Hurdy's Golf .:R - project 600bhp.

[Hurdy]

Was that at Lowdown meet?

Yep, not a bad turn out and everyone behaved themselves.....more or less!

[dom]

Was that at Lowdown meet?

Yep, not a bad turn out and everyone behaved themselves.....more or less!

I was going to come down to it but I heard that last month people were being bellends so decided not to

[Hurdy]

Was that at Lowdown meet?

Yep, not a bad turn out and everyone behaved themselves.....more or less!

I was going to come down to it but I heard that last month people were being bellends so decided not to

People were definitely better behaved this month.

[Hurdy]

Today I visited the Pod for the first time since having the GIAC maps and WMI on and this was the result.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOMKrJpz8U0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGBniCLOfBg

Thanks for the vids Luke

It was a bad day for trying to set any records. I'm glad I left the race fuel at home for the day and just ran the V-Power and WMI for a baseline. Best run of the day was a 12.3038 with a 1.7741 sixty foot time, the terminal should have been somewhere between 108 & 109mph, but something blew past one of the speed sensors and bagged me a 130.67mph terminal instead!. The car was full weight including over half a tank of fuel, another 5 litres of water to clean the car, 2 helmets, various cleaning stuff and all Luke's videoing stuff plus his rucksack. The headwind was atrocious and knocked a little off my times and also just happened to be the hottest day of the year to date! The car wasn't running perfectly as it seemed to have some power loss going into 5th gear....just seemed a little "thinner" than normal! Anyway, just 0.03 seconds off the 4WD K04 record in those conditions isn't too bad at all.

[Diamond Hell]

Is that a whole paragraph of Racing Driver Excuses? 

[Hurdy]

Is that a whole paragraph of Racing Driver Excuses? 

Of course it is

What else would you expect

[tweed]

Is that a whole paragraph of Racing Driver Excuses? 

 

[dom]

Car looked quick on the day, where did you end up overall? Last I heard I'm sure you'd done 6th fastest run...

[Hurdy]

Car looked quick on the day, where did you end up overall? Last I heard I'm sure you'd done 6th fastest run...

Dunno, I wasn't really listening to the commentary, but I only saw 4 cars run faster than me on the day, so it is possible.

[Hurdy]

Update......

Well it has been a while and the R has had a few issues lately, which I'm glad to say now have been resolved by Steve Jr and Craig at Statllers.

Not a massive update really, but today saw the E-Boost 2 controller go on. The R didn't like the manual boost controller too much. It made part throttle quite twitchy and coming off full boost was quite violent at times. It did the job fine for the strip, but for the road it was very much a temporary fix. So now the E-Boost controller is sat in prime place with an OSIR vent pod  just to the right of the steering wheel and an excellent piece of kit it is too. Jake ( Danishmkvgti on the MK5 forum) had one of these fitted a while back and likes his a lot, so I thought I'd take the same plunge. Operationally it has quite a few options including progressively controlling the WMI and once set up is VERY smooth in operation, I'd even go as far to say that it feels smoother than using the N75 sensor OEM boost regulator.

Peak held boost is around the 28psi level and drops back towards the redline.

All set now for the final phase and a Loba L0400 turbo upgrade. Fast spooling ( faster than the OEM K04 ) and with over 400bhp capability the R should finally be where I want it to be. 

Quick pic.