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« Last post by rex on Today at 04:35:54 pm »And now a bit more about how my car behaved... I have to say I am really proud of the car, but it did have a few issues.
First, I managed to "money shift" not once, but twice. I guess, the Golf revs to 8k RPM now
I have been driving the car since new (2007), and I also have other manual cars that I regularly drive. Still, I have not missed any gears, until now.
I miss shifted from 4th to 2nd a couple more times (on top of the the money shifts) but I immediately sensed it and didn't let go of the clutch. I also had problems getting into gear (from 4th to 3rd for example) and also getting our of gear (I got stuck a bit in 2nd gear and I had to double or triple clutch to get to neutral). Based on my experience it looks like it's the clutch pressure bearing but I would not exclude the clutch as well. Might be the engine mounts also...
With these problems in mind, I decided not to push my luck and to end the laps a day early. In total I did 20 laps this trip.
Here is the second to last lap of the trip:
I had the GTR owner as the passenger.
It is a relaxed, but not slow, lap - hence the lack of helmets.
For the non Romanian audience
, we are talking about the lack of ESP, how great the brakes feel, how quick the car is in the corners, but how extremely slow it is on the straits.
Also the passenger is, apparently, not well strapped in with the 6 point harness since he's pushing against the center console. He said after the lap we was just "checking the build quality"
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During the whole stay I had problems with the GPS signal - even if I am using a 25Hz logger with an external antenna. But all of the others also had problems with the GPS so it was not me..
Because of this, there is some data loss and some incorrect data displayed in the video.
And last but not least, some more photos of the car (posting them as they become available from the photographers):
Cheers!
First, I managed to "money shift" not once, but twice. I guess, the Golf revs to 8k RPM now
I have been driving the car since new (2007), and I also have other manual cars that I regularly drive. Still, I have not missed any gears, until now.I miss shifted from 4th to 2nd a couple more times (on top of the the money shifts) but I immediately sensed it and didn't let go of the clutch. I also had problems getting into gear (from 4th to 3rd for example) and also getting our of gear (I got stuck a bit in 2nd gear and I had to double or triple clutch to get to neutral). Based on my experience it looks like it's the clutch pressure bearing but I would not exclude the clutch as well. Might be the engine mounts also...
With these problems in mind, I decided not to push my luck and to end the laps a day early. In total I did 20 laps this trip.
Here is the second to last lap of the trip:
I had the GTR owner as the passenger.
It is a relaxed, but not slow, lap - hence the lack of helmets.
For the non Romanian audience
, we are talking about the lack of ESP, how great the brakes feel, how quick the car is in the corners, but how extremely slow it is on the straits.Also the passenger is, apparently, not well strapped in with the 6 point harness since he's pushing against the center console. He said after the lap we was just "checking the build quality"
.During the whole stay I had problems with the GPS signal - even if I am using a 25Hz logger with an external antenna. But all of the others also had problems with the GPS so it was not me..
Because of this, there is some data loss and some incorrect data displayed in the video.
And last but not least, some more photos of the car (posting them as they become available from the photographers):
Cheers!
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