What did you do to your Polo today?

[Julzaac]

Just about to click over 150kkms. Car is still feeling brand new - running really well, had the APR tune for about 40kkms and no stress at all. Took it up to the hills last night and had some fun - performed really well uphill however noticed brakes fading a bit on the way down.. To be expected though (still using stocks) Developed a funny idle recently so going to clean the MAF this weekend and hope for the best.

Wondering if I bite the bullet and upgrade the brakes or just wait as I'll buy moving on from the POG family soon

[h100vw]

Just about to click over 150kkms. Car is still feeling brand new - running really well, had the APR tune for about 40kkms and no stress at all. Took it up to the hills last night and had some fun - performed really well uphill however noticed brakes fading a bit on the way down.. To be expected though (still using stocks) Developed a funny idle recently so going to clean the MAF this weekend and hope for the best.

Wondering if I bite the bullet and upgrade the brakes or just wait as I'll buy moving on from the POG family soon

New discs and pads aren't much over $200 in stock sizes. GSLRallysport is the place. When you say fading, was the pedal staying hard and the brakes going off. (pads) or was the pedal going soft and braking reduced (fluid)??

Gavin

[sambb]

Got my water injection system finished last night. Everything working beautifully. I wasn't logging, just testing for leaks and that it wasn't bogging down. Main thing was that seat of the pants I could really feel the difference especially in the midrange. I had really only installed it as an insurance policy for the internals so was really glad to feel actual gains with water only. Not bad for a $150 outlay (lots of time though.
Once I get the boost trigger point dialled in, I'll do some with and without WI logs to see what the temps, g/s and timing pull are doing.

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Some 2016 polo gti 17 wheels and projector headlights retrofit for your viewing pleasure, was sick of the halogens. Excuse the terrible iPhone shots

[h100vw]

Some 2016 polo gti 17 wheels and projector headlights retrofit for your viewing pleasure, was sick of the halogens. Excuse the terrible iPhone shots
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Where did the lights comes from mate? I like them.

Gavin

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quote"Where did the lights comes from mate? I like them.

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There the standard headlights fitted with MINI H1 BIXENON HID PROJECTOR KIT, please note it was a b itch to open the headlights, overall very happy with the results and light output

[vwthunder]

Where did the lights comes from mate? I like them.

Gavin

Im guessing Ebay

[HAR80N]

Got my water injection system finished last night. Everything working beautifully. I wasn't logging, just testing for leaks and that it wasn't bogging down. Main thing was that seat of the pants I could really feel the difference especially in the midrange. I had really only installed it as an insurance policy for the internals so was really glad to feel actual gains with water only. Not bad for a $150 outlay (lots of time though.
Once I get the boost trigger point dialled in, I'll do some with and without WI logs to see what the temps, g/s and timing pull are doing.

i was thinking of doing the same thing with just water cant wait to see your logs

[seangti]

Did a 2500km road trip last week to spend an afternoon driving at Sydney Motor Sport Park (Eastern Creek). We had expected to be on the GP format but found out just prior that they decided to run the 4.5km, 18 corner Brabham instead. Oh well, was still a good experience as it is a longer and more technical format. It was as a slower circuit than I had expected, but more technical the QR and lakeside. Will have get back again to run the GP format as that flows better. Was also good to see a handful of Ferrari's getting driven like they're meant to.

[Blue9N3]

Compared inlet temperatures before and after my bodgy JustJap inter cooler and was surprised. Before, on a 40 deg day, inlet temp would just keep climbing when driving along, settling down around 58 deg. Now with FMIC, it sits on around 42, goes up when you stop and quickly drops again when you get moving. Pretty pleased actually


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[h100vw]

Compared inlet temperatures before and after my bodgy JustJap inter cooler and was surprised. Before, on a 40 deg day, inlet temp would just keep climbing when driving along, settling down around 58 deg. Now with FMIC, it sits on around 42, goes up when you stop and quickly drops again when you get moving. Pretty pleased actually


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I think if you can get within 10 degrees of ambient under load you have a winner.

What's also important though is the pressure drop across the core. Hard to measure although for a while I ran 2 boost gauges, one on the outlet of the turbo, the other on the inlet manifold.

Was about 3psi, using one gauge in BAR the other in PSI was probably not the best way to go!..

Gavin

[Blue9N3]

Pressure drop should be ok particularly since I used a 3" thick core. (I don't advise anyone else to do a 3" core again!)


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[sambb]

More what I did on the weekend than what I did today. Ran in rounds 1 and 2 of the NSW hillclimb championship at Panorama. I competed in the road registered over 2.5L class. A Pulsar sss turbo and I were the two smallest effective capacity cars in the road reg over 2.5L field of 24 cars.
Saturday was "the esses" where you start on Conrod and run backwards up through forest elbow, the dipper and up and over skyline. I managed 9th with a 33.66. Had problems with bogging down on the uphill start killing my times until I got brave enough to run with TC off and then went as second and a bit faster.
Low point of that day was a horrible crash where an M3 went straight backwards into the wall below skyline. When you go up the hill the wrong way the walls aren't aligned nicely and basically face you so the stakes are pretty high. My first run was delayed by an hour as they cut him out and got him off to hospital in a pretty bad way. High point was that I got through it without that happening to me and realising that I was actually going to be in the mix at such a high horsepower hillclimb.
Day 2 was "mountain straight" where you start at the top of the crest on mountain straight that leads into Griffins bend, and then you run up to Mcphillamy park. To say I was **** scared of this day is an understatement. Ever corner/apex is either blind because of the walls or blind because its on the other side of a crest. I was fine going up hill through the cutting and through reid park, but suliman park to mcphillamy was just insane. The speeds are ridiculous, I was constantly fighting a rear end that was getting light over the crests and always fighting the instinct to lift off. Before the start of my second run I was more nervous than the first because I knew that I had to do it all again and try to go faster! I managed a 57.54 that gave me 10th in class, so to beat the like of xr6 turbos, SSV's, an OPC astra, XR8, R33, clubsport R8 was so satisfying for a little shopping trolley that was just on some mediums and front and rear antiroll bars.
Low point was seeing a Lola open wheeler powered by an indycar buick motor hit the wall at the finish line and then do a nigel mansell at Adelaide all the way over to skyline (about 600m away) where he hit he wall. Those cars will do over 250km/h across the top of the mountain! That was the very first thing I saw that morning that had me more than a little grounded.
High point was turning into Griffins off the straight, initially thinking that I had overcooked it but ending up in a nice controlled 4 wheel slide out to the far ripple strip. I carried so much speed up to the cutting on that run and was 2 seconds quicker than anything else I did that day. That corner (and the priviledge of experiencing that track) was singularly the most exhilarating moment of my life.
I finished the weekend with a combined 10th in class, 50th overall out of 95+ entries of which about 65 were dedicated race cars.

If anyone wants to get into the nsw hillclimbs or do Panorama next year PM me and i'll help you out with what you need to do.

[seangti]

That's an awesome read Sam. I'll hit you up next time I'm likely to drive down and see what events may be able to book end my journey. I need to man up for some of these hill climbs events, not much margin for error hey.

[sambb]

I've never done track work so I can't really comment on it to be honest. It was definitely a major step up to be doing middle of third gear speeds over the top with no braking and just regulating the throttle to be quick - you would be way more comfortable with that kind of thing from your track experience for sure. For me though on wafty stock dampers and stock springs it was pretty hair raising. Bars kept the car flat but the poor damping control of the high COG could really be felt. Most of the hillclimbs I've done eg Huntley have say one really fast 3rd gear corner which you can get right but a whole sequence of corners that are all blind like day 2 was intimidating.
A lot of the guys that do track work say they really rate the hill climbs because of the pressure and adrenalin of it. They say that on the track you can find the limit because you get multiple looks at corners and can get everything up to temp and build a rythm. But in a hillclimb you've got to be nearly on the limit but never over it or your into a tree/wall/embankment and doing that on cold brakes, cold tyres and only 5 shots at it. Often your first look at the course is on your first run or youtube. Guys were even learning the esses on playstation. At Huntley once, it started raining at the top of the hill while I was lined up so I went up not knowing where the track was going to switch to wet. You get minimal seat time for basically a whole day out though, but I think you'd love it.
I'm pretty keen to do some track stuff for that reason now. For instance my glory moment at griffins bend was me basically thinking that I'd gone in way too hot, only to find that it was spot on and I just couldn't repeat that on the fourth run. The actual limit was just much further away than I was willing to go with all the concrete around me, so I probably need some track stuff to know just how far I can push the tyres when they are stone cold and on low pressures etc. without the bigger consequences.
I was on 205/50/15 yoko A050's mediums. To be honest, for my horsepower level I think I was still maybe a little over tyred. eg I only had 1 extra psi in the fronts by the top so they were still basically stone cold at the finish line. I reckon soft compound 195's might even be better - lighter, probably more grip instantly by virtue of the compound and more inclined to heat quicker. All this i'll have to work out.
For any Sydney guys, there is a 'come and try day' as part of the Huntley april 10 multi club hillclimb. You can get a 1 day L2S cams license and have a crack. Not sure if i'll be at that one (i'll try), but you can go to the Wollongong sporting car club page to get the details. Its an old coal road that goes through the trees up the escarpment and the staging area is down in some paddocks where horses are trying to eat your gear through the fence. Its very grass roots and a real community atmosphere. worth a look.