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Pirelli & Scirocco the end of an era
wigit:
Eurotuner then made my pics look average and gave me some nice shots as a keep sake
Hurdy:
Great update and some cracking pics of the Rocco there Wigit :happy2:
wigit:
bruntingthorpe showed the flaws of the acc damping set up and stock brakes took a pounding
so off to autosport to do some perving research
and decided ideal brake set up for what i wanted was the daveb boxter/caymen set up and as look would have it SteveP was selling his set up which was shipped off to daveb for some refurbishment works
acquired some oem porsche damping shims
porsche calipers are under half the weight of the stock items and were to run on Mintex 1144s, the rear GTI set up has larger disks than rocco 286 instead of 256 with stock oem going on rear
these spent a month in the garage waiting to go on, given rising fuel prices it was not making sense to run the rocco for 20k a year (Pirelli has been having a rest whilst swmbo is lady of leisure), didn't want to sell it and go berg derv, so decided to acquire another motor for the fleet to mean the rocco could become a weekender, originally went out for a polo bluemotion but were fetching silly money
instead ordered a Fiat 500 Twin Air Lounge in white with some toys given the deal from fiat meant fule savings paid for the car, currently awaiting delivery of 'Pootle' (in honour of the flumps) and will be sporting P500TLE when it arrives late june
this meant round two with the lowering stick........
wigit:
some pics with the porkas on, nice and understated and big thanks to DaveB and SteveP for their patience help :happy2:
given roccy semi retirement decision was made to do a few track days, never fancied the thought of a towing eye sticking out the front of the rocco so thought i would go TRS strap instead, got to thank MATED30 for all his help which from his mk5 set up which proved no relevance to the rocco which was ompeltely different with limited space
given i was doing consultancy work for the University of Oxford Department of Engineering Science at the time a few favours were called in to get this to work
oem tow hook was cut down and re profiled to a wheel brace bolt size so bolt could be mounted to car, TRS strap hole was enlarged slightly
new cover then had a slot machined for the strap, also some black tape applied to inside of bumper so blue was not visible
wigit:
next up was a session at Surrey Rolling Road to see what Stage 2 did on an honest dyno, very pleased with the figures and pleased i have an uprated clutch, there is no shortage of mid range :happy2:
289bhp and 355lbft :evilgrin:
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