Here we go guys R36 1/4 mile

[Swallowtail]

Hi Guys.

That is my car! I was searching on Google for other R36 owners that had run the car 1/4 mile, and to my shock, it appears it's just me!

Figured I would join your fine forum. The R36 is a rare sight here in the UK, so I guess I'll have to talk to you lot instead

The car was completely stock when I did that run. It also rolling roaded at 308BHP (slightly above official manufactures figures, but they always play it safe).

I have since had the car remapped, and it is having a custom cat-back exhaust system fitted on Monday. I will then be taking it back to the drag-strip on 1st November to see what the new time is!

Rob - what remap did you get? Looking forward to seeing that vid too!

[dubbed]

I wouldn't have picked a 13.6 from a stock R36, but that's a great result. Very interested to hear what it does after the remap and exhaust.

[Jayse]

Welcome aboard Rob!!

Thanks for sharing the vids on youtube and we're all looking forward to the new times u'll post!

Cheers,
Jayse.

[Swallowtail]

I wouldn't have picked a 13.6 from a stock R36, but that's a great result. Very interested to hear what it does after the remap and exhaust.

Rob has said on another post that with Launch Control it does a consistent 13.6 to 13.7, and with just "press the pedal and go" it does 14.1s.

[RobBentley]

Hi All.

Well I dropped the car off to have its cat-back today and I collect tomorrow so I'll post some sound clips then

Can't wait to go back to the drag-strip on 1st November.

I too didn't predict a 13.6 out of a stock R36. I expected it to be 1 second quicker than my Passat W8 (which ran a 15.2) which to be fair, it is without Launch Control thinking about it.

[RobBentley]

Rob - what remap did you get? Looking forward to seeing that vid too!

Hi. It was a custom-map done by a guy I know who runs a tuning company here in the UK. Map results where staggering - and I'll explain why we think so shortly!

[Swallowtail]

Hi. It was a custom-map done by a guy I know who runs a tuning company here in the UK. Map results where staggering - and I'll explain why we think so shortly!

Cool... looking at options in that area myself at the moment... Love love more info. PM me if you want it off-forum.

[RobBentley]

Hi.

Basically, I expected to get nothing from a remap given the Passat CC 3.6 V6 is quoted aT 280BHP stock from VW. By making the same engine 296BHP stock it sounded like VW had litrally performed an in-house remap job on the engine.

I was a little puzzled by this, given they never ever run things at 'full wack' from factory as it makes giving horsepower guarantees difficult among other things. Given this, I took the car along anyway, rolled it at 308BHP stock (good result, not underheard of though. Alot of R32's pump 260BHP+ stock) just manufacturer conservative figures again.

Remap done... 339BHP

This made little or no sense, given there isn't a turbo - so I went digging and found a tuning company in the UK have taken an R36 engine apart. The result was apparently the same engine as the CC V6 but with an R36 specific cylinder head that basically houses larger valves. This gives the extra horsepower over the CC - but it hasn't really been mapped to take advantage, this I achieved what the tuning company that did it said, is the largest gain for a n/a engine they've seen.

That aside, the car is very rapid anyway - 308 to 336 didn't exactly make my eyes pop out, but its defiantly noticeable in the mid-range urge.


Regards,

[kaoticice]

i never knew the passat cc 3.6 is a little different than r36 variant engines.

but those are amazing gains from a n/a engines.

[RobBentley]

Yeah - Pushing 300BHP by ~ 5k/rpm iirc. I'll have to find the dyno printout again and post it up.