Motor Hot Tuner Challenge 2012 VIEZU Golf R Stage One

[ViezuAustralia]

Podium just off the tune and exhaust... nice

[tigger73]

Exactly. Gotta be happy with that.

[boltor]

Just had a chance to read the whole Motor Hot Tuner article - very impressive results for all Golf R. I also couldn't resist the urge to see how much was spent on engine mods for each Golf R against 0-100 time improvements.



my assumption on stock 0-100 may or may not be right, but the % improvement is relative. I was trying to work out how to more accurately model the $ to improvement curve, but probably hard to do with the variety of engine mods, non-linear, etc.

I like the idea of "bang for buck" as per earlier posts - a very real world sentiment...

Really great result Simon - both the "Joe Public" angle on your entry, as well as the times for "just" a tune and exhaust! fantastic!

[Transporter]

...or, to get to that first place in that table, you needed to spend $26,000 to reach 0-100km/h time, 0.91s sooner.

[boltor]

...or, to get to that first place in that table, you needed to spend $26,000 to reach 0-100km/h time, 0.91s sooner.

yep, great way to look at it. the one that struck me was that you had to almost double your "investment" to get 0.1s (or 2%) improvement.

anyway, I'm sure this is not fully realistic / statistically accurate / like-for-like, etc, but very interesting nevertheless...

[Preen59]

It's a great result to show what you can achieve without spending the earth. Well done, guys.

0.91s sooner.

...... Or 20% faster. The first few seconds and tenths in motorsport are cheap. The last few hundredths are what cost the money.

[tigger73]

...and that's why in the real world 95% of people stop at stage 2.

Unless you're going to put it on the track or down a drag strip the last few tenths are just not worth it.

Not taking anything away from the APR car - getting a Golf to do 0-100 in the 3's and 0-400m in the 11's is heading into supercar territory. And if you look at it another way $100k is a cheap supercar.

[Bug_racer]

...and that's why in the real world 95% of people stop at stage 2.

Unless you're going to put it on the track or down a drag strip the last few tenths are just not worth it.

Not taking anything away from the APR car - getting a Golf to do 0-100 in the 3's and 0-400m in the 11's is heading into supercar territory. And if you look at it another way $100k is a cheap supercar.

You dont need to spend alot to run low 3s to 100 and 11s on the 1/4 in a Golf R . You just have to know what to do and how to do it . I spent about $6k on mine and Ive run an 11.88 with a 0-100 in 3.31 sec