mk2

ok, so i'll start... here's something easy. post your replies if you dare. can you id this object?! if it's blindingly obvious to you hold back as there might be an entertaining guess!

i want a club lupo sticker.

nearly everyone on here is up north...!

Generally, the rule I follow is that you can multiply by 4 if you can get enough fuel in. So a 50hp lump could do 200. ok, we're not talking sustained all day power, but for quick blasts. the limiting thing I find is fuel injector size. at high revs, you run out of squirt time. and if you squirt when inlet closed (on petrol lumps), you get puddling and then detonation after unburnt fuel. and then the damn thing wont idle right because a big injector wont meter accurately at really short pulses.... oh, what fun. just thinking... what's the max power a 1.9 diesel block puts out in TDI mode? it's not the ALH... maybe ARL, BPX with a different head? they're 160.

there's a nurburgring thread? oooh er. where? where? the answer to 4. is herbie (not rides again...). let me get my glasses. Argh, my knees.

So who's gonna write some questions? Between everyone, we probably know everything about Lupos and Arosas. But individually, who'd get most right? Rich, Silver, Pete and MattyB not allowed to enter :) Unless blindfolded. Hands only. just some ideas??? -------------- ID this part... What is the most common cause of .... What is this common part number for .... Where was this part made .... Which models have this .... What's the difference between.... Who designed .... What is this made of.... What fits into this.... What other car makes/models use this... What are the origins of this part...

It is the same block I think? Without looking into too much detail. So technically could be bumped up to maybe 150 with lots of smoke. But.... the gearbox wouldn't cope. Bad enough with just 20hp (or what a lot of people think the SDI has.............) There's easily enough space in the engine bay behind the lump for all the extras.

Who was this then?

Anyone on here go to GTI?

didn't know about that one, but looks great! shame it's a six hour round trip from my place. the sandown park kit car show is the best car show i've been to. you can get some really good ideas. stuff that's really out there.

Well, if you didn't go, you didn't miss much! Not that big a turnout this year.Only about 400 cars/campers in total. The interesting cars were in the car park! I only spotted one other lupo present and an Arosa as I was on the way out. There were a few mk2s, a corrado or 2 and a few mk1s. Some Jettas. 90% air cooled 'stuff'. Here's a pic :)

step one. are you up to getting the AWU engine running outside the car? you don't need to of course, but if you can do that the rest should be easy... make a dummy test stand, see if you can get the engine running on that. when you can (properly), then you can start to strip the lupo out. easiest/quickest way I've always found. wiring diagrams all over the interweb...

sdi isn't that slow once it's been gas flowed. At around 2200 it launches. in stock with standard egr, it really isn't that good. you can see how the engineers had to modify the inlet path just to introduce the egr. completely messed it up. i posted on here somewhere how to put it back to original, the way the designers originally intended it to be.... totally agree on the ALH. derv perfection.

yeah, i've tried the non-sdi thing, but just can't get over the sound of a 3 pot. i keep thinking that there's something wrong with the engine, as all the familiar sounds are not there. you know, main bearings sound like they're on their way out. cam sounds like it's jumped a tooth, ignition sounds like it's completely retarded, valve train noise is just wrong.... i just canna take it. now when it comes to a nice straight six, v8 or even a v12, i'm a very happy chappy. i do like the old 1.9 tdi too- best engine ever made by vdub IMO. i'm changing all the hydraulic tappets on the black sdi this afternoon. something to do on the car as everything else is perfect.

i dunno, if i could find another decent arosa or lupo sdi, with no rust on rear arches or front sills, reasonable bodywork, perfect interior, good engine and box, i'd be happy to pay over a grand for it. but then you guys know how picky i am... before buying i start calculating how much it would cost to get the car back to concours condition again. if you have a car, you may as well keep it running the way nature intended (or the way it left the factory).

Yeah, without more info, it's tricky to know what's going on. if you've bought the same sensor, and it works, you should get the same readings. take them both out, leave them to settle to the same temp on the table then measure the resistance of both the thermistors in each. you should get the same resistance. then try again with boiling water. at least that'd be something you could eliminate. by the sounds of it, it's most likely a fuelling issue, caused by the ecu being given the wrong info- so it's not putting out the right injection pulses: under or over fuelling.

i'm going, but nothing to enter this year

i've always found that its not the motor that stops working, but the switches that control it... might be worth checking them first.

good write up! needs to be moved to the how-to section.

yay! we've kept another SDI on the road. I do like SDIs....

No side pipes, well lowered suspension, proper exhausts or home made custom stuff in switzerland then? Most of my cars would be completely illegal! Pass uk MOT everytime though. i think most club lupo owners cars would fail in switzerland.... where did you get the parts? off ebay. who did the work? i did. who approved the work? er, me? too many regulations. that's probably why nearly all the formula 1 teams are based here. Thanks for the ADAC tip. hadn't thought of them (a bit like the RAC here in the UK). A traffic office. i just love it. LOL! contract? down the beer keller is where we'll all meet! Yay! germany doesn't do internet car processing me thinks?

i think being a rule follower is part of the german culture... here, we come up with rules then instantly try and find ways around them. it's one of the defining things of being a brit. it's like modifying cars... the dutch are into car mods, but in germany you need lots of money to get engineering reports and scientific analysys (official) before you can do anything. Spain is the same. Switzerland... forget it - Even Clarkson mentioned something about comparing a modified car and having an assault rifle on the passenger seat. Swiss authorities wont care about the weapon... Dunno the rules in France or Scandanavian countries. US you can do what you like, same as here. It's our way of expressing our individuality!

there's a gearbox guy somewhere in your neck of the woods who is supposed to be good... someone on here will know who i mean?

yeah, that much i've figured. But, real world scenario, i turn up at the airport at say 11am. he picks me up in the car and we drive back to where he lives. i check it out and say i'll have it, negotiate a bit, shake hands, guve him his cash, he gives me receipt (essential apparently), some other bits of paper, then i'd be on my merry way back to calais (insurance arranged in the uk on the chassis number). Er, no, can't do that. too easy. i think there are four pieces of official paperwork i need- in my name. and export plates. and local insurance. but the export plates and insurance can only be arranged in person by the sounds of things. and only on certain days of the week only on a leap year, when it's a blue moon, between 9.15 and 9.30 in the morning. And if Klaus Hergesheimer at the equivalent of the local DVLA is not out checking radiation tags. Is it possible to do everything on the same day....? The spanish system is similar (equally stupid) when I ridiculed an official (bad move by the way!), highlighting how in the UK we have computers and CAD systems where you can design anything and then have a rubber stamp instantly made, to 'approve' the form I just filled in. which then needs to be taken to another dept to be stamped, then again and again. Then you hand the form in with all the rubber stamps and be gone. my solution: cheat. no-one will ever care. French system is the same i think.... I guess other countries haven't realised that rubber stamps are so easy to copy! As for contactless bank cards... that's just black magic! The devil's in the detail...!?

I've been offered a German car in Germany on German plates, registered to a German, living in Germany (yes, apparently each bit matters...!). Happy to buy it off the guy and drive it back. Mod it the way I want (quite a lot) then register it here. I've heard nightmare stories about american backpackers buying a car in Germany to drive around europe... nightmare, but that's another story! Anyone actually done it, or know someone who has? There's a lot of stuff on the web but is well out of date... The UK process I get (14 day time limit from the official import day- you can bring a car in, mod it, take it over to france for a day trip once modded, then bring it in officially and start the formal UK registration process). I can't figure out the german system. seems very bureaucratic, with stamps, metal plates, papers, checks, phones calls and signatures. I like the UK buying/selling process- You can do everything instantly online! I do think that here in the UK we are way way way ahead of our European friends. Germany didn't even have paypal or over the phone credit card purchasing till a few years ago.....