The diesel Rocco Racekor project.

[Zoobeef]

Wing looks fine!

Hate the stickers though! I have less on my racecar haha!

[chuntington101]

Have you considered water / methanol injection? Could help with its me and exhaust temps (esp running meth) as well as provide some additional fuel.

Also could you give a breakdown of the power orientated mods you have done?

[MrBarry123]

It's mad... But I love it.

[xjay1337]

chuntington101 said:

Have you considered water / methanol injection? Could help with its me and exhaust temps (esp running meth) as well as provide some additional fuel.

Also could you give a breakdown of the power orientated mods you have done?

Yes that is something I am looking to do! Should have had it sorted sooner than that to be honest but I've been looking for a new ECU

Power mods are
GTB2260 turbo
Tubular manifold
Swirl flap delete
EGR and egr cooler deletes
CP3 hpfp upgrade
THS intercooler and hard boost pipe kit
3 inch TBE exhaust
Revo intake

Zoobeef said:

Wing looks fine!

Hate the stickers though! I have less on my racecar haha!

The more stickers the more racecar!

MrBarry123 said:

It's mad... But I love it.

Thanks Sam


teehee.

[redddraggon]

This thread always brings a smile to my face

[Zoobeef]

xjay1337 said:

Zoobeef said:

Wing looks fine!

Hate the stickers though! I have less on my racecar haha!

The more stickers the more racecar!

If they don't give me anything then they don't go on there. Hence I only have Safety Devices and my race numbers on there at the minute!

[xjay1337]

So after extensive high speed testing it is defo adding something to the rear. Absolutely planted at 1.2 mph around some corners that otherwise had a bit of lightness at the back end.

So I'm happy.

Will sort a big front splitter out soon.

[chuntington101]

Any updates? Also have you considered putting the intercooler in front of he AC condenser to help with IATs? Just a thought.

[xjay1337]

No further updates at the moment.
I may change my intercooler for a proven better one. Issue is volume of air moved by the turbo makes high ait.


New cylinder head and injectors will be a winter project i think.

[chuntington101]

Will the head be a ported stock item or is there a better flowing production head out there? What injectors are you looking at?

[xjay1337]

Stock head ported.
Custom injectors.
There were oem optioms available but too expensive and yhard to source.

[culpz]

I still think you should have got the 2.0 TSI in this. But, seeing as you use it as your daily (i presume?), it's actually a really good compromise and a better proposition when justifying using it for pretty much everything!

As much as i despise diesels, there's really no getting away from them alot of the time and they are quick and effortless. Kinda takes the fun out of it i suppose, especially for track work, but i can imagine that this thing flys and doesn't leave you wanting to bite your own arms off when using it daily.

Regardless, it looks absolutely awesome mate and some serious work has been put into this. Makes me think about getting a Skoda Fabia VRS TDI as apposed to a Clio 172 next for a cheap, fast, daily hatch.

Keep up the good work

[xjay1337]

My dad has a octy vrs facelift. He has moat of the same suspension modifications i have and it drives great. He also has a Stage 1 revo remap on it and its pretty punchy. It also has a huge boot, i think you can fit more in the hatchback than the estate.

Mine drives like a heavily turbocharged petrol petrol. It builds up peak power from about 3500rpm to 4900rpm, redline is 5k. I just prefer the way a diesel drives to he honest as most of the power's where you need it.

Tsi tuning options are limited unfortunately, and TFSI was not available in the car. Aside from in the Scirocco R but i had 9k to spend so an R was double the price. I got this over 2 years ago for 8k, some £1500 - £2000 under the private sale price of any equivalent car so I guess it evens out well.

I would have prefered an R but money and all that :-)

[xjay1337]

20161006_132845-01 by Fat Bear Photography, on Flickr



Not sure on the michelin man now though...thinking of making taking off the large one on the rear.


Anyway, went to Santa Pod yesterday, had a good day.

2016-10-09_07-18-29 by Fat Bear Photography, on Flickr


Set a new PB, 13.6 @ 102.

I'm sure I could get to a 13.4 but I didn't want to break the car and I was happy to finally get into the 13s. Had a bit of luck with launching

[ZX10R NIN]

That's a nice time Jay nice work

[aka_kerrly]

xjay1337 said:

Anyway, went to Santa Pod yesterday, had a good day.

2016-10-09_07-18-29 by Fat Bear Photography, on Flickr


Set a new PB, 13.6 @ 102.

I'm sure I could get to a 13.4 but I didn't want to break the car and I was happy to finally get into the 13s. Had a bit of luck with launching

Good times, those ought to shut a few people up who think your project diesel is a waste of time.

Loving the graphics/colour combination to.

[alec.e]

A impressive time there, a big improvement. Only a small bit behind the times I got from my V8.

[xjay1337]

ZX10R NIN said:

That's a nice time Jay nice work

Thanks bud

Was very happy with the results lol.

aka_kerrly said:

Good times, those ought to shut a few people up who think your project diesel is a waste of time.

Loving the graphics/colour combination to.

Thanks
This is Pistonheads, people will always think it's a waste of time. Because it's up to them how you spend your money lol.

With some sticker tyres and some faffing with pressures I am fairly confident I could have gotten a 2.0 60 ft time and 13.3-13.4 but you have to know when to stop going. I seem to break cars at Pod quite often having snapped a driveshaft on the Scirocco and blowing a gearbox on my old Golf TDI.

Not the fastest thing in the world but certainly quick enough. I've driven to Liverpool and back from Newbury twice in the last 2 days and averaged 55mpg (oh you bought a diesel for mpg blah blah blah blah).

There are no injectors available for this engine yet but again on the leading edge of development I am in conversation with one of Europe's largest suppliers to get some custom made with duration maps provided so we can actually get them running. We also have cams on the way, I'm told, and we will be porting a second cylinder head.

I am very blessed to have such a good partner in my tuner Bobby as without him I would not be able to make half of the progress we are making. He has been amazing.

[ZX10R NIN]

Were they putting sand down on the start line? Normally they put it on one lane to save those with standard transmissions, if you go on the grippier side it's worth at least .2 off your time

[xjay1337]

Yes they were but it was on both lanes.
I did a day at VW Action last year, and this was a competition test team day, they glued the surface, my 60ft time was about the same. But I also snapped a driveshaft so....

I think if I was running 15 or 18psi I may have saved another 1/10th.

When I fit an LSD combined with semi slicks it will be feasible to get a 2.0 or 1.9 60ft time.

Also my camshafts have arrived. Off to be re profiled! Yay.