Hayden and Cliffos Mk4 R32 build

[Big_M]

True.
Did you grab yours of Chester ? I see he had some up for grabs earlier in the year.

[HaydEn]

True.
Did you grab yours of Chester ? I see he had some up for grabs earlier in the year.

Rear gets a little light, but it's got 2 front seats and nothing else inside.

From the man himself.

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[HaydEn]

So after many many many moons.

Finally got CTS engine mounts.



Quick hit down the street and no more driveshaft on subframe action!

Hopefully the coupling didn't cop to much abuse. It's been sitting since Nationals waiting for the Engine Mounts, now we can have some fun.

Although thermo fans are still broken and thermostat housing leaks..

[thestu]

Rear gets a little light, but it's got 2 front seats and nothing else inside.

From the man himself.

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I also have some radial 4 pot front mounts, bias is off but you get used to it just before you go through the windscreen they work well.

So after many many many moons.

Finally got CTS engine mounts.



Quick hit down the street and no more driveshaft on subframe action!

Hopefully the coupling didn't cop to much abuse. It's been sitting since Nationals waiting for the Engine Mounts, now we can have some fun.

Although thermo fans are still broken and thermostat housing leaks..

Good job boys!!!

[HaydEn]

Hayden and Cliffos Mk4 R32 build

It’s still alive, been a daily driver for the last ~8 months or so.

Started getting it ready for the VW nationals a couple weeks out, change coilovers, remove airbags and sound deadening, APR intake, brake flush, finally wire up thermo fans, fix the leaking thermostat housing, replace the crack pipe and fit two sparco seats and rails I found on eBay one night!

Dirty fluid


Only photo of the seats






Associated fan wiring I was able to remove


Slim fans and removed oem shroud




Get to two days before, the finally fixed thermostat housing had caused the water pump to be the next weak link[emoji20]

Fortunately I had a new metal impeller pump sitting at home from my MK3 dream days.





Made it to the track and had an absolute blast.





Clutch was slipping prior but only in 4th, 5th and 6th thankfully never needed to be in the low/mid rpm range in the gears to make it be an issue.

New clutch and LSD on the way for the next round of fun.


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[Water Boy]

Can confirm limiter in 1st - 2nd and 3rd sounds the BEANS

[Water Boy]

And bloody well done mate. For a shoe string budget car you are living the dream!!!!

[thestu]

Ladsssssss,

Car performed very well at nats!!!!!

[HaydEn]

Been having clutch slip since before the track day, finally started happening in lower gears, (2nd/3rd) so got a new clutch kit and wavetrac LSD Installed while the box was out.

Went to the drags on Wednesday night. Only got 3 passes in, the drive down from Newcastle was the break in.

Managed a 13.655 @ 100 on the first pass, 2nd pass something happened with traction control and it caused the car to bog even though it was off.

Third pass bettered my first pass with a 13.603 @101.84

Still shifting slow to at least get to the other end knowing there would be so few attempts possible.

Car is relatively power wise stock.
Carbonio Intake, dirty old pod filter
APR “tune”
Stock intake, full stock exhaust (bashed out cats)
18” CH’s
Weight reduction 1386kg’s driven
And 283,000km’s on the motor


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[HaydEn]

Hayden and Cliffos Mk4 R32 build

Bit of an update:

Just been driving it to work and what not since the last post.

Installed a few new things along the way.

Competition Haldex controller, as much as everyone raves on about this things. I don’t think it has done much to the handling, nothing the LSD already took care of anyway. The best part would be how easy it steps the rear end out in 1/2 gears from a peel out. (In the wet[emoji24])

Also installed a Miltek resonated cat back, not my first choice in exhaust, but got it cheap!
Don’t have any photos of these as there isn’t much to see, and there’s already thousands of photos out there.

I also fitted a 034 billet dogbone Mount. Used dirty photo as I didn’t take any at the time!


More recently I went on a bit of an update in preparation of a bit more track work this year.

Starting with an external oil cooler. In the spirit of this thread, tried to do as cheaply as possible.

So I got myself a Mocal thermostatic sandwich plate (in hindsight pointless as it lets more oil pass through the cooler than it stops), and a random eBay cooler and hose kit.


I wanted to remove the factory exchanger, to do this without spending the extra money on the mocal cap, I cut down a standard oil cooler cap and carried the thread further up the rod.


I cut up an adapter fitting that come with the eBay kit to use as a sleeve inside the Mocal sandwich plate so that it wouldn’t be able to move around on the mating surfaces under pressure


I cut up the factory reo, this served two purposes, to make room for the hoses to go underneath it and the front bumper and to shed some more weight!

Kept it as I’ve ditched them before and the bonnet is a pain to close, so the factory mount is still used for the bonnet latch.

Instead of making a useless bracket (nowhere to mount to without having a large bulky bracket) I bolted the core straight to the factory radiator shroud, this wouldn’t be possible if the a/c condenser was still in place.


Sandwich plate fitted


I just used water caps to block off the coolant ports left on the crack pipe and block


And finally found some 17x8 5x100 light wheels.



Wedssport TC105N wrapped in 235/40 Nitto NT01.

I also fitted a carbon front lip from a 06’ WRX/STI hard to see in photos but looks pretty different in the eye and fits well considering!

I also had Ian at FIS Cluster Care install a ColourMFA to replace the old hardly working display. (Sorry for the blurry pic!)



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[dylan8]

Looking good H.
Getting plenty done. Give me them CH now you have no use for them!

[sambb]

how are the aero fittings going on the cooler - any problem with weeping oil? mine have been a headache.

[HaydEn]

how are the aero fittings going on the cooler - any problem with weeping oil? mine have been a headache.

Funny you mention that Sam.

One completely let go and lost pretty much all the fluid after a couple days.



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[dylan8]

Lost fluid like you lost cliffo?

[sambb]

oh no that sucks man. Was it the hose coming off or the threaded fittings?
After a weeping fitting on the mocal sandwich plate I found that the aero fitting supplied with the plate was wrong. The fitting had an NPT thread but the Mocal wanted a straight thread (I think BSPP) with washers like these: Stat-O-Seals - O-Rings & Washers - Fittings & Adapters - Aeroflow Performance. The NPT probably only had the top two threads actually engaged in the plate and could have been stripped easily if I'd gotten stuck into it and was nowhere near able to form a seal.
Engine ok?