Polo 9n3 Performance Tracking Thread

**Eddy** · 13-07-2014, 08:12 PM

Hoyhoy.

Congrats Greg, keep it up bud, or I should say keep the times down, hey...

**kaanage** · 14-07-2014, 07:12 AM

Thanks Eddy. I thought I'd topped out as it's been a while since I've improved at any of the tracks.

And here's some footage from an early wet session where there was a lot of traffic and I was running my 'cruise tyres/rims (my memory card filled up before the session where it dried out and I set my best time

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**kaanage** · 12-10-2014, 09:58 PM

Surprisingly, I did a PB at Sandown today (I thought I'd gone faster in the past but it turns out I hadn't :p) - 1:38.87

Of course this is slower than vwthunder's 1:38.75 today on the only flying lap that he got in for the whole day (his IC pipe kept blowing off from the sustained boost).

**vwthunder** · 13-10-2014, 09:20 AM

Yep I had a bad day, went out 3 times and only managed to get 2 laps in i think.
Kept blowing a intercooler hose off, even put new clamps on, well 2 clamps on one bend and it still blew.
They tried to tow me in and ended up pulling the front of my car off and had to bring the flatbed out

Anyway it happened, looking forward to getting some track time in at Sandown soon, was fun to hang out with Greg also

**team_v** · 13-10-2014, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by vwthunder

Yep I had a bad day, went out 3 times and only managed to get 2 laps in i think.
Kept blowing a intercooler hose off, even put new clamps on, well 2 clamps on one bend and it still blew.
They tried to tow me in and ended up pulling the front of my car off and had to bring the flatbed out

Anyway it happened, looking forward to getting some track time in at Sandown soon, was fun to hang out with Greg also

Sean was having the same issue with his intercooler pipe wasn't he?
From memory he got Jmac up here to fix it for him.

**vwthunder** · 13-10-2014, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by team_v

Sean was having the same issue with his intercooler pipe wasn't he?
From memory he got Jmac up here to fix it for him.

Thanks, I was told i need to get a lip rolled into the aluminium joiner, or just use all aluminium pipe and get it welded

**seangti** · 13-10-2014, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by vwthunder

Yep I had a bad day, went out 3 times and only managed to get 2 laps in i think.
Kept blowing a intercooler hose off, even put new clamps on, well 2 clamps on one bend and it still blew.
They tried to tow me in and ended up pulling the front of my car off and had to bring the flatbed out

Anyway it happened, looking forward to getting some track time in at Sandown soon, was fun to hang out with Greg also

Damn. I hear your pain, what pipe was blowing? And sorry to hear about the front bar. I pull out the grill/fog light plastic for fear of should I need a tow.

Well done Greg. Great to hear there's a few polo's getting regular track action. Almost warrants a lessons learned thread from track work.

I did a 1:03.13 at Lakeside on Saturday afternoon. Third session there were only 3 or 4 of us on the track, 4th session I didn't see anyone and cranked out lap PB's and sector PB's. I got the 63.1 on the 3rd lap (with no sector PB's), was on plan for a 62.6 - 62.8 on the 4th lap with 2 sector PB's but had a slide on eastern loop hairpin losing ~0.6s

Looking at my sector splits, there's a theoretical lap time of 62.1. So will keep working on my lines and improving my braking. Am also going to do more research and better learn about tyre temps and pressures. starting to get serious

Video is in my thread.

I also buggered the turbo bolts again, so back to the workshop.

**kaanage** · 13-10-2014, 08:16 PM

I've only just started to get REALLY serious about late braking as getting that wrong screws everything else up. Since I seemed to have plateaued, I decided it was time to try braking for a bit more (less actually) time and it seems to be working.

I was gutted about the way Troy's day went since I was the one who put him on to this track day

. I was hoping he'd get some really quick runs with all the work he's put into his car, recently

We should start a new performance tracking thread since Anthony isn't around anymore to update our results.