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Very budget track build
Clarkj93:
Well that's the last one of the year done. Altering the pressures ro 35 front hot and 36 rear hot really seems the sweet spot for this current weight, as much front grip as I can get with some corner entry oversteer to rotate it nicely.
MOT is due very soon..are these going to pass? :scared:
After realising how bad the tyres were blistering as seen above I decide ro rotate front to back. Not a great idea as the car then oversteered quite badly and inconsistently due to the dead blistering tyres which led to a small off and some minor off roading
It was quite a badly organised day I must say. Never known a circuit to take 20 mins to recover a mechanical failure for a stopped vehicle within 100 metres of the pits and the organisers having to ask a random punter to recover the car on their own trailer? This one looked like an expensive shunt though
In 2 minds currently whether to just to get it through its MOT or just take it of the road for a bit while I do my winter upgrades as its won't be going anywhere anyway. I may just borrow rhe Mrs audi a1 wheels to get the MOT done :P
Clarkj93:
Ended up just getting a set for the 2 blistered rears to get it through MOT which is next Friday, hopefully no issues with any of the custom bits on it.
Made some door cards this afternoon also. You can buy nice ones from track car door cards but by the time you spec them they end up being at least 150 quid which seems a bit expensive for just covering some sharp bits with material. Ended up spending about 50 quid in materials and door pulls. Not perfect and a little rough here and there but overall a decent finish.
If anyone was wondering the front door cards weigh around 4.5kg each on a 3 door. I think my material was at most 1kg a side so somewhere between 7kg to 8kg saving. Not going to notice that but not bad considering I genuinely thought it would be no difference at all.
pudding:
Very motorsport :happy2: Porsche are great at charging people £1000s for removing the door pulls and giving them a piece of string instead, and you've done the same for peanuts :grin:
4.5Kg, jesus. I thought they felt a bit on the hefty side last time I removed one! All the little weight shavings here and there add up :happy2:
Clarkj93:
--- Quote from: Pudding on October 07, 2022, 06:21:14 pm ---Very motorsport :happy2: Porsche are great at charging people £1000s for removing the door pulls and giving them a piece of string instead, and you've done the same for peanuts :grin:
4.5Kg, jesus. I thought they felt a bit on the hefty side last time I removed one! All the little weight shavings here and there add up :happy2:
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Haha yeah I get they do it in a really fancy way but still... that price? :grin:
Bmw's are the worst at least the old ones I've been in, the doors weigh a tonne I've always wondered what is actually in them to weigh that much :grin:
Clarkj93:
As is tradition she failed the MOT :grin: nothing major though. This garage seems to always complain about any surface rust, I want it sorted at some point but is just surface rust nothing worth noting I would have thought but anyway no big deal
What I thought was odd is that the front tyres are seemingly fine they just noted wear, there's chunks of rubber missing from them blistering on circuit but thats fine it seems :grin: sounds good to me! :happy2:
Bought a new battery impact wrench so just decided to put it to the test and take the passenger seat and weigh it our of curiosity. For anyone that's interested a leather mk5 gti heated seat with electric lumbar support weighs 20kg. Less than I expected actually I thought that was quite light considering the air bag, heated seat function and some kind of motor for the lumbar support
If anyone is interested in a 3 door leather seat set including door cards and arm rear then it's available for sale from next weekend. All in excellent condition (if I'm being really fussy the drivers seat could do with a deep clean just to get it to a factory fresh matt leather look like the other seats), only point is a tiny rip in the rear right door card that's always been there
Also the buttons from the drivers door card are missing as I have retained these on my car so you would just need to fit your existing ones in - easy peasy. It will be up on ebay in a few days / next week when I get round to it.
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