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White "Lion" Cupra - DSG converted track car
teo_parvu:
:drinking: Cheers Joaquim!
Thanks good to know, I will not bother with it anymore. I drove a PDK Cayman S and the software was so good that you never needed paddles, perfect downshifts. MRC softwere is almost as good, just needed a little earlier shifts.
There are many questions now: How quick will I adapt to paddles? Will the DSG cooling work? Will the brakes keep up with the new speed? How good are the new coilovers? Will I feel any downforce and adapt? ... :thinking:
Shoduchi:
I think you'll adapt pretty quickly to just using the paddles. Your brakes will suffer a bit more, I hope they can handle the extra stress.
About the DSG cooling. I read that Alex Kerr only liked this cooling system for our DSG: http://sspperformance.shopgate.com/item/3635. It's very expensive. I never felt any problems with mine so far, I hope my bigger oil cooler will handle my needs. :smiley:
teo_parvu:
The biggest concern are the brakes, last year in the middle of the summer I overheated them despite the brake ducts. Under hard braking the weight transfer rear-front was massive. The front brakes couldn't handle it for more than 1-2 laps. That was the main reason I bought the ASTs, they should help keeping some weight on the rear, reduce nose-dive effect under hard braking. I have 310mm and Pagid RS19 rear brakes that were doing nothing, now they should also help.
I agree with Alex, that is the only working cooling system that you can buy. That's why my DSG cooling is inspired by SSP. They are using an oil pump to get the oil to the radiator, because they are connected to the DSG in the low pressure area directly to the oil pan. I believe they are the only ones doing it like this and it is the right way. Otherwise the hoses, radiator could fail under the massive pressure if they are connected to the top side. 99% that they are using a Mocal/Setrab 2.1 LPH oil pump and Setrab oil radiator because there are some unique marking on their pump that I've recognized.
What we did is to connect to the lower pressure oil pan (with the help of a very talented welder, the one who build my new wing mounts) and use the same Mocal oil pump as SSP with our own temperature switch and high quality hoses:
Normally it should work but it needs to pass the track test. :smiley:
Raj2212:
Sweet sweet motor @teo_parvu :happy2:
teo_parvu:
Thanks mate! I was really looking forward to test it next weekend, unfortunately they have posponed the Race for 22.04. Some safety work needed to be done to the track, and because of the bad weather they need more time.
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