Supercharged vts

[paulsupervts84]

My VTS what i brought back in 2005, i only the past few year been buying bit for it, and the past year i have deside to supercharge it, the internals of the engine is what i have mainly done so far

my specs

KMS ECU + Wideband
Omega Low Comps
Group N engine months
C2 Big Vavle Head
BTB Manifold + System
4.5 FPR
Mocal oil cooler
AP twin plate lug drive clutch
Stripped the rear seats out and relocated the battery in the boot
VTR Alterator bracket
206GTI 180 Brakes

Here a few pics of what i have done so far    

[paulsupervts84]

few more pics

[paulsupervts84]

few more pics

[VTR_Craig]

Nice plans mate.

Any pictures of the whole car?

Are you planning on taking it on track?

[paulsupervts84]

yeh plans are when i get the supercharged fitted useing it as a track day car/weekend car here how it look now

[paulsupervts84]

I\'m just in the middle of making the GMC pace intercooler/Rad combo into an single pass, just waiting on the Aluminium boost pipe end and abit of a Aluminium plate then getting it welded

[Weihrauch]

Looking like a good project so far!

You going to change your lead acid battery for a sealed red or yellow top battery at all?

keep up the good work

[paulsupervts84]

just going to get an battery box to put it in, think i change to an redtop battery when that one, stops working

[SaxxxoSteve]

Any pictures of the pistons paul

you have some great plans, good luck with it

[paulsupervts84]

i take some when i take the head off going to fit a thicker head gasket when i get the charger

[SaxxxoSteve]

What thickness are you currently running paul, 0.6mm?

Cant see any need to go thicker, the extra CR will give it a bit more low down grunt I think aswell? and its not like you will be running silly amounts of boost so wont hurt?

A few tuners are going for high compression engines running boost nowadays. makes for some interesting power

{should really read more into this myself as im not too clued up lol}

[paulsupervts84]

not 100% sure myself , dont think i would high comps like to much compression. and you probably have problems if your runing a S/C

[106xsi16v]

John told me to use the 0.6 H/G to raise CR up as low comps are a bit to low.

[paulsupervts84]

john said the same to me aswell but he pm me the other day saying if your using the c30/94 use an 1.5mm or 1.9mm head gasket so i\'m abit confused what to use now  :-k

[106xsi16v]

Im using a 0.6mm H/G with a 94!!.

[paulsupervts84]

i been told if you run a thicker gasket you can get more fuel/air to combust so it gives you abit more bhp

[SaxxxoSteve]

...while sacrificing low-down power at the same time?

[106xsi16v]

raising the C/R makes the engine require less boost for the same power. Thats what john said to me, might have changed his mind now then?

[boni]

but with high compression and boost you will run into det problems very early on, unless using very high quality fuel (race fuel)

[boni]

i been told if you run a thicker gasket you can get more fuel/air to combust so it gives you abit more bhp

using a thicker gasket does increase the cylinder volume, but it doesnt affect the swept volume, so you wont see any power gains from the way you would be expecting.