wasn't t.spark running near as dammit 200bhp on a standard pd130 turbo? fair enough it shat itself fairly quick, but still...

wasn't t.spark running near as dammit 200bhp on a standard pd130 turbo? fair enough it shat itself fairly quick, but still...

202bhp and 360lb.ft on a standard turbo, got all the way home too!!

Im not bothered about highest power me, you can all have 60/70hp more, its on the tarmac it counts kids

My mate had his RR'd at 186bhp (standard KKK turbo) with a full Miltek and an induction kit but yeah you could argue that's the rollers and what not. It's difficult to say really.

Your choices are either a few mods and a remap (anywhere between 160-185bhp) or go the full hybrid route with FMIC, clutch and hybrid turbo (anywhere between 215-230bhp). It's pointless just going for 200bhp as you will still need the clutch, FMIC and a turbo so you would only be saving like £700 going for the standard PD150 over the hybrid PD150. Personally if you're bothering with a turbo change it's gotta be the MD376 (stage 2 PD150 hybrid) otherwise you will just regret it and it's the same cost in labour/mapping anyway. It's nice having peace of mind with the warranty too.

It's pointless just going for 200bhp as you will still need the clutch, FMIC and a turbo so you would only be saving like £700 going for the standard PD150 over the hybrid PD150.

Not necessarily, there was someone at a local meet who had been running a 150 on a standard clutch with a torque friendly map, I`v heard of others running with a 150 turbo at 190-200bhp, standard everything else. Only cost is the turbo and mapping. So looking at it that way, its a extra £1500-£1700 for 20-30bhp.

Matt

I'm currently contemplating what to do myself. Car is running a standard PD150 turbo, running on the old remap for the KKK turbo at the moment. I mainly use the car for commuting up and down to Gloucester so still need the economy for now (otherwise I would just buy a faster car). I've always had a soft spot for the Fabia so will probably ending up keeping it another couple of years anyway.

Ideally it needs another remap to suit the new turbo, but I'm wondering if I will actually gain much on the 170bhp I'm running at present staying with the SMIC, or to get the most out of the turbo - buying a FMIC.

Would remapping the car using the SMIC give pretty similar results to using a FMIC, but the power would drop off after the first run? I'm really not sure how much difference it would make.

Heatsoak would soon cut in the SMIC. Pikey modding the arch will help a bit but ultimately a front mount will cool air much much more efficiently, and cool air = denser = more oxygen, and therefore more power.

Yeh, I've done the pikey mod. Seems to run fine at the moment, all but on the hottest of days. Just not sure if its worth the extra £800 odd for a new FMIC and remap for an extra 10-20bhp though.

Thanks for the info guys. Big jase I take your advice mate as you have quite a heavily modified fabia and know the costs involved. The fabia would be a second car for me and I don't want to go down the route of spending ££££'s on it like I have done on my othe car as this needs to keep its running costs low and reliability high.

Dyno numbers mean nothin to me as dynos can be made to read what ever the hell you want! If people say the oem turbo will get me 160-170bhp that's great.

Stock exhaust is a keeper if it's not any restriction. A de-cat would just give a bit extra noise and allow me to hear the turbo a little more from what I've read. The decat pipe is only cheap as well.

The pd160 intake is fine but expensive for a bit of plastic! Im sure I could rig up my own cold air feed for ALOT cheaper. May not look as nice as the oem pd160 but get the job done!

thing is the stock turbo is rather garbage as is the stock clutch

if i was going to get another one i'd get an 06 plate onwards (blt engine code) as they already have around 150bhp standard due to the euro 4 engine code and the egr setup, then i'd leave it

i trashed the clutch in mine at 173bhp at 37k miles

Hard driving FTW.

GTB2260VK turbo + Cast manifold = £850ish

Uprated injector nozzles = £500 (I think, bet to ask BobbySingh/Bora Chris, Think Jay has all new injectors, not nozzles?)

3" Pipe from turbo to bumper = £200

Decent air filter setup = £100 (Be wise to keep standard Maf in a bigger housing and get it calibrated, think bernoilluis mass flow rate principle....)

Mapping session with a proper mapper = £400

Clutch/Flywheel combo = £1000.

Be around 250-260bhp at that point, with a lot of drivability.

3" Pipe from turbo to bumper = £200

Mapping session with a proper mapper = £400

and the rest...

dont understand why anyone changes the injectors..

To stop the pistons cracking under high temps from elongated injection cycles as the stock injectors cant put enough fuel in

Egt temps are going to be sky high

dont understand why anyone changes the injectors..

Lol

Lol I'm not after huge power for no money just good enough to put a smile on your face and wipe the smile off other peoples as the get smoked by a tdi skoda! Lol.

I'm not really into the idea of a straight through 3" exhaust as tdi's don sound great so I think I would look to keep the car as quite as possible I think! Lol.

Does any one have any data on the performance of tuned fabia's? I've seen a few 1/4 mile times around the 14's mark with 96-100mph trap speeds but nothing on 0-60 0-100 or in gear times?

RyanP from TDIclub is now doing bolt on kits that will allow you to basically bolt on the GTB series of turbo and run big power...

A lot less stress on your engine and the turbo will be a lot more efficient and reliable than hybrids..

http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=307222

Edited 15 February, 201115 yr by BIG BOSS MAN

Reading that link practically put me into a sweat!

and it got me thinking about having a hybrid version of my own turbo too.

looks pretty epic tbh none of this 150 hybrid hairdryer nonesense

looks pretty epic tbh none of this 150 hybrid hairdryer nonesense

Its why I went "bigger stock" this time around. Looks damn sexy too!

All together now...

Oooooooh

Its why I went "bigger stock" this time around. Looks damn sexy too!

ooooh

my golf tdi had a custom mani with egt probe...

turbo was mounted on the top of the engine pointing out towards the air box... sortov jabba gt25 stylee

Just looking at the pic's of the new manifold and turbo above, the inlet and exhaust on the same side of the head? Im new to the PD130 motor? The maifold must get hot being that close too :-(

Just looking at the pic's of the new manifold and turbo above, the inlet and exhaust on the same side of the head? Im new to the PD130 motor? The maifold must get hot being that close too :-(

The whole head is going to be pretty warm and I doubt air has the chance to be super heated in the brief moment it is inside the inlet manifold. But yes, when you look at a bare head the intake and exhaust ports are only a couple of inches apart really.