Andy & Me went to do some shakedown on my car today at Bruntingthorpe- first time the car has been run in 2 years, new suspension, new brakes, new turbo, so needed lots fo setting up, adjusting, and general refinement.
So we fitted our new knock box (replaced stock knock sensor) which Andy found noisy but deffinately required for a stripped out car, and had both my wideband, and our standalone wideband in. Suffice to say, more gauges than anything else!
Anyway, early on it was apparent the car was very sketchy in the wet ( I almost span a few times), so some suspension tweaks, tyre pressure revisions had us alot more stable, few arch modifications and all was well.
Once we were happy with the suspension, moved onto the brakes, did a few laps to bed them in, before some WOT runs.
So, first v-max run.... 140mph- and my carbon bonnet splits in two and half buggers off into the distance at a rapid pace!!
Ahem:
So, onto a few more high speed runs minus the top half of the bonnet!
Polo G40 Turbo- 150mphCouple of pics:
And a final driveby vid:
Polo G40 Turbo DrivebyAnd finally thanks to my brother:
Who is massively special, but did all the mapping today whilst I was trying to make him sick.
Estimate the car at 220bhp (+/- 5bhp) some more refinement to be done over the coming weeks/months, will extract a few more bhp from the package.
Cheers
Yoof
