Little Red Devil

[clicht]

Mate, any update as to how it goes with the new IC...hows the boost pressure looking, have you dyno'ed....

[vwthunder]

Thanks Sam, nice work mate! Have looked into that grill but might give Sean's and clicht's idea for a spin first.

Troy, unfortunately the dyno was booked all this week and still waiting on the manifold too. You got any photo's of that valve cover for me yet? Cheers!

Did a coat of paint stripper last week, and my mate has done another one since, just to make sure all the little bits are off

I will pick it up on my next day off, wednesday

[FLYINGTI]

Hey Man,just a quick question!
do you know the size of the seat core?
was it tight fit?

Matty

[VWindahouse]

Mate, any update as to how it goes with the new IC...hows the boost pressure looking, have you dyno'ed....

Sorry mate, the Dyno is booked again on the days I could make it this week. Busy place! And the reason I can comment on boost levels is my Prosport gauge died which they have replaced under warranty but it's not wired up yet. I know it may sound like I'm just saying this because of all the trouble of changing IC but it's an animal now. And I'm going to post the dyno figures to back that comment up as soon as possible. If anyone can log boost levels that's in Brisbane please let me know I'll come to you!! The last 3psi increase I saw from changing the correctly rated spring in the DV saw a 13 atwhp increase. And previous testing has shown the Forge FMIC to drop about the same so I will be interesting to see. Will be happy with over 200 whp with the IC change.

Did a coat of paint stripper last week, and my mate has done another one since, just to make sure all the little bits are off

I will pick it up on my next day off, wednesday

That's awesome mate, ping me your bank details! Cheers

Hey Man,just a quick question!
do you know the size of the seat core?
was it tight fit?

Matty

Yes pretty tight Matty. You need to cut out a bit of the front bumper bar from the rear in two sections from what I can see, plus the driving side fog lamp grill. It doesn't change the integrity of the front bar and you can't see anything what the bar is back on. he Reinforcement bar stays intact. Jimmy is the best person to comment for sure. There are also a few DIY's on the net. One from South Africa from memory which shows you which parts are cut.

[h100vw]

Can lend you a VCDS and laptop at the end of the week/weekend mate. In Adelaide until Wednesday night. Off Thursday, in work Friday onwards on earlies.

Gavin

[VWindahouse]

Can lend you a VCDS and laptop at the end of the week/weekend mate. In Adelaide until Wednesday night. Off Thursday, in work Friday onwards on earlies.

Gavin

You going to the Euro meet Friday night mate?

[h100vw]

You going to the Euro meet Friday night mate?

Hoping to. Got few people I need to see.

My birthday though, so not sure that I'll pull it off.

Gavin

[VWindahouse]

No probs, let me know mate. Other option is I could head up to yours after work one night and we could hit the freeway quickly?

[h100vw]

No probs, let me know mate. Other option is I could head up to yours after work one night and we could hit the freeway quickly?

I do have my own private test track organised now mate , either way works. Will be in touch.

[seangti]

looking forward to see you in action at QR. How much of a head start you going to give me?

[Jmac]

Can lend you a VCDS and laptop at the end of the week/weekend mate. In Adelaide until Wednesday night. Off Thursday, in work Friday onwards on earlies.

Gavin

Seeing as i put in the hard yards fitting the thing i might put my hat in the ring if i may?? Yeah get me a saucer of milk .
Happy to help if help reqd even with a farked hand and busy schedule. the hard work gets easily missed on mods, always been the same though so no surprises there. Just look at rally and F1 does the techs ever get mentioned?? Anyway cant wait to see the dyno results, im sure ill need to order a crate
Im thinking about going along friday and i have a real data logger that im hanging to try on it.

Cheers
Jmac

[clicht]

Don't worry jmac...we know you the brains behind the vwindahouse operation ))))))

[Jmac]

Passion before thinking sometimes, but it does take hold sometimes, forums can do that to you mate and here ive got sucked in lol( forum break reqd). no points to prove so hope it doesnt come across like that, been a big day and then read then bits and not all of it, sorry ant for off topic.
Anyway happy to stick a boost gauge on and grab a log, and grab a realtime log., i dont want to promise turning up friday so happy if anyone grabs a basic log, dyno will tell us all anyway
Im off to bed my head and hand hurts
Cheers
Jmac

[h100vw]

Not trying to steal your thunder Jimmy. We know you need Martian days on Earth, to get enough hours in your days!

Hope you can make it Friday.

Seeing as i put in the hard yards fitting the thing i might put my hat in the ring if i may?? Yeah get me a saucer of milk .
Happy to help if help reqd even with a farked hand and busy schedule. the hard work gets easily missed on mods, always been the same though so no surprises there. Just look at rally and F1 does the techs ever get mentioned?? Anyway cant wait to see the dyno results, im sure ill need to order a crate
Im thinking about going along friday and i have a real data logger that im hanging to try on it.

Cheers
Jmac

[VWindahouse]

Not really sure how to take all this but here goes. First of all clicht's comment below

Don't worry jmac...we know you the brains behind the vwindahouse operation ))))))

I can honestly say that 99% of all wheel, tyre, brake, suspension, performance, interior and exterior modifications have been researched, decided on, sort after and purchased by me and me alone. I have spend in excess of hundreds of hours on the web researching fitment, performance gains through combo's of certain parts you name it. As well as every setting and adjustment change to make the Devil even more fun along the way. Thinking back now I think the Seat IC is the only piece that makes up the Devil that I have bought from Jimmy and the idea and research of possible gains was completed and decided on by me. This is the first car I have ever modified to this degree and have no prior hands on mechanical training or back ground nor do any of my family of friends for that matter which is why I trust Jimmy to all the major work as I can't afford the downtime or mistakes if I were to majorly stuff up. But to say I'm not the brains behind the Devil I don't think is a fair comment.

Next to Jimmy

Seeing as i put in the hard yards fitting the thing i might put my hat in the ring if i may?? Yeah get me a saucer of milk .
Happy to help if help reqd even with a farked hand and busy schedule. the hard work gets easily missed on mods, always been the same though so no surprises there. Just look at rally and F1 does the techs ever get mentioned?? Anyway cant wait to see the dyno results, im sure ill need to order a crate
Im thinking about going along friday and i have a real data logger that im hanging to try on it.

Cheers
Jmac

I'm a bit taken back by this one to be honest. Before I tackle it I just want to tell everyone my reasons for starting the thread in the first place.

First and foremost was to thank everyone who had a role to play in the start of the Devil's journey. I always dreamed of taking this build all the way as it's probably going to be the only car I will be able to do this to in this lifetime and saw the potential in the Polo right from the start. Through this forum I met some top blokes who know their stuff and have made some good friends out of it. Please read my very first thread post and you will soon get my meaning. The second reason was to share the love with other green and inexperienced punters of the modifying scene just like me in the hope of helping them with their passion too. And the amount of questions I have received via PM about the build tells me that the thread has achieved that.

To add to the first reason was to help Jimmy as a bit of a marketing exercise for him. Some of you won't know that the Jmac empire started on weekends only helping out people from the forum in his back yard. He worked a normal full time nothing week which had nothing to do with Euros or any production cars for that matter. I was put in touch with him to put in my Koni's by Shane and after a few more trips for other bits and pieces we became pretty good mates and I started pushing him to give up the other gig that he was totally fed up with and have a go doing what he loved full time. (not taking all credit by any means as I'm sure there were others that saw his potential) So to help get his already good name out there even further I started this thread. Now believe or not it was only last week Jimmy and I caught up and he mentioned the very fact that the Devil and the build thread has brought him and is still doing so a fair bit of work over the past 5 years. Now during the 40 odd pages of the thread I have sung the praises of the superior workmanship carried out time and time again at his hand as have others. In fact check out my comments regarding the latest SEAT job. I'm really not sure where this comment is coming from "the hard work gets easily missed on mods, always been the same though so no surprises there. Just look at rally and F1 does the techs ever get mentioned??".

My only guess is you never read this other comment by clicht (the first forum member in line for one of your SEAT coolers)

Mate, any update as to how it goes with the new IC...hows the boost pressure looking, have you dyno'ed....

So once again trying to help a brother out with selling a few of these great bits of gear I replied "Sorry mate, the Dyno is booked again on the days I could make it this week. Busy place! And the reason I can comment on boost levels is my Prosport gauge died which they have replaced under warranty but it's not wired up yet. I know it may sound like I'm just saying this because of all the trouble of changing IC but it's an animal now. And I'm going to post the dyno figures to back that comment up as soon as possible. If anyone can log boost levels that's in Brisbane please let me know I'll come to you!! The last 3psi increase I saw from changing the correctly rated spring in the DV saw a 13 atwhp increase. And previous testing has shown the Forge FMIC to drop about the same so I will be interesting to see. Will be happy with over 200 whp with the IC change."

I know the Dyno would tell all but James is flat stick and I wanted to prove I and Jimmy wasn't full of it. The next best thing is a boost reading right? Well this is where I wouldn't usually divulge this sort of thing but it backs up the point I'm eventually going to get to. The last visit to your place there were several things on the cards lined up for the Jmac treatment. One was the new power and earth wires to the gauge to we could see what impact the new cooler had and second and most ironic is I asked you to please log the peak boost on your test drive for the same reason and if the boost now went over 23 psi to please change to the higher rated spring and or shims for the DV to see if that would yet again yield more gains. Now this is where I need to say that Jimmy is busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest and the cooler took up most of the time that visit and I needed the car back for the next working week. Thus the point I mentioned earlier is he is just one man doing the ordering, invoicing, bookings, answering phone calls and emails and of course spinning the spanners.

So because of these facts I just through it out there for anyone who could help with one run in the Devil to log peak boost to get a reading for a comparison before I got back to the Dyno. The only reason I did this is

1. help you move a couple of these and
2. not bug you because you are flat out like a lizard drinking.