Wreck to Race.

**Preen59** · 07-01-2010, 05:33 PM

By the way, Pete, did you Mic that tunnel on the cap you replaced to check for ovality? I would assume that it should be pretty close, within a couple of tenths, but i'd be wary of that...

**Peter Jones** · 07-01-2010, 06:15 PM

Originally Posted by Preen59

By the way, Pete, did you Mic that tunnel on the cap you replaced to check for ovality? I would assume that it should be pretty close, within a couple of tenths, but i'd be wary of that...

Did the best I could with the tools on hand

I ran the cam in the tunnel with no lifters to check for binding and checked depth of cap from face to internal crown and across the diameter with a set of dial verniers.

Reminds me, I must go and get some plastigauge.

As I said, it's not ideal, should see me through the next season or until I get the other car on the track.

Pete

**Peter Jones** · 07-01-2010, 06:30 PM

Motor went in today. Here's some pictures.

**Peter Jones** · 07-01-2010, 06:33 PM

While I was under the car I replaced the front exhaust hanger, I tend to go through a lot of them.

This time I'm trying the updated VW Hangers from the cars with catalytic convertors, these should handle the heat a bit better. They seem a bit tougher all round reallt.

Washed my socks today!

**dubai gti** · 08-01-2010, 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by Peter Jones

Washed my socks today!

thought I noticed them out the corner of my eye yesterday at your place, drying in the sun !

**Geoffrey Hale** · 08-01-2010, 02:30 PM

Lathe plus smaller chokes = bigger chokes... Pete ... Wheel align, well that's another story all together ........ I run a small amount of toe-in say 1 mm or a little less. I've tried the VW setting which I think is a bit of toe-out but I find that it understeers a bit more which is note what you want on the gravel.
Geoff

**Preen59** · 08-01-2010, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by Geoffrey Hale

Lathe plus smaller chokes = bigger chokes... Pete ... Wheel align, well that's another story all together ........ I run a small amount of toe-in say 1 mm or a little less. I've tried the VW setting which I think is a bit of toe-out but I find that it understeers a bit more which is note what you want on the gravel.
Geoff

Not much good if you want to keep the smaller chokes.. You can't machine it back on! haha.

I've sent you a PM (questions) about front end alignment, Geoff..

**abreut** · 07-01-2010, 06:38 PM

Looks good! Did you pick up any more top-end with the larger chokes?

**Peter Jones** · 07-01-2010, 06:56 PM

Originally Posted by Grunmk1

Looks good! Did you pick up any more top-end with the larger chokes?

HEAPS! ( I was just eating dinner before posting up the test drive results

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So how does it go?

Pulls all the way to 7000 rpm and there's still a little more to be had. Previously power died off by 5500.

Acceleration has improved thanks to the slightly shorter diff and the wavetrac letting me put the power down faster and of course gob loads of extra power.

The Wavetrac works well and will take some getting used to.

Off at the lights I could just give it the lot and it just launched and around corners I couldn't get the inside wheel to spin no matter how hard I tried.

There's something funky about the feedback through the steering wheel which I can't quite describe yet. It's not fighting you but it feels different when you load up the diff.

It's running a couple of degrees hotter than before, but that might just be that I advanced it up a bit to start it.

I'll see if I can get it on the Dyno and retuned.

All I need now is a race track.

Pete