Red Devil mkII - The Journey Continues

[vwthunder]

Found one of my old time slips

14.303@104.21 which is 167.7kph 60ft was 2.38

Oh that was spinning one wheel all the way through 2nd up to about 100kph

Im sure your car has a lot more potential

I find the more power in my polo the slower i go due to traction

[Lito]

Found one of my old time slips

14.303@104.21 which is 167.7kph 60ft was 2.38

Oh that was spinning one wheel all the way through 2nd up to about 100kph

Im sure your car has a lot more potential

I find the more power in my polo the slower i go due to traction

A diff would fix that

[seangti]

A diff would fix that

Group buy on LSD's??

I've got happy laps this weekend and planning for timeattack the following, depending on how that goes I'll potentially pull some power (timing) from it for the time being and look at LSD options, or just settle with less power. Have only been able to find Guy Harding with an idea about LSD's and the polo's, though he recommends a plate style diff which is around the $4k. I'm aware of the draw backs of the others, though comfortable a wavetrac (or similar) will suffice, but yet to price it.

Interestingly, my speed at the 1/8mile was marginally higher than cars running mid 13's. eg. Golf R ran a 13.9s @ 171kph, 122kph at 1/8, I ran a 14.495 @ 163kph, and 130 at 1/8. Another run, Golf R did a 13.7 @ 170kph, at 1/8 he was travelling 128kph, I did the 14.3 @ 166kph, but was travel 132kph at 1/8. The Golf R was manual. Perhaps I'm just really bad at launching it cos once it's going, it really goes.

[jasn78]

Sean it is all in the launch
The way I did it and this is why you cannot run a standard clutch for drags.
1. Dial in about 1800rpm
2. Engage hand brake
3. Release clutch till bites
4. At the same point release hand brake
5. Balance throttle clutcj amd hand brake against each other to avoid wheel spin in first 60 feet.
6. Dont rev out to anythi g over 6 grand on gear changes

[VWindahouse]

haha, damn, knew I shouldn't have mentioned it.

Nah, I suck, can't drive in a straight. Best was the first run of the night that I bogged the launch, had a second dig of the clutch and got a 14.308 @ 166kph. My 60ft times were all awful at 2.5-2.6sec, worse of 2.659. I had 5 runs, slowest was a 14.5, with a best 60ft at 2.45sec... so not good. I felt I had good traction in 2nd gear, but obviosuly not so. I ignored the lights going out, so reaction time was like 1sec, so cant' blame rushing it either.

Given I had little expectations of myself, I have little to be disappointed about. I did enjoy it more than I expected to. Certainly appreciate the difficulty in getting the car off the line, god knows how you and Anthony did that so much cleaner than I could achieve. Perhaps should have done burnouts at the start to get tyre temp

Nice work mate, great 1st effort! Especially considering you've only had the car for a couple of months v's my 7 years of getting used to the set up

Just wondering what tyre pressures you ran with?

[VWindahouse]

PS has the rattle gone from the front right with the HR's?

[seangti]

Nice work mate, great 1st effort! Especially considering you've only had the car for a couple of months v's my 7 years of getting used to the set up

Just wondering what tyre pressures you ran with?

Cheers bud. Ran 30psi.

Also just got back from happy laps, I am very happy with the suspension, car balance is really good. Very stable at speed and adjustable mid corner. Running front sway bar on soft and rear medium. Could go hard on the rear for track work to get marginally better front end turn. The rear was very stable through the kink at pace, must be wing Ant.

Blew off the intercooler pipe, again, but got 20mins before that happened, though wasn't driving the car as hard as the few laps at QR. Back to the drawing board for the IC piping... perhaps high temp glue and double jubilee clip, or replace the lower plastic pipe with a stainless steel one. I'm open to anyones experience on this issue.

[seangti]

PS has the rattle gone from the front right with the HR's?

Yup, no rattles from suspension anymore. No idea if it was the FK's or Kmac's rattling, at a guess I'd say Kmac's.

[vwthunder]

Yup, no rattles from suspension anymore. No idea if it was the FK's or Kmac's rattling, at a guess I'd say Kmac's.

So i guess i should take my strut tops out and re-install

[seangti]

Any tips on where and how to mount a fire extinguisher? I need to be able to reach it easily, though don't want to hack up anything, or anything that at least can't be changed/covered in the future.

Cleaned out the intercooler pipe that has been popping off, had some oil residue around the male part so have cleaned that with petrol and reinstalled. Will check it after each session on Sunday and see how it goes. I have a feeling it's moreso caused by the rubber pipe coming from the turbo, once it gets hot is further softened... will be a PITA to have to replace that though will keep an eye on it.

It pops at the end where my hand is.

[rgvlee]

I've seen guys get a plate laser cut, mount under the passenger seat rail then mount the fire extinguisher to that. Looks tidy. Need a thick plate to meet regs.

[seangti]

I've seen guys get a plate laser cut, mount under the passenger seat rail then mount the fire extinguisher to that. Looks tidy. Need a thick plate to meet regs.

Solid option, cheers. Will look into how that'd mount.

[kaanage]

I mounted a 2mm thick aluminium bar, bent into to line fairly closely with the floor contour, using the passenger front rail bolts and this has 2 6mm holes in it which I used to bolt in a piece of right angle aluminium which has the extinguisher bracket mounted to it.

That way, the bar under seat stays installed and doesn't interfere with the seat or drawer but the rest is easily removable for daily use.

I'll try to get a picture of it up.

Running front sway bar on soft and rear medium. Could go hard on the rear for track work to get marginally better front end turn. The rear was very stable through the kink at pace, must be wing Ant.

I've actually found stability under (heavy) brakes to be the bigger issue than mid corner so long as I don't pike out and lift off after turn in.

[Eddy]

Hoyhoy.

That plastic pipe will always cause problems, the rubber ones are O.K.
I had a stainless steel replacement made & then use T-Clamps everywhere.
Haven't had a popped hose for several years now, after many went on me.

[Eddy]

Hoyhoy.

My fire extinguisher set-up was fairly easy after a lot of procrastinating.