MK5 Golf GTI
General => Random Chat => Topic started by: Scottymon on November 08, 2013, 10:12:55 pm
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I'm not exactly kicking out a lot of power, nowhere near the power some of you are... but have problems laying it down in the wet in 3rd and sometimes 4th gear!!
I have GY AS2's with around 6mm on the fronts, currently at ~300lb/ft at 2.8k ... it's a Stage 2 Bluefin map - which is probably the issue, as it's quite spikey...
Just wondering how you lot get on with even more torque over the fronts. I wonder if the winter boots will do better now.
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Winter tyres will only see a grip benefit in temperatures under around 5-7c. Above 8c the Goodyears should have the better grip.
The grip was my primary reason for making the move to 4WD. Not much point in having 300+bhp if you can only ever use 200bhp.
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few things that helped a lot with traction -
walk, full set of engine mounts including dogbone, linear map, lsd, stickier tyres ie PSS.
even the pss are struggling a bit more with so much water on the road at mo, only a few weeks before i put the vred wintracs on.
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Same reason i went to the S3 from my edition 30 a few years ago my ed 30 was only stage 1 (290 bhp ) but in damp conditions struggled for traction same mods in the S3 was a different story but a little bit boring at times
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Try gradually feeding it in feeling the power before wheelspin and learn from it,Berg is right and Hurdy isn't :P FWD ftw
Ex S3 here