Red Devil mkII - The Journey Continues

[h100vw]

Change it

Wow, obviously going to be cheaper for the punter than a breakdown. What distance is that at?

Gavin

[Jmac]

Should be in every service book imo, its 100k. I remember back in the day we did coolant temp sensors with the service, not sure why we don't now, for all they cost. Mind you they were more accessible then, new stuff can be fun.
Im sure the plastics were better then, you need the steady hand of a surgeon these days even just pulling out the dipstick to check your oil can cost you in a swag of plastic

[seangti]

All good input on the 02 sensor, cheers for sharing.

Found time for some timed runs using GTech Fanatic RR gps.
3x 0-100kph runs with traction control were 6.55-6.7s. So very consistent. 1x run without TC was 6.08s. With a little practice I'm sure consistent sub-6's are reasonable. Plus the road surface was dusty, lightly pebbled where I launched.

Did 1x quarter mile, was a 6.55 to 100kph with a 14.6s run, can't recall trap speed, can share that later if anyone is interested. I was reasonably gentle between gears, so am confident on a good surface, non-TC launch I'll be into 13's without my drama and some practice. This is the first quarter mile I've even run. Never tried it in the silver car or any other.

Did 1x 100kph-0, stopped in 37m flat. Would be good to have done some successive stops to see if that improved as brake temp increased. This was on reasonably cold rotors after heading down the highway. In comparison to standard rotors, I recall getting a best of ~36m in my silver car, but took 3 stops to achieve, with a cold pad stop of ~42m. Eitherway, pedal feel between the two is chalk and cheese. Even with all new stuff on the silver car, the standard gear lacks bite and some feel, but no probs stopping.

80-120kph in gear acceleration
3rd gear - 3.3s
4th gear - 3.6s
5th gear - 5.2s

100-150
4th gear : 5.0s

Power delivery characteristics were surprising similar to my lightly modded silver car. Interesting, the difference between stretching 3rd or short shifting 4th makes little difference. Upshifting 3rd to 4th at anywhere between 110kph and 140kph makes next to no difference. I'd stretch it on a sprint/time attack, but general blasting I'd be short shifting. I can share the graphs later. 3rd and 4th must be reasonably close gears, as 2nd requires all revs to reachs it's ideal shift point to 3rd and is quite a narrow window- not that it matters with the power...

The H&R's will be in late next week, very excited to get that sorted. Will also be very interesting to run these things again to see how acceleration and braking are affected.

Geez I love this data stuff

[seangti]

Installed the H&R coilovers over the past 2 days. Straight forward job except the Kmac adjustable camber and castor tops wouldn't fit the H&R springs. Had to resort to putting in new standard VW strut tops and bearings. Not biggy.

As for the H&R's, absolutely chuffed. Huge improvement in every aspect, have only putted around suburbia this afternoon and much nicer. They are firmer than the H&R spring with bilstein strut that I have in my silver car, so am happy with that too. Perhaps if coming from standard suspension to this you may find em too firm. These ones are the 20-50mm lower coilover, you can get one that drops up to 80mm. Perhaps on reflection I'd go the lower coilover. I'll wait for it to settle to see what height I can get it too, but I'd say it'll be no lower than the H&R's springs of the other car. At the moment, it's about one inch higher than it was with the FK's. Have also reinstalled the front chassis brace which had to come off for the road worthy due to ride height.

The FK's will be binned, I won't try give em away. The dampers are mostly shagged, with no rebound once compressed.

Only a couple of things left to do before I'm "done", need to replace the o2 sensor and realised today the reverse light is red and rear fog light is white, lol, so will swap em over to ensure its legal.

The next couple of weeks will test it's newfound ability. Try my hand at drags this week, happy laps next weekend for a shake down and timeattack the following weekend.

I'm hoping/expecting a similar lap time to my silver car which ran semi-slicks as I'm likely to be running the current 595's at timeattack. I don't think the audi TT rims will fit over the brembo calipers...

[jasn78]

The next couple of weeks will test it's newfound ability. Try my hand at drags this week

And this makes me happy Good choice of nights to do it as well Sean.

[VWindahouse]

Great update Sean

for the strut tops give Kevin at KMac a call and let him know and he will probably just ask you to send him the alloy hats and he will have a new set made to accommodate the H&R's. He's a top bloke to deal with!

[seangti]

Great update Sean

for the strut tops give Kevin at KMac a call and let him know and he will probably just ask you to send him the alloy hats and he will have a new set made to accommodate the H&R's. He's a top bloke to deal with!

Thanks mate. I had trawled your thread and was going to look into that. Am impatient and have a busy few weeks at the tracks ahead

If interested, you're welcome to have a spin with the new suspension. Any time hey

[grandturismo]

Pics of stance now please

[seangti]

Pics of stance now please

No, I'm embarrassed.

Ok, will do so in the next few days when I see the car in day light. I haven't taken pics yet.

[team_v]

No, I'm embarrassed.

Ok, will do so in the next few days when I see the car in day light. I haven't taken pics yet.

No doubt we will have some pictures at Happy Laps