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Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
rex:
Hi everyone!
Just came from another track day at Hungaroring :smiley:. So here is the review...
I just have to tell you I am extremely pleased with my car. It was a real joy to drive it... This was the best Hungaroring trip from this point of view.
The car was extremely well balanced and very predictable. It would oversteer and understeer without any surprises. I wonder it I can make it handle much better than this.
Here is my setup:
- you have the steering setup above
- H&R 26mm front and 24mm back ARB set to HARD/HARD
- B16 (PSS10) set to 9(front)/10(rear)
- tire pressure set to 2.2 bar front and 2.3 bar rear (when tires are warm)
But there are, at least, 4 things that I think I have to work on:
- MORE POWER... Having only 155bhp it is hard to pass somebody on the straights (I had to wait one lap to overtake a Subaru WRS STI that would not let me pass although I was much faster than him). And to add to this the weather was really warm (> 29 degrees) and the car suffered a little bit from heat stroke. At the end of the straight I had 5-10km/h less than I had in April.
But, I will be true to my work and more power is the last thing I will do with this car :chicken:
- LSD. Even for my power I sometimes have grip issues
- a better driver to get everything out of the current setup
- redo the steering adjustment because the steering wheel is not straight :mad:.
Not sure why, maybe someone will help me understand but although the car seemed perfect and the lines were not to bad the times have not improved. In fact I was 0.4 seconds slower than in April.
From what I think the possible causes are one of the following:
- the car suffered from heat stroke (even if I have a water cooled intercooler). For some of my friends the lap was also slower by 2 sec even though they lost ~70kg from April...
or
- I do not know anything about my car and I am obviously wrong when judging it
If there are any other possibilities please do not hesitate to tell me what they are...
And here are some photos...
Here is the car when I arrived at the hotel one night before the track day:
Here is my car in action:
Here are some shots after the track day ended:
Here are the friend's cars that took part in this event:
Civic Type R FN2, Championship White (LSD, semislicks, hondata and other mods)
Audi 2.0 TFSI (TT arms, Federal, KW 1, S3 brakes)
Golf GTI (fuscobal with Revo Stage 3, B16, S3 brakes, LSD and many many other mods)
Octavia vRS (Revo Stage 3, KW 1, S3 brakes, LSD and many many other mods)
The guys:
And yours truly all geared up:
Thanks for watching!
the bruce:
--- Quote from: rex on June 23, 2011, 07:09:04 pm ---I just have to tell you I am extremely pleased with my car. It was a real joy to drive it... This was the best Hungaroring trip from this point of view.
The car was extremely well balanced and very predictable. It would oversteer and understeer without any surprises. I wonder it I can make it handle much better than this.
--- End quote ---
Glad to hear this. :happy2:
If your mates lost even more time caused by the heat you don't have to worry about your car.
Just enjoy it !!
rex:
Yup... I will :happy2: :drinking:
Top Cat:
Good stuff Rex. nice little write up. Almost certainly the slower times will be down to the hot conditions. The ECU will be retarding the timing for sure. also though the track temerature could also knock things out a bit, its natural to think that a hot track = stickier surface, but it is not as simple as that all tyres react differently to temperature. :happy2:
rex:
Thanks TC!
I hate searching for answers for my relative bad times and I hate blaming the conditions. Some of you might say (and are correct to say) that maybe the driver is not good. But I am trying to take the driver out of the equation to see the other reasons.
The tires are Kumho v70a Hard compound so they should be ok for warm weather. The traction is not the same as using a medium/soft compound but the hard ones should last longer.
Thanks again for you comment and ideas! :drinking:
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