VF Engineering RSS32 Stage 1 Turbo Kit Pictures

[moss@vf-engineering]

Hello Everyone,

Just wanted to share some pictures with you guys

Here is the top view with everything back together.

Seconday Air Injection ports machined into manifold.

Upper downpipe showing V-Band break for ease of service

Hardline to wastegate for durability

Oil supply hose showing heat sleeve and heat tube. Also showing bracket and cushion clamp

This complete assembly installs as a single unit

Turbo is tucked up nice and tight against the back of the block where the hot parts are less exposed to parts that should not see glowing metal.

In order to keep the O2 sensor at a more reasonable temperature we came up with these heat-sinks to help extend there life

Since the manifold is divided internally the dual O2's keep diagnostics similar to a factory car.

Location of turbo and design of exhaust manifold allows the use of the original double walled stainless steel heat shield. This is an extremely effective way to keep heat away from whatever is on the other side of the shield.

Stainless hardline mounted with cushion clamp from bottom of the water reservoir to firewall

VF-E oil supply banjo.

Compressor location

Oil supply banjo installed with Goodridge PTFE hose

Top right shows top of water hardlines with AN adapters installed

CV heat shield mounted to protect boot from melting

Upper and lower support bracket shown. This two piece design makes clutch or transmission jobs much easier.

V-Band shown where upper and lower down-pipe join. Having this break point allows much more service freedom than one piece designs

Lower downpipe mounted. Showing CV joint heat shield.

Support brackets shown.

Some detail of Water hardlines.

MAF showing stainless honeycomb flow straightener.

Oil supply bracket to compressor housing.

44mm Tial Wastegate showing VF made heat shield.

We are now doing installs and will start to ship kits in the next few weeks.

I know dyno, dyno, dyno, dyno We have been working very hard getting components production ready and will be making a separate post soon.

Let me know what questions you guys have, or if anyone wants to meet for a test drive.

Jeff Moss

Modified by moss@vf-engineering at 2:12 AM 1-15-2009

Edited to add more picts

Compressor to throttle body pipe.

Barely showing huge BPV (hooking up the second port reduced cracking pressure about 50% for better low load behavior)

Plenum Block off for the leak prone hose that does nothing on the R32

Support bracket break point shown

Bottom corner of oil return hard line

Showing break point and PTFE(teflon) hose

No temperature sensitive rubber based hose in sight of manifold or turbine

Modified by moss@vf-engineering at 2:31 PM 1-15-2009

Edited to add updates and links to other related threads (1-16-2009)

VF Engineering RSS32 "Beta" Turbo kit dyno.
VF Engineering RSS32 Stage 1 Turbo Kit Pictures
VF-Turbo Stg1 on RACE GAS - power unloads.(at VF-E)
VF-Turbo Stg1 on a Mustang AWD - vids / plots / pics (at GIAC)
VF R32T Let the installations begin!
A big THANK YOU to VF Engineering for hosting today's SoCal R32 GTG!!!



Modified by moss@vf-engineering at 2:08 PM 1-26-2009

[haf1zur]

will be keeping an eye on this one

hafizur

[VeeRsixx]

That looks extremely well designed.

edit: the MAF honeycomb flow straightener is very interesting. I wonder what temp. the heatshield above the CV joint boot, close to the hot side, sees.


Modified by VeeRsixx at 5:27 AM 1-15-2009

[revindevin]

Jeff

Any pictures of the stage 2 RSR set up showing air/water after cooler installed?

[rabbit07]

WOW that looks great. looks factory.

[Matty_Edge]

I just jizzed in my pants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4

Cant wait to get one in the spring

[.:1of1500:.]

Isn't this test car for sale?

[PowerDubs]

Jeff... how close are those o2 sensors to the firewall??

Maybe it is the camera angle, but it looks like they might hit the wall when the car is launched at the strip.. other than that, it looks great!!

[RedDevil]

Looks very well engineered!!

[r32autoxer]

The CV boot WILL melt at the track, being that close to the turbo. Will put money on that...

If I were you, I would seriously consider fabing a larger CV heat shield. A melted CV boot will cause a fire instantly that close to the turbo.

[Patryk R32]

Is this kit STOCK compression ratio? What boost does it run and ESTIMATED power?

[michel]

Quote, originally posted by Patryk R32 »

Is this kit STOCK compression ratio? What boost does it run and ESTIMATED power?

the answer is NO. Boost, Jeff is going to have to answer that part

Nice work Jeff I want to know about that CV BOOT as well

Modified by michel at 10:14 AM 1-15-2009

[moss@vf-engineering]

Quote, originally posted by revindevin »

Jeff Any pictures of the stage 2 RSR set up showing air/water after cooler installed?

Working on this Friday.

Already have charge pipes, IC, and IC brackets mostly made. Need to final fit and make sure patterns are made, mount relay, pump and heat exchanger. Finalize water reservoir and take picts for instructions and assembly people.

Sounds like a lot! But will have some help from Nik and Mike.

[moss@vf-engineering]

Quote, originally posted by rabbit07 »

WOW that looks great. looks factory.

Thanks!

[moss@vf-engineering]

Quote, originally posted by .:1of1500:. »

Isn't this test car for sale?

Don't know, but you can send me an offer and I will forward to the client if you wish. moss@vf-engineering.com

[moss@vf-engineering]

Quote, originally posted by PowerDubs »

Jeff... how close are those o2 sensors to the firewall?? Maybe it is the camera angle, but it looks like they might hit the wall when the car is launched at the strip.. other than that, it looks great!!

I can see how you would say that looking at the image above. They are actually a pretty good distance away. Will look and see if I have an image that is more clear.

[moss@vf-engineering]

Quote, originally posted by r32autoxer »

The CV boot WILL melt at the track, being that close to the turbo. Will put money on that... If I were you, I would seriously consider fabing a larger CV heat shield. A melted CV boot will cause a fire instantly that close to the turbo.

We have hundreds of dyno pulls which has very little actual wind movement in the area and have taken the kits off quite a few time to check for heat related issues and the CV boot and heat shield has looked fine. We will continue to keep an eye out for any problems of course.

[moss@vf-engineering]

Quote, originally posted by Patryk R32 »

Is this kit STOCK compression ratio? What boost does it run and ESTIMATED power?

No. We use a stainless steel spacer, and OEM MLS (multi Layer steel) gaskets.

10-11 psi

About 375, cams seem to be worth 15-30 whp more and we are currently using NA style exhaust systems(what most people have).

[Usacjudge]

Looks good, seems like a lot of thought went into this kit

[tongboy]

I want

[j-dub]

Looks great!

[jettin123]

Looks like alot of thought and time went into the building of this kit. I like all the little added heat shielded pieces, but I have to agree, I would be surprised if that cv boot heat shield will be able to handle all the heat that will be coming from that turbo.

Kit looks great though, now we want to see some numbers.

[bostoneric]

Looks great Mossy

[rich!]

Quote, originally posted by .:1of1500:. »

Isn't this test car for sale?

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4193864

[geoffreyhobika]

are the stage 2 kits available as well? and if so what the hp of this kit? i have stage 4 vfe sc kit and am interested in swapping it out.

[Sean@VF-engineering]

Quote, originally posted by geoffreyhobika »

are the stage 2 kits available as well? and if so what the hp of this kit? i have stage 4 vfe sc kit and am interested in swapping it out.

PM sent!
-Sean

[TBT-Syncro]

Quote, originally posted by VeeRsixx »

That looks extremely well designed. edit: the MAF honeycomb flow straightener is very interesting. I wonder what temp. the heatshield above the CV joint boot, close to the hot side, sees. Modified by VeeRsixx at 5:27 AM 1-15-2009

i have a similar honeycomb straightener on my intake (you can buy the honeycomb from photography shops), interestingly enough, it made a bigger difference by putting it after the sensor, rather than before.

[Skela]

The kit looks great! It's obvious a lot of time, effort and pride went into making this turbo package.
The devil is in the details and it looks like you've planned for all contingencies.

I'm looking forward to seeing some of these on the road.

Two thumbs way up for the pre turbo O2 sensors by the way. The previous design always bothered me.

[.:Rcoholic]

Looking good so far guys!!

[Loren Wallace]

This kit looks great, and very very well designed

[Det. John Kimble]

I have been waiting to hear more information on this

Kit looks great!

[R32R1]

Sean-

How do-able is this kit going to be for install compared to the s/c stg 2? I mean for a guy like me w/ two VW techs helping out

[newcreation]

Kit looks great can't wait to see some numbers

[moss@vf-engineering]

Added more pictures.

[Nebby]

See you SoCal R32 folks on January 24th at the VF GTG!!!

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4200125