Golf mkII track day car

[GVK]

Few pics from Castle Combe, it was sooooo fookin' wet !!

pics from Jim Gaisford 01225 743400

[GVK]

Since buying the Jetex 2.5" stainless system in about 2004, it's been a pain in the ass, there's no clearance between the rear ARB links and the rear box so even with a crease pressed into the side of the silencer it bangs against the rear arb link bolt on bumpy roads.

Also, it's a VR6... but the exhaust note has always been a bit... limp wristed.....

So this morning I decided to cut up the Jetex exhaust, and utilise the centre silencer I removed during the VR6 swap , as a rear silencer, so with the old twin pipe rear silencer off the car offered up to the much smaller ex-centre box, we (myself and my good neighbour Martin, who's an aircooled nut http://www.musclebus.org.uk ) made up the 'musclebus race silencer', styled on the Supersprint race system , with a slightly upswept simple stainless 2 1/4" straight tail pipe ( which was actually an adaptor for a Remus de-cat pipe!!











Loads of clearance now, no more clonking!



So, now i'm on a roll and decided to relocate the washer bottle into the left rear corner, simply extended the front washer pipe and wiring, drilled off the washer bottle bottle bracket spot welds and bolted it into the rear of the car. Next job is to relocate the battery behind the pax seat..

Edited by GVK on Friday 6th March 01:39

[GVK]

Next little project.









I have seen these fitted in a few German built cars (der renner 2 for eg.)

Basically it's a little LCD screen with all the live data from the ECU that can be viewed whilst driving , like running vag-com on a road test without having the lap top on the steering wheel !!

I was looking for a pic to describe the 16 pin diagnostic plug for a thread on another forum,, and stumbled across a German site with them on..

http://www.blafusel.de/misc/obd2lcd_c.html

http://www.obd2-shop.eu/obd-ii-lcd-modell-c-c-24_3...

it's a kit of bits which has to be self built, I can just about manage to solder wires together, but PCBs I wouldn't be able to do, luckily I know a local guy who can..

I'll update the thread when it arrives and installed.

This feature looks cool....



OBD II LCD screen arrived and has been built up, the guy that soldered all the components together mailed me to say it powered up but wouldn't work on any of his VWs (Mk4 1.8t Golf and Corrado VR6)

I then looked up on the website and the list that users had populated with vehicles that the interface had been succesfully tested on, didn't include ANY VWs...

Need'nt have worried, went round and tested it on the Golf last night and HURRAH it works


Just need to put together the case for it and mount it on a piece of pre-preg carbon I have kicking around, I'm going to use the din slot vdo gauge panel and delete the voltmeter and oil temp gauges as the interface has a voltage display and the MFA on the instrument cluster has oil temp, will keep oil pressure gauge and then mount the OBD II interface on that.

[GVK]

Some really neat soldering, not by me I must add.



It works ! Displaying coolant temp, rpm, road speed in km/h , battery voltage (needs calibrating...) the gAF is the g/s MAF reading, which flat out is basically 0.8 of your bhp.. other unit is engine load, but many other PIDS (parameter identifications) can be selected, lambda voltages, fuel trims, fuel system status (eg closed loop.open loop etc) there are some temp probes on the circuit board which can be placed around the vehicle if you extend the wiring.







VDO gauge panel has raised parts to angle the VDOs toward the driver, as I wanted to use this as a back plate I filed them flat



Then made up a cover for it in pre-preg Carbon





Going to put the LCD display onto the carbon panel, slight problem at the minute is that the push button switch doesn't protrude through the case far enough, will look at sorting that over teh weekend.

[phylet]

Smashing. Tempted to do that to my daily driver ^_^ Well done.

[GVK]

Backlight matches the mk3 instrument cluster displays.

Pity I had to drill out the hole in the case to stop the switch binding.





As the case is a bit bulky I may space out the oil pressure gauge, dunno yet.

[GVK]

Ever since fitting the engine it's had a long running lambda fault, basically the engine was in open loop all the time, with fuel getting no cheaper I decided to have a crack at it today, stripped the wiring loom apart and found the lambda sensor multiplug had been replaced at some point and had some bad soldered joints. Re-did all those and tadaaaa it's fixed!



Trying a C2 motorsports UK NA chip at the moment (hence component label on vag-com screen dump above...), raised rev limit to 7k and more timing/fuel, goes bloody well. Still at development stages as it has a bit too much advance low down and is pinking, easily solved though.

[GVK]

Spent a long weekend at the 'ring 10-15 july , car went very well , only problems were the brakes felt a bit poor, and one of the rear arb mounting brackets snapped.

Turn up the sound!

g/f Claire filmed me through Brunchenn

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v632/bluelightba...

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v632/bluelightba...

Edited by GVK on Friday 25th July 04:12

Edited by GVK on Friday 25th July 04:16

[Slinky]

Did I spot you yesterday on the way out of Drakes Broughton?

[GVK]

Yes, I did wonder if that was you

[minimatt1967]

Great looking MK2 does it tend to nose on with the VR up fornt or is the suspension mods enough? Any thoughts to add lsd or are you happy with the traction levels as they are?
Again Nice car!

[GVK]

Hi, car has Peloquin ATB diff and lower (3.6) final drive. Running on R888s at the 'ring car handling was very neutral , has got a massive 3 way adjustable 28mm rear anti roll bar to counteract the engine's girth.

[GVK]

Nurburgring July 08 trip report up on

http://www.clubgti.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123&...

[randomman]

Fantastic motor you have there! I would love one, how hard is the VR6 swap?

When are you going to supercharge it?

[GVK]

Thanks - http://mk2vr6.com/board/index.php

for all your mk2vr6 swap questions

[GVK]

Few pics.

[_Batty_]

that is one mean MOFO.
had chance to do any ingear times 0-60 etc?
it must fly!

[sniff diesel]

What type of gearbox is that?

[Ladvr6]

Ace lookng mk2 mate, love seeing track slag mk2s! What rear ARB are you using?

[antihero3000]

Fantastic car. Whats your daily driver?