Little Red Devil

[h100vw]

What about a coilover conversion onto those shocks? Then you can just buy 2 1/4 inch springs in the rate you want.

Race Springs Someone must do this stuff in Australia.

Gavin

[seangti]

What about a coilover conversion onto those shocks? Then you can just buy 2 1/4 inch springs in the rate you want.

Race Springs Someone must do this stuff in Australia.

Gavin

I reckon that'd be the way to go for the most adjustability. bear in mind its your first time out so almost having to relearn the cars behaviour on the limit, I went through a similar process in my previous car and realised I'd have to adjust my driving style to suit the cars behaviour (throttle, steering n braking), the polo is much the same to learn going from AWD to FWD. Finding the racing line and cars balance will also take time.

The Lakeside corners are relatively low speed, so the car will likely feel different on higher speed tracks. was it the dog leg on the straight or the hair pins that felt uncomfortable?

What Tyre pressures where you running? I usually run 40 on the track, y'day was 36 due to the potentially wet circuit and lower speed corners.

Enough of my rant

[VWindahouse]

Hey Sean, no mate keep it coming! Yes at the end of the front straight and over the back straight at high speeds and running 36 psi also. I got the hang of braking later before a corner to transfer weight to the front outside tyre for grip, but as you say only just popped my track cherry so still have to learn a lot about the cars behaviour plus the added bonus of learning the track itself

Gavin, thanks mate. Contacted the distributers of Koni in OZ and they do indeed do a coilover conversion. They put me in touch with GSL suspension in Slacks Creek who they said are at the top of the suspension game in QLD and can do it for me. They said they weigh the four corners and look at application and work out spring rates and ride height. Not cheap so will have to think.

[seangti]

The learning never stops, I've done some advanced track courses with Safe Driver Training at Morgan park, they are a great way to get tuition and plenty of track time.

You're also welcome to have a run in my car if that'd help for comparison. I might do the QR sprints in January if interested to join, they also usually allow for passenger laps at the end much like saturday, which if you're out there I'd be happy to take you around, check out lines, braking makers, etc. If you do join, you could take my car out in the passenger lap session.

Given it's the higher speed corners that causes the float, perhaps a front splitter might help.

[FLYINGTI]

Update!

New boost gauge arrived. Think I mentioned earlier that the metal senders in the engine bay keep on frying because of the heat so I ditched them just for the boost gauge as it has a plastic sender that was mounted on the right hand side of the ECU cover and away from the nasty heat. This meant filling the space above the singe din head unit where the three old gauges were with a singe din VW pocket and moving to the air vent pod set up for the boost gauge



Only problem was at night the gauge was totally distracting because it reflected so brightly in the side mirror and was a little dangerous when going to change lanes as you couldn't see squat.



So went with a darker blue gauge that matches the taco and it's dimmable too. Looks really good in the flesh and on boost the analogue sweep screams around the outside and it also has the digital readout in the middle!

Hey Sorry old pictures but as i was looking through and drooling about all your mod,
i was quite intrigued with this gauge holder, really neat!
Does it still work as a normal airvent aswell??
Dont Want to boil in summer days=)

cheers matty

[VWindahouse]

Sounds like a plan, thanks for your help again Sean! Can't wait to have another crack.

Matty unfortunatley you do lose the use of the vent all together. But a couple of well places drilled holes at least gets some cold air through

Well the intake arrived and all I can say is FAAAAAARRKK YES! Really well built and looks the bomb. The step down MAF housing is a piece of machining art. And the 4 bar reg is totally doing its job as the ECU has not bleed any boost at all due to the 3" MAF like last time.







And Steves theroy regarding the extra air volume and therefore more ponnies due to the larger size MAF housing is spot on. Also helps feeding in only ram cold air too I guess. Check this out

G-Tech run with exposed pod filter and 2.75" MAF, 3 bar reg @ 28 degrees outside temp





Run with new intake 3" MAF, 4 bar reg and 26 degrees outside temp





Both runs on the same bit of road in second gear for obvious reasons and slightly up hill.

Stayed tuned for the next instalment of project mid life crisis

[noone]

Good to see the hybrid is doing what it was intended to. Making me envious (and now I have a jobby, I might have to play a little catch up)

[h100vw]

Standard turbo still fitted, so it's not done yet by a long way!

[noone]

oh... I wonder how acurate those power figures are then...

That would have to be up there for a standard turbo and block.

Did the airflow have to be reprogrammed? I was under the impression those things were hard to tinker with.

[vwthunder]

Wow 30KW with a enclosed filter, Maf housing and a 4bar. Hmmm, maybe you should get it on a Dyno or hit the quarter