gt2259s Dturbo

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Now that my exams are done, i thought i'd stick up a quick intro to my Dturbo before all the major mods come in the next few weeks. I never keep cars for long. Get bored too quick. I only bought it as a temporary stopgap car to tide me over a few weeks at Uni at the start of the academic year but.. i still have it :? . As much as i hate the bastard, i also love it. Can't explain it tbh, i guess you could say i live for the 306 now

(none of my car fwweeends understand it tbh! Seeing as i used to drive these...

330d


S4 B5






Anyway, some random pictures from the past 8 months to follow. Nothing special just yet, it was mainly a year of bodging; every time the car broke down - i just bodged it with what ever i had lying around and replaced with standard turbos...




Replaced soon after with..


And some of these after a near death experience




Then the winter came, and with it, the joys of trying to start an xud with 2 glow plugs on gloopy used veg


Thought this was fitting (my friend has a really odd long thumb hock: )




Various breakdowns, have more somewhere..




6.30am M6 casual breakdown, nice sunrise though. Pump pulley come loose.


Fixed with this


Followed by this KABOOOOOOM and a Geordie 'noooooooo'


Then after a bitter cold winter with no heating, i decided to sort my fudged matrix... for the summer :?


So in summary, i've been through 3 standard turbos, several boost and coolant pipes and 2 pulleys. Not baaad considering its currently clocked up 9k miles of 35psi+ abuse on its 95k miles DHY block with rods still intact Its a laaaate '99 ph2.5 in really good nick with fsh.


Plans for the next week or two are:

Drop in my spare Xantia engine with some gasket matching porting
Bigger turbo (i shall keep this secret for now, but its not a td04/t25 old tech shit.
10mm pump head + other mods
Hdi rods
Skimmed pistons hopefully
DE-ORANGE my engine bay with new headgasket and possibly uprated head bolts
New clutch and Hdi box
Coilovers
And some other stuff


A recent pic with its masked crystals.



The aim is to get it to 200bhp and keep some reliability. It's my daily and i'll be covering about 300miles a week next academic yr.. Its not fun breaking down/fixing shit in a suit! Anyway, thanks for reading and hopefully the next update will actually have something interesting for you to see and read instead

Niv.