Little Red Devil

[h100vw]

No worries and lucky the the rules are working in your favour.

Gavin

[VWindahouse]

So at it again today with trusty old G.W. thanks a million mate

Got a bit further with the strut top mounts but sadly not 100% there yet. The issue shouldn't effect those with OEM shape springs I'm guessing so those with KW's should be ok. We managed to get them in this time thanks to Kevin knocking up the right ID spring seats for the FK's. Here is a little assembly guide as requested

Spring seat goes onto the spring




Then the alloy top hat looking piece



Then the top mount itself and the washer and finally the nut and the triangular washers if you don't have a strut brace





Then it should look something like this from the top



So the only issue I have is a loud creaking noise coming from the drivers side. Reason being the the FK springs run perpendicular (not bowed like the OEM springs) so the part of the spring seat that goes down into the spring is rubbing on the second coil. Kevin is knocking up some more seats for this which won't go as deep into the spring which should stop this. I believe all the group but mounts will now have this.

The only other thing we did is trim the bumpstops a little because the ride height is actually reduced slightly which is great for those looking for more lows



So just need the new seats and a good alignment and all done! We tested out the max negative camber setting for the drive home and it was a little too much without an alignment with some tramlining over 80kph but holy crap on that setting you can almost fit your fist between the top of the tyre and the guard Sorry don't have a photo of the extreme setting but here's one before it settled

photo from rear to front



Some ghetto aligning



Then to finish off the Devil is now a few kg's lighter and is unofficially a 2 seater with more to come out in the future

[VWindahouse]

Ladies and gentlemen I am proud to introduce you to the worlds first ceramic ball bearing converted hybrid Ko3s - massive thanks to Mark at Billet Turbos...



Check out the size of that inlet



Wheel comparisons

[Lucas_R]

^ that looks great. How much extra power do you expect to be able to squeeze out of the modded turbo now? What size are the wheels compared to those on a K04?

[VWindahouse]

Not really sure sorry mate, being a prototype we won't really know until it's on and boosting And the wheel sizes are a secret at this stage and could possible change in the future although as you can see there is a decent increase.

[team_v]

Super excited that it's all coming together.
Is it likely the devil will have the new snail on and tuned in time for happy laps next month?

[VWindahouse]

I really hope so Clay! Very excited to see how it performs on the track.

[noone]

Epic few days!

The turbo looks good, I'm hoping you get some good torque. So thats a stock hotside? Very cool.

Glad to see the adjustable topmounts are coming good.

Jealous mate, keep it up!

[VWindahouse]

Cheers Ben

Yes some more torque across the mid to higher rev range would be nice but who knows what this little bad boy is going to do. At least I'm hoping for more power above 5000rpm where the stock ko3 tends to Rufi itself

[VWindahouse]

And yes sorry the hot side is stock at this stage but is the only place left that can be worked.