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Black magic Mk5 GTI track car
fuscobal:
Ok, finished the car in time for the may 13th Hungaroring track-day so I went for a real test :) The car behaved quite well and here's the + and - :
+ water temps after the mods were amazing > max 85deg celsius !!!
+ the clutch was fine after the disc change and my mechanic modded the pressure plate (didn't wanna tell me how :) ) so the gearchanges were much better @ low and medium rpms
+ the rear wing seems to have solved the problem since the car was well balanced now (maybe a little understeer, but this may aso be due to the ESP being on)
+ the R888 were quite good and never overheated
+ the Ap Racing brakes are amazing...they stopped very fast and never overheated through the session
- added 1l of oil in 2000km (my new mechanic told me this would happen because the cylinders were pourly honed to 83mm). However, decided to add oil better than going to 83.5mm and replacing the new pistons that I've just installed 1000km before opening the engine again
- the gearchanges are a pain as usual @ high rpm and this slows me down considerably
- ESP is very annoying but was still keeping it on after the trouble I've had @ Nurburgring in 2010 with the LSD...will try to take it off next time as this should bring the car to life
Here's a lap filmed with the Iphone + Harry laptimer + external 5HZ gps module :
danishmkvgti:
--- Quote from: fuscobal on May 15, 2013, 06:32:52 pm ---Ok, finished the car in time for the may 13th Hungaroring track-day so I went for a real test :) The car behaved quite well and here's the + and - :
+ water temps after the mods were amazing > max 85deg celsius !!!
+ the clutch was fine after the disc change and my mechanic modded the pressure plate (didn't wanna tell me how :) ) so the gearchanges were much better @ low and medium rpms
+ the rear wing seems to have solved the problem since the car was well balanced now (maybe a little understeer, but this may aso be due to the ESP being on)
+ the R888 were quite good and never overheated
+ the Ap Racing brakes are amazing...they stopped very fast and never overheated through the session
- added 1l of oil in 2000km (my new mechanic told me this would happen because the cylinders were pourly honed to 83mm). However, decided to add oil better than going to 83.5mm and replacing the new pistons that I've just installed 1000km before opening the engine again
- the gearchanges are a pain as usual @ high rpm and this slows me down considerably
- ESP is very annoying but was still keeping it on after the trouble I've had @ Nurburgring in 2010 with the LSD...will try to take it off next time as this should bring the car to life
Here's a lap filmed with the Iphone + Harry laptimer + external 5HZ gps module :
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refresh my memory, why do you leave esp on?
Also, consider a WOT box, it has improved my gearchanges drastically that i use WOT shifts at high rpm, i only rarely has trouble hitting the gears now even though i still have the Sachs uprated SMF kit. :drinking:
the bruce:
--- Quote from: fuscobal on May 15, 2013, 06:32:52 pm ---+ water temps after the mods were amazing > max 85deg celsius !!!
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Pretty COOL !!! :happy2:
Should help increasing engine life significiently - at least I hope so !!
:drinking:
fuscobal:
Danish, while on Nurburgring 3 years ago, I slightly hit the fence because the LSD suddenly pulled to one side when a wheel caught some sand (I did not touch the vibrator). The steering wheel was almost straight when that happened (far from the grip limit on that area). The WOT box was recommended 2 me by others so I might give it a chance. Since you can only use it at wot, how do you not get confused while changing normally. I mean on a lap you might need to sometimes change at wot (without using the clutch) and others using the clutch !
danishmkvgti:
--- Quote from: fuscobal on May 16, 2013, 05:39:55 pm ---Danish, while on Nurburgring 3 years ago, I slightly hit the fence because the LSD suddenly pulled to one side when a wheel caught some sand (I did not touch the vibrator). The steering wheel was almost straight when that happened (far from the grip limit on that area). The WOT box was recommended 2 me by others so I might give it a chance. Since you can only use it at wot, how do you not get confused while changing normally. I mean on a lap you might need to sometimes change at wot (without using the clutch) and others using the clutch !
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I use mine for shifts from 3,4 and 5th gear and it's soo easy to use, as i wrote with the WOT box even my sachs smf kit works at high speed. youcan use it in the other gears and on down shifyt but no point to it in my opinion. Just remember no resting the left foor on the clutchpedal no more, or you get misfires :wink:
Remember to decat your car or the cat gets destroyed by the unburnt gasoline. :smiley:
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