Red Devil mkII - The Journey Continues

[VWindahouse]

Cant agree more with nut access!!!!!! thankfully someone has had the same issue, they are a nightmare to fit and I did this in situ, was a fair while ago I might add. Engine out , piece of Cake
Cheers
Jmac

Yes it's a big regret putting Jimmy thru that hell without warning but I had no idea tbh. Sorry again Jimmy

Sean sorry bud I was not aware the mani had cracked as Gav will attest there were never any symptoms to show that but then again I never went harder than 20mins at Happy Laps. Will your EGT's go crazy high with the stock mani? Hell yes and dangerously so from the research I've done (mainly from vortex) as in glowing red hot - no bull. I know it's more coin but please consider a second Gen JBS mani and get it coated with the black ceramic the exhaust is done in or something similar.

[seangti]

Thanks Anthony. Yeah there's no way of telling before this stuff breaks. I will be looking into other manifolds and learning about them so I know what the go is. If it means de-tuning for the meantime to keep it safe, so be it. Hopefully with the standard mani in place it won't be half the task to replace it in the future.

Assuming I get the back today, do I run a risk in running the car this weekend without changing the tune?

[h100vw]

I/you can pull the boost back with the VCDS cable and unisettings. Can't measure EGTs or anything obviously but you can do a few hard laps then, pull off and see how the manifold looks.

Gavin

[seangti]

I/you can pull the boost back with the VCDS cable and unisettings. Can't measure EGTs or anything obviously but you can do a few hard laps then, pull off and see how the manifold looks.

Gavin

righteo. Last time I tried the unitronic software didn't allow me access. I can't recall the error code, will try again tonight.

[h100vw]

righteo. Last time I tried the unitronic software didn't allow me access. I can't recall the error code, will try again tonight.

Call me when you are trying it. In work from 7, so anytime is good.

GAvin

[seangti]

Pretty hectic weekend of car stuff. Picked up the car friday night. Standard manifold on with nord lock washers and lock wired bolts, gaskets, etc. It ain't going anywhere now. The car was initially over boosting to 25psi, found it to be the vacuum line was off the wastegate. Geez I want to run 25psi, it hammered, came on boost very early and hard. Anyway, back to "slow spec" 20psi now.

Ran out to Morgan Park, Warwick, yesterday afternoon to do a Paul Stokell event today. Was on the street tyres as it was meant to be a training event, though was more so like an open circuit session, with access to trainers for a few laps. Did a 1:36.06sec of the large track on my GPS laptimer, not particularly impressive, but given the heat (33-35c day), tyres and not chasing a lap time I'm ok with that. Only issue was breaking an exhaust mount in the 3rd session, just after the dump pipe, rattling like a mofo. Did the 4th session, packed up and drove it home. I didn't have car stands with me so wasn't going to get under it. Will deal with that next weekend.

Good times.

[grandturismo]

Good times alright. The car seemed to go really well other than that exhaust mount. Did that rattle in the pillar disappear?

[seangti]

Good times alright. The car seemed to go really well other than that exhaust mount. Did that rattle in the pillar disappear?

Not sure about that rear rattle, couldn't hear anything over the exhaust bracket rattling, lol. Glad I carry ear plugs with me.

Did you end up putting stiffer rear springs in? You sort that through Ken at Accurate? Any feedback?

I had Paul Stokell co-pilot for a few laps, his feedback was to stiffen up the rear sway bar to dial out some understeer (along with putting in an LSD). I feel the understeer was more pronounced at Morgan than I've experienced recently at Lakeside, perhaps primarily the tyres, but could also be the slower corners. Front downforce wouldn't go astray either.

Will have to get back to Morgan Park in the cooler months.

[Jmac]

Nordlocks? Geez that's a good idea

[kaanage]

I had Paul Stokell co-pilot for a few laps, his feedback was to stiffen up the rear sway bar to dial out some understeer (along with putting in an LSD). I feel the understeer was more pronounced at Morgan than I've experienced recently at Lakeside, perhaps primarily the tyres, but could also be the slower corners. Front downforce wouldn't go astray either.

You can run with a "looser" rear end at a slower track to help it point but it can get scary very quickly at a track with fast sweeping bends. I don't know much about Morgan Park but it doesn't look like you'd be going fast enough to get much downforce without a huge splitter.

LSD? Yeah, we all want one (except Eddy since he has that covered)