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Very budget track build
RBS:
Nice :happy2: Enjoy👍🏻
Shoduchi:
Glad you have lots of fun on track. :smiley: The LSD will help quite a bit getting out of corners and it's a bit less expensive on a manual gearbox. You'll like it. :driver:
Clarkj93:
Golf's been a bit of a bugger lately.
The whiteline drop links nuts seemingly keep undoing themselves.. stuck some washers on them and some blue loctite and hope that's the end of it now frankly!
Also it's been cutting out which is very annoying, seemingly a bad throttle body, I've stuck a newer revision and younger one from a BWA TT and hope that's sorted now, seems to be so far anyway. Gave it a good clean while I had it off anyway so not sure if that smoothens anything out or not on these. Lots of people mention this is a bugger of a job, if you have small hands like me it's actually quite simple to be fair with a flexible quarter inch ratchet.
Brakes have been Buggers too. Bled the brake as the pedal was super long after Llandow and the temps we got up to are a lot to take for the caliper seals and fluid which has concerned me. Still felt spongy after bleeding so bled again, still spongy. Ive seemingly got some minor brake pad glazing which I was surprised at for these pads, I assumed they could take far more abuse than I could possibly give them
So currently de-glazing them with some 80 grit paper and also the discs while I'm there just in case. Will go and bed them in again at a stupid time of the morning soon and hopefully that's them sorted then!
Decided I need to install some ducting, it's not a great solution as we are pointed to the caliper rather than through the disc veins but it needs to be done I think to get this current brake setup to work semi efficiently for the rest of the year until I can upgrade. Thinking of the megane caliper setup... cheaper than db9/ttrs ones but with all the same advantages it seems and also while being brand new Calipers which works out at around 300 quid more than the golf r setup but would be using 2nd hand Calipers so seems very good value.
What I have noticed though is looking at the caliper bracket from behind and also looking at other aftermarket caliper brackets is I think there may be room to install a proper race worthy brake ducting setup with some welding skills.
Here is the room I mention between the bracket and the hub
And here is roughly what I would think is possibly, and extra piece or metal over that gap that could have a semi circle shaped duct inlet of around a 1.5 inch ducting diameter that would go straight to the centre of the discs and into the veins .
Something to think about and ponder in the future anyway.
pudding:
Did you put the red paint blobs on the throttle screws? :grin: Hope that fixes your issue :happy2: I looked up the part number and it's still relevant. I guess VW changed it yet again in 2019 at some point.
You're lucky you managed to swap it out in situ. I had to remove the fan pack in order to get at it!
What pads are they? They've taken a bit of a beating!
Clarkj93:
--- Quote from: Pudding on July 02, 2022, 10:46:07 am ---Did you put the red paint blobs on the throttle screws? :grin: Hope that fixes your issue :happy2: I looked up the part number and it's still relevant. I guess VW changed it yet again in 2019 at some point.
You're lucky you managed to swap it out in situ. I had to remove the fan pack in order to get at it!
What pads are they? They've taken a bit of a beating!
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Haha no I have no idea what it's there for either! Wasn't sure if it was red loctite or something!
Oh nice thanks for checking that.
Ebc rp-1, so a race pad and would have thought they'd cope really... the other side was even worse as well. I've sanded them down and re Bedded them now but still not 100%, think I'm just going to take the risk at Combe next week and if they're junk then it's a lesson learnt for next time. They're not dangerous in anyway just missing that initial sharp bite and possibly less grabby at full braking force than I remember... maybe a heat cycle on track is what they need though who knows!
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