Life of the McDub by photo

**McDub** · 06-08-2010, 11:45 PM

Had pretty bad luck with the ECS order, other than having to wait 4 weeks for it, i think the downpipe has been fabricated wrong, and as a result i can see the lip sitting proud inside the flexible joint. Hopefully not causing any problems... though it touches the chasis and or steering colum occasionaly, and there's a fair bit of drone which i'm wondering if it's caused by this flow restriction...

also my 10mm spacers do not fit my replica wheels as the chamfer on the wheels is too small. not gonna increase the chamfer on the wheels, think i'll keep the spacers off, keep it legal. will be selling them soon i think

and the front strut bar physically does not fit!
fortunately they're sending over a new one, so if anyone wants to try and mod this one i suppose they can have it...

anyway enough whinging...

**McDub** · 07-08-2010, 12:10 AM

and so i finally got round to getting it re-flashed with a different tune.

went for Custom Code this time. Camden Gti (golf loon) loaded it for me just last week. They don't need to install any chip of any sort onto your ecu so that's a definite bonus. Am very happy with it, feels great to drive.

Put it on the dyno after about 5 days.

I was getting runs of between 110-117kw (seemed to increase with each run, strange for a turbo).
I tried both the N75J valve and the stock N75 valve. They didn't seem to make a difference looking at the results.

The last run gave the highest peak output (so much for heatsoak, suppose because it was cold...)

All runs had an AFR consistantly below 11:1, so a lot richer than you'd hope, but it seems to still make the power it should be making. Just hopefully in summer with hotter intake temps it doesn't go to the ****! Time will tell.

Boosting a bit higher than it probably should too. Hit 20psi on every run. Though on the road it seems to be more 15-18. Feels great though having all that torque.
Check out all the area under the curve!

**McDub** · 07-08-2010, 12:32 AM

and just a couple of miscelaneous pics

coldest temp the car has ever recorded, up in the blue mountains

and playing around with the LED light on my phone...

and now that's all up to date!

Getting the suspension put in by a local shop on Tuesday, will get pics of it then. The springs should sit it about 20mm lower than it is at the moment, should tidy up the looks a bit.

**Speed** · 07-08-2010, 10:03 AM

Wow! 117Kw.
I'd be pretty stoked with that.

Good stuff

**rikard1** · 13-08-2010, 10:30 PM

good read that is. so in troubleshooting the low power issue u built a tidy motor.

**Dyldo** · 13-08-2010, 11:47 PM

mna, great and honest thread. love it.

**audi-tone** · 15-08-2010, 04:05 PM

looks good dude, should look even better lowered.
i have to put mine on the dyno sometime.. would love to know how much power i'm putting down.. have about the same mods minus the clutch and TIP.