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Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
RBS:
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Enjoy amigo❤️👍🏻
rex:
Late May, the car got to see the Nurburging again... So buckle up for the story behind the visit :driver:...
This year, we planed for 5 cars to be the "main" part of the trip, but our friends @Acidutzul's car (MK5 Golf TDI) didn't make it... It stopped after a large cloud of smoke came of the exhaust. So @Acidutzul rented a Mk8 Golf R and a Hyundai i30N.
Here are the other cars:
Almost all the cars had some minor issues during this visit...
The TTS had some brake and low pressure fuel pump issues
The Peugeot GTI (209PS with factory fitted brembo 4 pots and LSD) had some tire rubbing that basically required some metal cutting and buying new tires
The GTR had a sudden oversteer so the owner didn't really push it
Even the rentals had some issues with the tires and wheels (a puncture on the track).
We also met other friends at the track with an M2, M3 (also owning a 992.1GT3RS MR) and GT4RS.
Unlike the previous visits where we targeted Saturdays and Sundays, now we focused on the week days and these proved to be far better, traffic wise.
All in all we had a very good time despite the small issues.
My main goal of the trip was to get closer to the car's limit. After my 2022 Nurburgring crash, I never really got close to the cars limit or if I did I wasn't really comfortable there...
I am please to say I managed to get within 18 seconds of my personal best, with the Golf, considering I now had high performance street tires (vs semislicks previously) and about a 10km/h (6 mph) reduced top speed (on all major high speed sectors), something I attributed to the very hot weather. More on this in the future post...
I was also much more comfortable with pushing the car and not really scared to control it. So, mission accomplished, right?
A few, more professional photos:
Cheers!
GVK:
Great report :happy2:
rex:
And now a bit more about how my car behaved... I have to say I am really proud of the car, but it did have a few issues.
First, I managed to "money shift" not once, but twice. I guess, the Golf revs to 8k RPM now :rolleye: I have been driving the car since new (2007), and I also have other manual cars that I regularly drive. Still, I have not missed any gears, until now.
I miss shifted from 4th to 2nd a couple more times (on top of the the money shifts) but I immediately sensed it and didn't let go of the clutch. I also had problems getting into gear (from 4th to 3rd for example) and also getting our of gear (I got stuck a bit in 2nd gear and I had to double or triple clutch to get to neutral). Based on my experience it looks like it's the clutch pressure bearing but I would not exclude the clutch as well. Might be the engine mounts also...
With these problems in mind, I decided not to push my luck and to end the laps a day early. In total I did 20 laps this trip.
Here is the second to last lap of the trip:
I had the GTR owner as the passenger.
It is a relaxed, but not slow, lap - hence the lack of helmets.
For the non Romanian audience :jumping:, we are talking about the lack of ESP, how great the brakes feel, how quick the car is in the corners, but how extremely slow it is on the straits.
Also the passenger is, apparently, not well strapped in with the 6 point harness since he's pushing against the center console. He said after the lap we was just "checking the build quality" :grin:.
During the whole stay I had problems with the GPS signal - even if I am using a 25Hz logger with an external antenna. But all of the others also had problems with the GPS so it was not me..
Because of this, there is some data loss and some incorrect data displayed in the video.
And last but not least, some more photos of the car (posting them as they become available from the photographers):
Cheers!
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