RE: Pictures of newly installed 16V turbo system.

["Bradley Peet" <btpeet@effervescent.com>]

With the AMS turbo manifold I'm using, the turbo itself is a little too high
to allow that configuration.  The "regular" (A2 2.0 16V) kits from Matrix
feature a custom made stainless steel manifold that lowers the turbo almost
3 inches and allows use of the factory A2 intake manifold.  Throttle
response and turbo response would be improved to a certain extent but not
drastically.  I'm not an expert by any means, but I've read that intake
tract volume does not greatly contribute to turbo lag (other factors are
more significant), contrary to popular opinion.

I find that the moderate amount of turbo lag this system has is only a
nuisance below 3K RPM, which isn't where I operate the engine if I'm in a
hurry.

Bradley
'86 S16V 2.0 "T"

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Buck [mailto:vwpride@mixi.net]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 8:30 PM
To: Bradley Peet
Cc: Scirocco List (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Pictures of newly installed 16V turbo system.

Bradley,  by looking at the photos, it seems that you could fit a manifold
with the throttle body on the other side and drastically reduce turbo lag,
by decreasing the distance the air has to flow to reach the intake.  Does
this make sense?
Jim
Bradley Peet wrote:
 As promised, pictures of the turbo system in my 2.0 liter 16V Scirocco are
up at: http://dns.effervescent.com/vw/pics/turbo/


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