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

[darrenjlobb]

epic as usual

Cheers fella

Waited a while for an update love sitting with cup of tea watching the build log

Haha, not sure if thats a good thing or not But glad you find it interesting

Absolutly mental car mate!!! Will watch this thread from now on..

Cheers, be sure to checkout the youtube as well

Have been a subscriber 2 your utube for years now and love every single video u pop up on ther, mainly got into it as u hav field cars but my interest has turned towards your 306, 2 the point iv even gone an bought 1! lol anyway keep up the good work mate! Can't wait 2 c this thing smoke out a dyno like your last engine lol

Haha good work, 306 is a great car To bad there so damn popular / such a bad name for themselves! heh its a way off the dyno yet, lots of pushing needed first, but get the gas masks ready for FCS 2013!

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Well ever since the motor went in the car, it has been running without a stat, so constant flow to the radiator...the original HDI stat housing was frankly a total pisstake / took up half the engine bay, which space was IMO much better used for turbos than holding water for no reason at all!

So the engine went in with a simple homemade flange to allow the rad hose to connect to the head...which is all well and good, but obviously no stat, means serious over cooling of the coolant, and in turn, meant the thing runs at like 40deg / 60 flat out, which is far from ideal, so after re arranging the boost pipes a bit the other day, I have now fitted my external stat housing just down in the front...

The housing with stock PSA stack inside (83deg):




And in position, there is a bypass pipe thats out of view, that routes the water back to the water pump until the stat opens, allowing the engine to circulate water / warm up evenly.

In position:






Now holds its temp perfectly at 83deg, yet to drive as front end is still missing!

Thanks for reading