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rex:
The weight saved with this new battery is monumental! This is a great mod and I think it goes better with a Carbon Hood (too bad VWR are not making it anymore). BTW... any plans with some carbon hood/fenders? :drinking:
the bruce:
Unfortunately last year I did not buy an original VW Motorsport carbon hood
(the one with the vents you know from Volkswagen's own 24h GTI).
These where made by Becker Carbon in Germany and also sold by Bildon Parts
in the USA.
What I didn't like: the visible vents. So the carbon hood is visible to everyone
and carbon hoods are hard to legalize in Germany (crash behaviour).
I'm still looking for road legal OEM quality hood. I won't go for different fenders
for weight saving as the steel fenders are light as well. But wider plastic ones
provide the nevessary space to fit 235 mm Direzzas + TT arms and hubs.
In short: no decision made. :wink:
rex:
Yup... I know the hood you mean... I ruled it out for me because of 2 reasons: (1) the vents are right on top of the turbocharger and I am afraid it might get wet (and I don't think cold rain coming down on a hot turbo is the way to go) and (2) the weight save is minimal (as I know the hood weighs 11 kg compared to 15 the the original one and 5 kg to the VWR hood). I like the Bildon Rear Wing though.... This has been on my shopping list for some time but there was always something else to do...
Fancy a Kesrscher fenders group buy (I HAVE to change the fenders before coming to the Ring next year)?
danishmkvgti:
--- Quote from: rex on November 04, 2011, 07:34:31 pm ---Yup... I know the hood you mean... I ruled it out for me because of 2 reasons: (1) the vents are right on top of the turbocharger and I am afraid it might get wet (and I don't think cold rain coming down on a hot turbo is the way to go) and (2) the weight save is minimal (as I know the hood weighs 11 kg compared to 15 the the original one and 5 kg to the VWR hood). I like the Bildon Rear Wing though.... This has been on my shopping list for some time but there was always something else to do...
Fancy a Kesrscher fenders group buy (I HAVE to change the fenders before coming to the Ring next year)?
--- End quote ---
I'm in on the fender groupbuy Rex :drinking:
the bruce:
Rex, do you read German? On Golf5GTI.com there's some information on
both SRS Tec- and Kerscher fenders.
Jake, thought you have Seibon fenders?
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