Golf R Observations and Questions

[brimway]

Theses are acceptable ..

Golf R Mini Mud Flaps

[AdamD]

Theses are acceptable ..

Golf R Mini Mud Flaps

Not bad at all. If my GTI ever saw a dirt road I'd consider them.

[Machine]

*shakes head* All those R's are going heaps slower now...

[Ideo]

Not bad at all. If my GTI ever saw a dirt road I'd consider them.

My R always sees dirt roads.

Mud flaps are the work of satan and should be treated with the contempt and scorn they deserve.

[brimway]

*shakes head* All those R's are going heaps slower now...

My bespoke mud flaps didn't hurt my speed at Lakeside!

[brad]

I'd appreciate the practical benefits, but the look just kills it completely for me. A mate has mudflaps on his GTI, and every time I see it I think it looks like an old man car.

Looking at the hundreds of stone chips ruining the lower doors of my MK3.5 Cabrio killed it for me. Sure, it looks like an old mans thing but i can live with that as I'm an old man. ;-p

maybe I'm misunderstanding but i'm talking about proper, made for the vehicle, moulded mudspats. Not flat sheets of rubber screwed onto the car with self tappers.

[seangti]

So launch control does make a big difference - recorded a 5.0s once I'd figured out you need to have the brake pedal absolutely to the floor to engage the program.

60-120 took 4.7s.

Times recorded on a Racelogic PerformanceBox.

James, I got the times/data from Ben (Machine) on the weekend from when he took my gtech out to the drags, average 60-120 was mid to high 5s. Best of 5.5s across the 4 runs recorded. Which if I recall correctly you mentioned the average manual shift speed of .8s, DSG of .1, makes em lineball on power. But the difference of DSG in shifts, WOW. Even banking on .5s manual shifts, that's at least 3 shifts for the quartermile. In Ben's case, shifts are close to 1s, according to the g's. So .8 is a fair approximation.

0-100: 6.7s - 7.1s for the runs.

Comparing gtech to the actual drag strip times, the most accurate run with within 5/100s of a second, varying up to 0.5s. Trap speed was within a few km/s. The main reason for the variance in times I would quess is due to the roll-out and where the car is staged on the strip, as once it was rolling, it was quite consistent at .5s slower than that recorded by the strip timer (slowest/most "inaccurate" run 15.38 on gtech vs 14.8 strip timer). Interesting on that run, everything was slowest, 60-120 being 6.7s.

[Machine]

My bespoke mud flaps didn't hurt my speed at Lakeside!

Ok ok, but your fuel efficiency went down

[Machine]

0-100: 6.7s - 7.1s for the runs.

Fastest 0-100 on the night was 6s according to the P3 gauge, which is more accurate than the gtech. Avg in the low 6's. Just so no one reads that and gets their knickers in a bunch
The time sheets have been posted in the willowbank thread under meets n events.


Back to mud flaps and other inane topics: Anybody know why the one touch roll down makes the front windows stop just short of the bottom?

[seangti]

Fastest 0-100 on the night was 6s according to the P3 gauge, which is more accurate than the gtech. Avg in the low 6's. Just so no one reads that and gets their knickers in a bunch
The time sheets have been posted in the willowbank thread under meets n events.


Back to mud flaps and other inane topics: Anybody know why the one touch roll down makes the front windows stop just short of the bottom?

Not to make it a pi55ing comp, the P3 runs off the ECU to calculate all perimeters doesn't it? Factory ECU's are typically a few whiskers out of whack for speed which would account for the variance (I'd assume).

As long as the readings are consistent, it gives a base point for gauging improvement in performance as you modify.

EDIT: Just read up on those gauges. Seem to awesome pieces of kit.