MountainBikeMike's Skodaru

[MountainBikeMike]

So then it hit me... Why don't I just use the board from the top.. use the EZ lip I had on the bumper to form a seal at the rim bead.. tape the bottom to seal it.. and run long bolts thru to the top board... Oh my god its genius, and I could use butterfly nuts to unscrew it when I need to use the wheel! And so I pushed the glassing to the side, knowing that if this third go doesn't work I can always continue with the glassing, and that should sound better than the MK1 sub!

After a trip to bunnings to spend $10 on bolts and nuts, this is what I ended up with


Taped up the bottom heavily


You can see the EZ lip in between the rim bead and the wood, now painted roughly


Sits just deep enough


Made little brackets to center the bolts in the wheel holes, and put the butterfly nuts on. It just clears the bottom of the wheel well


Poked the wire through the bottom, hooked it up and all finished! I only need to get a metal grate to cover it with, and make a cut-out in the mass loaded vinyl so the sound comes through lol


Haven't tested it much yet but I'll spend more time on this project once the DNS810 head units finally arrive. Keen!

On a side note the other benefits of this change were:
-Lower center of gravity (height reduced by 20cm and centered in the car instead of right above the back wheel)
-First fiberglass box without driver was 7.5kg, this one is less than 2kg
-I get that corner back so lots more space
-Discreet! Stealth sub!
-Now my mates want one
-????????????
-Profit

[Deadpool]

Very nice updates, Mike. I quite enjoyed the read.


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[dArK5HaD0w]

so now u have no spare tyre?!?!?!?

[Rooboy]

so now u have no spare tyre?!?!?!?

I think he has a spare tyre but he's just going to have to take a bit longer and a lot more care changing it lol. Nice 'outside the box' thinking

[Mysticality]

On a side note the other benefits of this change were:
-Lower center of gravity (height reduced by 20cm and centered in the car instead of right above the back wheel)
-Now my mates want one
-????????????
-Profit

I edited your post for you.

Great outcome!
How do you run the wires??

[MountainBikeMike]

I edited your post for you.

Great outcome!
How do you run the wires??

Lol what did you change?

So the wires run from the amp inside the right compartment through the hole near the tail lights, under the carpet and back trim to the boot release lock, then down under the tire and in.

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[kamold]

Great work again Mike.
I'd ideally like to do something like that too. I had a Mazda 6 that has the amp in the wheel well like that from factory. Great use of space.
Those LEDs are great. I find myself reversing towards walls just to bathe in their icy white glow
I've got the yellows in the indicators too, they look much better than the stockies too.

[MountainBikeMike]

A few more updates:

The little orange clip to hold the bonnet rod fell out the second time and got lost, so I improvised!



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A bought a box of goodies from a guy in Tassie on Gumtree. $375 for about $900 worth of stuff. Typhoon intake, 3 pods, a brake banjo bolt, a BSH PCV revamp, a maf, some cai inlets, 4 coil packs, factory diverter valve, an o2 sensor, and I think thats it.



I had to ride home from work with the Typhoon because I really wanted to get it installed straight away, this is what I looked like lol. Had to go pick up noodle box then go to the gf's then home with it...







Initial install. I had to run a zip tie initially cos I couldn't reach the clip to tighten it properly on the turbo. The zip tie is now gone
heat shield went on without dramas.





Then I went ghetto





I finished the top of the heat shield/air box with perspex. Initially with hot glue, which melted Then some metal clips and 150 degree silicon. Good ENOUGH! Looks great, and pops off with a couple of self tappers.

So this intake sounds pretty insanely loud. Massive spool noise, and quite a large dump sound when coming off throttle. I couldn't believe it sounds like a BOV... weird. There is a whistle at some revs which is annoying and I'm wondering this is the filter. Its a double cone type..

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Stock stuff vs new

This BSH PCV revamp camp with all the ****, so I installed it. Took 15 mins.



Looks good. Who knows if it works.

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Finally put a solid bit of metal across the sub to protect it, and also cut out the mass loaded vinyl for the sound to come through better.





Then I put on some velcro to stop vibrations on the wood under the carpet.

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Also got an ECS order today!!! Will update that tomorrow

[Mysticality]

The weird turbo noises will be the VGT (variable geometry turbo) vanes changing to give max boost at all different RPM.
Thats why we have such an awesomely flat torque curve

The whistle - is it a whine?
If so, its TSI thing

[MountainBikeMike]

The whistle - is it a whine?
If so, its TSI thing

Mines an FSI.. Its a whiney whistley thing that goes for half a second. Sounds like a real mouth whistle.

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So yesterday I got a nice little package from ECS Tuning USA. A set of R8 coil packs @ a measly $22.81US, a new cam follower @ $43, and about $130US for this ECS lightweight accessory pulley. $60 postage though... worth it! I decided to NOT go for the under-drive pulley as there was to much of a difference and I run a sub/amp and also frequent the drive in cinema!



So I installed the new coil packs after work and instantly noticed the one nearest to the drivers side had a massive brown dust build up! Its very light and dusty, but didn't hang on and cleaned up easily so I dont think its just rust, UNLESS its rust down near the spark plug????? If it is, that could be bad.... Didn't know what to do so I just put the new coil in for now and its still running fine.

I think though that this COULD have been the reason I've been getting some blue smoke under WOT in first and second sometimes... will suss this out at some stage. Theres a good thread on here about these with lots of real data- and for example, the voltage created in the stock OEM coils is around 3.2v, whereas the R8 coils put out in the region of 4.5v. Good to know that even if it ain't much difference to the car its made all the improvement it can in this particular area.

Here's some more pics of the red R8 coils installed 20hp extra cos they're red.





I really should have gotten the red coil looms for an extra $20... ah well, next time.

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Well today was fun. Got up in the morning before work and though I'd smash out the install of this ECS lightweight accessory pulley. Bad idea as usual hahaha, but lucky I ride to work. I got the the point of taking the pulley off and though I had to take off the big bolt in the middle. The sockets I had weren't working with the rattle gun so I went to the store with 15 mins to spare before work to get the right one, which didnt work either! Ditched, packed up, left the car on stands and went to work. Borrowed a neighbours socket set, then realised I was already at the stage I could just pull it off LOL. No need to remove center bolt which wouldn't move! Noob moment. The rest was pretty simple including taking off the belt and re-installing. You WILL need a second pair of hands for this though.


How it looks without the pulley or belt


All done! And being artsy with le cam


All done again

The magic numbers:
The stock pulley came in at a hefty 1670g, while the ECS pulley is 290g! Its actually 10g lighter than manufacturer specification Bound to save some horses and gas!



I come back to my car at the end of the rainy day with the wheel off and my DBA's look like this..