Adolf the Golf (VR6 Racecar)

[Water Boy]

I have grey vr shell in my garage if you need body panels.

Perfect!

[Ben J]

I guess that is the big difference between putting a vr6 on megasquirt and an e30, theres heaps of people running e30s on megasquirt in Australia and I know a couple local guys running it on the same motor as mine, so if I run into trouble I have people to ask, but its quite the opposite with the VW's, I guess you would be on your own except for support on forums from people in the US etc... Its definintely a big learning curve, learn a lot about electronics and how lots of little bits of the engine you've never even thought about work. Once you have it set up though the possibilitys are endless, you're no longer running a generic tune and can squeeze out every horsepower the engine is capable of making with your exact modifications, and if you do more modifications or even swap engines, you simply just plug in the laptop and tune it again

But yeah, a stock vr6 weighing in at <1000kg with a good suspension set up will be more than enough to have a great time with and learn to race with. I'd be spending money on things to make it handle nice before looking for more power, a good set of coil overs would be the first thing I'd buy (I know you've got the racelands, but theyre not exactly known for doing anything more than getting you low on the cheap, which isn't what you actually want on the track really) followed by sway bars, bushings etc and a set of wheels with some nice sticky tyres. Good brakes are also very important. Strip it out and get the weight down, set it up to take corners and stop like a boss, and then start the engine work. Cornering nicely is much more fun than just pulling hard down the straights

[Bflat]

cornering nicely is much more fun than just pulling hard down the straights

truth!

[Smeeeb]

Adolf the Golf (VR6 Racecar)

Simon pm me your phone number and ill call you when dad gets home with keys to the shed and we figure what's good and what's not.

[trickysimon]

Cornering nicely is much more fun than just pulling hard down the straights

Thanks for the tips, Ben!

This quote is debateable though

[trickysimon]

[trickysimon]

Another long day.
First I would like to thank my parents, my mate Brad, and Jordan (Smeeeb) and his dad. Top blokes, thanks for the help!

My mate Brad and I took a 4 hour drive to Kangaroo Valley to pick up some parts, off Smeeeb.
Now this would usually be fine, except one of those parts was a windscreen that we had to remove. Never having removed a windscreen before, we began praying to Lord Goku. For anyone who doesn't know how this is done: You need to saw through the glue holding the windscreen to the body. Easier said then done. Luckily, I had taken a trip to Obrian's Windscreens the day before and picked up some wire and got a few pointers off a very helpful staff member. After a solid 2 hours of sawing through glue, snapping wire, swearing and cutting ourselves, we were able to remove the windscreen with no cracks! Jordan's dad kindly removed the rest of the panels we needed!
So we ended up picking up:
Windscreen
Bonnet
Front Bumper
Front Grill
Front Drivers side fender
Front passenger side door
Rear hatch
VDO Instrument Cluster
Glove-box
Headlights
Taillights
Few misc. pieces (Pretty much everything we need is sorted now!)

4 hour drive home, unload the parts, and Zale and myself stripped most of the racecar!

[Smeeeb]

Adolf the Golf (VR6 Racecar)

Hey that's my garage!

[Water Boy]

Good work fella's.

[Jarred]

Good work!


Are you going to skin doors, perspex windows or anything at this stage as well?

[trickysimon]

Not at this stage. Enough work to go, getting it ready for Nationals!

[Jarred]

fair point!

[Zalemate]

But yes Jarred that is definitely the plan for the stage 2 once we have nationals behind us all the windows will end up being perspex/poly except the windscreen.
As Simon said. we do have a fair bit of work ahead of us before nats!

[trickysimon]

Another 40-50kg of unnecessary weight stripped from the racecar. This time, we needed the help of some power tools and dry ice.

Using the dry ice, we froze the sound deadening, which made it easy to shatter with a hammer. Caution to anyone wanting to try this for themselves, -76 degrees celcius will quickly give frostbite to any bare skin. Will probably need to get a bit more, still need to remove some from the front footwells and rain tray.

We removed the heater core (what a bitch!), fuel tank, exhaust and stock rear beam (in preperation for our new beam with better brakes and swaybar.)

Cut the front and rear seat rails out, and cleaned the engine bay up a bit. In preperation of engine refitting.

Still waiting on engine mounts, new engine pulleys, belt and power steering delete. We did however, recieve our upper intake piping from 42draftdesigns. This gives better flow and longevity over the stock plastic corrugated piping.

Still so much to do!

[Jarred]

40-50kg in sound deadening alone?!