Locating Induction inlet pipes & Pressure Covers

20th September 2009

I have been having trouble locating the parts that I needed to complete the turbo 1600 engine I was building. After exhausting every VW specialist in the UK. It was obvious that I would have to spread my search further. Volkzone had initially turned up nothing either as most of the turbo parts come from CB Performance in the USA I knew that with carriage prices currently over $100's I would have to get a UK dealer to order them for me. VWSPEEDSHOP came up trumps again he stated that he could have them here with a month . In the meantime I scoured Vzi and eBay in the hope that something might be available faster. Finally I found someone on Vzi selling a turbo kit that he would split . He had the CB Performance Inlet pipes but no pressure covers.

You can see that the inlet pipes are in two parts they are made from steel which is prone to rust. I painted them as soon as I got them delivered and decided that at a later date I would have them chrome plated.

The VWSPEEDSHOP cover plates were not forth coming as fast as I would have liked. I luckily managed to get an answer to my wanted add on Vzi ,which meant they did not need to come from America, which was causing the delay. I was still not sure whether to fit an inter cooler or cooler to the turbo output. I would have to start connecting up before I would now how much room I have to fit a cooler in. I had also managed to order the silicon connectors from eBay at a substantially reduced cost. I chose the humped connectors as I thought it would make a stronger connection to the pressure covers.

The next problem was going to be assembling all of these components and see weather there was enough room for a water cooler or inter cooler to reduce the turbo air pressure temperatures going in thorough the Dellorto DRLA 40 carburetors.