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Title: Cupra from Bucharest
Post by: teo_parvu on March 28, 2015, 07:40:45 am

I'm new around here and I wanted to say "hi!" . :smiley:

I'm from Bucharest, Romania.
Not a Gti, but close ....I'm the owner of a 2008 Revo Stage 2+ Cupra that I use on road and track:

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs14.postimg.org%2F8ot3dyb9t%2FCupra_mpr.jpg&hash=5331805eb7f46680e6423d4b1c8bdf0418065b3e)

Title: Re: Cupra from Bucharest
Post by: Tfsi_Mike on March 28, 2015, 10:33:45 am

Welcome along! We have quite a lot of regular overseas members.

What are the tracks like where you are? Are there many?

Where I live, in Nottingham there are lots of circuits within 80-100 miles :)

Title: Re: Cupra from Bucharest
Post by: Golf_GT_TDI on March 28, 2015, 12:09:00 pm

Hi and welcome  :happy2:

Title: Re: Cupra from Bucharest
Post by: keegan on March 28, 2015, 12:44:48 pm

welcome  :happy2: hope your enjoying the car? what's happened to the passenger sill?

Title: Re: Cupra from Bucharest
Post by: toosmiles on March 28, 2015, 01:24:35 pm

welcome to the club m8
have you got a quick spec list of the car?

Title: Re: Cupra from Bucharest
Post by: teo_parvu on March 28, 2015, 03:20:03 pm

Hi all, thanks for your warm welcome!

:)) We don't get many tracks around here, in fact the first one was finished last year. No safety, no run-off area. I hope that they will do something about this soon.
As you can see here it nearly cost me the car:  :scared:  :scared:
 

The passenger sill was "injured" when parking over a boulder hidden in high snow. In the city there are only a few parking spaces in rush hour and when it snows it gets worse.  :laugh:

The car specs are:

Revo stage 2+, Blueflame 100cell cat exhaust, EVO-MS Intake, APR HPFP, Bilstein B16 PSS10, Southbend Stage3 Endurance Clutch, Wavetrack LSD, H&R sway bars (26/24), TT Lower Arms, VW Racing+ BSH lower mount, 034 Motor/Transmision Mounts, S3 Intercooler,  Tarox F2000 brake discs + Carbotech RP2 pads, Hel Brake lines, BBS VZ 032+ Federal FZ-201 tyres
 
I've just ordered the AP Racing's "Big Brake Formula" Kit with 6 pot calipers and 355mm "floating" discs because I have murdered the stock brakes/Tarox/Carbotech setup. Hope they will solve my braking problems.
To make room for the new brakes I had to order Team Dynamics Pro Race 1.2 8x18 ET45 wheels. I will open a new thread so I can get help decide what track tyres should i order for them next week.

I have to wait 4 weeks for the wheels and 9 for the brakes.  :surprised:

Title: Re: Cupra from Bucharest
Post by: Tfsi_Mike on March 29, 2015, 10:20:08 am

I know the Oh sh*t moment, lol

Stock map as it was really damp in the morning and schoolboy lift off...

Dont know what happened to the sound on this clip  :confused:

*Mandatory Mk5 Golf in the video  :laugh:

Title: Re: Cupra from Bucharest
Post by: teo_parvu on March 29, 2015, 11:20:36 am

 :grin: Early turn-in and the same type of liftoff was my problem too. It was my first track day there and I missed that apex 3 times before so I was determined to hit it.
As long as the car is ok, we can call it a save.  :grin:

Title: Re: Cupra from Bucharest
Post by: Tfsi_Mike on March 29, 2015, 11:24:05 am

Exactly haha. Problem was as it dried out and my lines got good around the circuit I still tip toed around that turn lol. Lost confidence there.

I wish I had the nuts to keep my foot down a bit to pull me through it but hey-ho.

Title: Re: Cupra from Bucharest
Post by: rdfcpete on March 29, 2015, 02:32:26 pm

Did alright to catch that Mike  :innocent:  :evilgrin:

If you could do the same situation again, would you have kept the power in gently and tugged it round with some throttle?

Title: Re: Cupra from Bucharest
Post by: Tfsi_Mike on March 29, 2015, 02:36:22 pm

I will grow some plums and try and drive into it more rather than just turn into it next time. Lol

Title: Re: Cupra from Bucharest
Post by: Tfsi_Mike on March 29, 2015, 02:41:53 pm

Traction was off I think so I should've made use of the diff I spent £1200 on lol

@teo_parvu (http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=11916)  do you have a diff fitted? Great mod (when you keep some power on lol)

Title: Re: Cupra from Bucharest
Post by: rdfcpete on March 29, 2015, 02:42:35 pm

 :signLOL:

Car looks great btw Teo, I have always had a soft spot for Cupra's  :happy2:
There's a fair few like Mike around that are rocking these  :party: :smiley:

Title: Re: Cupra from Bucharest
Post by: teo_parvu on March 29, 2015, 02:59:07 pm

Thanks Pete! It is a good ride, fairly quick and easy to improve.
@Tfsi_Mike (http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=293) - Yes, it's a Wavetrack diff.