10mpg?

Haha....

Heh no idea on boost, but what I will say, is on full boost at anything over 4krpm it would suck the ve dry, and thats with the lift pump on.....so that means its pulling all the fuel the lift pump can delivery, which would put mpg in the....bad zone...

But meh, that's the beuty of diesel, pretty much no matter what you do, the off boost normal driving mpg remains very much oem... GTI6's on the convoy up were having to stop to fill up, and id come all the way from Cornwall, and made it there and back no issues....

I think Ripp just needs a go in a correctly tuned / geared / pushed diesel lol

[Rippthrough]

Nah, you're alright, my 1.3 and 1.4 are enough

[darrenjlobb]

Meh, id prefer it if this was a 1.6 short stroke tbh! Not my fault the made the xu so big!

[Rippthrough]

They did a TU diesel you know, now that would be different

Just think of all the fun you'd have with exploding gearboxes