Who loves the Dirty D... 1990 MK2 Golf TDI

[sports racer]

And double that will be "adequate".

[Lucas_R]

What a cool project - keep it up. A modern diesel in a classic VW body!! You are certainly a handy chap on the tools and DIY too.

Also saw you have a Golf R. What plans have you got for that?

[ranton-inc]

What a cool project - keep it up. A modern diesel in a classic VW body!! You are certainly a handy chap on the tools and DIY too.

Also saw you have a Golf R. What plans have you got for that?

Thanks mate, just takes too much spare time and idle hands haha

The Golf R is just the Daily Driver, its a nice car I dont want to ruin it tinkering.

[ranton-inc]

And double that will be "adequate".

Something like that...... hahahaha

[ranton-inc]

I made the Side exit exhaust which takes a few minutes to swap between one exhaust and the other. using a V band clamp.

also heat wrapped the lower section of the down pipe, to protect the CV Joint. and surrounding tunnel area.

Need to make some additional heat shielding to protect the Brake Hard lines from Turbo heat-soak.





Going to do some Data logging today... to get the tuning underway.

[gldgti]

Awesome build mate! Many many thumbs up!

[neil]

Awesome build mate! Many many thumbs up!

Yep X2

[ranton-inc]

So it has been a little while since an update on this wee beast

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Well its been running, exceptionally well.
Datalogging has proven difficult. its proving a little difficult to find quiet places left in Auckland you can really bury your foot.
Few nigglys holding the car back but I smashed thru most the check list last night!*
Its a pretty fun car to drive in the Dry.

in the wet it is nightmarish with the Race / Drag Tune flashed on.

The "Low" Map is far more suitable for the daily drive around the place!

Heat Sheilding & Latermodel Topmounts and Top hats that look better and aren't so "Gappy" haha

[ranton-inc]

She is now Legitimately Road Legal (Certified) and has made an appearance at a few local drag meets

Its invoked a few different emotions from various people, but mostly has been received positively by most people..

I was told a range of things like my car had ****ed piston rings, and/or that something was wrong with it.

at Night Speed Drag wars, I only managed two runs before the weather packed in and my top radiator hose blew (my fault for re using old VW hoses)

Installed some LED Strips just for the LOLs



Video from the Nightwars

first Run was a 14.3 @ 108mph

Second run was 13.7 @ 106.8mph

[ranton-inc]

Last weekend we had the Oldschool car club Drag day on saturday which had all sorts of cool old **** featured.

However

It has become apparent unless I get some more Traction and Sort my tune out I ain't going to get down that Quarter any Faster than 13.7

So I am now looking for a slightly wider Pair of 15 inch front wheels to put on for Drag days (maybe track days too)

And have a little more smoothing out to do on my "Race tune" as Launch Control was not allowing any boost to build so car had no power untill late in Second Gear / Third.

and the Tune without launch control left me wheel spinning the whole way thru third with Tyres deflated to 20psi warm

To Contrast

13.756 @ 108mph with Crappy Launch Control Tune and tyres at 28psi cold

vs

13.743 @ 107mph with No LC on the Tune and Wheel spinning thru third with tyres at 20psi Warm

^^ Annoying huh!

The fact Its running 195/50 R15 Road tyres probably doesn't help.

the 60ft Time leaves a lot to be desired for too. never managing to get it any quicker than 2.45...

Other than that fricken love dailying the Car. I tend to down tune it to the less aggressive map other wise she becomes a hand full in the wet

Cool little combo vid featuring a few different cars from the day







Race Video - https://youtu.be/GrBthQ1Fh6s

[sports racer]

Frigging AWESOME!

[DaveTDI]

Awesome build, definitely easy 12 second quarters with launch half decent

[Mk1sleeper]

Frigging AWESOME!

X2
Maybe not easy 12s, but mid/low 13's on the card, I can't wait to see whats install.

Cheers, Scotty.

[ranton-inc]

X2
Maybe not easy 12s, but mid/low 13's on the card, I can't wait to see whats install.

Cheers, Scotty.

Cheers.

Made it in to 13.5 on a different track (worse track / horribly narrow) 650m above sea level lake taupo motorsport park running semis on the front need to adjust the suspension some more

Also go a little snippet on local TV a couple weekends back.. althou it was pretty cringe worthy. Lol

https://youtu.be/pt5wLpzjCJQ

7:50 is where the green bitch features haha

[gldgti]

great!