What did you do to your Polo today?

[seangti]

Hoyhoy.

Wakefield is very hard on brakes & tyres, when doing sub 1'10"'s.

I just didn't find it as hard on the brakes and tyres as QR or lakeside. I didn't get the level of tyre wear I expected from a full day, and brake wise as the speeds not quite as high as QLD tracks into the tight turns I also didn't feel the braking capacity required was quite the same. Sorry not trying to make a pi55ing contest and to do your times your obviously hussling along.

I'm heading down to Sydney SMSP in November, I think it's on the 8th for an afternoon session and trying to coincide with any events at Wakefield if you know of any around that time. I emailed Wakefield last week and haven't heard back.

[Eddy]

Hoyhoy.

Wakefield Park Raceway

It looks like they only show a couple of months ahead.
Keep checking because I'm sure that they use to show more.

[HAR80N]

Howdy i fitted SuperPro Anti-Lift Control Arm lower inner front and rear Bushes and Dogbone Bush and omg what a difference its like driving a different car i fell in love with the car all over again by far the best mod i have done feels faster alot softer over bumps way better turn in and a lot less wheel spin i love it could'nt be happier

[amdeman]

Replaced the REVO tune for a UNITRONICS Stage 1+.
Was very hesitant to change as I was aware of the REVO's great bottom end grunt; as it turns out the new tune is better with the low stuff, and WAAAAY better with the mid / top end.
Where the REVO would basically nose-dive the UNITRONIC just keeps going, at least till the turbo gives up.
Over-all, so far, very happy. Such a different beast now.

[Polo GTI]

I had some KW coilovers and wheels fitted.

[HAR80N]

nice car mate but that aint a 9N lol

[Polo GTI]

Yeah I know. New to posting. Worked it out.

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[noone]

Is that Polo with the new 1.8T? Heard good things about that engine, get it tuned.

[sambb]

after finding a way to fix my FARB in position so that it won't hit anything the car is so much quieter. Super happy with that outcome alone. That made one of my other noises a lot easier to identify. I think it was coming from the radiator supports - a squeaking accompanied by a knock sometimes when going over bumps. The radiator seems to sit in bushes encased in a plastic console. There was lots of slop in the top passenger side one allowing the radiator to move around quite a bit and I could replicate the sound by wobbling it. I opened up the gap in the console by shoving the radiator across towards the passenger side and then jammed a rubber shim in the gap created to pack it out. Solid as a rock now so hopefully my car will be noise free - hopefully.............

[Blue9N3]

Noise free Pog, now that would be something!


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[sambb]

yeah I know. I'm so excited by my find that I'm daring to dream.


edit: just went for a quick drive. squeaking gone, knocking still there. semi -bugger!. Starting to think that its the FARB droplinks.

[louis19]

Finally finished my TIP and intake so it all sits correctly. Pretty happy with the outcome

[seangti]

I've decided to retune my daily polo, so going from Superchips to a vagautowerks tune. The tuner, Daz Dillenger is well respected in Audi scene. My car has ran superchips for ~5yrs, 50,000km and I've been really happy with it, it's really smooth, good power, perhaps a little thirsty (so I thought). Though in my ignorance I'd never logged the car till recently having learned more about logging and fuel trims since doing the red polo.

My fuel trims show the car as being very lean with a +17% multi fuel trim in VCDS. So I logged the car with ME7 logger and found that it was fueling (AFR) at very high 13's until 5000rpm before getting rich to a more reasonable level. Very strange but consistent with the requested fueling. All other parameters within the Superchip tune are very safe. I'm not quite sure of the fault, I'm speculating but thinking that the Superchip tune (and guessing many others) are written for an entirely stock polo, tune only, and that by adding air intake &/or TIP it's leaned out it significantly. I'd be keen to hear thoughts on this.

Irrespective, now that I know the AFR's are lean, I couldn't ignore it even though it's ran like a dream for 5yrs...

Which leads me to a second consideration, how many ppl are logging their cars regularly after changing/tweaking things to see how that affects the tuning?? I'm guessing very few. If you've been tweaking, I'd be logging it.


(shout out for ME7 logger, it's free and so powerful, a much better logging device than VCDS, which isn't a logger, but a diagnostic tool).

[nat225]

could it be the intake that caused the fuel trim issue?

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[seangti]

could it be the intake that caused the fuel trim issue?

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Yeah, that's what Daz suggested too. It's a standard PD160 (near identical to the factory one, just marginally larger), still has the rock guard/flapper in the intake and standard airbox with a paper air filter. He suggested putting the standard intake on and trying again. I'll try find the std intake and re-log out of curiosity, though I have no idea if I kept it as I did that 4+yrs ago.