Sharkie's Rides - Past & Present

[Sharkie]

Had the 2 Reds together over the weekend ....



Even in stock mode (power wise), Little Red's keys often gets grabbed over the others' when needing to go out quickly ... it is so much fun to drive.

[Sharkie]

On the way home last week, a pathetic excuse for a driver decided not to stop at an entry into a dual carriage main road and ran into me as I was passing by.



Luckily no structural or mechanical damage

Should have it back before the end of the month, but this happened the day before I said farewell to my Mustang, so in a rental Camry now

[Lucas_R]

Bugger - that sucks. Luckily you are ok though.

There sooooo many bad drivers on the roads these days, and they just seem to be multiplying. I know one day im going to be in the same situation as you, and it will be the other drivers fault as they may as well be asleep at the wheel.

[amunra]

On the way home last week, a pathetic excuse for a driver decided not to stop at an entry into a dual carriage main road and ran into me as I was passing by.

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Luckily no structural or mechanical damage

Should have it back before the end of the month, but this happened the day before I said farewell to my Mustang, so in a rental Camry now

if you bought an ebay intercooler and invested the rest into a downpipe + stage 2 maybe you would have gotten past him faster !

atleast ur ok

[Sharkie]

So, yesterday installed a Miltek downpipe on the R and installed the IE Stg 2 93 Octane file ....

Did not go as well as expected. There is something seriously wrong with the IE Stg 2 files. Tried both high torque (pink line) and low torque (green line) files with no material difference. Other than an obvious fuelling issue (way too much fuel) not much pointed to what the problem could be. Well down on power compared to the Stg 1 98RON HT file (red line).



Incidentally, the Stg 1 tune is very good. 247kw at the wheels and on a hot QLD evening too.

So reverted to Stg1 and will reach out to IE and see if there is a solution.

[Lucas_R]

Something definitely isn't right there as you already know. Will be interesting to see what info IE come back with. I know there are plenty of Mk7 R's running IE stage 1 and 2 and haven't seen this issue before. Even the stage 1 results seem too strong by about 20-25kw, leaving very little in the way of improvements for stage 2.

[Sharkie]

Something definitely isn't right there as you already know. Will be interesting to see what info IE come back with. I know there are plenty of Mk7 R's running IE stage 1 and 2 and haven't seen this issue before. Even the stage 1 results seem too strong by about 20-25kw, leaving very little in the way of improvements for stage 2.

No reply from IE yet ...

The dyno operator did expect about 260kw atw on his dyno from what other Stg 2 Rs have done and 247 was good but not overly more than other Stg 1s apparently. BTW, IE claims about 40kws extra for Stg 2 .....

Also bear in mind that the Stg 1 run already had the DP fitted, just not the software.

[Sharkie]

T-Roc Style

We had a T-Roc Style 110TSI join the family a few weeks ago. This is a really impressive car, smooth, with lots of kit but ... way too quiet.

Thanks to the MST intake that was previously fitted to the A1, that problem has now been solved

[Sharkie]

Finally had some time the last 2 weekends to fit my do88 FMIC. I also took the opportunity to fit their intercooler piping upgrade kit.

Massive difference in intercooler (and pipe diameter) size. Installation was well .... interesting ...

[Lucas_R]

Its fun huh!! I just took mine off 2 weekend's ago and have now sold it. It was just as much fun the 2nd time around.

[Sharkie]

New arrival ....



Running out of space at home (and my shed is full too!)



Bit of a case of the Blues vs the Reds at home now

[Sharkie]

About May last year, I tried my best to order a new Ineos Grenadier, but the online ordering system failures and massive delays in getting production going caused me to re-evaluate that purchase. My needs were simply I thought, I needed a fast SUV that was really capable off-road (mostly beach really), and nobody made a single car that could do both things well.

So I decided to buy the best beach 4x4 and the best/fastest (IMO) small/medium SUV as 2 separate cars and still saved over $40K off the price of 1 Grenadier/Prado etc.

T-Roc R above arrived yesterday, and our Jimny arrived last month (both had 6months+ waiting times). Driving these 2 cars are like chalk and cheese ...

[Sharkie]

IE Open Intake for MK7.5 R

In preparation of moving the R600 CAI I had on the Golf R to the T-Roc R, I had to replace it with another intake. Chasing sound I opted for an open IE intake. Fitted it this weekend




Making nicer sounds than before now

[guile]

need video clips to prove it... please

[Sharkie]

need video clips to prove it... please

I'll go for a drive with a passenger who can video it. It has some amazing (think Fast and the Furious) flutter on lift-off now. I know it's not super great for the blades, but it sounds so good ...