Sigma 5dr 1.9 XUD Project Dyno Results Included

[c.gerrard]

Right then, at long last finally a free evening to a proper right up of what has gone on with the car lately.

First and foremost, I was absolutely amazed that the engine has just covered 3,180 miles with no issues what so ever on our epic European road trip. I was crapping my pants going round the Nurburgring on an engine that had only covered about 800 miles Only have a bit of a leak from the rocker cover which has turned my nice new, shiny, yellow block black

I've never done anything like this before and so to have everything go according to plan, chuffed to bits. I couldn't have done it on my own, so massive credit to Jonny for helping throughout

List of what has been done:
Head skimmed
Valves lapped
Camshaft re-profiled
Crankshaft re-ground
Honed Block
New bearings all round
Re-furbed pistons
HDi Rods
TDO4
GTi6 brakes
EBC Green stuff
Oh, and it's yellow

Near enough every single component on the engine is brand new or has been re-furbed, so the thing may have just rolled out the factory.

Short terms plans are to get the fueling sorted. It is currently set to fuel the previous set up, which was a not very smokey T2 @ 20 psi. The car already feels like it bloody well shifts and it had even been sorted yet, so I'm expecting the results to be pretty epic.

Initial thoughts on the turbo are that it seems to pull very well. The lag doesn't seem to be an issue to my style of driving. Only issues that I have so far are trying to rag it up hills and narrow, twisty roads. That was to be expected though.

I'm not sure if/when to front mount it. One issue is that with my current insurance policy, they will not cover me and in all honestly, it does not feel as if it is suffering from heat soak, so not looking into that at the moment.

Plans for the future:
Fit, EGT, oil temp + pressure gauges
GTi6 front and rear anti roll bar
Bilstein B8's all round
Full 3" exhaust
Lower strut brace

All in all, she is beginning to finally feel like the finished article for what I want and will hopefully treat her to quite a bit of track time this year, before the track car takes priority.