Red Devil mkII - The Journey Continues

[seangti]

As mentioned above, I'm in the process of pulling the turbo off to get it rebuilt. Had been leaking oil around it from somewhere and occasionally blowing white smoke. Just got a few bolts remaining for it to be out. For the most part, the job has been really quite straight forward, just time consuming and a few phone calls and supervision from Gavin. I don't typically enjoy doing mechanical work, but has been fine so far.

Before wakefield I ordered a new set of semi slicks, Kumho V70A in medium compound, 215/45/17. The price was too good to not snap em up. I had expected to chop my current tyres more at wakefield, but that circuit seems to be much more gentle on tyres than the qld circuits, so will get another day or two from the current tyres. I did however chomp my brake pads, so replaced with A1RM's, from the 100km i did a week ago, they feel amazing.

Here's a pic from on the way to wakefield.

[Water Boy]

Gav is pretty clued up on the turbo rebuilds. I guess you'll send yours down to the Goldcoast to for a rebuild?

It would be really good to get all the trackday VW guys together one time for a fang but its always tricky with $$$, work and time.... maybe next year.

[Machine]

Unfortunately not anymore. Would LOVE to run that track as I didnt when i was down in March. It was on the agenda to go, but currently pulling the turbo off as its got a gremlin inside. I may come for a look depending on my work movements, but will be rollin in a rental car. Will re-aim for later in the year.

You'd be my hero if you took a rental car out onto the track!

[seangti]

Gav is pretty clued up on the turbo rebuilds. I guess you'll send yours down to the Goldcoast to for a rebuild?

It would be really good to get all the trackday VW guys together one time for a fang but its always tricky with $$$, work and time.... maybe next year.

yeah absolutely RE getting all the VW's together. My time will come Fortunately my employer has an office south of Sydney which I spend quite a bit of time at, so anything in or around Sydney I have a reasonable level of flexibility.

And yup, will be taking it back to Billet Turbo's for their diagnostic/rectification. It's undone now, but proving a little difficult to pull it out between the firewall and engine. Will try again tonight when I can get a hand with it.

[seangti]

You'd be my hero if you took a rental car out onto the track!

Sounds like a good idea for a bucks party, or baby shower....

[Machine]

Sounds like a good idea for a bucks party, or baby shower....

Let's do both!

[seangti]

I did timeattack at lakeside yesterday in my daily polo while the red ones off the road. Had an absolutely hoot and got awesome (IMO) lap times given the level of modification. When I last tracked this car at lakeside in March last year with the same/current tyres and no mods done since, I did a 66.0s lap, at the time I thought was pretty good. Yesterday I was lapping consistently in high 64sec, with a best 64.77sec. I've spent quite some time today looking over all my lap data, surprisingly I was much smoother under braking in this car than the red one. The transition between brake and accelerator was much better (I won't bore with that data unless asked). My speeds in the slower corners are only marginally down, cornering forces are mostly comparable, mid corner speeds in the silver car were similar and occasionally better, and my speed coming into hungry was also comparable at around the ~170kph. I've found it really interesting to compare the two cars, both feel and from a data perspective. The red one is faster, more fun but also more challenging and certainly more track oriented, but I wasn't left overly shorthanded with the lesser modded one.

By comparison, the best I've done so far in the red polo is a 63.1sec. I'm confident that I'll be in the 62's with more time in the car, and some work on my braking. And finding the apex of hungry hey Gavin

Comparison of Lap times and other data


Comparison of Sectors of best laps - though my fastest lap in the red polo aren't my sectors bests. I was lapping more consistent in the silver polo than I have in the red. I think that mostly due to the challenge of power down in the red one, whereas the silver car can sit on the floor boards more



And AWESOME photo's by Tracktuned Media. Huge thanks for sharing.






I know I've waffled on here - sorta sorry, but I love this stuff. Plus I hope to look back on this thread in years to come as a bit of a diary... you know when kids are screaming, I'm driving a minivan and wondering what I did with my life. haha.

[h100vw]

It was the only corner I could really see without walking for miles. So maybe you are getting those others wrong too? I wonder if some on track footage from a following car would be helpful for refine lines??

It was cool to see all three of you picking up PBs.

Gavin

[nat225]

you have done the silver car a 'driver mod' since March last year

[grandturismo]

Congrats on the days results Sean.
Your braking data is interesting to me.
Are there any significant differences in the braking setup between the two cars?
The silver Polo must handle well too, do you feel the differences in setup is money well spent?